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Daily Question, January 29

My body is a miracle of art, science, and mystery. What is it teaching me?

  • Butterfly

    That it’s all very complicated and the only way is to accept what it’s telling me to do. If I don’t it hurts!

  • Michele

    The body teaches me it can help others even after death, that is why everyone should consider being an organ and tissue donor and also donate blood, plasma, and platelets too:)

  • Lee Anne
    My body is teaching me to respect the limitations of the aging process. I do not mourn what was, but seek to find new ways to move, dance, and walk. Just two years ago, I powered through a four-mile walk. Today, I walk slowly, stopping to engage with a beautiful dog, lay hands in prayer on an ailing tree, take photographs of simple yet profound things. All of life unfolds in my one-and-a-half-mile journey. I seek the positive in what seems to many a negative. My body is a miracle, and I am grate...

    My body is teaching me to respect the limitations of the aging process. I do not mourn what was, but seek to find new ways to move, dance, and walk. Just two years ago, I powered through a four-mile walk. Today, I walk slowly, stopping to engage with a beautiful dog, lay hands in prayer on an ailing tree, take photographs of simple yet profound things. All of life unfolds in my one-and-a-half-mile journey. I seek the positive in what seems to many a negative. My body is a miracle, and I am grateful each day that I can still move, see, hear, and touch. I must ‘joyfully age.’ The alternative is simply a litany of grievances, and why would I want to live like that? 😊

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    • Mary Pat

      So true! I do the same. At almost 74, 4 years ago I could go into the wooded areas and climb, go “off trail”, and not worry about falling or worse. Not now! I am respectful of what my body can still do, but I honor it by listening to the limitations, and finding other ways and places that are safer for me to explore.

      • sparrow

        me too,
        dear Mary Pat . . . ♥

      • Lee Anne

        How wonderful. We are the same age, and it is incredible how seemingly overnight we change. Some call it “loss,” but I choose to call it WISDOM. Everything changes each second of our lives, and so do we. We remain relevant by accepting and moving forward with change rather than lamenting. Thank you for your reply.💜🌈

    • pkr

      Lee Anne, love your attitude. Blessings.❤️

  • Patricia

    To sit and listen to the mystery; to be grateful; to be a good steward of the gift of my body…. even as it ages. (Even as I age….) To be compassionate toward myself as I age. To continue to trust.

  • Maurice Frank

    To take better care of it

  • EJP

    Sincere gratitude for every heartbeat and every breath.

  • Christine

    That my creator is very artistic and creative. Well, what does it teach me? I think being creative is an important quality. A divine quality.

  • Kevin
    That’s me, one “miracle of art, science, and mystery! I wake up every morning, put my feet on the floor, stagger into the bathroom, look in the mirror and say to myself, “Good morning! Still gorgeous!” I creak and rattle my way downstairs, behind the dog and cat, of course, and hang onto the banister like my life depends on it, because it does. Why don’t humans have four legs like the animals who started out ahead of me but are now standing at the bottom looking up, thinking, any time...

    That’s me, one “miracle of art, science, and mystery! I wake up every morning, put my feet on the floor, stagger into the bathroom, look in the mirror and say to myself, “Good morning! Still gorgeous!”

    I creak and rattle my way downstairs, behind the dog and cat, of course, and hang onto the banister like my life depends on it, because it does. Why don’t humans have four legs like the animals who started out ahead of me but are now standing at the bottom looking up, thinking, any time now, gimpy? Whoever thought it was a clever idea to design humans to eventually stand up on two wobbly spindles sold us a faulty product. That there, is a mystery.

    Science? I’ve got science. During one of my routine visits to my pain management treatment clinic, waiting for my “happy juice” S.I. joint injections, I’m belly down, butt in the air, all prepped and draped like a roast in the oven. Doc walks in, scans my back, and says, “You’ve had so much work on your back, Kevin, that your scars look like a roadmap or abstract art.” The x ray tech, two nurses, and Doctor Proud of His Work, all have a good laugh. I laugh, Doc says, “Stay still.” That’s my science, and my art.

    Class over.

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    • Mary Pat

      Kevin, thanks for the laugh…really a good comment on the question. May you and yours be safe this weekend with the weather upon you…

      • Kevin

        Thank, Mary Pat. We got somewhere between 15 and 24 inches. Hard to tell with all the drifting. We live on the coast in SE MA, so we usually don’t get that much snow and when we do it’s really heavy and wet. The first several inches were wet, then it got much colder, so it’s fluffy stuff now, and drifting all over. Supposed to stop in another five hours. But hey, we’re retired. I don’t need to go anywhere. Not today, tomorrow, or the day after. Very grateful!

    • Mica

      I like the ‘argument’ that – Obviously – we Evolved, because we wouldn’t have been Created with such bad backs!

    • Butterfly

      😂😂Thanks for the laugh, Kevin!
      I can totally relate to your experience. Doctors do so enjoy their own sense of humour. I had one who looked at my legs and said “It’s a wonder you can walk at all with those legs. These days they’d break the bones and reset them.” He was giving me SI injections the same as you have. It’s hard to be in constant pain. My back pain has all but disappeared since I became bedbound. Every cloud ……

      • Kevin

        Hey there my friend, sorry to hear you’re bedbound, but glad the SI stuff is gone. As you would know, it’s maddening! My very best to you.

    • Michele

      excellent writing Kevin, made me smile big time.

    • Patricia

      You really need to tell Doctor Proud of His Work that he needs to stick with medicine and skip his dreams of stand-up comedy.

      • Kevin

        You’re right, Patricia, I should tell him that. But I may pay price for that the next time I have a treatment!

    • Christine

      And I am glad you are here, Kevin 🤗.

      • Kevin

        You are very kind, Christine. The joy and gifts of being here among people like yourself are immeasurable!

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