“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ~Oprah Winfrey
Let me start with the fact that I have had much coming at me recently-some celebrations and some significant changes that will need to be made.
My husband and I recently celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary. I was finally able to try to eat out after 5 yrs of gut issues. We picked our favorite spot out in the country surrounded by lots of trees with amazing colors. It is an organic farm to table restaurant, and oh how I missed eating there. It was a wonderful dinner and experience. On the way home we watched the sun set through the hills. It certainly put a bow on a magnificent day.
And I even picked out my favorite flowers of the season for a lovely anniversary bouquet-sunflowers purchased at a local grocery store.
These flowers make such a bold statement.
And have such staying power in a vase.
They are equally gorgeous as they age. Along with the fall colors and leaf decline found around me. Which is a perfect metaphor for me at the moment as I deal with health and aging.
I think it is even more important now that I heed my practitioners’ guidance. And so these changes I am having to make, I am hoping are as temporary as my practitioners are telling me they should be.
As you may know, I have had hand pain since the beginning of the new year. Working with an incredible Physical Therapist, who is sure it is from my neck. Years of bad posture hunched over using a phone and computer and reading books for hours. As well as slouching. So in order to treat this, I have had to move from reading books to listening to books. I am adjusting and enjoying some series of books I have wanted to read. And I am finding it really is important to have an excellent narrator to enjoy listening to books.
I also have to stay away from the computer and phone. Blogging takes quite a bit of time on both these devices so I will be stepping away from my blog and social media for a few months. Looking at coming back at the New Year as long as my practitioners are in agreement. So this will be my last post for now.
I will be thinking of you all. And wishing you a wonderful rest of fall and a special holiday season. I’ll see you in the New Year!
With this vase, I am joining in with the wonderful meme, In A Vase On Monday, from Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
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