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Raising 5 Kids With Disabilities and Remaining Sane Blog
I led a very untraditional lifestyle when I was growing up. My father, whom I later realized was schizophrenic, had the wanderlust to travel, which our family did for about 6 months of the year. He would remove me out of school and we would take off for various areas of the country, living in our Volkswagen van. ( Although I am sure that today’s public education system would not allow it, somehow I think my father would have taken me out anyway.)
It was quite an adventure for a child like me. I have a vivid memory of cracking eggs in a big, black, iron frying pan over a campfire in the Badlands in South Dakota. The rocks the pan was on were not sturdy, and the pan fell sideways with the eggs slowly leaking out onto the pine needles on the ground. (Clumsy then…still clumsy.) I remember traveling…
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Love Dilbert, but the short story packs a wallop.
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
“I’ve been thinking,” he said, “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone.”
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The quotes are good, but Lea’s poetry is spectacular.
poetry, photos and musings oh my!
“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
– Steve Jobs
“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”
– James M. Barrie
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Time
The eternal stalker
Knows each of us
Intimately
Counts each breath
Every step you take
Is it an abacus
Or a calculator?
He uses to keep
Track
Saluting him…
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New Toy
I have a new kindle fire with a keyboad. My fingers need to become more nimble. I feel so cool in places with wi fi. Problem remembering passwords though. Old people have a hard time being cool.
Once Again He Has Come
Christ came this Christmas for me in a moment of clarity. He came when I recognized with deep joy that my husband and I finally “get” each other.
We were total opposites in personality, in upbringing, in spirituality, in interests, values, in our ways of responding to people and life. Our sense of humors differed, our ways of expressing and receiving love also. It has been a challenging fifty-four year journey, side by side, but never quite together.
Today, Christmas day, I realized that a few days ago for the first time, he actually heard something spiritual I wrote and responded spontaneously from the heart, and today I also realized that I see the physical world in new ways(his)and frequently now laugh out loud when I have spontaneous humorous images flash into my mind when I read or hear certain things, just like he has tried to explain to me over the years. The gift of our seventies has been shared laughter.
When I reflect on the ways we’ve changed, I think it took more than just accepting how each other are, it took actually learning how to see through each other’s eyes and hear with their ears; for him to be able to feel with me and for me to become able to step back from feelings and see things logically. For him to be able to express love and for me to be happy showing it in small acts of service.
We are far from perfect at this, but we have broken through the walls of self and begun to experience being one.
Isn’t it amazing that life and love begin anew so many times and that it’s never too late to love in new ways?
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for coming once more, with your gifts of love.
Traveling
“What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices.” Anatole France (1844-1924)
Hmmm…… What opinions have I changed? What prejudices? Hmmmm……that’s very expensive travel.
The Scariest Thing about Getting Truly Old
The scariest thing about getting old is that your doctors, dentists, priests, nurses ,pilots, investment and insurance counselors, and sometimes even the President of your country, are the same age as your grandchildren. If that doesn’t scare you to death, it should.
Blogging Across Borders
I am thanking God this morning that I lived long enough to experience this brave new world, where we can speak to one another’s hearts as fellow human beings across the borders of nations, cultures, religions,genders, age, education, and profession.
If you have a chance, read this blog by Doctor Dad in the Philippines:
Whether he is writing about his four sons or his experiences as a physician, he speaks heart to heart with an openness that touches me profoundly.
This Is My Bliss
To try to both encourage and challenge others by sharing stories of my journey. To flesh it out with seventy-five years of experiences of failure and perseverance, weakness and grace, aging and humor, seeking and insight, sorrow and joy.
