Illinois ladies facing bc

IllinoisLady

When you commit yourself to living love, you feel at peace with yourself because you are at harmony with the flow of life. Viewing life from the highest perspective, you feel confident and secure.You realize that no matter how things may appear, you are loved and protected.You know you are one with God, and you bring your peace with you wherever you go. You're not looking for love, but for opportunities to love. Susan L. Taylor

IllinoisLady

One does not need to fast for days and meditate for hours
at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery
which constantly envelops us.All one need do is to
notice intelligently, if even for a brief moment, a blossoming
tree, a forest flooded with autumn colors, an infant smiling.

Simon Greenberg

lago

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous

IllinoisLady

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

IllinoisLady

Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you'll never, never get any other way. -Earl G. Hunt, Jr.

IllinoisLady

Not my usual but in view of our most recent tragic and horrid events:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent,
a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal. . . . That this nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people,
and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

IllinoisLady

The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what
I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.
Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them
after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go.
Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

Mary Manin Morrissey

IllinoisLady

Your life has been designed to work, and your hidden potential contains what you seek and all that you need in your life. It is OK to be who you are and to choose what you have. The Quakers call it the "still, small voice within," that place of full awareness within that is in touch with the entire universe and is the source of wisdom. In effect, you don't have to keep searching for confirmation by focusing on being someone else or being somewhere else. There is no place else to be and nothing else to get. You will be able to grasp the levers of change in your life when you can allow yourself to be present in the moment, accept the world as it is, and trust that everything is as it was intended to be.

Ari Kiev

IllinoisLady

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect. If you plant an apple seed, you don't a get a mango tree. If we practice hatred or greed, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. If we practice awareness or loving-kindness, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. We are heirs to the results of our actions, to the intentions we bring to every moment we initiate. We make ripples upon the ocean of the universe through our very presence.

Christina Feldman

IllinoisLady

He who experiences the unity of life
sees his own Self in all beings,
and all beings in his own Self.
- The Buddha

Very powerful !!!!!

IllinoisLady

Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin
to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self
is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

ChiSandy

Waiting for the storms today--my tomatoes could sure use the water (and subsequent cooldown), but not the wind or hail!

IllinoisLady

Almost 4:20 p.m. and the wind has been blowing outside, some clouds rolling in and I think the rain will come after. I won't be gnashing my teeth too much since the humidity has been difficult. We could use some rain so hoping we have enough to settle the dust down well --- especially all of it that Dh is kicking up with the garden tractor as he is mowing. Feels like I have to take the car duster to my car way too much lately. Okay, if that is all I can find to complain about I think I will just say a prayer of gratitude for a life that is not too bad at all. My humble thanks to the beautiful Universe.

ChiSandy

We had nothing worse than a light show up here on the North Shore. Not even hard enough rain to keep the wipers on slow-and-steady rather than interval. No wind, either. But we had rainbows galore. I suspect my tomatoes will still need their "daily drink" tomorrow.

Decided that we probably weren't going to get much of a storm up here, so I went to my monthly BC Support Group meeting in Evanston tonight. Believe it or not, I met a BCO sister--Peaches1--there! (Two in one week)!

Had my cortisone shot for my trigger thumb today. Hoo boy, did it ever HURT! That “mindfulness breathing” sure came in handy. Surprised that they insisted on X-rays first, but the surgeon explained he wanted to make sure there was nothing bone-related that could be aggravating the symptoms. Then he located the tendon nodule via ultrasound, so he confirmed it was indeed stenosing tenosynovitis. He put a band-aid on it and said it might feel sore for a day or so, but no problem thus far. (Might hold a cold can of Minute Maid Light if it does hurt). He also did warn that it could take a week for the cortisone (actually, dexamethasone + lidocaine) to dissolve the nodule or reduce it enough to stop the “triggering.” I have a show to play tomorrow (Andina & Rich, at the Merion luxury senior residence in Evanston, 5-7:30 pm--$15 public, free to Merion residents), but I’ve played long multi-set gigs with the thumb triggering, so I should be fine. (Hope some of you in the Chi. area can come).

doxie

ChiSandy,

I wonder why your doctor didn't give you lidocaine right before the cortisone shot. Mine did and I experienced no more pain. I think there was pain med of some kind in the shot, too,but I cannot remember for certain.

