dr.e

and spirasol, of course it's alright to comment on my picture. Believe me, I think most of us on earth have heard the good, bad and the ugly about how others think we look… or ought to, or don’t. I'm like most others: if you like something, say so and you’ll likely get a momentary purr from me. If you don’t, well, depends on how you say it.

On a serious note, you are correct. Even though off topic, I’d mention diabetes here, for so many people are walking around with it undiagnosed, as I was for years, without realizing it is the reason for profound fatigue and other la-la. (Ask your doc for an A1C test, a simple blood test will tell) For me, once diagnosed, and believing I'd promised to fulfill substantial bodies of work whilst on earth, I couldn’t dare allow this one precious body I'd been given… to run to ruin before bringing that set of promesas into being … thus, madly, gladly, crankily, struggling… changes were imperative.

I hate having 'delicate' health. But, it has been so since I was born. (A story for another time). Even so, I've scaled two 10,000 foot peaks in the Rockies, (I know, I know that’s not much. Many people have done all the “fourteeners” while carrying 60 pound packs, but I gave it my all more as turtle than as hare I guess.) and done my best not to accidentally kill myself shooting rapids. Swinging up into my pickup truck nowadays is still an act of grace I hope. lol. But… and… even so I have to give care.

Delicacy of health and boldness of spirit; that's the balance I've found. Diabetes? Just another bogeyman to deal with. Everyone has 'something' to deal with, yes? But, never fear: I am still 'round.' God gave me a bodacious body that's unlikely to ever win 'the skinny-minnie prize' at Stockholm. I need that roundness to carry the deep curves of spirit. Yes. lol.

On Comments Disappearing: And to those whose comments were deleted, I'm so sorry… please hold on, Tyrone is in process of spanking Disqus, or else tossing it out into the snow, I am not sure which. There were 9 comments on this post earlier as I came online, and poof! then there were 3. I have a small flurry of emails here asking what happened

Well, soon that will be taken care of. Tyrone is the mastermind of being able to squint and see better online pathways for things.

Hang in there.
Soon.

dr.e

Congratulations on your new assignment. It sounds exciting or at least you sound excited about it, which translates into us getting more of your unusual insights and commentary.

I hope you don't mind if I comment about your picture. You are loved and admired by many, and the last time I saw you some 20 yrs ago at a NYC presentation ….ah, La luz violeta was the name of it, you were still feisty and firey, but rounder and as I recall refusing to let it define you. So it is exciting to have a picture, yes, a moment in time, to see how you've changed, aged, grown, how the outside is marked somehow by the inside. I mean no disrespect. Thank you for posting it. You look well!

Congratulations on your new assignment. It sounds exciting or at least you sound excited about it, which translates into us getting more of your unusual insights and commentary.

I hope you don't mind if I comment about your picture. You are loved and admired by many, and the last time I saw you some 20 yrs ago at a NYC presentation ….ah, La luz violeta was the name of it, you were still feisty and firey, but rounder and as I recall refusing to let it define you. So it is exciting to have a picture, yes, a moment in time, to see how you've changed, aged, grown, how the outside is marked somehow by the inside. I mean no disrespect. Thank you for posting it. You look well!