Motivated By Spirit

Yes, it has been one full week since I signed up for Hospice. A lot of wonderful events filled that week. There is my assigned nurse with the perfect teeth, causing me to miss my own teeth even more. Well, that is being rectified soon, as I made my dental appointment last Friday. A wonderful treat as an impression was made for my new denture. That's just step one. The great delight of my first week was the bathing ladies two of them. Put me in the tub, they did and insisted that I had a bath. No, I screamed like the two-year-old I have become, I don't want to have a bath, but then it became so soothing and caring, that I half sobbed, I like it. The nurtured feeling the bath gave me lasted all day. I must pause here to mention the reclining chair which came the day after I signed on. The pain nulling medicine came near midnight on signing day. Because it is a narcotic my niece signed for it before going to bed. That settled the day, so I slept all night for the first time in mon...

  I am about to pull a Jimmy Carter. How you may ask. Here's how, I have just signed up for Hospice care. If you may recall the oldest living past President has been on Hospice since February 2023. More than likely, I will do Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve and of course my birthday in February 2024. The decision was a joyous one. For the past two or three months I have been uncomfortable with constant pain in various parts of my body. Palliative care now is much more preferable than the aggressive care I have been taking. I have become quite fund of the caregivers at the cancer clinic as well as the MRI clinic and will miss seeing them. However, it is time to say farewell to them. I will have to find a way to have those wonderful chats with Miss Kat during my ride back and forth to my treatments. Don't get me wrong the cancer drugs and the radiation treatment have decidedly slowed the progression of the cancer that has decided to cohabit the body in which I live. T...

  Yesterday, I finally gave in and called an ambulance and gat myself taken to the ER, where I saw Doctor handsome, I 'sware to God' he was straight out of central casting. Never mind the eye candy doctor.  Let me tell you about the pain. It was steady with shooting moments that solicited a scream, sometimes it started under my left armpit and wound its way down the arm and into the elbow. All the while the pain was accompanied by thundering belches. So, here's the first bright spot, they took an Xray of my left shoulder, right there in the ER waiting room. No calling down to imaging, no being wheeled down long hallways but in the screened room on the bed which served as a gurney. The young technician wheeled in a device fit for a science fiction movie, pointed it at me asked me to turn my head to the right, said thank you to me and it was done, and she was gone.  A few groaning minutes went by, and I closed my eyes for a brief meditation, a practice I do when I have to w...

 It's well past midnight and the television is playing something from the Meditative Mind on YouTube. My mind has entered into introspective and prospective mode that is somewhere it has not gone for many months. So, I feel compelled to write.  I'll start with the events of the past few days. I have been in a lot of pain due to the withdrawal of the cancer medication and its reappearance after the extraction of my few remaining teeth. Not having teeth leaves me with a limited types of foods to ingest.  These are oatmeal, grits, mash potatoes ice cream and anything soft that does not require chewing. That is a boring gastronomical experience. The pain interrupts my sleep. All of the physical discomfort, I used to request my soul to leave this particular body. Sometimes this request was done in tears and with some self-pity. The answer was always the same as it has been since I began this phase of my earth journey three years ago. No, there is more work this body has to do ...

  Fani in Atlanta, Tishia in New York and Tanya in Washington D C, these  are the Black Women Karma is holding in Its timely hand to fulfill Its immediate purpose of correcting the curve in the road of America's Democracy and restoring balance in the forward march to the multi-cultural, multi racial, prosperous society, which is the intent of America's founding. The balance comes in the form of accountability and reckoning to the one man who has become the glaring symbol of our collective imbalance. What does this have to do with Human Spirituality you may ask? Answer. Everything. We humans are Spiritual Beings with an earthly purpose. That purpose is to harmonize our relationship with the planet and all of its inhabitants, including ourselves.  We lost our way and the man who is experiencing the hand of Karma is the outward display of the correction that is underway. Give ourselves a pat on the back and have a celebration for the grand correction we've made. The Pho...

  Yesterday, in the early afternoon I managed to get outside of the house. That may not sound as an achievement to some who come and go whenever they want to ou, or with very little notice of this feat.  But to me it was a great overcoming. So much so, that while in the midst of this grand accomplishment, I texted a friend to woller in the glory of it all. I opened the back door and stepped out on the patio and sat on the bench that was a few steps away from the door. The sun was warm. I immediately noticed that there were there were birds picking food from the grass, a few bees on the dandelions the mower missed, and the dappled sunshine under the tree by the fence.  A very cooling breeze surrounded my body in an embrace I had not felt in what seemed like ages. Then one of my favorite smells of the Earth caressed my nostrils with its familiar fragrance. The smell of freshly mowed grass thrilled me with pleasure and joy. I luxuriated for a long time in the intense feeling...

 Today I spoke with my very dear friend, and she mentioned that a mutual friend was on her mind. I said that same friend has been on my mind as well. When we ended the call, I called that friend who had moved away from the Atlanta area, got here machine and left a message letting her know how loved she was by her Atlanta friends. Within a few minutes my beloved friend called, and we had a most loving and warming conversation. ( That paragraph was written May 30, 2023, then tennis begun with the French open at Roland-Garros started May 31, 2023, so I will complete that amazing, serendipitous experience, after it ends a week from today, on June 11, 2023, or perhaps a little sooner, but it will be done.) A few days before I had received a massive amount of the healing energy that sometimes courses through my body up and down my spine the same event happens whenever I need to contact someone who may need to connect to this energy. Sometimes the energy seems to flow into what I have com...