Backup & Resuscitation

I listened to a speech given by Eleanor Roosevelt, this morning on NPR......it was about her rethinking of the dogmatic principles that she had, as a child, taken for granted...as the truth;
her subsequent re-integration of the basic ideologies at play and the re-emergence of these principles, reformatted to conform to her needs as a more conscious and enlightened human being; then, her application of this incipient philosophy to her works in the real world of ordinary thinking. This renewed my confidence in the evolution of human spirituality without the context of religion or theism, but within the context of thoughtful, humanitarianism.





CD1 - Bach - The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Lara St John

Finally, Bird's being cooperative......sorta'.....

Like my own mother, it has taken 86 year old Bird a trip and fall and the consequent fractured leg to get her to Atlanta and assisted living, I hope, at Budd Terrace, just a few blocks from me and very near JAP........I'm so happy for her! Yea!

And, news of today: Bird is actually exercising, or so she claims....at least.......she is, nevertheless, sitting up and prepared to journey in a walker, as soon as that is possible, to avoid the indignity of having her "diaper" changed by another or the debilitating effects of remaining on her back, sleeping most of the time.......Today, she was witty, more alert and has an optimistic tone to her peculiar Atlanta accent......She has expressed a willingness to begin a new staging of her mature years at Wesley Woods......It is a great place, for I had several customers and friends who lived there quite contentedly until their demises....Keep it simple, Bird.....and she hasn't smoked in 10 days.........whooray! At least a dash for the finish line rather than a hapless decline into oblivion.

The Almanac by Shira Kammen