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O-Dark Thirty

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Up early even for me.  It’s been a long and mostly sleepless night.  It is going to be a long day… But it is Wednesday, so it will be a quiet day.  This morning it is all about perspective.  I’m … Continue reading

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Trying To Deal With Stress

— WARNING… downer post… rant… stressed… not a pretty site. It has been a really stressful couple weeks and I’m trying really hard to figure out how to deal with everything.  I’m failing miserably at it. Monday was Nephrologist appointment … Continue reading

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Why Do You Care

This has been a particularly bad week.  My “boo boo” arm has been hurting more and I’m even caving into the ouchies enough to take tramadol for it.  I’m pretty sure all Yoga managed to do yesterday was aggravate it … Continue reading

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Wonderfully Happy Unproductive Day

Three weeks from surgery A couple weeks of being lazy. Guilt… all reasons that I should have been way more productive today.  I wasn’t.  And it was the best day.  It wasn’t totally unproductive.   I went for a nice walk … Continue reading

My quiet time fix

I’m running late.  I dropped squirrel girl at driving school for her over the road time this morning.  She isn’t happy it is 7 am but she is happy she gets a leg up on her classmates.
I stopped at Exxon tiger market for mountain Berry coffee.
And now I’m making myself deliberately later by hiding out in the meditation garden.  I suppose I should feel guilty.  I don’t.  Ths helps so much to step out of the rat race even if the other rats are just a few feet away.  The water and the wind chimes and even the trumpet vines and traffic sounds.  I treasure this place and the time I can steal away to hide here all alone with myself.

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Uncomfortable in her own being…

She is very smart. She might not be quite as smart as the front she puts on and I think that might be huts all that it is, too, a front. I wish desperately that she was more comfortable with … Continue reading

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You Should Do Yoga

I have been thinking about a post I read on a Facebook group this week.  Someone with RA was told that they should do Yoga. I’ve been thinking this week.  I have taken the corporate offered Yoga class for the … Continue reading

The orangeness of the morning

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That’s it.  It is just an orange kind of day
Air like orange juice
Temp like tropical Florida
But amazing sunrise to drive in.

Five minutes

There are times when just five minutes makes all the difference.   I know I should get my proverbial (and literal) butt across the street… into the building and upstairs.  I know this on my head.  And yet, when the siren song of the wind chimes called to me I knew I needed to take just five minutes and creep into the garden and listen and be still.
The water quiets the street sounds.
The solitude quiets my racing thoughts and my stress.
The green creeps in and for just five minutes everything is OK.

It’s one of those… weeks…

“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.” (Tim McMahon)

I have been poked to step out of myself and take on the bigger world.

I have watched it rain (YAY RAIN)

I have realized that I have amazing kids

I understand that even hypochondriacs get sick

It isn’t what you look at but how you see what you look at

“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” (Tom Wilson)

I can’t change tomorrow.  I can’t change yesterday.  I can only try really really hard to make it through today…