That is one of the most beautiful and touching thoughts I have ever experienced.
thank-you for that! Adele tm since 1993 ________________________________ From: "tmic-digest-requ...@eskimo.com" <tmic-digest-requ...@eskimo.com> To: tmic-dig...@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2009 8:50:55 PM Subject: tmic-digest Digest V2009 #395 -----Inline Message Follows----- tmic-digest Digest Volume 2009 : Issue 395 Today's Topics: RE: [TMIC] New Month, New Efforts [ "Patricia Cooley" <patticoo...@wi.r ] RE: [TMIC] New Month, New Efforts [ Akua <a...@artfarm.com> ] RE: [TMIC] RE: wow, you work too har [ "Patricia Cooley" <patticoo...@wi.r ] Re: [TMIC] SURG ON FRIDAY [ Akua <a...@artfarm.com> ] [TMIC] difficulties [ "Westgold" <westg...@interlog.com> ] Re: [TMIC] difficulties [ "Pieter and Heather" <pieterheather ] -----Inline Message Follows----- RE: [TMIC] New Month, New Efforts AKUA YOUR WORDS ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND SAY WHAT SO MANY OF US FEEL. I AM HAVING TROUBLE TYPING BECAUSE I AM STILL WEEPING IN SADNESS FOR ALL OF US AND HOPE AGAINST HOPE THAT THERE IS SOME SORT OF A CURE FOR SOME OR MAYBE ALL OF US. HOPE AND FAITH IS WHAT GETS US THROUGH EACH DAY. THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR WORDS. PLEASE GIVE US MORE. BLESSINGS ON YOU. PATTI - WISCONSIN From:Akua [mailto:a...@artfarm.com] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 1:34 PM To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [TMIC] New Month, New Efforts Thank you to those who asked. Here are two of my TM-related poems from April 2009. Prompt: Object Wheelchair Confined to? No it does not imprison me, some raw deal dealt this blow requiring help for every little here to there moving through any space Brilliant contraption: wheels 4 wheels on chair to get you somewhere arms as pistons hands push against round smooth handrails pull to spin around, go backwards turn on a dime arm rests grey tires and if you dare to look: purple legs All fitted for me, the young man who measured was energetic, kind, knowing more, how a tool that fits makes hell easier to climb out of back height, seat wider for my hips, cushion to foot rests, match knee bend past seat and foreleg length, mobile throne, horseless chariot, roll me roll me roll me home transfuse your capability to convey and wing me, (groundbound by arrow of outrageous fortune yet spirit flutters, flaps and sometimes, soars) free Akua Lezli Hope prompt: Routine Routine Paraplegic poet meditates on T.R. I sleep to wake and take my waking slow I fear my fate in what is no longer there I get nowhere that I used to go We think we know what we don't know I pray daily to be cured, I cry to rise from here I sleep to wake and take my waking slow Many have abandoned me, both friend and foe God grant me strength! I yearn for just one listening ear to take me somewhere that I used to go Cruel April stalls spring, we've lost the status quo Climate change costs lives, increases costs for care I sleep to wake and take my waking slow Reason eludes: why did life undo me so? One day, it might be you, run now in open air explore while you may, go far while you can go Frayed nerves tremble me unsteady, I plead to know what lesson in legs' loss, I can't climb the stairs I sleep to wake and take my waking slow I can go nowhere that I want to go. Akua Lezli Hope -- -----Inline Message Follows----- o Patti, dear! Thank you so much. Yes, hope, faith and prayer are what get me through each day. I haven't written poems about TM since I first contracted it-- in part because my energy just wasn't what it was, and then because, I felt it was a"giving in" to the demands that my body put on my attention-- why did I have to pay so much attention to my disability?!.. now I'm more at a place of it is what it is, it requires what it requires... not resignation, but acceptance and a new determination.... Be well, know joy, Blessings, Akua -- -----Inline Message Follows----- I WAS ON OXYBUTININ FOR SOME MONTHS AND IT DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR ME. SINCE I HAVE NO FEELING THAT I HAVE TO GO MY UROLUGIST SAID I COULD STOP AND I DON'T NOTICE ANY CHANGE EXCEPT THAT THE HORRIBLE TASTE IN MY MOUTH HAS GONE AWAY. PATTI - WI -----Original Message----- From: Akua [mailto:a...@artfarm.com] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 1:59 PM To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [TMIC] RE: wow, you work too hard Trudy "Tho I think there was article that some incontinence drugs cause memory loss." Yes! I stopped taking oxybutinin and do more laundry <g>. I now save the oxyb for special events, or visits, when i know i won't get to cath as frequently and don't want to be a wet mess. -- -----Inline Message Follows----- Jeff, I join everyone in wishing you well. I hope the surgery was successful and that your recovery is swift . Blessings, Akua -- -----Inline Message Follows----- Difficulties Difficult challenges can come into your life when you least expect them, and when you can ill afford them. Yet there they are, bullying their way into your world. If you try to ignore them or deny them, they just get bigger and more problematic. The more you let them worry you and get you down, the more helpless they make you. A life full of challenge is often stressful and uncomfortable, but it is vastly better than the alternative, which is a life full of nothing. Your own particular challenges may seem extremely unfair, and they probably are. But that doesn't make them any less real, nor does it make you any less obligated to confront and endure them. Accept the challenges when they appear, and you're well on the way to overcoming them. Though they bring disruption and pain, they also bring growth and power. Sometimes what is best for us, is not what we would choose. Life is difficult and in it we find unimaginable joy. Accept it all and live it for all it's worth. -----Inline Message Follows----- Very well said, very well said. Heather in Calgary ----- Original Message ----- From: Westgold To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:46 PM Subject: [TMIC] difficulties Difficulties Difficult challenges can come into your life when you least expect them, and when you can ill afford them. Yet there they are, bullying their way into your world. If you try to ignore them or deny them, they just get bigger and more problematic. The more you let them worry you and get you down, the more helpless they make you. A life full of challenge is often stressful and uncomfortable, but it is vastly better than the alternative, which is a life full of nothing. Your own particular challenges may seem extremely unfair, and they probably are. But that doesn't make them any less real, nor does it make you any less obligated to confront and endure them. Accept the challenges when they appear, and you're well on the way to overcoming them. Though they bring disruption and pain, they also bring growth and power. Sometimes what is best for us, is not what we would choose. Life is difficult and in it we find unimaginable joy. Accept it all and live it for all it's worth.
