This and that....

 

I hope this doesn't offend anyone. But I figure by now, anyone reading my blog knows I'm not a good Christian, nor anything particularly.

And then there's a new Salvador Dali' that I hadn't seen before.

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Waking, 1944

New name of Clingmans Dome is Kuwohi. Parking area at (then) Clingmans Dome in Sevier County in 1939.

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Personal note 11.15.24:

I haven't been out of the apartment for 4 days. Felt really achy after Wed. exercise, but picked up some salad and some hot "Chinese type food" at Ingles (grocery). They massacred the veggies with total salty soy sauce. I ate half my salad and some of the chicken.

The next day I was supposed to meet friends for coffee and snacks at one of our favorite restaurants. But I begged off with my achy body, took some Tylenol, and went back to bed. Was all this because I over-did it on exercises? Then dinnertime and I started feeling chills. Within 2 hours my temp had shot up to 101.8. I took the Tylenol (only second dose). I should have done the nebulizer, though at that point I just wanted to die. A long long night, and the fever did go down by dawn to 99. My regular temp is 97.

Some more bed time on through the night and morning of Saturday. I didn't want to get up. I'd roll over, cough a bit, and keep my eyes closed, and hope I could fall asleep again. There is the bliss of nothingness in sleep. I guess I wanted that. Did I mention that all day Friday, off and on, I'd take a breath and suddenly feel a sharp pain in my back under my left scapula. It would happen without warning and I got really scared, is this my heart? No, it only happens when breathing in. I did try to breathe into other parts of my lungs as much as possible. But I had to cry out the pain was so severe when it happened. Thank heavens it stopped during my hiding from life sleep before Saturday.

I've had this "intermittent" fever, which has no name before. I'm determined to get back on my feet. So tonight I'm aiming to sleep no more than 10 hours. I've got some other goals too, but don't want to tell you in case I chicken out and don't do them.

Next day: Sunday I woke up and felt myself again. No pains anywhere! There had finally been night sweats. That's how I know this bout is really over. 

Heavy frost outside on the car and the plants I left out. I'm sorry to say, I really had to let them go. I just have too many to keep inside all winter. 

So I'm trying to keep track to see if there's any causal factor to this recurring illness. I last had it just before the first storm, because I remember not doing dishes while I was sick, and then no electricity or water and the storms had taken care of my doing them at all. So I'd say maybe Sept. 22 or so, and Helene hit Sept. 27 and I was out of town "evacuated" for 16 days.

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Today's quote:

On writing, The first, of course, is to read. It’s surprising how many people think they want to be writers but they don’t really like to read books… The second is to write, every day, whether you like it or not. Screw inspiration. Octavia E. Butler

Just Good News

 I always love to share good news. Marcia already shared the Americans of Conscience list. But there's more from my neck of the woods! And after yesterday's ugly topic, let's look for some positive things!

Kuwohi is the recognized name for a sacred place for the Cherokee people and is the highest point within the traditional Eastern Band Cherokee homeland. It was formerly known as Clingman's Dome, after a Confederate General geologist. It's next to the Appalachian Trail, and in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park as well. You pronounce Kuwohi just the way it looks, Koo-woe-hee.

Seen in Australia

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Today's Quote:

Alfred Hitchcock said, "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

Don't read if you're in a good mood, but here's the update from Heather for today on Robinson's campaign:

In North Carolina the core members of Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson’s campaign staff resigned yesterday along with all but three members of the campaign staff—two spokespeople and a bodyguard—after the CNN report about Robinson’s offensive writings on a pornography website, including his declaration that he considers himself a “black NAZI,” and that he would like to own slaves. And yet the North Carolina Republican Party is openly defending Robinson. Today the Republican Governors Association announced it was not going to buy any more ad time in North Carolina, a potential disaster for Trump as well as Robinson