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Gratefulness
Grateful for my 2 kids, 2 granddaughters, 2 brothers and their wives and step-families, granddog, friends, and Brother David
How might I minimize my memory losses?? My friend and I both want to live shorter lives than our mothers – this is a recent new discovery of mine, as I struggle with the complexity of the devices I use – smart phone and laptops especially. I’d expected to live a couple years longer than my mother did, but now I hope not to!
Visiting this site – the quote of the day by the author of Kitchen Table Wisdom, the Lounge, today’s question.
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN – she wrote today’s quote – and the book, Kitchen Table Wisdom, which is a wonderful book 🙂
Thanks, Carol – I’m tolerant of the pain and delighted to remember previous pain that no longer exists. It’s the aging brain that distresses me more. But it’s wonderful to remember pain that no longer ‘is’. Warm wishes to you – 🙂
Thanks, Holly, for the cool picture and post. Squinting to read the fine print – ‘buy second hand if you can’ – I’ll pat myself on the back for repairing my back scratcher this morn! It’s a cheap thing that came with a mattress and I glued the handle together a while ago, but it was getting too bendy at the joint. Midway thru the repair, it occurred to me that I could just buy a new one on amazon, but it would probably break, too 🙂 – anyway, I sear...
Thanks, Holly, for the cool picture and post. Squinting to read the fine print – ‘buy second hand if you can’ – I’ll pat myself on the back for repairing my back scratcher this morn! It’s a cheap thing that came with a mattress and I glued the handle together a while ago, but it was getting too bendy at the joint. Midway thru the repair, it occurred to me that I could just buy a new one on amazon, but it would probably break, too 🙂 – anyway, I searched all my junk and finally found flexible tubing that I slit and wrapped part way around the handle. It needed more, so I wrapped it with a curly plastic strip designed for holding messy cords together. It was still not as stiff as I wanted, so I put in a wooden skewer under the curly plastic strip, and now it’s pretty good. I do love ‘rescuing’ things. My physical therapist was amazed that I would actually take stuff from the junk collection dumpster. But my recycled trash bag fills up SO fast 🙁
Thank you, Holly – what a wonderful story 🙂 Indeed I know and love white oaks, tho I can’t remember when I last saw one. Keep your eyes open for her acorns – I’m guessing you can find them in their season. Our California live oaks are such a poor substitute for white oaks, tho they do have wonderful trunks with bark that makes me think of elephant skin, and they’re good for hugging.
The end of time – wow, Drew! When do you suppose time stops? 🙂
Yes, Christine! Good friends are such a gift. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks, Laura! Your reply made me giggle, which feels good. My friend is such a good listener, and I hope I am too. 🙂
Thanks, Yram – I needed that this morning. I first heard of Rumi from a Turkish woman grad student in my then-husband’s lab. She gave me a gift.
Welcome back, dear Drew. This place is such a gift, isn’t it? Warm wishes to you and all 🙂
I think the challenge, sunnypatti, is not going past the edge – Asokananda said there should be no pain when doing hatha. I like that. Enjoy!
Enjoy, sunnypatti 🙂 !! I attended a zoom, “Online Continuing Education Workshop: Playing the Edge w/ Swami Asokananda” last week, and Asokananda said to do Dhanurasana, and I put in the chat: “What’s Dhanurasana? It’s been a long time since I took IYI TT.” [It’s Bow Pose, as I learned by checking out Integral Yoga Hatha by Swami Satchidananda.] ‘The Edge’ is going into a pose just as far as you can go without pain – and then maybe...
Enjoy, sunnypatti 🙂 !! I attended a zoom, “Online Continuing Education Workshop: Playing the Edge w/ Swami Asokananda” last week, and Asokananda said to do Dhanurasana, and I put in the chat: “What’s Dhanurasana? It’s been a long time since I took IYI TT.” [It’s Bow Pose, as I learned by checking out Integral Yoga Hatha by Swami Satchidananda.] ‘The Edge’ is going into a pose just as far as you can go without pain – and then maybe a little farther, as your body stretches/relaxes/whatever. I enjoyed the zoom.
Yes, WhiskersJellie, Brother David is so wise and such a dear. I’m grateful to have known him for so long, mostly many years ago. I have a couple of his early books, too – “Gratefulness the Heart of Prayer” and, I believe, “A listening heart.” Enjoy!
Oh, good, lotus blossom. It looks like I read My Grandfather’s Blessings, too. My old brain forgets so much!
Yes! Why on earth would we have kept it at room temp?? It was about 1969, in our defense.. I’d assumed we’d been happily frying in it, but maybe it was just the waste disposal container. 🙂 ? 🙁 ?
YTT = yoga teacher training, sunnypatti? Enjoy! 🙂
Ah, yes, heart beating slowly can be a cause for gratefulness, can’t it, EJP?
Such a wonderful quote by a wonderful woman – thanks, Nancy 🙂
Bacon grease, Holly – that’s bringing up an ancient memory – we stored our bacon grease in the pancake syrup bottle, and the pancakes we made tasted so rancid. The next batch, too – then we realized we were putting the used bacon grease on them instead of pancake syrup. Back when we were newly weds.
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