"I've been feeling like I'm becoming more of a person." & the Neurology of Hope, Creativity & Love

[avus]

With an end-nod to a more fully human neurology, a neurology of hope, growth, love and creativity

Saturday Late Afternoon, October 20thThat's what Jane said, when we got up today. As always, I had to go to work. I got home early, which is especially nice time two, because I've had a rough, though good week, and because we're going to the

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[mrsquizzical]

your description of the landscape and the trees etc around where you live makes me insanely jealous. one day i have to live a year where there are real seasons. *sigh*

she feels like she's becoming more of a person. Though I think of it as her becoming more the person she was before and can be again.

ok. *nods* that's a really enlightening distinction. a person. and 'her'.

*hugs*

[avus]

We love our area. Only our grandchildren living elsewhere might drive us off our cabin on Pikes Peak. My favorite walk -- which I hope to take tomorrow, takes me up over a 9,000 ft crest, and then down maybe 50 feet into a little valley with a mountain stream running through it. There's a meadow, with wildflowers and oldgrowth Ponderosa pines, glaciated granite cliffs on one side and spruce-fir on the other, with a cousin of the ancient bristlecone pines growing on the cliffs. Go up just beyond the meadow, and you've got a half-mile or more of the path along many little waterfalls. And best of all, if there are no planes overhead, when you sit alone and quiet in the valley, you hear nothing that wasn't there a thousand years ago. Man & machine are silent there, leaving you only the birds, the wind, the stream, and other friendly noises.

Pure heaven!

And yes,Jane always was a person, she never lost that, no matter how bad her injury was. Very important distinction.

All the best, dear mrsquizzical, and thanks for reading, caring,

[sophierom]

As usual, a beautiful post. It's great to hear from you and to hear that Jane is regaining her sense of self!

[avus]

Thanks, dear sophierom. And, with apologies for being out of the loop -- just about any loop except Jane's -- I hope you & yours are doing well.

[sophierom]

No apologies necessary! I'm just glad you and Jane are enjoying a beautiful autumn! (But snow already ... wow!)

[avus]

Got up this morning, and we're having a real snow. As near as I can determine we've already had a foot, and it's still coming down steady. For us, real snows start at a foot, maybe eight inches if you're feeling wimpy! Twice in a dozen years, they've gone up and over four feet. *grins*

Stay warm!

[privatemaladict]

Great to hear from you again. Sound like Jane is really making progress!

The brain and the mind aren't just for perceiving & reporting. They're also for loving and relating and thinking what we might want, and learning and being spiritual and connecting with all the wonders around and within us.

If anyone has any doubt about this, they should spend some time with people in whom some of those functions are impaired. (I'm doing a psychiatry rotation and getting to see the various consequences of having one's ability to be creative, or to connect, or to love impaired. It's pretty devastating, most of the time.)

[avus]

Yes, dear privatemaladict -- sorry I'm not updating more often, but things are brutally busy. (I've a major presentation to the community on the newest in OCD treatment. Complete w/ about 20 pp. of handouts.)

And yes, spending time w/ people who have these parts of their living impaired is a real eye-opener. I, of course, live in a psych rotation, just keeps rotating. The challenge is not reducing folks to diagnoses, when things are serious, like, say addictions & paranoid schizophrenia combined. They're still people, too. As are the kids (and adults) I see with attachment/bonding (personality) disorders.

We're still a long ways from figuring out what that "impaired" is all about.

So good luck you, as always, and Jane & I remember you fondly and wish you well. Always great to hear from you.

[jennyanydots21]

As ever, so glad to hear about Jane's well-being! And yours as well!

[avus]

Thanks, dear jennyanydots21. And I hope things to well with you.