The initial focus on Present Major Pleasures skidded onto missed aspect--Past Major Pleasures--as the responses indicate--the importance of reminiscence--especially healthy, pleasant and entertaining for Seniors. Nature is one of my lovely pleasures. No matter the season, by myself or with someone. Birds singing, leaves rustling, insects chirping, water rippling, breezes…
ruthjimward@gmail.com Google: Ruth McRoberts Ward blogs When a friend asked about my next blog, I mentioned that two words—major pleasures--had come to mind that morning. “Does it say anything to you?” She pounced on it. Oh, yes, I have two major pleasures. Going to the beach in…
ruthjimward@gmail.com: Google-Ruth Ward Blogs Upstairs and down, an eleven-year-old performed her least enjoyable weekly job of dusting end tables, baseboards, and particularly the individual rungs on the winding wooden staircase, three bedrooms. That day, she noticed that her mom’s wooden cedar chest on the vanity was slightly…
ruthjimward@gmail.com Google: Ruth Ward Blogs Several meaningful responses inspired Go with the Flow follow-up. For new readers, I’ve likened roadblocks to life surprising and unpleasant situations that impede forward progress. Sometimes, solutions require a day or two. However, most of us have experienced that adjusting to a…
ruthjimward@gmail.com Being stopped in our tracks and having plans disrupted by roadblocks are a common experience. We proceed slowly over speed bumps but a roadblock stops forward progress entirely, temporarily. The options we have are: wait if road workers are involved or turn around to find an alternate…
ruthjimward@gmail.com While phone-chatting with my son David about Memorable Purposes, he said, “A precious memorable purpose for me is Dad’s and my last fishing trip, that I didn’t anticipate would be his last trip to Lake Amistad.” (Lake Amistad Dam. near Del Rio, Texas, where the…
ruthjimward@gmail.com This blog, shoved away by my bout with Shingles, completes my original focus on Purposes. For new readers, Speed Bumps blog bullied its way in line, thus creating the need for the Distractions blog. A quick overview for new readers: After seven weeks, Shingles has moved on.…
ruthjimward@gmail.com I began developing this topic several weeks ago before encountering speed bumps which gifted me with another bump in life—a bad case of shingles, to which the doctor comforted, “Since you got the Shingrix vaccine, you will have a lighter case”. That was some comfort then,…