Every Day Zen
This week’s #LongerView, “Monday Morning 9 AM Social,” is about creating community and not knowing where to begin but rather that doing nothing, beginning with what is. My neighbor, Grace, and I decide to stop talking about community and get a better sense of where we live and with whom. We choose a monthly calendar event... Continue Reading →
I used to be good with detail(s), and I’m still not bad, but now my associations are fluid, my memory free-ranging, the history I lived blended. I can think RFK and write or say JFK. And that is what I did in commenting on a thoughtful blog post regarding the 50thanniversary of RFK’s death. The... Continue Reading →
Progressing. Not how I usually describe chronic disease. I don’t think I have used that adjective in any of my previous posts but memory is unreliable. Always, it plays to audience. Over the last six months I have met with different specialists for different views and all have returned the same label: progressing. Yesterday, I... Continue Reading →
So often I fall into the obvious--the stuff hidden in plain sight--all the while wondering at the impermanence of life. As Geneen Marie Hauge put it, “how do we hold both the magnificence and tragedy of the world?” Every day equanimity is exhausting, evening out our emotions rather than riding a daily roller coaster. At... Continue Reading →
It takes me a while to realize I am still wearing my computer glasses. I had no idea the prescription would work for driving. It is a misty-gray, north Florida morning, anything but gloomy, full of mystery, and 100% humidity. I want to drive to the sea and so I do. Soon, my window wiper... Continue Reading →
Today’s #LongerView is called ”Dying Alone” but it is just as much about dying unnoticed. Where I live, that kind of fear is in great supply. I know I am fortunate in not fearing death. It is a gift, in its own way, rarely one to be shared. What is to be shared is spending... Continue Reading →
I aim for even but I keep close a pair of boots for the shit holes of life. They shake up my structure, sometimes stretching me to what I am sure will be beyond my limits. Not yet, obviously. I continue to muck through them. I have learned there will always be shit holes. Whether... Continue Reading →
Today’s #LongerView sits in a storm with “Inside Hopelessness is a Bit of Badass.” Now that I’m through that storm, I am writing again. As I say in the post, each body needs its rest. Speaking of, here is the swinging bench. Please have a seat and take a few moments for yourself. 'Tis the... Continue Reading →
Fear wears many labels yet is attached to none. It is the best of shape-shifters. I know none better than fear. It presents dramatically, and I wonder if one of fear’s physical presentations is dementia. On any day, I can find it in the eyes of my neighbor, Evelyn. Fear knows when it has found fertile... Continue Reading →
