Alphabe-Thursday Letter S

Good morning class.

Welcome to round eight of Alphabe-Thursday! Today we will be studying the simply sensational letter:


Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.

If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.

If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.

The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!

And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and you must visit at least 10 other posts...perhaps consider starting from the last posts and work backwards. The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.

Please link your silly or somber S link now!

I can imagine her now in her bathroom mirror...

Extra blush.

 

Check.

 

No lipstick on teeth.

 

Check.

 

Orange scarf tied jauntily around bristly hair.

 

Check.

 

I saw her in a garden.

 

I could tell she was sick.

 

Her face had that sallow color that can’t quite be disguised with foundation.

 

You could tell that it hurt her to move.

 

Her eyes were ringed with pain.

 

But there she stood.

 

Smiling.

 

The bright orange flag of her scarf screamed her defiance.

 

“I’m sick but I’m gonna live my life anyway!”

 

Damn.

 

I was impressed.

 

And humbled.

 

Mr. Jenny and I had planned to go to a garden show this weekend.

 

Saturday morning was not a good day.

 

Saturday morning I had cried against going anywhere.

 

My hair is short and bristly. I have that sallow color that can’t quite be disguised by foundation. It hurts to move.

 

I didn’t want to go like that.

 

I didn’t want to go with my cane and my hunched over walk and feeling like a 95 year old woman who is not having a good day.

 

But mopey and quiet I got in the truck and went anyway.

 

What a blessing that I did.

 

The gardens were riotous in color…

 

Arizona in spring is astonishing.

 

Hot pinks, lime green, buttery yellows and cobalt blues.

 

Amazing colors and textures everywhere.

 

But the color that is strongest in my mind is bright orange.

I can still see that scarf fluttering so very clearly in my memory.

 

The woman and I connected for a few minutes in the fluttering shade of an Arizona Ash tree.

 

We touched hands briefly.

 

Invisible illness isn’t really invisible to other people who have it.

 

I guess invisibility times two equals awareness.

 

Bless you unknown lady in the bright orange scarf.

 

You have thrown down the gauntlet and I am picking it up.

 

Courage.

 

Ah.

 

Courage.

 

It isn’t always carrying the sword into the battle, is it?

 

Sometimes it’s just being able to recognize that someone else is carrying it.

 

...

 

...

 

Be especially kind today to people around you,  friends.

 

You don’t know what another heart is bearing.

 

You don’t know the pain that lurks under another person’s invisible bright orange scarf.

 

...

 

...

 

Green! It does a body good!

Here's our little Irish beauties getting into the festivities in Ireland.

 

Aren't they sweet?

 

Mr. Jenny and I certainly think so.

 

Although...

 

I suspect we're a bit biased.

 

And although we've had to postpone our April trip to Ireland...

 

I'm really, really even more determined now to get there soon...

 

I totally need to try that lime green wig on!

 

 

For Sale By Owner

...one small...

...and very aggressive herd of Velociraptors.

I think that's what the sneaky, mean dinosaurs on Jurassic Park were called.

 

And I think a bunch of dinosaurs is called a herd, but I'm not totally certain.

 

However...

 

Whatever they're called, I want them out of me...NOW.

 

Or sooner, please.

 

The ongoing journey through non-stop kidney stones has degraded to other, even less amusing, things.

 

Grrrr.

 

I thought I knew a thing or two about chronic illness and pain, but apparently not...

 

Because...

 

These dinosaurs seem determined to inflect their sharp claws and teeth on nearly every square inch of my body...

 

(of which there are many...sigh...)

 

 I switched to a new 'Diagnosic' Primary Care physician.   He's kind of a 'Dr. House' guy without the Vicodan habit...I hope.

 

He's being almost as aggressive as the Velociraptors who have decided to inhabit my kidneys, throat, hands, teeth and bones.

 

I am being tested, poked, prodded, scanned and seeing a lot of specialists.

 

For now, we've cancelled our trip to Ireland awaiting medical answers and the quick sale of the herd of Velociraptors.

 

In the meantime, though, I wanted to offer a little update on what's happening here...

 

Hopefully there will be many answers in the next few weeks.

 

And while I'm waiting I just wanted to thank you all.

 

It's humbling to be on the receiving end of grace...

 

Bless you for your prayers and positive thoughts.

 

But.

 

Really.

 

If you see my ad for the quick sale of vicious dinosaurs on Craigslist...don't buy them.

 

They are really, truly not very nice creatures.

 

Sigh.

 

 

Alphabe-Thursday Letter Q

Good morning class.

Welcome to round eight of Alphabe-Thursday! Today we will be studying the quaint and quiet letter:



Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.

If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.

If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.

The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!

And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and you must visit at least 10 other posts...perhaps consider starting from the last posts and work backwards. The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.

Please link your quality "Q" post now:

Alphabe-Thursday Letter P

Good morning class.

Welcome to round eight of Alphabe-Thursday! Today we will be pontificating upon the particulary peculiar letter:



Please link directly to your Alphabe-Thursday URL (if you don't know how to do this let me know!) and please continue to visit the five links before and after your link and leave a comment. Minimum of 10 links visited please. You can visit more if you like, of course.

If you have any difficulties with your link, please make sure to include the number of the link when you e-mail me. It is really difficult for me to find you easily otherwise.

If you have any questions about Alphabe-Thursday or problems doing your link just post it in a comment or send me an e-mail. I'll do my best to help you as quickly as I can.

The McLinkey will be live from 1:00 pm MST time Wednesday afternoon in an effort to assist our lovely "friends across the pond" and continue through 10:00 am MST time Friday morning!

And remember.... link back to this post, you need to be registered as a follower of my blog, PG posts only, and you must visit at least 10 other posts...perhaps consider starting from the last posts and work backwards. The links will stay live after the final post deadline has passed so you can even wait and visit over the weekend or whenever you have more time.

Please link your precious "P" post now, my Pretties!