Follow your bliss...: June 2014

Sunday, June 29, 2014

A few things I've looked at through the lens...

A thin line of sunshine

Hostas

Jonquil bulbs

The bottom of a rusty bucket

Rusty things...dang they're pretty

Dead burdock leaf

Peony with morning dew

Poor dead bird.

Peony

One of my Father's tools that I've acquired.

Wee Elizabeth...my bucket of sunshine!

Looking up at the summer mist in the pine trees

It was looking at me, waving...so I had to take its picture...

What's missing in this picture is, Max...I miss my old dog very much....

I'm in a looking phase...a thinking phase...I'm accumulating a digital sketchbook of my visual life. I'm also editing one of my novels that's been a work in progress since I scratched out the first lines in the year 2000. I'm following my bliss...

Sunday, June 08, 2014

Poppies from my mother's garden...

I missed them last year, this year, I timed it just right...it's always challenging to get a good photo of flowers, the slightest breeze can set them off wiggling and waving...I was very pleased to capture what I have here...they are so pretty!

Me and Fibromyalgia...the good news is, it's not going to kill me.

I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 after years of being told my illness was all in my head. My Fibro is everyday fatigue with body aches, mostly tolerable, but when I have a flare-up, which can be triggered by stress, hormones, or being over tired from over-doing it, I get the full body pain, including chest pains (yes, these are scary, like an elephant standing on my chest.) Thankfully, it doesn't hurt to take a breath, but I feel breathless, I just do yoga and breathing exercises to stretch and breathe to ease through the worst of it, NSAIDs help to cut the pain, and naps are always a necessary thing when needed (but hard to do while at the day job!) It's a balancing act to manage, I take advantage of the good days, lay low on the bad ones, and very often, push through in spite of the bad days...some mornings I wish I could stay in bed, but I'm glad that I get up and about, very often 'the kinks' work themselves out. I refuse to take the recommended pharmaceutical band-aids on the market, I tried one once, and I don't like feeling like a zombie. I keep active with my creativity, I think that's the key to my overcoming this obstacle every day...and I have my Fred and our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.