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Gene GeRue wrote:

> As I enter the second year of my eighth decade I find myself more  
> cautious about goals, more careful about making big plans. Having  
> paid the painful prices of pneumonia, sciatica and shingles it has  
> become clear to me that I need to relax more and go with the natural  
> flow. 

My own sciatica has been acting up for the last 6 months, off and on, 
and I think the canoe accident is the culprit.  Usually it is the left 
side, but this week, my right butt cheek is killing me! Also, for 
whatever reason, my left hand swole up (hows that for Southernisms) 
today.  Arthritis flares are slowing me down.  It's going down this 
evening, but midday, I couldn't see my knuckles.  Did you have both 
shingles and pneumonia this year?
I've been lucky in that I haven't had a bacterial or viral illness for 
a couple of years.  Since I take a medicine that lowers my immune 
system, I am very careful about a lot of things.



Setting and fulfilling big goals is sensible for those for whom
> big goals provide necessary nourishment. I used to be there. Today my  
> psyche is most serene with more modest goals and smaller  
> accomplishments than I have sought in the past. I tease myself that I  
> am getting smarter.

Here, big goals are a necessity.  We are still working towards self 
sufficiency and still planning for that disaster than fortunately hasn't 
arrived yet.
> So my resolution for the coming year is to become more patient, more  
> content with what is, paying more attention to the enveloping beauty  
> of Heartwood and surrounding area, smelling flowers more deeply and  
> letting fragrance seep deeper into my soul, and bye and bye more  
> successfully finding those Zen moments and making sufficiency of them.

Aren't you in Phoenix now?  It's none of my business, but are you living 
 part of the time in Phoenix and part of the time in Missouri?  How do 
you manage that?  Writing must be more lucrative than I thought if you 
can afford to shuttle back and forth.  What's the story, Gene?

Bev
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