Go to the Water

I have always felt that once March is over, the year just seems to just zip by.  In a couple of days, we will have completed the first quarter of the year 2023.  The Woman's World Curling is now over. I have become quite the curler from my chair in the living room, I find it easy to make shots from there. I am not sure how Canada ended up with a bronze with the struggles they had, but they did. We have to be proud of any medal that our Canadian athletes get.  I believe we are so used to such high standards of play, to watch the Canadian women miss their shots or not be able to read the ice was very unfamiliar for us. When I watched the final gold medal game, I found the difference in style of play quite interesting.  Maybe there is something to be said for both skips throwing third rocks. There certainly weren't as many rocks in play, and that could have been because it was such an important game.  I found the players decisive and accurate with their shots. The ...

Reposting this blog, since I heard it didn't make some notifications.   I had an epiphany when I was putting this post together. I was reflecting on how at 66, I am so lucky I have good health. It made me wonder why people have such varying degrees of good, poor or pathetic health.  Why do some people have diabetes, cardiac issues, depression or their joints fall apart, while others don't? Genetics plays a big part, lifestyle as well, but it is very random to say the least as to who gets what.  We all have cancer cells, but only part of the population actually gets cancer. My epiphany is this: I believe that a person's body has pre-programmed health. The biggest setting in the programing is how powerful/weak your immune system is.  We can alter the button setting on our programing with a variety of things, such as fitness, food and medications. But at the end of the day your health still fits into good, bad or pathetic.  There are those people with their bu...

For those of you that watched "New Amsterdam" you will recognize the phrase "how can I help?  Whenever there was a crisis within his hospital, Max, the Medical Director of New Amsterdam, would ask his staff, "how can I help?".  I loved New Amsterdam, and I am really sad that the show is over, forever! Every show highlighted a real health crisis existing in the US and played it out.  Not only did I enjoy the real-life drama, but I felt I learned something.  My new educational show is "Alaska Daily".  This show is about a newspaper in Anchorage, during the show they expose political and legal issues present in Alaska.   It was on the news that by 2025, there will be 500,000 immigrants brought to Canada with the sole purpose of filling the job market.  Is there any way we could empower the people that live in our country to fill some of those positions? Is there some way we could help the homeless, the people that live off of social services or other...

Today is March 19th, and that means that there are only twelve more days, and the month will be over.  I find that once the first three months in a year are complete, it seems the rest of the year is on fast forward. Remember when old people used to say "time just flies by".  They are right, it certainly does.   March is an interesting month, and my favorite part is the anticipation and arrival of spring.  One of my fondest memories about March was the calving season.  I loved spring and those baby calves.  There was nothing more amazing to me than the birth of twin calves. My thoughts go to those cattle farmers who will be anticipating calving in March or have already started.  Just making sure the animals are safe and dry during the cold weather or storms is so much more work than anyone truly realizes. My memory is that some unsuspected cow will wander off to find the worst place ever to have her calf during a storm. Calving farmers are amazing...

I have mentioned this book in a previous post and here I go again.  I just recently finished reading "Girl Stop Apologizing" by Rachel Hollis.  In her books she writes about her own personal experiences in the hope that she is giving women the tools to change their lives. I wish this book had been available to me forty years ago. I encourage each of you to read her book, there will be something for you to learn regardless of your age. I felt it really spoke to the working mom/wife. I am not a reader, and certainly not someone that can give a review of a book, so for me to be speaking about a book indicates how powerful her words were. One chapter in particular spoke to me and I thought I needed to make a post about it.  I loved her clear-cut direction on how to become successful.  Nowhere does she say, "you need more education".  She is helping to develop street smart successful women.  I found her approach to be a totally different way of becoming successf...

On my last birthday, I received the book, "Aging as a Spiritual Practice" written by Lewis Richmond. It was a suitable gift for me since I am spiritual and aging.  There was a section in the book that immediately caught my attention.  It was titled "When Lightning Strikes".  A l ightning strike according to the author, is the moment we wake up to our aging and we can see the full significance in our whole life.  Up until that time we have spent little time thinking about where our lives are headed or what it means to us.  Once a lightning strike occurs in our life, we think differently, it is like a tipping point. We stop thinking about the way we wished things were, instead we embrace how they really are. We accept that regret and celebration are all parts of aging.  After reading those statements, I first thought of the people that have received a diagnosis of cancer or other life-threatening disease. I am sure among other feelings it would be when l...