I did my volunteering today and feel the better for it. It was just with my Overeaters Anonymous group. I get there early and set the room up and open up and tear down and close up. Today i brought a textured "tablecloth" which is really a shower curtain that had never been used for the shower -- always for decor. It's bright white with ragged squares sewn in it for a very interesting effect. The women admired it and asked where they could get one. I put out faux yellow roses this time. Everyone thanked me and said i had a good sense of how to make things comfortable for women, with our keen senses of beauty and cleanliness. I went out for lunch with two of the women to a lovely restaurant i know of in the area and they were thrilled with the place as it is little-known and they have been going to a coffee shop which is not nearly as nice. So that was nice, to be of service and have a good time and a good meeting and meet new people and one of the women drove me home and we had a nice chat. I like her a lot.

My mood is good today. I studied the young men who are restoring my balcony today as other days one of them [who wasn't there today] has just swept me away with feelings as he is so excited in his movements and so dominates the large power tools and has such a sense of urgency and sometimes looks like he is going to lose control but never does. I feel compassion for him and overwhelming affection and even the faint stirrings of love. I talked to him once and he speaks as he moves with such vigor and volume and he used an apt metaphor so he is as bright as he is agile. I just love him. As a son, of course, as a young person i would like to help along in life. He is about 25. I can't think of anything appropriate i could do for him so i will just think on how i could help young people in general, perhaps some volunteer assignment in the future, the far off future as i have a lot of improvement to do on myself before i can be of service to others -- my physical and mental and emotional and spiritual health, all of which i did good hard work on today. Someday!