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            TESS IS OBLIGED, BECAUSE OF HER PHYSICAL BODY, TO HAVE A VERY BRIEF PERIOD OF rest at least once or twice a week and she must imbibe water a few times each day as well. These requirements are by request, and/or demand, from her physicalized body. In addition, her body requires her to have, at least, one recreational period a week or one period of non-work related activity. Tess would like to regard the required recreational period as an unnecessary one but she graciously honors her physicalized body’s request. Tess’ preference for this week, in regard to this once-a-week recreation period, is to spend an hour or so on NW 6^th Street in downtown Portland, inside or around Union Station, a train station, and the Greyhound Bus terminal. Union Station in particular, on the west side of downtown, is a substantial historic building that has been beautifully restored on the inside. Between the train station and bus station, and the large/constant movement of lots of people, and the armies of cars/transport trucks in and around the area, Tess experiences, what she refers to as an ‘exquisite transitiveness’. She finds the area to be oddly reminiscent of the vibe of activity within the frequented coordinates of the dimensional reality in where she and the source family normally exists in.  Continue reading →

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            JANNET CONSCIOUSLY LOOKS AT THE TIME AND DATE ON HER CELLPHONE, SHE IS surprised that it works, and it is exactly 8.17 am, Monday, October 27^th. She reflects on her experiences of the last 24 hours with amazement. Fortunately, in the present moment, she is comforted by her second indulgent order of huevos rotos and a delicious large cup of café con leche. She is crowded into a table with Mari Belen, Umberto, and Carlos Jon at a restaurant in the El Rastro neighborhood. Everyone has a hardy appetite. Carlos Jon is explaining details about the nature of cyber-criminal group’s activities. Continue reading →

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            SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26^TH, JANNET BEGINS THE DAY WITH THE ODDEST NUDGE. SHE HAS the most impulsive urge to pack her O/N bags and to include those bags within her backpack. So she includes these bags, in her backpack, along with her other usual items and she sits in the living room, of the new apartment, waiting for Mari Belen. She is excited because there is a special excursion planned for today. Continue reading →

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            VERY LATE THURSDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 2^ND, JANNET IS WEARILY WAITING IN A SLOWLY moving line for international customs check-through inside the Adolfo Suárez Madrid airport. The murals, in various locations in the airport terminal, has helped to divert her overall weariness. Some of the more dramatic murals include the work of South American artist Guayasamín, who is one of Jannet’s favorite artists. In addition, the soaring ceilings of the airport concourse, with its yellow metallic pylon supports, are another diverting feature. Continue reading →

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        ALTHOUGH JANNET COULD NOT MEET GRACE IN PERSON, ON A REGULAR BASIS, THEY DO talk as often as possible during her current stay in Portland. Sometimes, Jannet will place a call to Grace’s mom to get permission to hang out with Grace at a coffee shop close to their home. Otherwise they do Skype often. Continue reading →

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           MARI BELEN, CARLOS JON, AND UMBERTO ARE HUDDLED IN A TINY BAR THAT IS NEAR THE Policía General offices. It is the first week of September in Madrid. Their police unit is under the scrutiny of an official external investigations probe. Everyone has withstood numerous interviews and formal shadowing and just finally today there has been an all-clear declaration. There has been only vague information about the nature of the probe. Continue reading →

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            TESS WAITS. SHE IS NEAR THE ATHLETIC CLUB, THE MAC, IN GOOSE HOLLOW. SHE IS aware that Jannet is likely to be leaving the club soon so she will wait for a few minutes in order to see if the probability materializes. If after waiting five minutes, and Jannet has not made an appearance, then Tess will transport to a likely option # two, which is one of Jannet’s favorite trailheads in Washington Park in the West Hills. Continue reading →

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            JANNET WAKES. IT IS FRIDAY, AUGUST 1ST, AND SHE IS FULLY RESTED AFTER A LATE return to Portland last night. She unpacks, checks correspondence, and makes a few phone calls. Jannet deliberately marches, for a quite extended walk, from her dwellings to a favorite hair salon/barbershop just north of West Burnside and near her favorite grocery; she waits on an outside bench, after signing in, for the next available opening. This is a quality unisex salon/barbershop but there are no appointments, you simply show up and wait for the next available stylist although it is usually not too long. She commits to a very short boy-cut although her hair is allowed to remain much longer in the front; she now has an arched swath of hair overhanging part of the left side of her face. Jannet has elected for this radical cut, and the accompanying change in attire, about three or four times, in her past, within her lifetime. Continue reading →

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          JANNET ARRIVES TO PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, PDX, BY 4.00 AM, JULY 16^TH. The flight to New York leaves at a little after 5.00 am and she is in New York 5 hours later. After a 45-minute layover, she boards a second flight to Madrid, which is a 7-hour flight. Jannet arrives to Madrid, very early Thursday, July 17^th. It is 5.30 am. Jannet is aware that Mari Belen does not prefer to do airport runs. Jannet sleepily takes an airport shuttle into the Embajadores sector of Madrid, to her usual apartment hotel accommodations. There are flowers and a card waiting, from Mari Belen, waiting for her in her apartment hotel rooms. The large flat screen monitor is posted on one of the walls. She sleeps. Continue reading →

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             THE LAST WEEK OF JUNE, JANNET SPENDS TIME ON HER OWN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. She does have committed mornings of consultations. She maneuvers one or two Skype sessions with Mari Belen during the week. And she wanders. One day, during the last week of June, Jannet is wandering about Holladay Park near the Lloyd Center, the east side of downtown, when she unexpectedly encounters Tess. Continue reading →