Driving home I had this weird feeling of levitation and bliss because I was pain free for the first time in months.

It took about a month before my thumb completely returned to normal.

IllinoisLady

Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy, stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe's way of knocking on your mind's door.Hello in there.Is anyone home?Can I leave a message?Yes? Good!The message is that you are happy, and that means that you are in touch with your purpose. -Steve Chandler

lago

We had major rain and lightening for a short time in the city. Then the sun came out. Nice sunset but didn't see a rainbow.

ChiSandy

There was lidocaine in this shot, as in the previous two. (This time I went to the hand surgeon at NorthShore Orthopedics in Skokie--my prior surgeon way down in Oak Lawn is in his late 70s and his son’s taking over, and to me he’s an unknown quantity). My prior surgeon didn’t take X-rays or use ultrasound--he just palpated and injected. This doc (Dr. Gray--quite easy on the eyes and looks like Sen. Corey Booker after a really good diet, but has heard every “50 Shades” and “Gray’s Anatomy” joke in the book) even put a sterile Tegaderm over the ultrasound probe and showed me on the screen where the tendon, nodule and sheath were and how the sheath was catching on the tendon as I flexed. He has amazingly good bedside manner for an orthopedic surgeon--but he’s an upper extremity specialist, not a sports-med or joint-replacement guy and does more delicate surgery than the saw-ers and pound-ers. The lidocaine wore off after about an hour, but there wasn’t any soreness in the injection site once it did. Still triggering this afternoon, albeit a bit more gently--but no worse than the last time I had to perform.

Weather is warm, but dry today. And we’ll be playing indoors--no need for sunscreen and bug spray. Will still wear compression because the guitar body is somewhat deep and my arm draping over it seems to make me swell a bit. My singing partner is driving down from Madison to pick me up and will do all the setup--this time we have to bring our own P.A. system, and he is very picky about putting it together. (He does get nervous if he can’t find exactly what he wants when he wants it, and is pretty short-tempered about any suggestions or comments, so I have learned to keep my mouth shut till everything is set up). All my instruments are in their cases, I have fresh business cards, and we’re taking one car--so I can make a quick getaway as soon as we get back to my place and ditch my gear--have a Bastille Day wine dinner a 10-15 min. walk down the street from me to which I will be at least two courses late, but hopefully Bob wlll hold down the fort till I arrive. (With these wine dinners and tastings, our roles are usually reversed).

IllinoisLady

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly -
spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity
to renew itself and create order.
- Susan Taylor

IllinoisLady

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."

-- Edward Everett Hale

IllinoisLady

When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.

Beverly LaHaye

IllinoisLady

People can learn to study their life force in the same way that a master gardener studies a rosebush. No gardener ever made a rose. When its needs are met a rosebush will make roses. Gardeners collaborate and provide conditions which favor this outcome. And as anyone who has ever pruned a rosebush knows, life flows through every rosebush in a slightly different way. -Rachel Naomi Remen

IllinoisLady

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Thomas Merton

IllinoisLady

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships -- the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the world at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

IllinoisLady

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance.Then, whenever doubts, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal—and soon they'll forget my number. -Edith Armstrong

IllinoisLady

Thinking of all of you in Chi town. I think there is a bad heat wave and horrid temps/heat indexes. Please take caution and care.

Jackie

doxie

Yes, Jackie, it will be hot and humid. I finally put in my 2nd air conditioner and closed up my windows. I live near the lake, so try to tough out the few hot days without air-conditioning my whole place. Not going to get by with that this summer.

lago

Not as bad by the lake…so far