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own in her backyard so i give this practice of praying to these saints for help some credence i know i know this practice is superstitious but with that in mind this morning i googled a list of patron saints on catholicfaith org the list included abandoned infants to youth but there was no patron saint of outdoor lighting i guess the list was put together before electricity was invented but that can t be true either because there was a patron saint of automobilists and aviators in fact two saints were assigned to aviators i think my only option is to say a prayer to the patron saints of writers st lucy and st francis de sales perhaps they will look over me when i take the final step to plug in the lights and make the scene come alive this entry was posted on december 1 2015 in uncategorized and tagged creativity getting to the truth holidays imagination inspiration outdoor lighting patron saints personal experiences traditions writers 4 comments it s time to say thank you nov 23 every fourth thursday of november families gather around tables to share a special meal which usually involves turkey this one day was declared a national holiday by abraham lincoln so americans could give thanks for their their blessings but in recent years thanksgiving has lost its punch because the holiday now finds itself buried under black friday shopping ads some stores even open on thursday afternoon with their door buster sales am i nuts to think this is nuts are we americans really that eager to join throngs of frantic people rushing from store to store before the leftovers are even refrigerated personally i like to give each holiday its due face it we only have one easter one 4th of july one memorial day one labor day one veteran s day and one halloween per year why rush it all it seems holidays in general have become little more than a day off for over worked employees except of course the poor people who have to work on the holidays because heaven forbid the stores might lose a couple of bucks in revenue if they shut their doors bah humbug i m old enough to remember when stores were not open on sundays we took twenty four hours to just relax if we needed a gallon of milk well we stocked up on saturday or waited until monday to refill the frig nobody died because we didn t have enough milk but that was before companies studied the 40 hour week and found it was more efficient to put people on 4 day work schedules for ten hours and rotate them during the rest of the month luckily i didn t ever have to work such crazy hours but my daughter now does and i tell you she looks tired all of the time we also waited for every holiday and enjoyed the festivities connected with each the world was slower than and frankly speeding up the pace of living has turned most of us into nervous wrecks i jumped off that merry go round about seven years ago with a premature retirement and to tell you the truth i haven t missed the helter skelter world at all i just think it isn t too much to ask to take one day out of the year and make a point of looking at your life and finding things to be thankful for i understand sometimes when the bottom has dropped out of your world this task can be more challenging we ve all been there but i suggest if you don t go hungry have a roof over your head and don t have to fear a bomb will hit your house bow your head and say thanks this entry was posted on november 23 2015 in the soap box and tagged family friends getting to the truth giving thanks good health good life holiday shopping memories personal experiences shopping thanks traditions 9 comments change is the only thing in life you can count on nov 20 unlike most of the country southeast wisconsin has enjoyed above average temperatures for the month of november even the typical gray skies and rainy weather have gone on a hiatus until tonight believe it or not we re expecting four to eight inches of snow i bring this up because when the weather is lovely i figure it is my responsible to take advantage of it so i ve been bumming around instead of plunking my butt in my chair to write as you might have noticed i haven t posted any words of wisdom in over a week one thing i want to share with you is ken hasn t fallen in almost two weeks it s an occurrence to celebrate because he was falling at least twice a week what has caused the change i m happy to tell you all it took was a couple of changes because he typically fell during the night i made a house rule that he was not allowed in the bathroom whenever i was sleeping to accommodate his late night bathroom urges i put a commode in the bedroom he fought me tooth and nail saying he wasn t comfortable to use it i told him he d better get comfortable because i was tired of the firemen seeing me in my jammies in the middle of the night after a couple of weeks he admitted the commode was a good idea the other change was to have a physical therapist come into the house twice a week she has shown him better transferring methods from his wheelchair to the bed recliner toilet and car it s ken s natural tendency to make every thing as difficult as possible i tease him he chooses the most difficult way because he s a born engineer it s innate for over a year the doctor has insisted ken do thirty minutes of exercise a day i ve worked around him with this therapist because she has given him exercises he can do while sitting of course he puts them off again i need to lay down the law to get him to help himself i don t know whether his reluctance to face something new is due to his fear of failure or just procrastination perhaps it s a little of both being the exact opposite of him i find his willingness to succumb to these little challenges frustrating i ve resigned myself to the fact if i wait long enough he ll do what is expected i really hate having to be a task manager when i supervised people in corporate i usually had self starters i had no tolerance for people i had to micro manage i also realize though things are different with ken i can t fire him he says i can t lay him off either this entry was posted on november 20 2015 in care giving the ms journey and tagged blogging blogging topics change getting started personal experiences physical therapy procrastination exercise the ms journey writing 1 comment a surprising train trip nov 5 the weatherman said to enjoy the warm temps today because the real november is tired of waiting he will make his cold rainy appearance tomorrow