Cold, headache.... scratchy throat... raining

[lighter]

           The rain's a good thing. 

All the moss slurry painted onto rocks and dirt?

It's cared for while I sit inside and nurse myself back to feeling human.

From the neck up....

I'm an alien.

As much as I love the greeny yellows my throat produces.....

it's alarming to see, all the same.

Ear pain woke me around 3am.

Headache started about 1pm.

I didn't even have the first symptom till last night.... how does this stuff work so fast?

Something to do with being horizontal, I suppose.

::taking snuggly green sweater off::

Zicam in play.... I'm hot then cold, then hot again.

Somehow, there's comfort in the familiar cadence of being sick......

going through the daily abolutions of treating symptoms.....

knowing it won't last forever.

Same old, same old.... but without Hop's little purple netti pot. 

::wondering where it is now::

Makes me smile every time I think of it...

and I always think of it when I'm this kind of sick.

On that note..... I'll take a moment to muse about people..... then go back to computer work.

Some people get injured and attacked......

they withdrawl and think about only themselves... fold or comply.... all kinds of responses in between.

Others....

the gentler, more nurturing spirits in this world....

 (and thank God for them all)

reach out and offer comfort others.

They nurse stray animals....and those who have nothing to offer in return.....

because it's in their spirit to do so.

An amazing confirmation that God exists, IMO..... and today the thought of a netti pot brings that amazing human capacity to mind. 

Thanks to all the people who've reached out, during their struggles, and extended wisdom, courage and comfort.


"Everyone has their own dragons to slay...."

but not every spirit reaches during the their struggles.....

 does it?

::saying a prayer for all the amazing people in my life.... 3-D and otherwise::

Lighter
 





 

[Izzy_*now*]

Aw lighter,

Com'ere and let me give to a hug...........but don't breathe on me or cough!
Anything that goes wrong I always feel is the worst ailment to have--the one at the time--toothache, backache, cold, headache...

....but lucky me, for the mess I am in. I think the last cold I had was in 1998. I had a sensitive tooth, this year so had it yanked. I take Aspirin for the few minor aches and pains of old age, Yep, I'm pretty lucky!

The last time I was ill and had to take to my bed, after the crash, was about 1975.

Am I making you feel better, or worse? There is no pain with my broken bones, so it's just another adventure. This one hasn't ended yet. How do they re-break a leg? Wield a hammer?

[lighter]

Izzy, lol... I think I maybe feel better....

::cocking head::

Sort of....

after your post: )

I'm aware that a cold is just a cold.... broken bones are just broken bones..... a tootheache is just a toothache....

but you always amaze me in your cheerful acceptance and ability to rise to every occassion, without complaint.

I'm afraid I sometimes fall short, in that department.

I'll take that hug... ::turning head away and stifling cough::

Thanks.

[sKePTiKal]

Hot tea w/ honey it for the cough...
Hot steam and compresses for the sinuses...

and quiet amusement (and maybe even a nap)... while listening to the raindrops do your gardening for you...
fairies at work for Lighter...

[darren]

Rain falls
And dark clouds fill the sky
Foggy boggy soupy weather makes me wail and moan and sigh
Slipping into darkness and the eriee dreary fog
Who could make their mind think clearly
When they're in this mental bog
I do not where I would be without the friends who help me see
That one day the sun will pierce the shadows
And its light will come to me

[Hopalong]

Darren, don't mean to follow you around today, but did you know that some people have an odd form of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) that actually happens in spring, sunny spring? I have it, mildly (also the winter version). It doesn't last very long, but sometimes early spring triggers a few weeks of depression. Once I notice it (when I stop oversleeping) I find that starting up exercising regularly dispatches it within a few days.

I vote you take your self for a long gloomy walk. ((((Darren)))) Just ask yourself to notice 50 plants and greet each one in your mind. If you literally do that, I'd love to know what happens.

I feel good in spring rain...a drizzly early spring day feels good to me.
Doesn't mean it will work for you, but my thought stream is sort of like:
The earth is so thirsty, and getting what it needs.
I'm staggered by all the green, and the gray days show me other shades.
"My" house is such that I can have doors and windows open during gentle rain, it has overhangs. So I have the sounds and scents of rain...

