All posts by Katharine

1. Goddess

2. Cardinal sighting at the pond.

3. Branches fell down in the driveway in front of the car. After a brief tantrum, I was able to pull myself and the debfis together and clean up.

4. My mother is settling well into her new apartment and meeting new neighbors.

5. Hearing from Julie P.

6. Cassie sending me a video of Ladt Gaga and Tony Bennett singining “I Get a Kick Out of You.”

7. Flowers from GG.

1. Goddess

2. Breakfast at the diner, and the wonderful service I receive there.

3. A meditation gathering.

4. Lunch with my girlfriends.

5. The movie theatre.

6. My children, Hannah, David, and Emily.

7. A chocolate malted frappe at the ice cream store on a hot and humid day.

8. Phone call from Ashley. She got a job!

9. Phone call with Eileen and reading together.

10. Phone call with Julie.

11. Phone call with Lisa.

12. Face Time with my mother.

1. Goddess

2. Sleep

3. Walk with Divya

4a. The post office

4b. Music on phone playing on ride home

5. Text from Cassie

6. Text from Leslie

7. Phone call with my mother

8. Music recommendations from Roxani

9. Pictures from Brian of the house he’s working on in Steubenville, Ohio

 

1. Goddess

2. Hot coffee on a rainy day

3. Patient group leaders

4. Downpours stopped just as I was getting out of group.

5. a helpful copy shop.

6. Bumping into Kendra at the market, and Mary waving at me as she drove past in the parking lot.

7. A salmon filet

8. A grateful place

1. Goddess

2. Walk through the Arboretum at dawn.  Seeing the rosaceous gateway.

3. Yucca plant

4. Red orange gladiolous

5. A kind and skilled phlebotomist named Z.

6. Working with Divya, my favorite counselor.

7. Sitting in the sun, but not as intense nor humid as yesterday.

8. A kind doctor who had a few questions and is a Red Sox fan.

9. Hosta

10. Dark yellow lilies

11. A library with big comfortable chairs

12. Reading Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret, and having a good cry.

13. Reading some more until closing of the library was announced.

14. Calling my mother standing in the shade.

15. City blocks longer than the imagination.

15a. Window and store shopping.

16. Indian food for dinner and trying the specials and enjoying them.

17. Meeting the girls before the meeting, sitting inside and outside the cafe.

18. Amends stories

19. Safe travels to and fro.

20. Brown bear waiting on the sofa for me.

21. CD ready for me to play; it is “The Joni Letters” by Herbie Hancock.

22. Night calling me.

 

1. Goddess

2. Call with my mother

3. Call with Julieta

4. Visit from Catherine RM

4b. Ping pong with Viktor

5. Randall is an affable silent companion.

6. Chad spotted the roosting turkeys on our walk.

7. Assent

8. Dissent

9. Negotiation

10.privilege to take time to regroup

1. Goddess

2. Meditation

3. A good walk around campus with a small group. The sun was warm and bright, and there was shade and a cool breeze, which were refreshing.

4. Having food brought to me.

5. I love you and naps. (Want that on a T shirt).

6.  Meeting with my treatment team and the medical student, whose last day with us was today, and the mental health specialist, who is also a researcher at the hospital.

7. Watched the news on TV. I like to watch and listen to as many perspectives as possible, and work for and vote for the candidates I agree with and who support my whole community.

8. Deacon Cynthia came to visit me. She bought me a card, signed by the community. She also bought me coffee from Dunks, coffee with cream, just the way I like it. We have a lot in common.

8a. Most of all, she bought me a bracelet of African prayer beads, made of brown opal. I can make a cruciform with them, and say the Jesus prayer or any prayer my Goddess moves me to speak.

8b. Deacon Cynthia prayed with me and we prayed for the Church and the hospital teams, and all who suffer, visibly or invisibly, externally or internally.

9. After dinner Avi S. And Jeff P. Came to visit me. We know each other from AA service work. We read from “As Bill Sees It” and I heard the words” Service gladly rendered; obligations squarely met”, which is one of my favorite passages in all of AA literature , from the 12 & 12. I told of how I came to be hospitalized, and how things are looking up for me, in that I slept 6 hours last night, and my medication  regime is getting simplified, and I am confident it will work. I accept the judgment of my treatment team, whether I am liberated from the hospital next week or must remain under observation longer, so be it.

10. The NBDI meeting , which doesn’t start for me until I get there, the topic was a higher power, and I told of how I strive for a relationship  with my Goddess. As Robert Browning  wrote:

” Ah, but a man’s reach must exceed his grasp/

Or what’s a heaven for? “

11. Made a new friend named Naomi. Who texted me when she thought  I was her friend Anne. She said “You are so nice”, after I replied that it was no trouble , she told me her name and asked about me, and I told her my name and that I am a college librarian. I asked her what she did. I also texted her and wrote “I believe there are no accidents, just unintended consequences.” She didn’t write back and either she’s busy, went to sleep, or thinks I’m a real weirdo. I’m fine with whatever.

 

”I ought to be equal to every relation” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

”Let’s have a Union, Jesus listening

Let’s have a Union, Jesus died. “

Spiritual taught by either Bernice Johnson Reagon or Ysaye Barnwell, of Sweet Honey in the Rock, held at St. James’s Episcopal Church, May 1998 (?).

”The sun has gone to bed and so must I” The Sound of Music

1. Goddess

2. Messengers

3. Meditation

4. Prayer

5. Yoga

6. Journal

7. Journal prompts

8. “May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord” Psalm 19:14