luckily ken and i will venture out today and head to milwaukee our destination is a doctor s appointment and here you thought we might be doing something fun huh well with his declining abilities to do travel of any kind we make fun out of the most mundane things we must do like going to the doctor dentist or just out for lunch at a hamburger joint we do miss traveling though so we fulfill that need by watching pieces on pbs or the travel channel to learn about places neither of us will probably never visit last night we learned about the cities of poland warsaw poznan lodz and krakow we traveled by train from city to city which in itself would have been a wonderful thing to do at each stop we were amazed at how beautiful the buildings and city squares were each city had its own charm even though the underpinnings of the many conquers the polish have endured by austrians nazis and russians showed in its architecture warsaw was razed by the nazis during world war ii but today there is no evidence of the war after wwii was over ordinary citizens scavenged through the rubble to find unbroken bricks and other salvageable building materials to begin again and did they build modern structures of the day no they replaced the old stylish buildings with new buildings closely matching the old ones i suppose it was their way of washing away the humiliation of being conquered by the outside forces impressive lodz is the second largest polish city and has its own unique atmosphere it is likened to manchester england due to its size and the fame of the textile industry which developed there in the 19th century now it features fine art nouveau architecture and the most famous polish film school they even incorporated a hollywood type star walk roman polanski was one name i recognized thank goodness the documentary did not cover the ugliness of the numerous concentration camps the nazis built instead we rode along on one of the last surviving steam engine trains in the world which still makes regular commuter runs few people probably don t give poland a second thought when they think of vacationing but after seeing the sights via the television i know i wouldn t turn down an opportunity to explore the country but i certainly would go in the summer even though the trains criss crossing the land are heated to protect passengers from thirty degrees below zero temps have you ever been surprised about a place like i was if so tell me about it this entry was posted on november 5 2015 in uncategorized and tagged dreaming imagination inspiration krakov lodz poland the ms journey train travel traveling warsaw 3 comments it s unseasonably warm nov 3 all the calendars tell me it s november again the only real evidence of that fact is we had to fall back with our clocks last saturday instead of getting cold though we re having a week of 70 degree temperatures with bright sunshine and clear blue skies i think mother nature is making up for her nasty behavior in the spring but even the warm temperatures can t deny winter is lurking behind the curtain it s dark at 4 30 in the afternoon and christmas commercials are already appearing on television yuck another downside of the warm temps is not having the excuse to snuggle in the blankets in the early darkness i tell everybody who will listen that i would have made a very good bear because i do hibernate so how do we get through the next four to six months yes six months i live in a northern state where winter is never ending i think the anticipation of the holidays of thanksgiving and the craziness of christmas and all it s traditions pull us through this time of year so for all you other sun signs like me keep a calendar handy and check off the days until april it makes you think you re making progress to more consistent nice warm weather this stretch of present warm temperatures is a fluke this entry was posted on november 3 2015 in about the author and tagged christmas holidays keeping warm november thanksgiving unseasonably warm weather warm weather 2 comments creating your world oct 29 a few days ago my daughter called and said she found an outlet for some of my jewelry lately painting has taken the place of my jewelry designing because i have a dresser drawer full of necklaces earrings and bracelets just lying dormant so i was excited a tanning salon wanted to take my creations and sell them christmas is coming after all the store i had my jewelry displayed downtown closed over a year ago so i pretty much abandoned my jewelry efforts that is not to say my paintings are flying off the wall i ve found one idea leads to another then another and another before long my creative endeavors almost move me out of my house i may never sell a painting but i challenge myself by trying new techniques and practice things like perspective which i really haven t mastered yet the best part is when my artist friend marie critiques my creations and makes suggestions to improve what i ve done constructive criticism is part of the creative process so grow a thick skin and ask for it i ve always enjoyed crafting but like everything i seem to take on i am prolific i ve written eight novels and many short stories i m working on two more books too this is my 482nd blog and i took a year off but i have to do these things creating is the reason we are all put here really maybe you don t create art or literature but most people pick something to enrich their soul my creating keeps me thinking i hate foggy days not the weather when i feel sluggish i pick up one of my creative outlets and just do it nobody has to push me to move into the creative side of me and before i know it the fog has lifted and i can go on to tackle more mundane activities like cleaning paying bills or cooking the evening meal if you don t indulge your creative side you re missing the boat pick something you might enjoy try it and if you don t like the activity try something else creating is in human dna you need to express this part to make you whole tell me about your creative outlets i d love to hear about them this entry was posted on october 29 2015 in about the author uncategorized and tagged artists blogging techniques creating design getting to the truth inspiration painters painting personal experiences the craft of writing writers writing 6 comments post navigation older posts search for recent posts it happens faster than you think all lit up and ready to go a month of good stuff christmas lights 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