Friday, May 29, 2020

MAY JOY

1.  Peggy, my new sponsor

2.  radically reducing my time on Facebook
3.  Hulu = fab documentaries
4.  Visiing Omaha Beach in France
5.  my hometown newspaper will run a correspondence penned by my grandma o my dad in WWI
6.  Alex's love and friendship
7.  church maybe on Sunday @ Franklin's house
8.  gym in hillsboro opening on Mon.
9.  RAIN  -- recognize i'm afraid, accepting (hard), investigate (i'm healthy and value need 2 have clean food
10.  my Phy. herapis
11.  Mama Dip's open
12.  Peggy
13  Franklin
14.  NEDA
15.  Sophia
16.  healthy dinner 
17.  spinach
18.  Big Los (cheap)
19.  walked 2 day
20.  candles burning, comforting
21.   James Dean lives
22.  Jaki Green
23.  doc on 1969 on Hulu is astonishing
25..  deep breaths
26.  saw doc "Mrs. America"
27.  re-conneced w/ an old friend in NY his week
28.  Prayer
29.  expended prayer
30. survival from 30 years ago
31.  showers
32.  made porch lovely
33.  sharon 2 my nearby
34.  i'm no along
35.  yoked
36.   birch rees 
37.  Wesminer Presbyterian Church
38.  family pictures
39.  "somewhere a candle burns"
40.  god is w/ us
41.  i wanna learn new hings
42. new friend 
43.  walked over 3000 paces
44.   church service 2nigh 
45.  Old Norh Church
46.  Marvin Wickware
47.  juicing for few days
48.  no  traveling 2morrow
49.  omid safi
50.  Rumi
51.  forgiveness
52.  prayer
53.  psalms
54.  enrolled in 2 courses
55.  new masks
56.   teensy bonfires
57. perspective 
58.  nature
59.  relaxing
60.  deep breaths 
61.  40 hz binaural beats
62.  spinach
63.  beets
64.  faith
65.  peggy
65.  mantras
66.  franklin
67.  my granddaughters 
68.  cleaning
69.  hulu
70.  film 1969
71.  poetry helps 2 heal
72/  establishing boundaries
73  Yale
74/  giving up perfection
75/  having enough
76.  being pain free
77. having a juicer
78.  our gazebo
79.  simplifying
80.  old photographs
81.  my mother and faher
82. my hometown 
83.  gym is opening up
84.  gloves
85.  opportunities 
86..i am no t my fear
87.  i am no t my weigh
88.  Emerson
89.  Dickinson
90/  duke
91.  hope
92.  car running good
93.  being pain free
94.  helping a friend
95.   being a caring person
96.  bos ton gardner museum
97.  being able 2  thing of 100  things
98.  radical accepance

99.  reflecting 
100.  loving my self more and caring for my body

being clean







Saturday, May 23, 2020

Finding Comfort During a Pandemic

Be optimistic

Remind your self:  "temporary"

Pray

5 breaths in and release 5 breaths 

Use a god box

40 hz binaural beats

Flip your fear 


read and do:  hand on heart and: 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-empaths-survival-guide/201810/self-soothing-strategies-8-ways-calm-anxiety-and-stress


Monday, May 4, 2020

JAMES DEAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kltL1wG3gok


james dean


Nicholas Ray:  http://sensesofcinema.com/2013/feature-articles/to-the-viewer-on-nicholas-rays-we-cant-go-home-again/



https://filmschoolrejects.com/james-dean-digital-replacement/

JD poscolor photograph of james dean

james dean profile picture  (google images)



Google Books:  full book on JD


Crash:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131006132738/http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2011/09/fade-to-black-eyewitness-to-james-deans-fatal-accident/


JD, Liz, and Rock journeyed 2 Virginia for Gian film:

https://www.dailyprogress.com/125yearsofprogress/hollywood-in-charlottesville-elizabeth-taylor-rock-hudson-and-james-dean/article_44c1698e-4574-11e7-bd17-1f9813e48959.html


Thursday, April 30, 2020

Food For Seniors

https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/sources-of-free-food-for-seniors/19036915/


from WRAL

Saturday, April 18, 2020

April Joy

1.  baby rhino born @ NC Zoo
2.  Lucy, my new friend
3.  My Bro  -- speak 2 him almost every day
4.  Seeing my 2 beautiful granddaughters on FBook
5  Walks in woods
6.  Sending Pres. rump a card
7.  Ordered handmade masks
8.  Blue sky
9.  Wildflowers
10. Poems
11.Fixed wifi problem
12, A free week of Sundance channel
13.candles
14/ radical acceptance

15, deep breaths
16. avoiding overeating
17.  buddhism
18.  speaking w my fam. in Brookline for an hr. sunday
19.. mindfulness
20.  savoring food
21.  beans for protein
22.  Lincoln
23.  camomile
24  small gothic places
25.  zoom
26.  feeling relaxed
27.  fiber in my food plan
28.  being a grandma = JOY
29.  being curious
30.  painkillers
31.  beauty around me
32.relaxing 2 day
33.  gregorian chans
34.  our governor
35. comedians
36.  bird songs in morning
37.  movie Frozen
38.  Nora Jones
39.  having a home
40.  being generous
41. a visual dance class
42.  hope
43.  illuminaed manuscripts
44.  offering 2 help Arhriis Foundation
45.  having beautiful surroundings
47.  Chinese bells reduce stress
49  Shosakovich  
50.  I can write a lovely poem
51.  Sophia
52.  Photos of Margot as a baby
53    Sundance Channel
54.  ShaLeigh's dance class
55.  Memories of myPilobolus class
56. Forests 
57.  Julie Lowndes
58. veggie pizza from sprouts
59.  Berkee College of Music virtual orchestra 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QagzdvzzHBQ
60.  Kim Stafford
61.  Poetry group 2 night
62.  Democracy Now
63.   Sitting in the sun
64.  Determination
65.  Cussin'  -- good stress relief
66  Steevie
67. My political involvement
68.  I wrottrump a letter.
69.  I accept  that he is a sociopath and narcissistic & worst prez. we have 
ever had.

70. Grateful for freedom of speech
71.  Paris
72.  Feeling deeply
73.  My suffering
74.  My healing
75.  Dance heals
76. Getting 2 new paintings from Steevie
77.  Going 2 Sprouts even tho I was anxious
78.  Radical Joy
79.  this poem:


Radical Joy 
by Dana S

the roses have opened their shirts
Queen Anne's lace
graces our path
where yellow pansies with black 
eyes wait

for more passers-by
to stop, turn, and breathe 

the breath
of "hello"
"how are you"




Friday, April 17, 2020

Ga Ga

https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/36/113

Monday, April 6, 2020

ALERNAIVE 2 FLUSING

https://www.businessinsider.com/bidets-better-than-using-just-toilet-paper-2019-9?fbclid=IwAR052AoDCUTCVvdjWxWLSLnDt9wjfAikqWwXLT1l7wCd4vMby6dsh_QiNhs