GRATITUDE REVIEW
Poetry on the morning of David's (2nd) surgery:
Doctor Patient
LS: Good Morning, Doctor. Doctor, meet your Doctors. Doctors, this our patient.
DT: Good Morning Doctors.
SA: Our patient is a Doctor?
LS: Yes, this Doctor is our patient..
SA: Welcome Doctor Patient.
DT: Thank you Doctors. Yes, today I AM both patient and Doctor.
LS: As we doctor you Doctor, be patient.
DT: I AM all 3: Doctor, Patient, and patient. And now Doctors, this Doctor's ready to be doctored.
LS: Patience, Doctor.
DT: Sorry. But please...... be patient while you doctor this Doctor.
LS: We are all patient Doctors with all our patients, Doctor.
DT: JUST GET IT DONE ALREADY!!!
LS: IV!
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GRATITUDE REVIEW
BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, AND YOU'LL END UP HAVING MORE.
IF YOU CONCENTRATE ON WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE, YOU WILL NEVER, EVER HAVE ENOUGH.
I can easily LIST what I DO HAVE. I've done that many times throughout my life. Sometimes I've written them down, but mostly I've just thought about it.
But the advice is to CONCENTRATE ON and BE GRATEFUL FOR what I DO HAVE. That's more than just thinking about it, or just making a list, and then possibly forgetting it.
I don't forget everything, but I do "lapse" a lot.... I don't do the GRATITUDE REVIEW that I learned from LDS Church (Count Your Blessings), from teachers, from Dr. Pruitt.
So rather than resume my "SLLLAVERS" routine (which would also be a good idea), I will replace my morning routing - for now - with a GRATITUDE REVIEW.
I'll start it tonight, and then I'll do it again tomorrow morning, and every morning.
GRATITUDE REVIEW for Monday, 20200217:
1. Family:
Joe - for his enthusiasm & entreprenneurial spirit.
Chrissy - for her level-headedness and willingness to work.
Ada - for her happy dancing, and turning 13 today! A TEEN GRANDDAUGHTER!
Ethan - for his intellectual pursuits, and his team playing basketball, and turning 13 today! A TEEN GRANDSON!
Elliot - for his enthusiasm for music and sports
Oliver - for his frank assessment of what is real
Lisa - for her eneregy and enthusiasm and high achievement
Rodney - for his patience and level-headedness
Lyla - for her many talents, including piano, dance, drama, and for her patience with her mom & younger brothers.
Eli - for his sensitivity and excitement about his toys, and love of others
Cub - for his cuteness and smile
Teresa - for her bewildering willingness to still love me
Other relatives - for so many reasons for all of them.
Mom - for teaching me how to pray
2. Friends:
David - for his patient friendship and love
Jeannie - for her long-suffering willingness to love David
Dr. Pruitt - for his life lessons, such as this one: GRATITUDE REVIEW
George - for his undying enthusiasm for learning, for being helpful to others, and his inspirational living, and his creativity, and his thoughtfulness, and his love.
Marie - for her undying fight for life, for her artistic achievements in photography and writing, and her achievement ($) with which she is so generous.
Eric & Arno - for their life-long friendship
Woody & Emily - for their heroic efforts in facing Emily's debilitating illness
The "Singles" - for their fights against the difficult challenges of their lives.
3. Groups:
Gamofites - for the chance to learn how to better deal with being a gay mormon father, and for the chance to mentor others in their journeys.
The Lavender Effect - for the chance to learn about non-profits, foundations, and fund-raising
Other Friends - for the love, friendship & associations I share with so many people in my life.
The Leaders of Churches and Nations - for their words and deeds (hopefully honest) which support our freedoms and our democratic system of self-governance.
4. Self
for good health,
for the means to live a reasonably comfortable life,
for the courage and energy to go back to work (if needed),
for a brain that works most of the time
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Some thoughts
I'm enjoying the "time off" of the last few days when Chad is away in Palm Springs, and I'm here alone.
Strange dream last night: Some (not all) of my significant others were preparing to move into a house (Ed Ross' house?) with me as my roommates. Steve Morris rode in on a garden edger, and began edging the garden. He commented that the floors are usually cleaned BEFORE the roommates move in. I excused myself by reminding him that we had been involved in ______ (a show?) for 2 days, so it could not have been done. Another "resident" was my former roommate, and another was a combination of Michael (Ed Ross' new lover) and Kent Frogley (Bill Laursen's lover)..... both tall, dark & handsome - I liked having them living with me. Jim Davidson was also living there, but I didn't interact with him in this dream.
Dream places & dream spaces & dream faces.
Last night's dream was happy, or at least calm. Not troubling. I had a presence that made me feel comfortable with myself.
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