Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
Happy Father’s Day from your BEST friends! Enjoy your special day!
On Juneteenth: “It’s an opportunity to both look back but to look ahead to make sure that that notion of freedom and the fragility of it is always protected and celebrated.” —Lonnie Bunch
One thing a stroke left intact is my memory, thank goodness. Mostly I mean my long-term memory; my short term still needs some work. I’ve written before about a night just a few months after I left the hospital. It was a night my brain was working overtime to keep my long term memory sharp and in focus. Out of the blue, I had a sudden burst of memories cascade into my mind. It wasn’t one memory at a time, it was multitudes of memories all at once. These memories were of all stages in my life, going as far
It seems like there’s no end to the list of things that go haywire after a traumatic brain injury. One of the things I haven’t written about is short attention span. Of all the more frustrating things that I was left with after the stroke I experienced, it was hard it was to focus and keep my mind on something. After my stroke, my short attention span was shot. How bad was it? Early on I would burn it in my brain that I needed to say or ask something. After a tremendous amount of will, I would ask or
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou A good reminder to keep our creative juices flowing as we kick off a brand new week! 🦋
