Human body maintenance is no less important than vehicle, home, yard, finance, etc maintenance.
Why?
Because neglecting your car or your home could have serious consequences in the future.
Same with our body.
The money we spend for new tires, oil changes, timing belts, brakes, insurance, etc…what if we treated our body like a vehicle or our living quarters (aka home/apartment/condo)?
My life has been dramatically better since I started thinking about it that way decades ago.
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This exact spot is the leading contender for my first week back to GNP. T-minus two weeks.
Been 11 months since the first retina tear repair surgery.
A few weeks after the first surgery, the retina re-tore and i had a second retina repair surgery.
And of course, months later a third eye surgery. The left-eye cataract surgery was radically accelerated by the steroid drops from the first two surgeries.
Presently trying to remain under-excited, to manage my expectations after three eye surgeries.
Had expected to be in Glacier three months last summer. The August and September eye surgeries shaved two months off of the 2023 plan.
To describe my excitement and gratitude for returning in 2024 is difficult.
It easily could sound like these things:
Off the charts.
Through the roof.
Best day ever.
Etc.
However, 2024 is just another in a long number (12, maybe 13) of consecutive Glacier Summer visits.
Business as usual it’s often called.
Contextual note: Initially, last August before the first surgery, Dr. Kumar said i wouldn’t normally need cataract surgery for 10-15 years. But after his first retina repair, he said i would need cataract surgery (left eye only) in two years. Then, after a second emergency retina repair i immediately needed cataract surgery, following (hopefully) a healthy post-second-surgery recovery.
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My Cataract surgeon, Dr Shumski, is on paternity-leave, so Dr Callaway has examined the progress three times.25-second video: Backstage note: this video is the 5th try to articulate what this video articulates. Why? Wifi bandwidth? No idea. Simply grateful that five times is a charm.
No restrictions has a nice ring to it. No doubt there’s a paradoxical danger zone too.
dad
In today’s context, for me, ‘no restrictions’ is perfect. Exhilarating!
’No restrictions’ in a different context and/or a different person could be chaotic.
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Photo: A social media image yesterday. Most humans love the concept of love. Those same humans hate the concept of hate. And the terms hypocrite and blind-spot might be synonymous.
Do you love ‘love’ with the same passion and commitment you hate ‘hate’?
dad
Earlier this year had the opportunity to spend 1.5 days with someone at “work”.
We were together 40% of the time.
He said “Jesus Christ” twice. He said it in the same context someone uses for traditional American profanity: exasperation, frustration, contempt, etc.
He also said it in the same reactionary way most people use profanity: unplanned, contemptuously, indiscriminately, non-empathetically (apathetically).
He’s Jewish and has deep family history traced back to the holocaust. Four generations. His family’s story made me teary-eyed.
i shared how much i hate ‘hate’ and told the thesis of the movie Green Mile’s supporting-lead character. Not Tom Hanks, but the jailed black man with a special gift.
My teary eyes, i explained, were from my earnest attempt to suck the negativity, the fear, the oppressor’s hate, the pain, from his soul.
In no way is there an implication, then or now, that i could replicate the Green Mile’s jailed character’s insanely unique gift to rid a cancerous person of their cancer.
But you know i’ve always said, don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can.
It was seeing the photo (above) that inspired this post.
While i am not looking forward to it happening again, the pattern is foundational (in my opinion) so i do expect it to happen again.
Praying for wisdom to confront it in the most loving, Green Mile fashion.
Wish me luck, divine wisdom and divine guidance.
Note: In 30+ years at Disney, never used a single curse word.
Bonus note: However, i know how to swear. Was once a High-Schooler in a locker room five days a week.
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