Wednesday, June 20, 2018

My sweet departed Lily used to do that in the middle of the night (but she never had puppies). I used to think it was her just needing to know I still loved her at all hours of the day or night! I miss that tail thump on the bed...

Greetings Deep Thinkers

Some wonderful powerful posts today. I used to wonder why people read books of letters of famous people. Just letters, right? Now I get it. Reading the posts here is like a history of a number of special lives. Full of wisdom and insight.

Weight 149 today so thats a bit of a drop. Can't say I did much to earn it other than staying away from junk. Well mostly.

Bonnie what a terrific post. It will surely help others. Such courage to have lived through what you did and emerged recovered and probably a stronger person for it all. Congrats and salutations. Must read and reread to absorb all the pearls.

Ocean Diane so sorry about Sadie being so allergic to foods. For sure there is a path out of it but finding it can be difficult. Wish I had some insight. I had a dog that had to eat the lamb and rice dog food due to flakey skin issues but that was the extent of it.

Why are we all so powerfully affected by the childhood fat shaming? Mine came as much from other kids as from my own family and also as "run off" from my older brother's experience as another fat kid. I think my aversion to exercise goes back to being totally unathletic and the shame of being the fat kid who never got picked for the team and didn't really want to be on the team anyway because she couldn't keep up or do what the other kids did. My younger brother started down the fat kid road but managed to shake it off. But he is a very different body type than me and older brother who got the fat genes. Older brother had very successful vsg a couple of years after me. Sadly he is slowly losing the battle with a brain tumor.

What a fabulous Aruba sunset Liz. A work of art. Sorry your DH is experiencing feelings of loss over his dementia. I guess its natural but must be hard to watch.

A light agenda today. Errands for the galleries - new art to be displayed, pre clean for the housekeeper, figure out a protein dinner, sort and toss papers and make some art. Seems like every time I think I have sent off the last paper for the estate and taxes another one shows up. Advice to all: leave your financial affairs in an organized manner and don't have 15 bank accounts and 25 investment accounts. Consolidate. (note to self: do this too.)

Can't wait for Ella's puppies. Hoping for a just right number of boys and girls. When our girl Liza had her pups she kept trying to go have them in our bed and would not stay in her box and, being inexperienced, I chased her around the house all night long. Pups were born at 10 am.

Well time to get going and "seize the day" and seize another cup of coffee. Diane S