Today should hopefully be an easy day. Last night was nice. I attended an interesting lecture at the university. It was lecture three of six on modern China topics. I'll attend a different kind of one-time lecture tomorrow night that focuses on turning setbacks into advantages after traumatic experiences. That may sound like an unlikely possibility, but I think it can be possible. I am a believer that struggles in life can make us stronger, or at least wiser, in the end. Or, take us in interesting new directions.

By chance, my psychiatrist has been attending the modern China lectures, along with his wife, too. I found it odd that he hand his arm around her shoulder most of the time last night. In a lecture hall. Does anyone else think that would seem odd? He's not a newlywed by a long shot. They're in their 70s, married at least 30+ years. My husband wouldn't do that to me in a lecture hall or concert hall. Maybe a movie theater, but not even there nowadays. Yes, maybe he's just very affectionate with his wife, even in public, but there is part of me that wonders if that was deliberate because he knew I was there. As background, there was a period when I had a rather major transference love for him. An unhealthy one. But I have gotten past that to a large degree. I'm not jealous he did that, but it is curious to me.