※SpinalGap24 ※

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."
Irish Proverb

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Buddha

"A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison."
Francis Bacon

"The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones."
Peter McWilliams

"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick."
Rabbi Harold Kushner

...who I haven't replied to yet, please accept my apologies.
I will reply to each and every comment, when time and particularly, physical energy allow. (I'm struggling against total weakness, whereby the lifting of even my arm is too much...but today I have a little movement.)

As always, every comment is a delight and tremendous encouragement to me, and please keep in touch, if you can, your every word is radiant in my eyes.

Take care all, with love,
lauren6

Spectaculorum procedere debet

The Beloved: Dream On
just close your eyes, open your head
set the inside of you full speed ahead
believe in your inner sense and all that you feel
because nothing's impossible and everything's real

don't stop dreaming, dream on
you've got to keep on keeping on
always believing

don't stop dreaming, dream on
you've got to keep on keeping on
always believing

floating up high, you can reach for the sky
set your pulse racing, heaven-embracing
sunshiny days, eachways and anyways
all your tomorrows, bye, bye yesterday

unwilling or willing you from the beginning to...
feel it cloaking you, tripping you
guiding you, calling you in

don't stop dreaming, dream on
you've got to keep on keeping on
always believing

don't stop dreaming, dream on...

Up, up and away.

Shining light embodying the power of life
a lacuna sought when reason deserts
absenteeism tempts fresh focus
a world seen before it's understood,
when such understanding is a world away -
breath the air
each breathe may be your first or last
open your eyes
there's always more to be seen, beyond what's already been
give it Time
Time is truth, unfailingly
the making and breaking of us all
though somewhere within
burns a timeless energy called life

To my dearest friends, once again thanking you DEEPLY for your kind words/comments, which give me great hope and strength, I love you all.
The past three days, dare I say, have been hell, and a mere three hours sleep were managed in that time, with any food consumed quickly being dispatched again...too much medication too soon, with anaesthetic and injections all over my back, body has had enough and duly told me so, in no frank terms...

"off with their heads" tummy rumbled
"we are not amused" legs did denounce
"there is no alternative" brain mumbled
"never surrender" heart did announce.

...and so, with internal chaos brought on by conflicting medication, in NHS speed-up mode, after one year of nothing, I get it all in just a few weeks. This is the fastrack to where??

Multiplying flowerheads
of every colour
fill my mind
engrave the day
Blossoming motion
anti-clockwise endeavour
of Spring unfolding
Sunlight's great opening,
countless opportunities-
a microcosm of change