Food for thought. My dining room table has become the study hall. :)
Apologies are nice but …
finallychelle replied to your post: They heal the body but not the mind
Incredible that you got an apology. Most folks are pretty stingy with those. Glad she is making progress on multiple fronts.
You’re right, “I am sorry” are three words that people have as much trouble saying as “I love you.” Mom, like the rest of us, is a work in progress. Raising her is a challenge. lol
I’ll admit sometimes the apologies feel a bit like the abusive spouse who brings home flowers or whatever to make things OK. When I was a kid I remember my mom always saying, when I did something wrong, “If you were really sorry you wouldn’t do it again.” I want to say that back to her many times but I know it’s different.
She gets so caught up in her own “noise” that she just goes off. I’m sure being contained is hard and she does it around others. By the time she talks to me I think her emotional barriers just come down and all the stuff behind the floodgates just pours out. Sometimes she’s my little Katrina.
They heal the body but not the mind
As I’m talking to mom this morning she mentions, as she usually does, an article from today’s newspaper. She says she felt bad for this guy who, like her, had been in a bad accident and had to learn to walk again. But that’s where their similarity ends, sort of. He is going through a divorce/custody battle, getting back to work and he’s a Lions fan. He’s no doubt been through a lot and I could see why mom would relate to him.
OK try not to be too jealous that you can’t be working on a Friday evening. I mean you could come see my rockin’ demo. Today’s remaining showtime is 9pm.
I have seen people who had medic alert bracelet tattoos, but I hadn’t heard about nano inks before this week. Someday diabetics may be able to avoid stick tests to monitor their glucose if these science fiction-like nano ink tattoos which would change color based on a person’s glucose levels come to pass. Science is awesome.
In my last post I mentioned attending a talk about Science Ink this week. One of the slides referenced the Ugliest Tattoos site, so of course I had to go and take a look. And I will not suffer alone so click if you dare.
Reblogging from my other place because science and tattoos are relevant to many of you and you may want to check out Carl Zimmer’s Science Ink.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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| — | Winston S. Churchill (via reb-ellious) |
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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David Lee Roth I wasn’t even jogging, just putting ice in my glass when it lept from the tray and cut my toe. Ow! |
On Ninth Avenue last night, the blaring horn of a moving bus startles me.
Up ahead, I see the reason for the honk:
A white-haired woman is trying to cross too much street in too little time.
In a panic, she starts to lose her balance.
I sprint toward her and in the beam of bus…
Reblogged because … well just read this. And because we all can be family in the City.
