If you’ve been following my blog the last week or so, you know I de-activated my Facebook account because I was sick of the political barrage even from my closest friends. And of course, you know of my challenges taking care of my dad with Parkinson’s, my son with Down Syndrome. I noted that I live with the awareness that things can always get worse.
I don’t know that they have yet I’m reminded again that no matter how bad things are, they will eventually get worse. So I am just counting my blessings and hoping that time is not now.
We all headed down to Karmanos with my other son John who is recovering from testicular cancer. His tumor marker is up a bit (though it’s the more general marker than can rise with a cold, but it was the one that was sky high before). More concerning: his heart rate has been in the 40’s. 43. SO now we are off to have echo cardiograms and to see cardio folks since my brother and father both have aortic aneurysms, my brother about to undergo open heart surgery in April. His only symptom: a slow heart beat.
It’s possible he’s just more fit from working out and I sure hope that is it. But we’ll see.
I also have an Obamacare nightmare to deal with here–hard to count blessings but I’m trying.
I’ve received some lovely notes from my followers and from people I follow. You know who you are and I want to thank you because I’ve been tired. And tomorrow and Friday and Saturday I have to drag my father around, etc., shovel snow, try to fix taxes…cook…clean…sort pills…
I love words so I write them. I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to read. I am a published literary writer and I was an adjunct English professor at Northern Michigan University for many years. I write and live and love off the grid on 35 acres and a trout stream in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my son, Joshua, who has Down Syndrome, and with an English Shepherd dog named Maggie, and with my husband when he can make it here which isn’t often. This blog started out being about my work, and it will continue to be. ( I’m working on a novel about premonitions and dreams.) But this blog is also about living off the grid and about my experimentation with diet—most recently the Carnivore Diet. I started on the Ketogenic diet, but have moved into Carnivore. How long, I don’t know. But I’ve become interest in the effects of diet on not just my health, but on creativity. And I’m interested in the effects of the diet on my dreams.
Ah, dreams... The day before my son was born, my mother “dreamed” or was told my son would have Down Syndrome, something she told my brother ahead of time. I’ve never known what to make of that. So I’m interested in prophetic dreams, lucid dreaming, creativity and dreams, night terrors. Who isn't interested in that? I’m interested in Freud (more Jung) and Einstein’s theories of time and how their ideas inform my dreams. I’m interested in mining a deeper relationship with a dream world not confined to daytime experiences, and how the night might inform a more fully imagined daytime “reality.” And vice-versa. Which is the dream?? I’m exploring dreams of all sorts. Come explore with me…
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