janet paterson wrote:
snipping it this time
> >even if there is a cure tomorrow
> >...
> >birth. old age. sickness and death
> >...
> >no escape
>
> from our physical bodies no
> but we are not limited to them are we?
no
> didn't buddha have something to say about this?
inseperable
oneness of mind and body
psychosomatic medicine provides details
confirmation
the influence is profound
but
"when the mind is clear, the horizon is visible"
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> >"never complain never explain"
> >Wendell Castle wrote this on a table top
> >with little black plastic dots spaced out across the surface
snip: to lighten up -- the rest of the story
Wendell tried to sell the table
he is a furniture maker and businessman (among other things)
but, his wife wouldn't let him
it is probably still in their dining room
where i saw it
> i knew the quote and liked it
> but i didn't know the story about it
> thank you!
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> >each of us has to find that place in ourselves
> >then it will happen
> >here
>
> reminds me of my own sage saying about living in bermuda
> 'paradise is where you make it, not a place to go'
some say heaven and hell exist on this earth
i can't deny it
for some
parkinsons is a hell so deep
they cannot cry out
but -- also -- every day
people starve or suffer from warfare
peace is longed for
who will care? and make a difference?
no matter what your beliefs
care for someone
and one person does make a difference
we are all connected
and it isn't just electroniccally
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> i determine to live with hope, courage and confidence.
>
> because
> why?
i determine
because saying it out loud
is a form of committment
you will hold me responsible for my statements
when times get hard
i will be reminded
i determine
because it takes effort
to live
with those aspects of faith
no matter what the circumstances
when i can no longer muster those qualities
i'm dead
living dead
you know from your own experience
with clinical depression
what life is like without these valuable things
> >...on the edge of the prairie abyss ....................
> >...
> >strolling along too close to the edge
> >but the view is breath taking
>
> 'too' close?
> sez who?
when i get that giddy feeling
like i've said too much to the critics
and there is a weightlessness
in free fall
and there is a brief wait for the bottom
and in that briefness there is a lifetime
> janet paterson
> 53 now / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd
> tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/"
> email: "[log in to unmask]" smail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada
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