ONTO 2008 LIKE A RUNAWAY TRAIN!
Just off the phone with my Wellness Coach in Pebble Beach, CA, Jo Perron (fondly known as YogaJo since our Peachtree Yoga Center's Yoga Teacher Training in 2002).
Talk about transforming HER life-- she's been an OB/GYN for years, and then when a mastectomy for cancer prevented her from using her arms for her medical practice, she dusted herself off, changed directions, got new training and is creating her new
life. Go YogaJo!
One great thing about working with Wellness Coaches is that they teach you about the flexibility of goals for your own wellness path and plan.
She was the one who suggested that rather than beating myself up for not being a "perfect meditator" that I just try to capture several five minute snippets of contemplation or relaxed mind each day--12 snippets adds up to 60 minutes. I can manage that--and leave the guilt behind.
UPBEAT AFTER THE HOLIDAZE
I am delighted to report that a lot of my stress has lifted post-holiday and visiting the family in Philly. Here's Grand Dad (my father Joe), sister Sue with her arm in a sling, niece Elizabeth and me celebrating on Christmas Eve a couple days before Soeurx had her broken wing spliced back together in surgery. Even with a pack of frozen broccoli on her arm she managed to muster a smile. I don't know how these nurses do it (she's a PhD RN--professor at Temple University), whipping around and staging Christmas for us. But she did--more power to my sis!
While she was in the hospital for a couple daze, Eliz & I bonded over nature walks on which we caught the whoosh of deer through the forest (at first I thought it was a group of cyclists, silently whizzing down the trail). We also baked a WEL-COM cake, and enjoyed the Polar Express. Yes, I BELIEVE! As Wayne Dyer says, "Believe it and you'll SEE it!"
HOLIDAY VISIT
Last week I also dropped some gifts and the mini-basketball hoop with my young friend Tiawanna and her brood-- 4-year-old Davon, 2-year old Davonte (Tay-Tay), & little DeAngelo. They are the cutest! Somehow (working as a waitress at Pizza Hut) she's managed to wrestle herself out of the old apartment complex (we agreed there was a bit too much "action" on the streets)--and everybody feels safer. She plans to get into Georgia Perimeter College and start making something of herself. I've known her since she was six and Oakhurst Presbyterian Church was helping raise her and her younger sister, who also lives with them and helps with child care.
We all had a big time with the nerf balls & the basketball hoop, and Davon shot a pretty decent photo for a little tyke. Amazingly, she had a bunch of gifts stacked up under a little tree. They don't have a car and surely no credit card. Last year at this time the two teenage girls and Tia's two little boys were living in one room at an extended stay motel--what a dump, and so expensive!
"You've come a long way, baby!" I told her. Now she needs to concentrate on raising these kids and leaving the Baby Daddies alone. Although I certainly understand teenage hormones, I'm also a big advocate of Planned Parenthood.
WHO NOSE? / DOC HOLLYWOOD
New Year's Day brought two great soirees-- a Polar Bear Plunge at one friend's pool, followed by a bonfire and walk through the woods at David Moscovitz & Nancy Gaddy's spread in Stone Mountain. All kinds of film people, writers and creatives attended, including Neil Shulman, author of DOC HOLLYWOOD, with whom I'm pictured.... along with his co-star in WHO NOSE? the beautiful Zoe Huaga and their darling son, Myles.
WHO NOSE? from Wet Sock Productions is a romantic comedy from "the real Doc Hollywood," author of the book on which the hit movie starring Michael J. Fox was based. Neil Shulman, who plays himself in this quirky Woody Allenish feature film, is a middle-aged doctor / author / comedian who considers himself a failure --no kids, no wife, no life!
Conspiring to capture love, he lures a young theater student (co-director/actor Zoe Huago) into co-starring in a romantic film with him in which SHE pursues HIM. But the plan doesn't run as smoothly as he hoped, so he takes to the streets for romantic advice from a broad spectrum of everyday Americans. What happens when the merging of fiction and reality causes a silly old man and a serious young woman to stumble into the generation gap and fall in love? Who Nose? An unexpected and surprising voyage of love!
It's a very sweet film--go to www.whonose.com and check it out!
Happy New Year-- and I know you've heard it before--2008 is gonna be GREAT!
