Pain

Even though I am long retired I still have to arrange appointments or classes almost every week, and it is always a conundrum.  Younger people's schedules run toward morning hours as being the most productive and I would very much like to accommodate them; but for old people like myself, who are sometimes sleepy in the mornings and out of sorts from being awake all night with pain and/or from the loss of their biological clocks that have slipped toward the nocturnal, I feel that maybe a meeting time of 11:00 A.M. would be best, or maybe never.

BTW:  I have had an epiphany of how to handle my many horrible body pains that I have acquired over the years. It occurred to me after one of those classes that are difficult for me.

My epiphany was that I am free to deny my pain, and I intend to do just that, to deny any and all of my pain, for the rest of my life.  Whether what is left of my life is twenty minutes or twenty years, I deny all pain, now and forever.  I disparage my pain.  I tell it that it is nothing.  And I mentally brush the pain off of my body as if that pain were of no more significance than a few drops of rain.  Dear God, I think that this works for me!  I feel much, much better already. !?! 

Pain

by Annmarie Throckmorton, copyright 2025