How about you? What is it like, physically, where you live? Are you near natural things?

companionably, on this misty gray day,
Hops

[darren]

Darren, don't mean to follow you around today, but did you know that some people have an odd form of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) that actually happens in spring, sunny spring? I have it, mildly (also the winter version). It doesn't last very long, but sometimes early spring triggers a few weeks of depression. Once I notice it (when I stop oversleeping) I find that starting up exercising regularly dispatches it within a few days.

I vote you take your self for a long gloomy walk. ((((Darren)))) Just ask yourself to notice 50 plants and greet each one in your mind. If you literally do that, I'd love to know what happens.

I feel good in spring rain...a drizzly early spring day feels good to me.
Doesn't mean it will work for you, but my thought stream is sort of like:
The earth is so thirsty, and getting what it needs.
I'm staggered by all the green, and the gray days show me other shades.
"My" house is such that I can have doors and windows open during gentle rain, it has overhangs. So I have the sounds and scents of rain...

How about you? What is it like, physically, where you live? Are you near natural things?

companionably, on this misty gray day,
Hops

I've had that mentioned to me several times n the past month, so maybe I should start listening.  I'm in an apartment in the big city so there isn't a lot of scenery or nature around, but I certainly know a few places.  It'd be nice to go back to some of those urban hiking trails that I used to do when I was younger.  Its a bit dry and hot lately, but I always like rainy weather and should probably go out and play in it.  Lately I've been trying to make an attempt to notice more of the world around me.  I intentionally try to smell the flowers and pluck off some leaves and roll them around my fingers and feel the tree bark.  I should do it more.  It'd be really nice to get away for a few days just by myself and go camping or something.  I'm looking to rent a house too... I'd be much happier out in the country I think.

[Hopalong]

You bet.
Just a walk in a park.
Someplace you can go daily.

Let your five senses help you today.
They're eager to...thirsty to be out there.

Hops

[Lupita]

Everyone has their own dragons to slay...."

but not every spirit reaches during the their struggles.....

Very insightful. Loved it.

Thank you for your presence.

[lighter]

Thanks for all the suggestions and poem, guys.

I wasn't here, during the worst of cold, to receive it but......

(internet go bye bye)

I enjoyed feeling the warmth your thoughts.

Thanks,

Lighter

[Changes]

Dearest Lighter-

I have been away for months, and from that vantage point I can see facets of your writing more clearly, like appreciating an expressionist painting- your lengthy Proustian descriptions of oozes and mucus, sore throats and so forth- a poetic and symbolic sense of oneness with nature and the universe- there is a contemporary Chinese writer who writes in a similar fashion, the sense of looking out from a body into the universe much like any other feature of nature, and starting from that point to make sense of it all...Hope you are better soon, and can rhapsodize about spring and cooking and leaves and birds in your inimitable way- and then throw the puzzle pieces into the air and start again...

And Our Izzy- No matter what the subject is , she finds a lightning bolt of inspiration, slashing through all pretense, and even if she delivers a sting of truth and higher awareness of life's foilbles, one must surrender to the electric jolt of her dead-on humor and insight!!!! She too envisions life through the body and yet by doing that transcends into spirit.

I have missed everybody...

Love,

Changes

[lighter]

You have no idea how much you've been missed,



((Chanqing....))


and







you're







BACK!

[Hopalong]

Amen.

(((((Lighter)))))

(((((Changes)))))

Hops

[lighter]

Oh please.....

Hops....

Please be twirling in your garden.

If you're in the garden....

you're overcoming.

Not just surviving.

Get some ginseng and try it when the paperwork sneaks up on you.

lighter

[Hopalong]

Thanks, (((((Lighter))))).
The garden is practically twirling its ownself.
Looking very cheerful! Already eating the mesclun.

Good idea about the ginseng, thanks.
Caffeine just gives up after a while.

Working until 4:00--then frantic paperwork until Tuesday.
(Also working Monday.)

This is gonna be a marathon, but it will end.

xo
Hops