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Showing posts with label treasures in your path. Show all posts
Showing posts with label treasures in your path. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Look on the Bright Side of a Shower

Smile, Breathe,
and, Go Slowly.

                Thich Nhat Hanh

               
Since surgery, I have been planted
on a hospital bed in the living room.
Clovis, black kitty,  has been my night
time sleeping companion.  He sits with
me most of the day, too.

Strawberry Plants Starters Planted in October























My first shower in over two
weeks felt incredible and was more
precious than rubies. No full immersion
of the incision site for 6 weeks
from surgery.  That's okay, I can't
imagine getting in or out of  the bath
anyway.

The nausea during recovery
has been horrific, absolutely
the worse part of this experience. Worse
then the ugly scar, the removal of 54 staples,
and blood draws from my hands.
Slowing down and recurperating, for
my demented brain, is a waste of precious life.


Between the nausea and gaga brain
there is simply no choice but to remain planted.
The ability to concentrate has been stripped from me.
I am unable to read or create.

This big baby, however, is able to share, 
the ability to walk and manuver stairs
without the snap and pop of the hip joint is
totally worth it.

I was able to watch Downton Abbey
from the beginning with my precious
caregiving husband and it was lovely.
Gobbled up the experience like tea
with sponge cake.
The last season (6) returns in January 2016.

Rewatched Don't Eat the Daisies
with its music and fabulous interiors. 
Mr. Lee teases, but it is true, I will
watch a movie just for its interior
styling. This film is a family
favorite. 

Mr. Lee planted starter strawberry
roots, they were brown sticks, just
before Halloween and look there are
green leaves and a bloom.






































Monday, April 20, 2015

Keep your Eyes Open

One must never stop living because of a storm.
                                          Carolyn Rubenstein
                        from the book Desire to Inspire














Oh yeah, there have been times when
my compulsion was to simply fall off the face of
the Earth. 

But when my eyes are wide open, I see the diversity
and charm of other human beings.  I get a sense to
keep heading in the same direction.  A nod, a peace over
me.  Everything will be all right. 

In Riverside, a town of over 300,000, we never
run into anyone we know.  But occasionally, when
God knows you need a push of faith, He places
someone in your path...the experience is to let you
know everything will be all right. 

Everything will be all right.