Intrepid wrote...
"My health seems to be better, -either that or I'm learning how to adapt to the changing situation, - but the main thing is that I'm getting out and about on my faithful old Hercules bicycle again which always cheers me up. I have a good doctor who agrees with my holistic lifestyle approach to maintaining wellness instead of just chucking pills at my condition and she's always pleased when I tell her I'm back on my bike again."
That is wonderful to read, Anne. I believe there are different kinds of healing and different avenues of approach. As a lightning survivor I have seen many survivors and many victims and often the only difference is in which position the individual has embraced. It is very much a personal choice how we respond to a life changing illness or injury. Being intrepid as you are you have chosen to be a survivor, finding ways to cope with your condition and feeling gratitude for what you have yet. I think of it in terms of learning how to become graceful (not a term most men would use) in the sense of acceptance and a willingness to move on as well as you can. Enough; this is something I've given a lot of thought to and could go on for longer than anyone would want to hear. I'm glad for you in your healing journey.
And I am glad to hear that the cyclecar is being stared at and dreamed about. That, too, is wonderful! No matter how long it takes, the project is a worthy one. Someday decades from now a girl, young or old, will read your narrative, pore over the photographs and find inspiration in your mechanical adventure... and she will have the thought that she, too, could build such a machine and then ride it about. She, too, could be Intrepid!
Carry on, my friend, easy as you go.
SB
"My health seems to be better, -either that or I'm learning how to adapt to the changing situation, - but the main thing is that I'm getting out and about on my faithful old Hercules bicycle again which always cheers me up. I have a good doctor who agrees with my holistic lifestyle approach to maintaining wellness instead of just chucking pills at my condition and she's always pleased when I tell her I'm back on my bike again."
That is wonderful to read, Anne. I believe there are different kinds of healing and different avenues of approach. As a lightning survivor I have seen many survivors and many victims and often the only difference is in which position the individual has embraced. It is very much a personal choice how we respond to a life changing illness or injury. Being intrepid as you are you have chosen to be a survivor, finding ways to cope with your condition and feeling gratitude for what you have yet. I think of it in terms of learning how to become graceful (not a term most men would use) in the sense of acceptance and a willingness to move on as well as you can. Enough; this is something I've given a lot of thought to and could go on for longer than anyone would want to hear. I'm glad for you in your healing journey.
And I am glad to hear that the cyclecar is being stared at and dreamed about. That, too, is wonderful! No matter how long it takes, the project is a worthy one. Someday decades from now a girl, young or old, will read your narrative, pore over the photographs and find inspiration in your mechanical adventure... and she will have the thought that she, too, could build such a machine and then ride it about. She, too, could be Intrepid!
Carry on, my friend, easy as you go.
SB
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