To Lyric

About your first comment on teaching people that "The Way" is to emulate females .... your professors may have interpretted it that way, but Lao Tzu says to be female is to be the center of life, the giver of life in all things. Obviously Lao Tzu was pretty evolved for his time. Yes, the basic teaching is to simplify, to give up the need for acquisition of things, to give up the need for control, to learn and to love all things living. Good teachings.

getting old is no party

OMG, what a week. Wednesday I tripped on my own feet and took a header into a chair in the reception area at work. Huge pratt fall. Hugely embarrassing.

Because I was trying to recover instead of falling, I ended up taking 2-3 steps during the tripping process, and actually ended up running head-first into a chair instead of merely falling. Call me Grace (with all appropriate apologies to my grand-niece Gracen, and my wonderful co-worker Grace).

You know how everything slows down before a crash? I remember two things as I was taking the dive: 1) Oh, now this is going to be really embarrassing, and 2) don't hit the reception table. So then I'm laying there, stunned ... thinking "maybe no one saw it ..... I can just get up and act like nothing happened." Then I saw my glasses on the ground, bent out of alignment, and I saw my right ring finger, also bent out of alignment, and then the employees started to gather, and I knew all possibility of this being a non-event was trashed.

My friend Grace took me to the ER and called Bill, sat with me through the paperwork and the cutting off of my anniversary ring (sob), and stayed until Bill arrived. Four hours later I was home with some really good drugs (who knew? they give you lovely parting gifts after an injury! *LOL) and starting to heal.

My coworkers have been getting a lot of mileage out of this (threatening to turn the video security tape, which shows the event, over to america's funniest home videos for quick cash), while I am threatening to charge them $5 each for the show.