I know enough to realize that any reprieve my body is granted is only ever temporary. The body has an expiration date, and for those of us who care enough to forge on, to race the clock, much of our life’s work has to do with keeping that date at bay with maintenance, with spit and Band-Aids and all the laughter and intimacy and love we can cram into any twenty-four-hour day.
— Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason (Counterpoint, April 6, 2021)
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yes, that long second sentence –
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Yes!
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Maybe that means we need to try to slow it down way more…
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That was my take away….
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I think we are smart to take that from it… Since we all do have an expiration date – which remains unknown for must of us – it seems to me that it behooves us to use that time well. And that does not mean to spend our time rushing from one thing to another all the time!
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Wisdom!
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It happens to the best of us 😉
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Hmm, I’ll take quality over quantity any day though. 🙂
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Yes, but I’ll take both if offered Debra!
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I wish I had that Italian fire for life! I am going to have many regrets one day..
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Smiling….
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I hope not….
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Me too!
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So true. Doing my best to be a good steward for this little temple I’ve been gifted…. 🙂
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Little temple I’ve been gifted. LOVE THAT.
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Awww, thanks. It’s truly how I feel. Ya got one body that has to serve you your whole life—need to afford it the proper reverence. ☺️
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Reverence. That’s it!
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I wonder if I’d want to know that expiration date…
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I would NOT!
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it would be hard to live with that knowledge…
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Sure would.
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And hope its way way out there!
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exactly…
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Agre!! … “I know enough to realize that any reprieve my body is granted is only ever temporary.” — Gina Frangello, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason (Counterpoint, April 6, 2021).
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Amen sister. That six day 5 mile jog, has gone down to 3miles, 4-5 days a week max
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I would love to get to 3 miles, 1 miles, 1/2 miles.
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Yes! Yes! Yes! Personally, I buy bandaids in bulk (figuratively speaking)
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Laughing. Of course you do.
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Love and laughter — YES!
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Yes!
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I think everything we want is already here. We just need to slow down enough to move into it. 😊
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Tip – toeing behind you Karen, and tracing your steps.
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🙏🏻
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I always, always love your perspective, Karen. It’s so centering….💕
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Thank you Lori 🤗💚
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Slow mode allows, appreciation…ha, Band-aids, bought two boxes today…and the only way I was able to go to the hardware store and the grocery store was to first take a prrescription tablet of 800 mg Ibprophen & a lovely, patient husband who drove me!
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Nice of him!!!
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