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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homestead Resolutions for 2007
  • Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:48:21 -0500



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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