Sunshine and Silliness

It has become difficult for me to pick up my mail because of the distance from the parking lot to my mailbox. Since it is been over a week since I have gotten the mail and because today has been such a beautiful day, I decided to pick up the mail on my way back from getting cat treats and milk. 

The day has been warm; however there have been very strong gusts of wind, perhaps up to 60 miles per hour. After I opened the door and put my feet on the parking lot I reached the end farm my oxygen compressor and there came a strong gust of wind that blew the car door into my leg knocking me off balance so that I ended up face down on the parking lot. 

Thanks to a couple who saw me fall, I got up okay; however, there is a cut on my bad leg plus my leg is very sore. I can get around okay with my cane, but I’m not be doing any long-distance walking!

Although it is been relatively cold until today, the sun has been brightly shine and my Kitty kids have been enjoying!

Sleeping Beneath Kitty KIds

This is generally what happens when I sleep in my lift chair:

That is the Little Girl sleeping on my chest and Alex between my legs. At times Sugar also comes aboard my body; however, then a wrestling match usually breaks out between at least two of the Kitty Kids.

The Kitty Kids being on top of me isn't really uncomfortable, except when Little Girl intertwines herself into my beard or sleeps on my face. She also tries to lick my face, an act with which I do not accept.

Ill

I'm quite ill. I'm tired of being ill.

OK, I'm feeling better. I discovered the cause of being so ill: my blood sugar reading is up to 246 when it normally runs between 130 and 150. I don't know how it got so high, except perhaps because I forgot to take my medication. I feel much better.

Countdown to My Birthday

As I write this, is less than two weeks until my Valentine's Day birthday. I'm not exactly happy about my upcoming birthday – is anyone happy about turning 67 years old? But I am counting down to the day.

As you may remember from my previous journal entries, I have been ill since early December. I'm still not feeling well; however, the symptoms have changed. At the present time I am having difficulty speaking, especially on the telephone: it seems that the words in my head are not always coming out my mouth. Therefore, I am avoiding telephone conversations as much as I can.

The second problem I'm having with myself is that I seem to lose my equilibrium quite often. I have not fallen yet, but I've come awfully close to it.


Since the year 2003 I have been aware of my declining health. In the beginning I worried a lot about this; however, then I read a story of an interview with Joseph Campbell that took place a few years before his death. Campbell was asked how his many years studying world myths and informed his own life. 

He replied that he has learned that nothing is permanent – everything is in the process of change. As he has grown older and his body has no longer functioned the way it did when he was a young man, he simply noted the changes in his body – the shutting down of each function – and responded by thanking that function and saying goodbye to it.

This is exactly what I have been doing for the past several years.


As I count down the days until my birthday, I have been reviewing the functions that I no longer have. I said goodbye to easy breathing, the ability to stand without a walking stick, the ability to run, and living each day without pain. I celebrate that I can still think, write, speak (most of the time), sing (a little bit), and walk with the aid of my walking stick. I can also drive.

I can also appreciate the Frank Sinatra song, It Was a Very Good Year.

It Was a Very Good Year

What my kitty kids have been doing:

Sugar and Little Girl having been watching the snow

Alex and Little Girl watching the snow

Sugar on the move; Little Girl on printer.

Alex on my desk, begging treats,

Napping: