Recently I've felt a growing closeness to my maternal grandma. She raised me in my early years for awhile and I spent all my school vacations with her until my parents and I moved to CA when I was 13. She was a down to earth woman, immigrant off the farm somewhere in east Germany back in the late 1880's, who believed more in common sense than " ( Read more... )

DH & I don't have to get up early now that DD is grown & gone, LOL! So we rolled out around 8:00 a.m., made some English Toffee flavored coffee and I made some cinnamon rolls. We watched the Hollywood Christmas parade on TV until DD got here. Her BART train was delayed because, tragically, someone decided to commit suicide at one of the stations. ( Read more... )

She is off to the groomers for a bath (she was a stinky doggie...two months is too long between baths, LOL!), good trim, and toe nail clipping. She trotted off with her lady groomer without too much resistance, which is good. These ladies are great! :)) Anyway, her carpet she sleeps on in her crate is in the wash as I write. Clean bed to go with ( Read more... )

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Ahhhhh....I needed this so much today! A boardmate on a spirituality board posted this. I am coming to some semblance of peace. And resignation to allowing time to take care of me. Patience. Just breathing.

On Friday I was doing t'ai chi, and remembering sending the chi I generated, to him for healing. A picture in my mind developed. Schwartzy was at the far end of a tunnel, that I could see, opened into a meadow. There were other piggies there (our Brian, Jeordie, Rivet and little Elfin). He turned to look at me, hesitating. I nodded and sent him ( Read more... )

Schwartzy died today and I was with him. He went peacefully and felt no pain. The compassionate vet, who had saved his life in February, was the one to help him to go Home. She said it was evident he'd had a severe stroke, but he was not in pain, but just wasting away slowly, even with all my extra care of him everyday. He was a very stubborn and ( Read more... )

Pain continues in my hips and low back, and sometimes running down the outside of my thighs, then ending up all the way down my legs. Last night was one of those non-sleeping nights. Even with all the extra Motrin every 8 hours ( Read more... )

It used to be that I figured I could just get rid of pain by using Motrin, going to my chiropractor for alignment and acupuncturist for muscle problems, and unclogging my energy circulation (chi). Those are no longer the "simple answers," like popping a pill or turning a switch on & off, or writing a check I can no longer really afford. I am ( Read more... )

The Gift of Fear ( Read more... )

The reading was amazing. I wanted a general reading, not one to answer a specific question ( Read more... )