Thanks for the kudos Delores!

[Guest guest]

Hiya Delores:

 

Yeah, I understand, my husband is pretty unsure about what I'm doing

and it's creating some tension that I had not expected but I feel

this is right for me. Thanks for the kudos! That's sorta why I found

you guys, support and shared experiences. I don't know anyone who is

making this life choice in my scope of friends even though I have

friends who are committed to a healthy lifestyle. I feel this is

very much connected to my spiritual and emotional well being.

Besides, I'm used to striking out on my own and have always marched

to the tune of my own inner drummer… who by the way looks and sounds

a lot like Animal on Sesame Street!!

 

I was born in Texas but have moved all over. My family and I reside

in Florida now. I had been the Director of Volunteers and Activities

for an Assisted Living Facility for several years, even had a nice

big office overlooking the bay and could watch the dolphins play.

Then, learned that I had to have major surgery just a year ago and

although I was off for months, when I went back I couldn't heal and

work the 60+ hours a week my job required. It was also getting tough

on me assisting those that were dying – my days were too full to do

what needed to be done for them. When I failed, it could mean

someone feeling all alone and sick or feeling uncared for in their

greatest hour of need.

 

I quit last March and started my own commercial Embroidery business

that I run from my home, I digitize logo's and put them on marketing

items or apparel. I just finished an order of custom hats going to a

special forces unit in Iraq (I held and prayed over every head they

would cover). It's pretty steady work and allows me to control my

time. Mostly, it allows me to pursue my love of writing and

research. I decided I'm going to be a published author one day as my

dreams got real clear when I thought I might not be here much

longer. But, turns out I will be here after all so I need to use

this time wisly.

 

Blessings to all,

*mona

[Guest guest]

Hey, Mona. I'm gonna be a published author, too! I broke my ankle last

April and became a prisoner in my hillside home with 25 stairs and a steep

driveway between me and the world, and I finally got around to finishing a

book I've been working on for a few years. It's now with an agent who has

asked to see the first three chapters and five-page summary of my next

book, but without a broken ankle I can't seem to find the time to sit down

and do that.

 

What are you writing about? My first book was about the kidnapping of my

nine-year old daughter and its impact on my life. My second is fiction,

actually ... about the relationship between a woman grieving the loss of her

husband and a teenage girl who grieves over her own mother's relative

abandonment. It's the theme of loss again, and is based loosely on some of

the teenage girls I have known (I work at a high school and have four kids

of my own between 13 and 21).

 

The subject of the elderly and infirm is close to my heart as well. My own

mother passed away two years ago, after a long battle with emphysema. She

lived in an assisted living place the last couple of years of her life, and

I spent several days a week with her, did her laundry, washed her hair, took

her out in her wheelchair to dinner and shopping at least once a week. But

since she's been gone, I find I can never focus on what I did for her or how

I was there for her, but only on what more I should have done for her. When

I broke my ankle and I needed so much assistance from my own children, I

found they just didn't always feel like being helpful and there were many

times I found myself in tears over it, and that always made me wonder how

many times I had missed something I should have done for my mother and how

many times she might have wept over it.

 

I know, I am really good and beating myself up. I think the thing is, we so

often think we " can't " do this or that, because we have to do something

else. But if we try, we actually can.

 

I love the elderly people also. The kids always think they have so much

over these old folks, but actually they have nothing that the old folks

haven't already had, and more.

 

Sorry for being so long-winded here!

 

peace,

sharon

 

 

> " *mona " <ahnochirah

>

>

> Thanks for the kudos Delores!

>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:53:13 -0000

>

>Hiya Delores:

>

>Yeah, I understand, my husband is pretty unsure about what I'm doing

>and it's creating some tension that I had not expected but I feel

>this is right for me. Thanks for the kudos! That's sorta why I found

>you guys, support and shared experiences. I don't know anyone who is

>making this life choice in my scope of friends even though I have

>friends who are committed to a healthy lifestyle. I feel this is

>very much connected to my spiritual and emotional well being.

>Besides, I'm used to striking out on my own and have always marched

>to the tune of my own inner drummer… who by the way looks and sounds

>a lot like Animal on Sesame Street!!

>

>I was born in Texas but have moved all over. My family and I reside

>in Florida now. I had been the Director of Volunteers and Activities

>for an Assisted Living Facility for several years, even had a nice

>big office overlooking the bay and could watch the dolphins play.

>Then, learned that I had to have major surgery just a year ago and

>although I was off for months, when I went back I couldn't heal and

>work the 60+ hours a week my job required. It was also getting tough

>on me assisting those that were dying – my days were too full to do

>what needed to be done for them. When I failed, it could mean

>someone feeling all alone and sick or feeling uncared for in their

>greatest hour of need.

>

>I quit last March and started my own commercial Embroidery business

>that I run from my home, I digitize logo's and put them on marketing

>items or apparel. I just finished an order of custom hats going to a

>special forces unit in Iraq (I held and prayed over every head they

>would cover). It's pretty steady work and allows me to control my

>time. Mostly, it allows me to pursue my love of writing and

>research. I decided I'm going to be a published author one day as my

>dreams got real clear when I thought I might not be here much

>longer. But, turns out I will be here after all so I need to use

>this time wisly.

>

>Blessings to all,

>*mona

>

>

>

 

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