Monday. Awoke at a quarter to six, not too bad, but could be better. Listened to the five minute KPFA News followed by Democracy Now! as I prepared to set out to walk to breakfast under a grey overcast, arriving before seven to find the restaurant open and people inside. Good. Fairly clear headed, the eyes not really watering, the nose for some reason behaving and the day ahead.

The plain waffle with sliced bananas and strawberries, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, finishing up the papers by eight-thirty and setting out for home, noting the Kava bar still under construction across Grand and the number of people passing by on scooters this morning. Some mornings it's bicycles, some mornings it's scooters that pass me by and some, like today, both.

Home to take the selfie and post yesterday's entry. So far good.

Later. A short walk to take a look at what they were up to at the construction site up the way, the street blocked off with three or four workers in evidence, but that was about it. One or two pictures, neither one of them particularly enlightening.

Evening. The news today dominated by the U.N. Climate Action Summit and Greta Thunberg's electrifying truth to power statement of their failure to make progress. A certain level of genius there, hope she's having an effect.

Watched most of Will The Circle Be Unbroken? (1968 -1972), another episode of the Ken Burns Country Music series at eight, the section on Kris Kristofferson really excellent. Added immensely to my limited understanding of his contribution to the music of the era.

To bed and lights out at nine-thirty, the fan humming at the foot of the bed. They're saying Tuesday and Wednesday will be unusually hot with low humidity and winds gusting to forty miles an hour in some locations, this world of ours under ongoing change with some sobering thoughts as to how it will turn out.