Learning new skills is uncomfortable and necessary. I am just now in a struggle to learn how to get certain images onto this blog. I am trying not to let it feel too daunting. Others have learned. So can I…I can also ask for help from my grown-up children, but I am also trying to teach myself. Not so intuitive when one is 64! But it does make me feel alive to try. So I have a picture here from Alice’s Florida pictures. Mine are not on my computer yet.
I am still trying to understand how to manage this blog! And I certainly don’t feel that I’ve succeeded yet. But baby steps…..
No idea why the font size changed…………
On to another line of thought: It’s been one year, four months and 25 days since Paul died and I am in a very different place than I was at that moment shock, sorrow and grief. I’m not sure I can articulate where I am, but I am steadier – certainly because of all the support of family and friends and probably the Zen meditation practice (the same centering meditation my brother in law uses in his retreat house in Bavaria) I have been doing. Even though I do not meditate as much as I think I should, I do meditate and it calms me and brings me into some sort of compassionate onesness with all being. I meditate, too, when I walk around the current channel at the Natatorium in Cuyahoga Falls for an hour at a time…….For this blessing, much thanks.
For two weeks I was in Venice, Florida, from January 31st until Valentine’s Day on the 14th! Sun and warm days in a pleasant house with citrus trees in the yard. The first week I met with friends in the area, and even drove back and forth across the state to visit my DES friend Perry Palmer, and the second wonderful week my daughters and grandchildren were with me, enjoying days at the beach and evenings together. Sofia Maus goes early to bed, but Nathan stayed up to play Candyland with his mother Alice, Em and Nana. One evening we visited Nancy and Barry T. and watched the sunset from their bit of the beach. They are both naturally and highly talented at playing with small children!
I am trying to copy a picture from “my pictures”, but I don’t know how to do it yet…….More to learn, and learning is a joy. I am at a time in my life when I have perhaps too much freedom to do things. Responsibilites mostly to myself.
ok. I think I figured out the picture things – or at least part of the process. I’ll end this confusing post and hope no one ever reads it.
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