tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050996142546962834.post498852298552078757..comments2024-03-29T05:36:33.086-07:00Comments on DJan-ity: Being aliveDJanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07152183871573797791noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050996142546962834.post-30589422475442121762009-06-28T17:47:15.992-07:002009-06-28T17:47:15.992-07:00DJan: In reaction to the first part of this piece...DJan: In reaction to the first part of this piece, I suggest you read Richard Bach's "There's No Such Place as Far Away"<br /><br />With regard to macular deneration: My mother has had it for many years. At 92 years ripe, she is still sewing, though slowly.Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10004497277347402564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050996142546962834.post-71243421279959442652009-06-10T18:25:31.565-07:002009-06-10T18:25:31.565-07:00DJan, I'm sorry to hear about your eyesight. ...DJan, I'm sorry to hear about your eyesight. Our eyes are precious and we don't want to think that we will have to do with less sight one day, but have courage. It may not be too bad and you didn't mention your left eye? which is maybe ok for now? Your post was excellent and very full of questions. When I was working in the school, we had a book for the children who had lost a brother or a sister. It had a lovely story about a dragonfly in it. The story told how the dragonfly lavae lived beneath the surface of the pond. It was just a grub and had no other life nor did it know that one day it would rise above the surface of the pond and become a beautiful dragonfly. I believe that one day we will rise above the surface of our pond and become better beings than we are now, just like the dragonfly does. We will stretch our wings and fly and forget all about the life we had before.<br />Blessings, StarStella Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699491230987143490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050996142546962834.post-36010120547483144632009-06-10T08:50:04.633-07:002009-06-10T08:50:04.633-07:00Thanks for your comments on my blog. My daughter,...Thanks for your comments on my blog. My daughter, who helped me start my blog, showed me how to write posts and post-date the publication date, so I had about 3 posts written in advance and slated to be published while I was away. I did not have a computer on my trip. I don’t know when I’ll have my pictures of Alaska ready for a post as I like to have some kind of information with each post, so I have to research the different towns. Let us know how your neurologist eye exam goes; hopefully it will be all right.Vagabondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10774109692564954568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050996142546962834.post-17905930179465708002009-06-09T19:20:21.493-07:002009-06-09T19:20:21.493-07:00And how self-centered of me not to ask about your ...And how self-centered of me not to ask about your eyesight. What can be done? Surgery?<br /><br />After ten years I have finally accepted my presbyopia, and am allowing my other senses to assume a greater role. But I fucking miss the excellent eyesight of my youth!Linda Collisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15184486912118207613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050996142546962834.post-26091093508527697662009-06-09T19:17:34.902-07:002009-06-09T19:17:34.902-07:00Oh, now we're talking!
Of course I don't ...Oh, now we're talking! <br />Of course I don't have any answers, but I do love the questions your blog poses. <br />I do believe this. To have lived one moment (not a measurement of time) fully is enough. The rest is cake. I hope to live to be a very old woman, but if I die tonight I will have lived fully. And that is timeless. The sad part is, will anyone else know? Well, you will because I've just told you. But what to do with that? Were to go with it?<br />Let's talk more about this, I'll try and do something in my own blog. Because this is the stuff that really matters!Linda Collisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15184486912118207613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050996142546962834.post-44731906848078461952009-06-09T16:03:24.185-07:002009-06-09T16:03:24.185-07:00That is a very deep blog, Djan, on which at this t...That is a very deep blog, Djan, on which at this time, my brain cannot really respond. I woke up yesterday at 4:45 am and got home at 9:00 am this morning, so more than 24 hours awake! I have a lot of reading to do. We spent 11 beautiful days in Alaska and the Yukon with incredible weather the whole time like 82 in Juneau and 84 in Ketchikan. The drive from Vancouver to Seattle was also beautiful. I would love to go back when the tulips are in full bloom. I took over 1500 pictures which I’ll have to work on, but we are going on another trip soon, to see our small grandchildren. I have been to Seattle 3 times in the last 10 years, and every time the weather was very sunny – never seen this area in the rain. Here today it is 90! and a surprise, a rose bush which my husband was going to toss out because it had been taken out by the workers when erecting the small garden shed, but I had him replant anyway, had 3 beautiful pink roses!Vagabondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10774109692564954568noreply@blogger.com