Today's blog, thoughts regard the daily journey we walk. There will be times when for what ever the reason life hands us the entire lemon tree. So, what we do with this tree determines the rest of that walk, or journey.
Looking up at this lemon tree, the task can seem unsurmountable yet, if we remember that we are never given anything that we cannot over come; we pick up the axe and began to chop the tree into managable portions, pick the lemon fruit to make lemon pie, lemonade, lemonade tarts, lemon cakes, lemon chicken.
If we look at the Tree as something we can utilize to enhance our journey rather than a problem; we over come the large tree mass and create something good, rather than sitting and worrying and wondering what are we going to do?
There will always be thorns in our rose gardens and life will hand us lemons and trees, but we can remain firm and on steady ground and use the thorns and the lemons and trees for good rather than sitting in a state of worry and complaint.
I decided years ago to make the best of what ever life hands me.
Enjoy your lemonade this week ;)
R
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Today's Words of Inspiration! Stop counting everything and be happy.
Stop going over and over and over your finances and your checkbook and
create a plan of action! Stop looking in the mirror and moaning at your
thighs, and create a plan of action, exercise, drop the sodas *even the
diet ones b/c of high sodium* and drink water, take a walk. Consider
the long range goals and stop fussing and fuming at the waves around you
at present! Action not reaction gets results!
None of us is perfect, so stop looking in that mirror and calling the image trash.
Rejoice and be glad that you woke up, the sun is shinning and we have another day to make changes.
It is up to me to create the me that I want to be. Improving relationships means making the efforts to improve them.
Sitting and crying about situations does not create change. I am leaving behind the old ways and arming myself with good attitude and uplifting manner.
I want to be a world changer, peace and harmony not a sad and depressed sad sack that looks at life but never dared to actually step out into it.
This is not a dress rehearsal this is the main play and the play's the thing. That line between the Birth date and the home going date is the play. What type of play do you want to create?
R
None of us is perfect, so stop looking in that mirror and calling the image trash.
Rejoice and be glad that you woke up, the sun is shinning and we have another day to make changes.
It is up to me to create the me that I want to be. Improving relationships means making the efforts to improve them.
Sitting and crying about situations does not create change. I am leaving behind the old ways and arming myself with good attitude and uplifting manner.
I want to be a world changer, peace and harmony not a sad and depressed sad sack that looks at life but never dared to actually step out into it.
This is not a dress rehearsal this is the main play and the play's the thing. That line between the Birth date and the home going date is the play. What type of play do you want to create?
R
Monday, March 5, 2012
Dealing with disabling illness.
http://www.healthcommunities.com/rsd/overview-of-rsd-crps.shtml
When we have to deal with disabling disease on a daily basis, at times the disease symptoms may seem overwhelming. In those times, getting support at a support group helps the person dealing with disabling disease and it's symptoms, to cope.
We all have down days, but to a people dealing with chronic disease and pain, anxiety, a day of feeling down could turn into a long spell of feeling down. There is help out there for everyone and you should contact your Physician and get them to refer to a support group so that people see they are not alone in the disease, and that disease does not define the person.
For we are not the disease, the disability!
I deal with RSD and other problems, FMS *Fibromyalgia syndrome, CFS *Chronic Fatigue, and Multi Chemical Sensitivity /Environmental Sensitivity.
I saw on the news yesterday, a story on a Brazilian blow out hair product that contains Formaldehyde. Trust me when I tell you that Formaldehyde is dangerous, I would not use hair products that have Formaldehyde in them.
My journey along with disabling factors at times is overwhelming, yes and I just have to remind myself that I will get through the flare up and the fatigue and the severe and chronic pain.
Support groups and groups that raise money for research to find cures are great ways to help get through a journey with disabling disease.
Regards,
R
Sunday, March 4, 2012
When you had it all and then lost it all!
Okay, so my life is pretty much the usual average story. I was born and like all children I enjoyed playing and singing and dancing and I could sing before I could walk. I was singing with a family group when I was just a baby, sitting beside my Mother on the piano stool, carrying out my part of the song without waver, in tune and delivered it like a grown-up.
My Mother sang in a trio called the Harmonetts. She sang at some of the big Gospel concerts around the south. Then she got married and had me.
I was your average girl, I grew up went to school made the honor roll in High School and then onto College. I enjoyed fashion and modeling and taking photos.
So, in 1990 I went back to Fashion design school and graduated with honors. And got engaged and married in 1993. Life was great! New husband, new home and a job in the fashion world.
In September of 1996, I had been working long hours, from one store to another, where ever they needed a manager, few off days. As I continued with my work life and my career, things got really really wild.