Talk about transforming HER life-- she's been an OB/GYN for years, and then when a mastectomy for cancer prevented her from using her arms for her medical practice, she dusted herself off, changed directions, got new training and is creating her new
life. Go YogaJo!
One great thing about working with Wellness Coaches is that they teach you about the flexibility of goals for your own wellness path and plan.
She was the one who suggested that rather than beating myself up for not being a "perfect meditator" that I just try to capture several five minute snippets of contemplation or relaxed mind each day--12 snippets adds up to 60 minutes. I can manage that--and leave the guilt behind.
UPBEAT AFTER THE HOLIDAZE
I am delighted to report that a lot of my stress has lifted post-holiday and visiting the family in Philly. Here's Grand Dad (my father Joe), sister Sue with her arm in a sling, niece Elizabeth and me celebrating on Christmas Eve a couple days before Soeurx had her broken wing spliced back together in surgery. Even with a pack of frozen broccoli on her arm she managed to muster a smile. I don't know how these nurses do it (she's a PhD RN--professor at Temple University), whipping around and staging Christmas for us. But she did--more power to my sis!
While she was in the hospital for a couple daze, Eliz & I bonded over nature walks on which we caught the whoosh of deer through the forest (at first I thought it was a group of cyclists, silently whizzing down the trail). We also baked a WEL-COM cake, and enjoyed the Polar Express. Yes, I BELIEVE! As Wayne Dyer says, "Believe it and you'll SEE it!"
HOLIDAY VISIT
Last week I also dropped some gifts and the mini-basketball hoop with my young friend Tiawanna and her brood-- 4-year-old Davon, 2-year old Davonte (Tay-Tay), & little DeAngelo. They are the cutest! Somehow (working as a waitress at Pizza Hut) she's managed to wrestle herself out of the old apartment complex (we agreed there was a bit too much "action" on the streets)--and everybody feels safer. She plans to get into Georgia Perimeter College and start making something of herself. I've known her since she was six and Oakhurst Presbyterian Church was helping raise her and her younger sister, who also lives with them and helps with child care.
We all had a big time with the nerf balls & the basketball hoop, and Davon shot a pretty decent photo for a little tyke. Amazingly, she had a bunch of gifts stacked up under a little tree. They don't have a car and surely no credit card. Last year at this time the two teenage girls and Tia's two little boys were living in one room at an extended stay motel--what a dump, and so expensive!
"You've come a long way, baby!" I told her. Now she needs to concentrate on raising these kids and leaving the Baby Daddies alone. Although I certainly understand teenage hormones, I'm also a big advocate of Planned Parenthood.
WHO NOSE? / DOC HOLLYWOOD
New Year's Day brought two great soirees-- a Polar Bear Plunge at one friend's pool, followed by a bonfire and walk through the woods at David Moscovitz & Nancy Gaddy's spread in Stone Mountain. All kinds of film people, writers and creatives attended, including Neil Shulman, author of DOC HOLLYWOOD, with whom I'm pictured.... along with his co-star in WHO NOSE? the beautiful Zoe Huaga and their darling son, Myles.
WHO NOSE? from Wet Sock Productions is a romantic comedy from "the real Doc Hollywood," author of the book on which the hit movie starring Michael J. Fox was based. Neil Shulman, who plays himself in this quirky Woody Allenish feature film, is a middle-aged doctor / author / comedian who considers himself a failure --no kids, no wife, no life!
Conspiring to capture love, he lures a young theater student (co-director/actor Zoe Huago) into co-starring in a romantic film with him in which SHE pursues HIM. But the plan doesn't run as smoothly as he hoped, so he takes to the streets for romantic advice from a broad spectrum of everyday Americans. What happens when the merging of fiction and reality causes a silly old man and a serious young woman to stumble into the generation gap and fall in love? Who Nose? An unexpected and surprising voyage of love!
It's a very sweet film--go to www.whonose.com and check it out!
Happy New Year-- and I know you've heard it before--2008 is gonna be GREAT!
posted by Patrice Dickey at
1/04/2008 01:29:00 PM
1 Comments:
Patrice,
I ran across your website by accident while looking up another Pearlman, author....and what a delight. It's nice to read about someome that truly is happy and sees angels as I do. I love being that square peg....and don't have to fit someone else's mold. Suesue38@aol.com.....Keep smiling..you made me!
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