From\na frosty glistening mass of green grass and scattered leaves has emerged a\nwarmer fall afternoon beneath an ever so common blanket of clouds. The Maine\nAnjou cattle nibble their way across the sparsely green pasture toward the\nrecently scattered bales of fresh hay. Gracie, the ever-observant Golden\nRetriever sits quietly watching the livestock outside through the clear glass window\nin the front door. The pecan tree is still giving up it’s bounty as the nut\nbearing hulls open to release the varied brown renderings. Ravens swarm in from\na northern location and noisily grab hold of the bounty the tree has borne.\nWith amazing precision, they pound their beaks sharp edge soundly in the center\nof the pecan as it cracks to render up the tender meat of the nut. A couple\nof the larger birds fly to a hardened split limb and demonstrate the skill they\npossess in choosing the wooden foundation upon which they pound their beaks for\nan easier and more productive return. Those who utilize the limb as an instrument\nin the shelling process have learned to accomplish it with intent. As this possessor\nof Parkinson’s disease watches the ravens undertake the task of unwrapping their\nharvest, the thought of intent rises to the forefront. The pecan tree has\nbeen there for more than fifty years, bearing its abundant renderings of a\nharvest for those who would collect, gather, or simply crack the shells to indulge.\nTo the casual observer, the consuming of the nuts seems just normal and perhaps\nrandom behavior. To the casual observer, the act of walking seems normal and\nperhaps even random. To this possessor of PD, however, the act of walking is\nanything but normal or random. The normal process has become one of\nshuffling. There are those who would call the shuffling abnormal and perhaps\nit seems that way to most. However, to the PD possessor shuffling has become\nthe normal. Although normal, it is far from comfortable. Try doing it for a\nwhile and test your endurance! Shuffling has become the unintentional act of\nmoving from one location to another and that appears to have become normal\nfor some of us. As the Raven has flip-flopped the random pecan and learned that\nan intentional peck to the shell positioned on the limb’s sturdy support yields\na larger harvest than the normal peck on the softer ground, so too has this possessor\nof PD learned that a walking stride which appears as normal can be\naccomplished only by intent to lift, stretch forward, support the other side;\nlift, move forward\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. This movement may appear awkward to some but is closer to\nwhat we’ve grown to accept as normal strides to the untrained eye. The\nappearance of normal has become the act that is intentional. I wonder if\nthe Raven understands the act of intentional slamming against a solid surface\nhas become to the casual eye an act that just appears normal? Normal or\nintentional, the result of getting to what one desires gives gratitude a solid\nfoundation upon which to grow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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