May 6, Saturday morning in palm desert

May 6, 2023, Saturday, 6:32am, pacific standard time, hotel in Palm Desert, California, USA. I chose to stay in Palm Desert last night. The clinical manager was out of the office all week and I didn’t want to leave the volunteer coordinator alone (at least for too long) to take phone calls and handle issues by himself. I left the office at 3pm and came back to the hotel to rest. At 5pm I talked with my daughter’s mom over the phone. She filled me in on our daughter’s school dance the night before and we discussed plans for the weekend. Sounds like everyone already has something going on. That is fine, a quiet weekend alone would be nice right now. After getting off the phone I went out, grabbed dinner, then came back and watched basketball. I went to bed at my usual time but slept in an hour later than usual. That meant I got to watch the sunrise from the hotel gym, not something I normally I get to see. It was beautiful. The palm trees swayed in the wind and the mountains glowed with morning light. Now I back in the room, drinking coffee, watching the weather, and enjoying a rare morning where I don’t have to rush off to work.