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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Ch-ch-ch-Changes
Due to lack of answers, I'll post the quiz every couple of weeks. It takes a bit of time to do it, and when almost no one seems interested in it, not worth the effort. I realize you have lives which don't revolve around reading my blog, so I'll make some changes here. Perhaps being more clever would be one of them and would help.
I've also found that I'm busier than I thought I'd be. The physical therapy is helping my shoulder and back, and I plan to join a gym when I finish there, so I can keep improving. I've also finally given up Aspartame! I knew it was horrible for us but recently found there could be a link to non-Hodgkins lymphoma which was enough for me. Fortunately I don't use NutraSweet (Equal) in coffee or tea (or sugar either but drink them plain). The problem is with Diet Coke and Diet Dr. Pepper which I swilled down daily. No more!! All artificial sweeteners are harmful and should be avoided actually. Aspartame is the only one I've really used the most. When I miss the biting fizz too much, I'll drink a real Coke but am going to eventually quit drinking carbonated drinks. That feeling and taste of carbonated, caffienated battery acid with Aspartame sparkling down my throat was such a wonderful jolt to my system and will now have to become a distant memory.
If I keep getting rid of my vices, before long I'll be like that sinking ship with no cargo to throw overboard when I'm dying, as Mark Twain said of someone.
11:10:00 AM
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