My optometrist referred me to an opthamologist with dire warnings--probably because a different eye doctor referred me last year and I didn't go. (It was in my records.)
Dr. Ryan's dire warnings--pointing the book I had with me (I always have a book with me) and said, "You'd better go or forget about those!"
So, I went.
She was a tiny woman. After one person put drops in my eyes and 10 minutes later another person took pictures of my eyes in some weird machine, she saw me and told me my macular degeneration was very, very minor. She actually said 'very' twice! and put me on some vitamins but said there was 'nothing to treat now'.
Bless her little heart!
This is a huge place in Waterbury that doesn't have optometrists--only people who deal with more than basic eye exams.
I whispered to Bern while we were there (she went because I didn't know if I'd be able to see to drive after the exam) "I feel really young in this waiting room."
It was true. Most people there had aides and canes and wheelchairs.
It's good to feel Young and to know I can have books in my life.
Many thanks, God.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
Try to absorb this....
FACT CHECKER, a totally neutral and non-biased group, said today the President HE-WHO-NOT-BE-NAMED has spoken 1219 false or unverifiable statements in 928 days as President.
That is an average of 13 untruths a day in twitter or in spoken word.
Do you lie 13 times a day--and I don't mean answering questions like: "do these pants make my butt look fat?"
I mean lies that matter.
I mean lies about immigrates, boarder walls, policy, the environment, other prominent people, realities!!!
Try to absorb this--the leader of our country and the free world LIES 13 times a day, on average.
Deep breaths. Head between your knees if need be. Breathe into a paper bag. Have some water. Walk it off.
Do I need to talk about this any more to make it more real?
How much more real can you make it than 13 serious untruths a day?
By the most powerful man in the world.
If you can, in some way, absorb this--DO SOMETHING FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!
This has to stop in 2020 if not by impeachment.
This madness has to stop.
It has to.
Really.
Truly.
For the sake of all of us....
That is an average of 13 untruths a day in twitter or in spoken word.
Do you lie 13 times a day--and I don't mean answering questions like: "do these pants make my butt look fat?"
I mean lies that matter.
I mean lies about immigrates, boarder walls, policy, the environment, other prominent people, realities!!!
Try to absorb this--the leader of our country and the free world LIES 13 times a day, on average.
Deep breaths. Head between your knees if need be. Breathe into a paper bag. Have some water. Walk it off.
Do I need to talk about this any more to make it more real?
How much more real can you make it than 13 serious untruths a day?
By the most powerful man in the world.
If you can, in some way, absorb this--DO SOMETHING FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!
This has to stop in 2020 if not by impeachment.
This madness has to stop.
It has to.
Really.
Truly.
For the sake of all of us....
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Almighty God!!!
So the President (WWNBNH) re tweeted a tweet tying the Clinton's to Jeffery Epstein's suicide!
How can we be here? Conspiracy theories forwarded by the Leader of the Free World about political opponents--one of whom got 3 million more popular votes than he did in the 2016 election.
How can everybody in America not be made crazy by this?
Has the outrageous become too common place?
Has the stupid become normal?
Have lies become semi-truth?
How bad can it get?
I'm not sure I want to know.....
How can we be here? Conspiracy theories forwarded by the Leader of the Free World about political opponents--one of whom got 3 million more popular votes than he did in the 2016 election.
How can everybody in America not be made crazy by this?
Has the outrageous become too common place?
Has the stupid become normal?
Have lies become semi-truth?
How bad can it get?
I'm not sure I want to know.....
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Brooklyn and back
Went down and back to Brooklyn today. On the way down we did what GPS told us to do and it took a little over 3 hours to go 92 miles!
We went for Eleanor's third birthday, which is tomorrow. She is so wondrous, even a three hour trip through horrendous traffic seems with it. Mimi and Tim are well and happy. We love them all--just like we love our Baltimore Bradley/Chen family. Neither Mimi or Cathy took their husband's names. Good for them.
We all went out and her parents bought her a scooter and a ladybug helmet at the neighbourhood toy store. She road it home, veering left a lot and then we went out to their building's outdoor space--about half a football field on the second floor and she rode and rode her scooter, getting better every moment. We hugged them all and she was still riding when we left.
After we got to the Whitestone Bridge, I told Bern to turn off the GPS, I was going Hutch and Merrit no matter what that stupid woman's voice wanted me to do! The Brooklyn Queens Expressway was a mess but we got home in just under two hours. S-U-C-C-E-S-S, that's the way to spell 'success', yes!
The GPS's preference for I-95 was our undoing going down.
We usually make it to Baltimore in 4 hours and 15 minutes and that's 288 miles, not 92....
New York Traffic is the sixth ring of Dante's hell.
Bridget was confused about why we were gone so long, but, as far as we can tell, she didn't pee in the house. That girl can really hold it--unlike me!
We went for Eleanor's third birthday, which is tomorrow. She is so wondrous, even a three hour trip through horrendous traffic seems with it. Mimi and Tim are well and happy. We love them all--just like we love our Baltimore Bradley/Chen family. Neither Mimi or Cathy took their husband's names. Good for them.
We all went out and her parents bought her a scooter and a ladybug helmet at the neighbourhood toy store. She road it home, veering left a lot and then we went out to their building's outdoor space--about half a football field on the second floor and she rode and rode her scooter, getting better every moment. We hugged them all and she was still riding when we left.
After we got to the Whitestone Bridge, I told Bern to turn off the GPS, I was going Hutch and Merrit no matter what that stupid woman's voice wanted me to do! The Brooklyn Queens Expressway was a mess but we got home in just under two hours. S-U-C-C-E-S-S, that's the way to spell 'success', yes!
The GPS's preference for I-95 was our undoing going down.
