Thursday, December 31, 2020

Sunday, December 27, 2020

The Year 2020. ---- WHAT IS WORTH REMEMBERING?

 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201217-time-capsule-2020-the-37-objects-that-defined-the-year

Friday, December 11, 2020

ARTHRITIS ----- AVOID THESE FOODS

 FROM THE New York Times:

https://www.arthritis-health.com/blog/kitchen-arthritis-foods-avoid

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Two Hundred Things I'm Grateful For

2020 has been a shitty year, one most of us would like to forget.  Gratitude helps us get out of the "shittiness" -- that "day after Groundhog Day" feeling that has marked this year.  I love to do Gratitude Lists.  It's been scientifically proven that gratitude makes us feel better!  I missed the one for October, so here's 200 things for October AND November.

1. Maude

2, Margot 

3. Not needing cataract surgery this year

4. Netflix

5. Humana Insurance

6.  Getting computer glasses soon

7. Durham Access

8. Not too cold out today

9. Decaff

10.Essential oils

11.A desk by a window

12.Trump lost

13.A Pilgrim documentary to watch later

14.Red wine (good for arthritis?)

15.Resting

16.Walking

17.The Alaska I Knew

18.Apple support

19.Squash

20.Machu Pichu and other natural wonders

21.The Indians at Plymouth

22.Having lived in Alaska

23.Phone meetings

24.Meet-ups

25.Big computer screens

26.Online learning

27.Silver Bay

28.Caffeine

29.Creativity

30.Writing poems for my granddaughters

31.My friends the birds

32.The fact that cardinals mate for life

33.Biden won!!!

34.Getting thru Covid well and not contracting it

35.The sun's coming out

36.I invited a guy to go hiking with me

37.The Al Bueler Trail perhaps?

38.The mayor of Durham in the 60's

39.The book "F**k Anxiety

40.I have a tree outside my patio

41.My poetry group

42.Deep breaths

43.Sestinas

44.Elderberry tea

45.Laura Nyro b/c i love her music

46.Billie Feather who played baroque music on her guitar

47.My doctors

48.Not having to work

49.Having enough

50.Chicken (for now)

51.The Carolina Theatre

52.I need a podium

53.Ali Coleman

54.Access Bus

55.Neighbors

56.Birds outside my window.

57.Glad I lived in Tennessee

58.Our Cades Cove trip

59.Memories of Alaska and wanting to write my memoir about it

60.Faith

61.Poetry

62.My desire for a car.

63.Getting back home safely

64.Duke Hospital

65.The Plymouth Indians

66.Seeing Plymouth Rock on my high school trip

67.