Parkinson's Disease Rants & Ramblings Archive
The New Day
Heat radiates from the old cast iron stove and fills the room with its welcoming warmth. The old pot nearly full of water simmers gently as it gives up its moist rendering in the otherwise dry air. Gracie the Golden Retriever sleeps gently by my chair soaking up the warmth on a winter like fall […]
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That Place Called Grace
Visitors are virtually always welcome at our humble abode. However, there has been a visitor attached to the Parkinson’s invader whose name is Pain. This visitor is not at all welcome and this unintentional host does everything he knows to avoid this annoying pest. Exercise helps stave off some of his visits, but often he […]
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The Feast
Bright in the western sky the full moon illuminates the landscape with its white glow. Simultaneously, the sun gives of a faint orange hue as it begins its emergence over the hills to the east. All seems still and quiet on this frost laden day at the farm. A lone mockingbird sounds her alarm as […]
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In The Presence
The bright orange glow just above the treetops in the eastern horizon gave evidence to the rising sun. Warm water gave up its steamy mist in the presence of freezing air over the pond. Grass and leaves sparkled in the light of the season’s first frost. Just two days after reverting clocks back to their […]
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New Memories
We heard a car pulling into the gravel driveway. I went to the door to greet the first guests to arrive. Approaching the door was my former college roommate and his wife. Although we had met for a brief time to partially catch up some six months before, the memories of college life some forty […]
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Enrichment
Safely back in the stateroom of our ship, we stood on our balcony to view the coast of Italy in the port of Napoli. A bus tour had taken us through the narrow and crowded streets of this thriving port town. The magnificent palaces of past kingdoms rule, before the unification of Italy, gave evidence […]
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In the Moment
Once hosting ships at its dock the bay to ancient Ephesus is now home to olive groves, grape vines and sheep ranchers. Walking the stone laden streets of the place the Apostle Paul once called home for a while was both challenging and awe inspiring. The remnants of the decayed and crumbling library with two […]
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The Challenge
Relieved to be safely away from the squeezed quarters of the jumbo jet that had been what seemed like our cramped nest for seven hours, we made our way slowly through customs at Rome’s Leonardo daVinci airport. Just outside the exit was waiting the friendly and chatty tour guide who directed us to the luggage […]
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The Pillow
The long anticipated journey to Europe and ship excursion through the Aegean is over. The return trip was exhaustingly long, but a few hours sleep is getting us back in the routine that has previously sustained us. A broken brace for the somewhat atrophied leg and foot of this PD participant necessitated having to forego […]
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Arms Of Gratitude
A thick fog renders the view of the rising sun as an opaque orb in the distance. Another change in the weather is forecast to bring much cooler temperatures over the next few days. The glistening grass and the dew dripping vines bearing the fruit of the garden give evidence of nature’s progression soaking in […]
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