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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 659813" data-attributes="member: 17461">Oh, good for you!  I am impressed that you hold a doctorate.  That's great, Copa.  I will immediately begin using bigger words.Erudite.There you go.:O)You will have developed such depth and empathy Copa, by the time we all are through this.  I knew all along you could not have been a California Prison Inmate.I have been already, Copa.  I was horrified to hear of it.I use frozen berries routinely.  4 cups for pie, 6 cups for pie squares.  Use a little less sugar, and double the amount of flour for thickening you would use if you were making apple pie.I think I included the recipe for filling in the earlier thread, Copa.  Just read down a little further.Me, too.  I have a friend who determined to learn Spanish.  She started about eight years ago and speaks it now flawlessly.  The first years, she took classes and listened to tapes and so on.  Once she knew passable Spanish, she visited friends in Mexico without her D H for three months at a time to immerse herself in the language and culture.Photography I would like to learn.  Japanese.  Ballet again.  Not so much karate, since that little guy gave me those rib chops.  Did I tell everyone about that?  There is a little boy in my karate class who gave me rib chops.  I mean he punched me repeatedly right in the center of my chest.?!?I am like, the age of his grandma.  He is not supposed to be hitting me, even if it is karate class.   So I will either have to find a karate class with only adults or concentrate on Tai Chi and yoga.   ***I find I am letting go of those angry feelings I was experiencing all around every family of origin issue.  I am learning that subtle kind of questing for emotional reality through...comparing energy fields, for lack of a clearer term.  I think this part will be like resetting an emotional, or self concept, or response state thermostat.  I am modeling for that feeling on strong women.  Gloria Steinem would be a good model.  Intelligent, honest, steady state.  To feel the difference in her in comparison to myself is an interesting thing; I see where I hold myself in contempt instead of considering that I may have valid points to make in a serious manner.  Maya will be a great model, of course.  I love the laughter in Maya.So it will be the same women I chose to witness for me as we plowed through repressed energies, then.Good.  I like them.:O)Copa, you know what I might do if we were limited to where we could drive?  I might go lie around on the porch in the  night with D H, so I could see the stars and hear the birds as the sun comes up.  Or pitch a tent in the yard.  (We cannot do that here.  We have a bear.  He (or she) has taken down our hummingbird feeder twice this year.  He is due back any time.  Someone told us bears need a range of 500 miles.  So that must be where he (or she) goes between hummingbird feeder attacks.  We had so many seed feeders out when we first moved here, with little white lights and etc and the bear came through and devastated those.  He has never bothered the hummingbird feeder before.Poor thing.It must be very hungry.They are bigger than you might think. Way bigger than they look in books.It is a black bear, not a grizzly.Where was I going with this.Or bring pretty clothes and go to a fancy hotel for a few days.I might do something like that.  D H and I have done that with the kids, when they were little.  We would go to Embassy Suites in the middle of winter and feel just like we'd been on vacation.Ha!  That is how D H is.  So am I.  So I have to crochet or read and never look at the highway or by the time we arrived at our destination, neither of us would be speaking to the other.  One time?  I was driving and D H was trying to get comfortable and knocked the car into neutral right on the freeway. Two times he did that, I think.Cedar</blockquote>

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