blog20170416 Easter Sunday
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spherepetWe may revisit old emotional wounds today, but we're not bound by the past. In fact, our memories encourage us to face recurring issues and overcome them. We gain hope from the inspirational Sagittarius Moon because we believe anything is possible. We solidify our goals when the Moon shifts into ambitious Capricorn at 7:04 pm EDT. Meanwhile, a cooperative Venus-Mars sextile reminds us of the benefits we receive once we accept that love conquers all.
It's as if you wrote a screenplay for a romantic comedy and now the people in your life are acting out their parts according to your script. Needless to say, you're quite content when so many things go the way you envisioned them. Don't freak out if you hit a speed bump; just because others start improvising their lines doesn't mean the entire plot will be lost. It's counterproductive to enforce your expectations on anyone else. In general terms, the lighter your touch, the smoother everything will flow. Life would come with a remote if it was meant to be controlled.
Easter Sunday morning started off with a super Easter breakfast set by Jan, Roger, Tori, Aleisha, John, Jessica, and three dogs, Sasha, Bailey, and Cindy. Peter and I were considered guests although we are just as much as family, mostly because we were not able to help as much as get in the way of the faster and younger people. We had a plate with a pancake on it decorated to look like an Easter Bunny. We took a total of five hundred and twenty pictures in the space of four days that we took being in Toronto. What a great breakfast that was!
It was about 9:30 am when we finally left Jan’s home. We drove down to No Frills grocery and gas down at Carlaw and Gerrard. It took about 70 liters of gas to fill our tank from the trip to Toronto. About half an hour later we were at Jodi aka Chris 2624 apartment at 200 Wellesley Avenue. Jodi is very weak and weighs only 78 lbs. Jodi had a stroke that maimed his right arm except for a finger and his left arm is almost paralysed except for two fingers. He can’t walk because his legs are too weak. Jodi spends his time with a little TV, a radio, and little else.
Peter and I spent about an hour with Jodi. I sketched a quick sketch while Peter went out to get my pouch and camera. Then we talked a bit about a few things that seemed important to Jodi. One fact was that Montreal didn’t send paperwork about gender to Jodi’s doctor. Jodi wanted $70.00 for the cost of the paperwork that Peter thought that OHIP should have paid as part of the total cost of going to Montreal. There were a few other things that we talked about briefly.
My personal thoughts about Jodi and his condition are very depressing and sad. I am sorry to see someone I loved literally wasting away and dying slowly. I do have a lot of things to remind me that as much as we lived together, we decided to separate for very definite reasons. Two years later we tried to live together again. There again, were the same reasons that separated us in the first place. I felt so alone, lost, sad, and poor in every way I could think of. It was a a bad time for me.
Life goes on as it does whether we want it to or not. I survived three months of no food and only coffee with sugar. I lost weight and strength that took a long time to regain. Thankfully I got into trucking that paid me well enough. I was able to eat my fill and something else. I made a deal with a restaurant to have a supper meal every day and pay at the end of each week with cash. It worked out well enough and I was able to be happy again while living in the camper van.
I lived in that old camper van for six years before I actually moved into a house. I had become used to living in a small space and couldn’t go into large spaces without freaking out. It took me months to get used to sleeping in a dark basement room before I could move into the upstairs bedroom. Ha!
It's as if you wrote a screenplay for a romantic comedy and now the people in your life are acting out their parts according to your script. Needless to say, you're quite content when so many things go the way you envisioned them. Don't freak out if you hit a speed bump; just because others start improvising their lines doesn't mean the entire plot will be lost. It's counterproductive to enforce your expectations on anyone else. In general terms, the lighter your touch, the smoother everything will flow. Life would come with a remote if it was meant to be controlled.
Easter Sunday morning started off with a super Easter breakfast set by Jan, Roger, Tori, Aleisha, John, Jessica, and three dogs, Sasha, Bailey, and Cindy. Peter and I were considered guests although we are just as much as family, mostly because we were not able to help as much as get in the way of the faster and younger people. We had a plate with a pancake on it decorated to look like an Easter Bunny. We took a total of five hundred and twenty pictures in the space of four days that we took being in Toronto. What a great breakfast that was!
It was about 9:30 am when we finally left Jan’s home. We drove down to No Frills grocery and gas down at Carlaw and Gerrard. It took about 70 liters of gas to fill our tank from the trip to Toronto. About half an hour later we were at Jodi aka Chris 2624 apartment at 200 Wellesley Avenue. Jodi is very weak and weighs only 78 lbs. Jodi had a stroke that maimed his right arm except for a finger and his left arm is almost paralysed except for two fingers. He can’t walk because his legs are too weak. Jodi spends his time with a little TV, a radio, and little else.
Peter and I spent about an hour with Jodi. I sketched a quick sketch while Peter went out to get my pouch and camera. Then we talked a bit about a few things that seemed important to Jodi. One fact was that Montreal didn’t send paperwork about gender to Jodi’s doctor. Jodi wanted $70.00 for the cost of the paperwork that Peter thought that OHIP should have paid as part of the total cost of going to Montreal. There were a few other things that we talked about briefly.
My personal thoughts about Jodi and his condition are very depressing and sad. I am sorry to see someone I loved literally wasting away and dying slowly. I do have a lot of things to remind me that as much as we lived together, we decided to separate for very definite reasons. Two years later we tried to live together again. There again, were the same reasons that separated us in the first place. I felt so alone, lost, sad, and poor in every way I could think of. It was a a bad time for me.
Life goes on as it does whether we want it to or not. I survived three months of no food and only coffee with sugar. I lost weight and strength that took a long time to regain. Thankfully I got into trucking that paid me well enough. I was able to eat my fill and something else. I made a deal with a restaurant to have a supper meal every day and pay at the end of each week with cash. It worked out well enough and I was able to be happy again while living in the camper van.
I lived in that old camper van for six years before I actually moved into a house. I had become used to living in a small space and couldn’t go into large spaces without freaking out. It took me months to get used to sleeping in a dark basement room before I could move into the upstairs bedroom. Ha!