I would go to work and within 30 minutes of being there get a weird rash, or bad headache, and other symptoms. When I would get home, I would spend at least two hours in the shower trying to get the sunburned feeling off of me. That is how it began, and the symptoms grew worse and worse, and after months one day, I was walking through the property and talking to another person. Then, for me the lights dimmed and went out. I don't remember what happened in the physical realm of things, I only know that I began to feel lighter and lighter as if gravity no longer was working. And, for the first time in weeks, months I was free of pain.
It was a beautiful and serene place a beauty that I cannot describe and have not found a place on Earth that even comes close to the description of what I saw, there technically are no words to describe it.
I can truthfully tell anyone who might ask, if I wanted to stay? Yes, who wouldn't want to be in a place of such beauty and grace and be pain free and feel great who wouldn't want to remain there?
Well, I began to come to in the Emergency Room, and I was in extreme pain, paralysis on the right side, people wondered if I'd a stroke at such a young age? Well, that would be a long medical journey of tests and discovery. My life was changed, I was so weak and frail and looked like warmed over death.
My Husband later on told me that he had gotten to the place I worked and he thought I was dead. I was so cold and pale. I told him about the dream I'd had all the beautiful things.
What I could not come to grips with then was the fact that I had walked through the valley of death and I had lived. I just to come to terms with all that had happened to me in a handful of months.
Life at times can hit you like a train, you don't even see it coming. Life is so precious yet many forget just what a gift it is.
Well, along this journey of mine, I have had rough and rougher times, and I have disability, yes. But we have to continue to see the flowers the beauty and the joy of living. And, that is where I knew that illness and Multi chemical sensitivities, RSD, FMS, CFS, had chosen the wrong woman to try and defeat.
I lost a lot, but I am still here, and I am still me. And I am satisfied in this truth, that no illness that we survive can take us away, if we do not allow it to steal our joy and steal who we are.
We are not a illness, we are not the disability, we are still the same person our Mother welcomed into the world, we are still the wonderful gift of life given to us for the journey and, I am thankful that I am me.
I am thankful that what does not kill us, makes us strong in character and in the simple joys of knowing that no matter what life holds, we are unique and we matter.
Life is joy!
R
My Mother sang in a trio called the Harmonetts. She sang at some of the big Gospel concerts around the south. Then she got married and had me.
I was your average girl, I grew up went to school made the honor roll in High School and then onto College. I enjoyed fashion and modeling and taking photos.
So, in 1990 I went back to Fashion design school and graduated with honors. And got engaged and married in 1993. Life was great! New husband, new home and a job in the fashion world.
In September of 1996, I had been working long hours, from one store to another, where ever they needed a manager, few off days. As I continued with my work life and my career, things got really really wild.
I would go to work and within 30 minutes of being there get a weird rash, or bad headache, and other symptoms. When I would get home, I would spend at least two hours in the shower trying to get the sunburned feeling off of me. That is how it began, and the symptoms grew worse and worse, and after months one day, I was walking through the property and talking to another person. Then, for me the lights dimmed and went out. I don't remember what happened in the physical realm of things, I only know that I began to feel lighter and lighter as if gravity no longer was working. And, for the first time in weeks, months I was free of pain.
It was a beautiful and serene place a beauty that I cannot describe and have not found a place on Earth that even comes close to the description of what I saw, there technically are no words to describe it.
I can truthfully tell anyone who might ask, if I wanted to stay? Yes, who wouldn't want to be in a place of such beauty and grace and be pain free and feel great who wouldn't want to remain there?
Well, I began to come to in the Emergency Room, and I was in extreme pain, paralysis on the right side, people wondered if I'd a stroke at such a young age? Well, that would be a long medical journey of tests and discovery. My life was changed, I was so weak and frail and looked like warmed over death.
My Husband later on told me that he had gotten to the place I worked and he thought I was dead. I was so cold and pale. I told him about the dream I'd had all the beautiful things.
What I could not come to grips with then was the fact that I had walked through the valley of death and I had lived. I just to come to terms with all that had happened to me in a handful of months.
Life at times can hit you like a train, you don't even see it coming. Life is so precious yet many forget just what a gift it is.
Well, along this journey of mine, I have had rough and rougher times, and I have disability, yes. But we have to continue to see the flowers the beauty and the joy of living. And, that is where I knew that illness and Multi chemical sensitivities, RSD, FMS, CFS, had chosen the wrong woman to try and defeat.
I lost a lot, but I am still here, and I am still me. And I am satisfied in this truth, that no illness that we survive can take us away, if we do not allow it to steal our joy and steal who we are.
We are not a illness, we are not the disability, we are still the same person our Mother welcomed into the world, we are still the wonderful gift of life given to us for the journey and, I am thankful that I am me.
I am thankful that what does not kill us, makes us strong in character and in the simple joys of knowing that no matter what life holds, we are unique and we matter.
Life is joy!
R
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