On Wed, I gave my beloved a full-body massage using her new massage table. I’ve given only two or three full-body massages. She is trained as a massage therapist, but I am not – at least not in this universe. I can easily feel that I’m a massage therapist in a parallel universe. I remember when I first felt my massage therapist universe. It was the year 2000, right after the dot com crash. Lots of jobs were being outsourced to low-wage countries where they could be performed remotely. I remember thinking how one career that would be difficult to outsource to a foreign land would be massage therapist.
Unfortunately, this inability to perform remotely is making life difficult for massage therapists, most of whom are not able to work due to shelter-at-home rules. In Santa Cruz County (and the rest of California), massage therapists are prohibited from working. This is different than physical therapists and chiropractors, who also work closely with clients.
surfing the universe 