We usually make it to Baltimore in 4 hours and 15 minutes and that's 288 miles, not 92....
New York Traffic is the sixth ring of Dante's hell.
Bridget was confused about why we were gone so long, but, as far as we can tell, she didn't pee in the house. That girl can really hold it--unlike me!
Friday, August 9, 2019
It got very dark
The electricity went off on upper Cornwall Avenue last night.
It happened about 8:30 p.m., before it got completely dark. But 45 minutes later, it got very dark.
I called Bern, who was at her Group, to let her know the porch light wouldn't be on when she got back.
Then I got Brigit and a candle and a flashlight and cigarettes and wine and went to the front porch.
It's amazing how dark it can get without lights from houses and street lights. I finally just sat with the candle and the dog and waited on Bern. You miss people more in the dark than in the light.
When she got home, Brigit was delighted. We got a couple of more candles and our bedside lights worked because they store up electricity somehow I don't understand.
We went to bed by 10 p.m.
I realize why folks before electricity were 'early to bed and early to rise'. Not much to do in the dark--with no radio, no TV, no computers--except go to bed.
20 minutes later it came back. We both got up to do some stuff.
Amazing how light encourages action.
I didn't write on my blog last night because I couldn't.
Now I can so I told you why....
It happened about 8:30 p.m., before it got completely dark. But 45 minutes later, it got very dark.
I called Bern, who was at her Group, to let her know the porch light wouldn't be on when she got back.
Then I got Brigit and a candle and a flashlight and cigarettes and wine and went to the front porch.
It's amazing how dark it can get without lights from houses and street lights. I finally just sat with the candle and the dog and waited on Bern. You miss people more in the dark than in the light.
When she got home, Brigit was delighted. We got a couple of more candles and our bedside lights worked because they store up electricity somehow I don't understand.
We went to bed by 10 p.m.
I realize why folks before electricity were 'early to bed and early to rise'. Not much to do in the dark--with no radio, no TV, no computers--except go to bed.
20 minutes later it came back. We both got up to do some stuff.
Amazing how light encourages action.
I didn't write on my blog last night because I couldn't.
Now I can so I told you why....
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Quotes to ponder
I haven't done it for a while, so I'm going to send you some of the quotes from my box of quotes Ann Overton and the Mastery Foundation gave me.
Print them out, if you like, to spend a few days pondering and wondering and learning from and being inspired by them.
"A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops."
--Amos Oz
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
--Steven Wright
"The future is not someplace we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination."
--John Schaar
"This God's mission, to help human beings, every human being, to progress from slavery to freedom. This is the mission of culture and education. And all the rest is interpretation."
--Rabbi Ofek Meir
"We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future."
--Marge Piercy
"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
--William Butler Yeats
"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness.
To prove the thing exists.
And however futile each individual act of courage
or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace--
it still proves the thing exists.
Each act adds to the fund."
--Josephine Hart
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worst, to avoid trouble."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"May God bless you
with enough foolishness
To believe that you can
make a difference in the world,
So that you co what others
claim cannot be done."
--From a Fanciscan Benediction
"Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing."
--Eugene Ionesco
Enjoy being with them. And be thankful you are.
Print them out, if you like, to spend a few days pondering and wondering and learning from and being inspired by them.
"A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops."
--Amos Oz
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
--Steven Wright
"The future is not someplace we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination."
--John Schaar
"This God's mission, to help human beings, every human being, to progress from slavery to freedom. This is the mission of culture and education. And all the rest is interpretation."
--Rabbi Ofek Meir
"We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future."
--Marge Piercy
"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
--William Butler Yeats
"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness.
To prove the thing exists.
And however futile each individual act of courage
or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace--
it still proves the thing exists.
Each act adds to the fund."
--Josephine Hart
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worst, to avoid trouble."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"May God bless you
with enough foolishness
To believe that you can
make a difference in the world,
So that you co what others
claim cannot be done."
--From a Fanciscan Benediction
"Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing."
--Eugene Ionesco
Enjoy being with them. And be thankful you are.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Something less grim...
I know I've been going off, reasonably so, in my last few blogs about the nonsense about guns in America and the tragedies in Texas and Ohio and California.
Don't lose tough with that. The President is going to El Paso and Dayton tomorrow though some have asked him not to come. Time will tell. Republicans, I've read, are scared sh**less all this gun stuff will lose their suburban districts in 2020. Devoutly to be wished.
But what I want to point out tonight is after the Yankees 4 game sweep of the Red Sox, Boston is 16 games behind in the loss column as the Yankees have 50 games left to play and the Sox have 47 games left to play.
Hard to make up that lead in that time.
Plus the Yankees, as of 10 p.m. are beating Baltimore 5-2 and Kansas City is beating Boston 6-2. Time for both those to change but one game doesn't make much of a difference in the scheme of things.
Let's Gooo, Yankees!
Baseball, being so slow and idyllic, always gives me hope.
Don't lose tough with that. The President is going to El Paso and Dayton tomorrow though some have asked him not to come. Time will tell. Republicans, I've read, are scared sh**less all this gun stuff will lose their suburban districts in 2020. Devoutly to be wished.
But what I want to point out tonight is after the Yankees 4 game sweep of the Red Sox, Boston is 16 games behind in the loss column as the Yankees have 50 games left to play and the Sox have 47 games left to play.
Hard to make up that lead in that time.
Plus the Yankees, as of 10 p.m. are beating Baltimore 5-2 and Kansas City is beating Boston 6-2. Time for both those to change but one game doesn't make much of a difference in the scheme of things.
Let's Gooo, Yankees!
Baseball, being so slow and idyllic, always gives me hope.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)