Stories and Prompts

  Are you ready? Today my topic is current assessment of my Wellness. I consider myself to be esentially healthy. There are a few glitches along the way. But for the most part, my health is great for somebody 87 years old. I'm doing just fine, thank you. I do wear glasses. I have a hearing loss. Which may be my ears. Or maybe my sinus is keeping me from hearing as well as I'd like and I do not like missing conversations. Yesterday in church I felt that I missed a lot of the sermon because. Mother Sarah has a soft voice, and when she wasn't being an emphatic, I did miss some of her words. But she blessed me my she blessed my birthday and that was just fine for me. I often have oh. Have headaches? I wake up in the morning with one in the back of my head. That worries me. Because that's where the pain came from. The day I collapsed on the hill back in August of 1920. Nineteen. 2019. I know that it could be a precursor to a stroke. And that's probably my biggest. Health...

  I am working so hard to learn this computer and every morning it seems like it takes me an hour to get all the wheels turning and usually it's. Maybe that isn't turning the wheels to the right direction. I will succeed in making friends with this computer and using it easily and finding my way around in it without all this waiting and fussing and. Pacing and saying bad words about a machine.   Yesterday's birthday, our New Year's, as I call it, celebration was wonderful. Acknowledgement. Lots of. Real birthday cards, flowers, candy, but best of all, was family happy hour where we just get together with Ben and Megan, Chuck and Holly and me. And we find family stories to tell. Eat wonderful snacks and drink some wine. I enjoyed every minute of it. I showed Holly where the Money Box was that my father saved and so they played with the old money for awhile and that was kind of nice. I think it made Holly interested in doing some research on some of those old coins. ...

  My song story is in three parts. I'm going to start with the one that happened in 1985. I was in Santa Cruz for a summer class. I lived in the dorm and early in the morning I would walk up the brown grassy hill to the dining room to get early coffee. Then I'd sit outside on a bench and watch the fog lighten up as the sun rose. One day I heard what sounded like a moan coming from far off. I listened hard and noticed that it turned from a moan to a drone. And soon I could hear these noises were from bagpipes. Up out of the fog emerged a whole troop of bBagpipe players. And they were playing Amazing Grace. It was a surreal experience and it caused me to just break out all over in little goosebumps. It was an amazing experience. ever since that time that i can almost relive that experience and see those bagpipers in their full regalia coming up out of the rfog.   That troop went inside and were joined by other pipers. There must have been about 50 of them for some kind of confer...

  Happy New Year to me. It's my birthday. I'm 87 years old today. I am a woman of essentially good health who wants to process the last two years of my life. Using Kay Adams prompts as a way of. Undoing some of the things that are in my mind that are. Losses and realize that everything that happens happens for a purpose.So I'm going to begin and I'm just going to talk. I'm not gonna edit. I'm not going to revise. I'm just gonna put down whatever going on in my mind at the time       The first thing that happened. Was getting rid of my car. I've owned a car since I was 15 years old. Now I'm don't have a car anymore. I sold it to the person down the street who loves it dearly and takes very good care of it. But it's strange to me to not have a car and now I've have learned how to ask for help, how to get places without doing it myself. I quit driving because I found myself feeling uncomfortable. Kind of like I was out of place. And ...

  Back in the 70s and 80s. I was out of here every chance I got. There was so much to explore and I was ready to take it all on. So every weekend that there was something to do, every   summer vacation when there was something to go to see. I was collecting experiences, places, and people that were new and I was learning everything I could learn. At one point I attended a Workshop in Friday Harbor, WA. That was a three day Workshop on presenting. Because at that time I was a presenter for the district presenting Learning how to learn to fellow teachers. There was an interesting man that I met there. And at the end of the three days, he said, let's keep in touch and I said, fine, he was interesting and I wanted to know more about him. He had an interesting job too. I wanted to know more about. So about a month later, he called and said. He had some time off in the middle of August. Would I like to come and spend a few days in Minneapolis? So I said, sure. So we arranged so that...