Your writing brings value to me, especially the everyday things because I am having to learn to live alone after a great 38 year marriage. I have been alone for a year and am just finding the energy to try and make my way. I took care of my non-mobile-Parkinson's with dementia husband 24/7 for 4 years. I promised him no nursing home and I kept my promise-barely. It was hard, demanding and sad to watch the one you love change into someone you not only don't know, but also don't like. And after he left so did much of the finances. The mortgage doesn't change and maybe there's a little less spending on food that is eaten up by the high prices! (pun completely intended).I hope MJ's surgery is successful and a quick refuah shleima (full recovery). Writing Hebrew in English letters is impossible. Be well.
Hope everything goes smoothly for MJ in surgery and recovery.
Wednesdays, Elbow Room, my local cafe opens for the week, and I always go first thing. Chatting with friends and people I don't know fills me up. I go from that to co-working. It's such a satisfying mid-week experience.
Recently I started doing the dishes with one of my daughters. I wash. She dries and puts away. She plays good music and chats to me while we do it. The clean up goes quickly and is done more thoroughly than when my kids were splitting the job, and we get some talking time that we don't have in the car anymore now that she's driving.
I love the word Apricity. I'm writing it down for safe keeping.
My daily rituals include making my morning coffee in a French Press before I do anything else, to which I add a dash each of turmeric, ceylon cinnamon and black pepper. This allows me to see drinking coffee as a necessary part of a healthy routine. Then I sit in my sunniest, apricity-bringing window and read for about 20 minutes. If I do not get book reading in early, I will fall asleep reading later in the day. I walk every day. My favorite winter walks are in the late afternoon when the sun is low and bright and blinds you when you walk into it (I am lucky to live in a low traffic neighborhood.) Most mornings I remember to recite Y'varekh'kha Adonai v'yishm'rekha...as I think of my daughter and her 3 children. But I like your idea of writing prayers down! I am trying to keep my bones healthy so I have daily exercies that make me look like a nut-- jumping off things, skipping back and forth in my den, balancing on one leg. Thank you Jena for this invitation.
Oh, I really liked reading this post Jena, it felt like I got to visit you in your life like a bird perched on your shoulder or fluttering around while you had your coffee, noted you adorable matching slippers, thank you.
All best wishes to MJ for their procedure and a few extra hugs for the caregiver.
First world problems I know but I’m in Florida for the winter and it’s been cold. Ha ha -like in the low 60s. The early mornings when I wake have been in the 30s and 40s. This has curtailed my early morning walk and my new ritual which must be banished as soon as I can muster the energy is a long lingering cup of coffee with a biscotti. A biscotti! Well, my senior dog lounges on the bed next to me. It’s a comfortable morning life.
I really enjoyed reading this, especially, "After feeding Chupie and taking her outside to sniff around the tundra," which made me laugh. Good way to start the day.
Your writing brings value to me, especially the everyday things because I am having to learn to live alone after a great 38 year marriage. I have been alone for a year and am just finding the energy to try and make my way. I took care of my non-mobile-Parkinson's with dementia husband 24/7 for 4 years. I promised him no nursing home and I kept my promise-barely. It was hard, demanding and sad to watch the one you love change into someone you not only don't know, but also don't like. And after he left so did much of the finances. The mortgage doesn't change and maybe there's a little less spending on food that is eaten up by the high prices! (pun completely intended).I hope MJ's surgery is successful and a quick refuah shleima (full recovery). Writing Hebrew in English letters is impossible. Be well.
Hope everything goes smoothly for MJ in surgery and recovery.
Wednesdays, Elbow Room, my local cafe opens for the week, and I always go first thing. Chatting with friends and people I don't know fills me up. I go from that to co-working. It's such a satisfying mid-week experience.
Recently I started doing the dishes with one of my daughters. I wash. She dries and puts away. She plays good music and chats to me while we do it. The clean up goes quickly and is done more thoroughly than when my kids were splitting the job, and we get some talking time that we don't have in the car anymore now that she's driving.
Best wishes today for MJ.
I love the word Apricity. I'm writing it down for safe keeping.
My daily rituals include making my morning coffee in a French Press before I do anything else, to which I add a dash each of turmeric, ceylon cinnamon and black pepper. This allows me to see drinking coffee as a necessary part of a healthy routine. Then I sit in my sunniest, apricity-bringing window and read for about 20 minutes. If I do not get book reading in early, I will fall asleep reading later in the day. I walk every day. My favorite winter walks are in the late afternoon when the sun is low and bright and blinds you when you walk into it (I am lucky to live in a low traffic neighborhood.) Most mornings I remember to recite Y'varekh'kha Adonai v'yishm'rekha...as I think of my daughter and her 3 children. But I like your idea of writing prayers down! I am trying to keep my bones healthy so I have daily exercies that make me look like a nut-- jumping off things, skipping back and forth in my den, balancing on one leg. Thank you Jena for this invitation.
Isn't apricity a great word? I often sit on my porch for an hour even in February when the sun is right (even when the thermometer says 30).
Oh, I really liked reading this post Jena, it felt like I got to visit you in your life like a bird perched on your shoulder or fluttering around while you had your coffee, noted you adorable matching slippers, thank you.
All best wishes to MJ for their procedure and a few extra hugs for the caregiver.
First world problems I know but I’m in Florida for the winter and it’s been cold. Ha ha -like in the low 60s. The early mornings when I wake have been in the 30s and 40s. This has curtailed my early morning walk and my new ritual which must be banished as soon as I can muster the energy is a long lingering cup of coffee with a biscotti. A biscotti! Well, my senior dog lounges on the bed next to me. It’s a comfortable morning life.
I really enjoyed reading this, especially, "After feeding Chupie and taking her outside to sniff around the tundra," which made me laugh. Good way to start the day.