I am an Orphan Girl

Revival. I turned away from blogging a few years ago to focus on caregiving. I’m free to examine my subconscious  again now. Strap in... Today is my mom’s eleven year yahrzeit and Father’s Day. Dad sailed away to his first mate, 4-14-22. He was trying for a hundred but he was 98 years seven months when he passed into that endless sea. What’s happened to me in the meantime?

 I’ve retired from working fifty years in mental health care. I’m growing more vegetables. I’m playing music as usual. I’ve gotten a bit better at it. Still taking photos. I had my first real bout with Covid a month ago, and then I tripped over my autoharp stand and fell into a basket of tools on my nearly new deck, fracturing my left humerus. I’ve been frustrated with this physical setback but I realized last night this has all happened in the last month! No wonder I’m tired….
 
 My dear old hippy gfs have done a lot of alternative healing on me and I am healing nicely in a very short time. I also did the obligatory modern medicine trip.  But my arm hurts and there is still a lot I can’t do.I surmised I might not be able to get in and out of my kayak so I nixed a first trip after these disasters, today. 

I need to keep sharp, so this is one of the ways I’m trying to stave off brain rot. Dad blogged until he was almost 88, quitting when mom died in 2012. 

I’ll be 74 this year. Go here for my older blog. http://pineyflatwoodsgirl.blogspot.com/

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  1. KatJune 18, 2023 at 9:43 AM

    Kool idea. Probably meaningful your physical health woes have occurred all recently. I do see some rough strikes in your life very recently. Three weeks ago I had a rough strike and within days came down with cold/flu/Covid who knows. I like to be purposefully active - outwardly and inwardly. Outward is the social world and my role in it. I do purposeful things there that reflect well in and on me. Inward is personal, the "me," the person who will get very good quality care and attention.

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