A healing bath
Lavender: This is one of the most common herbs used in herbal baths. It is used to fight depression and relieve tension and stress. Lavender’s name is derived from the Latin verb “to wash.” Romans and Greeks used the herb for its fresh aroma which has both an uplifting and balancing effect. Continue reading
A friend returned a drum yesterday and asked me if drumming helped or hurt my carpal tunnel when I was having a flareup. I told her I didn’t know if drumming aggravated it. I was more afraid to lose sensitivity in my fingers since that’s how I read photographs and physical items. It may be that I think it’s important to have the skin on my fingers be uncalloused, when it’s not important at all — but if I have the belief it matters, then it will matter. I’m working on it, I can surprise myself too when I don’t expect it. Once after the car accident of September 2000 when both hands and arms were in splints up to the elbow, someone put their sweater over the splint (for me to hold it for her) and — surprise — I totally read it, no problem. Continue reading
“How blessed I was to find you. Who so effortlessly showed me who I was and made me see through the lies I’d been told and began to believe myself. Thank you.”
Wow.
We think we’re made a mistake because that’s not what we meant to do. But if we’re always in the midst of God’s will, we are always doing what He has for us to do. And if we’re in the midst of God’s will, how can we not rejoice?
A heads up! If you try a little harder to understand those family members that do not fit perfectly into your mold, they won’t be telling an almost complete stranger that they are the only ones they feel understood by.
Ok, very funny but point taken.
Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Makes perfect sense.
I woke up with magazine work on my mind, thinking I had no time to work out. I had to run out to the bank and post office so I put my gym gear on anyway. I’m glad I did because it psyched me up for an hour at Planet Fitness. I’m figuring out where all the machines are, what muscle groups they work and how much weight I can handle on each. It’s like a biology lesson and physics lesson all in one. The human body is an amazing creation and I’m so stoked I get to have one this lifetime.
Glad I dressed for the gym because it got me there
The home fitness room expands
I’m lighter, healthier and more fit at the end of the year than when it began
Working out as soon as I wake up works best for me
I join Planet Fitness the day before Thanksgiving
Hereinafter “Ab Day” will be Core Strengthening Day instead
I’ve always been a note taker and journal writer. I just came across several notebooks of writings from lectures I’d attended in the 80’s. Good stuff I wanted to recall forever. But the notes are half written using a shorthand that I don’t recognize anymore. Isn’t it funny how I foil myself by not thinking things though? If information is to be helpful to me, I have to not only take it in, but be able to understand it well enough to spit it back out without relying on notes that may or may not be there in the future to guide my way.
Not a gift you expect from your sister
My friend Domino likes to multitask. So do I. We all do. But the key to doing it successfully is keeping yourself focused and conscious of what you’re doing. Domino calls herself a scatterbrain, and in fact that’s what we’ve been working on together. I always tell her, “don’t worry, when it is time for you to get that lesson, you will get that lesson.” She called me frantically this morning. She’d just made an online order for vitamins and and a variety of sex toys for her new beau and accidently chose her brother’s shipping address, since she ships him vitamins. Now she’s frantic. The good news? Now she has incentive to be a little more mindful, which will improve her multitasking skills.
I dreamed last night I was in an argument with a faceless someone who was mad I wouldn’t print their article and pulled their ad because of it. I’ve never had anything like that happen, it was just a quick vignette in a dream. Today an advertiser called to downsize her ad and let me know a popular publication used an article of hers that I had previously rejected for word count. No argument, tho, yay! Life is such a hoot. I’m not worried, my client mantra is – for every one I lose, a dozen more will come.
A note on word count: Mark Twain told a publisher asking for a 300 word essay in 3 days, “In 3 days I can give you a 3000 word essay…to produce 300 words, I shall need 30 days!”