(Day 37) without Cleo: part 2 ~ eye health, dinner and beauty

I do love breakfasts! And jams, and natural (nothing but perhaps salt added)

peanut butter and nice hot cup of tea!

This (above) was really poignant.  Still thinking on it.

Changed my table cloth!!! 

My writing desk :)  I really do love it!!!

 I got beautiful 1 ounce glass tubes with roller balls to use to make

essential oil rollers... I am excited about that!

Went to my eye doctor... getting these glasses...nearly identical to the ones I have now,

same colour slightly different shape!  We have really good vision insurance, which is a 

HUGE blessing... so that's the good news... the not so good news... 

That is a picture of my eye, I think the right eye. 

The big white part is fine but in the middle of the picture is some white parts

and that is NOT good.  It shows some degeneration within my retina. 

We looked at scans from 3 years ago verses ones taken today and the changes

in both retina and a bit in the periphery both show that my eyes are getting worse.

While this is really not new information, it was still hard to hear and see.

And I need a stronger prescription again and that means that my eyes 

are even MORE myopic which means more myopic degeneration is possible.

A simple explanation is that as the eye becomes more myopic, it is stretched thin

and if it becomes too thin, it begins breaking down, and that is what we don't want,

as it can lead, eventually, if it continues, to severe vision loss.

So I continue to walk this journey...

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I was feeling a bit "hard hit" by this and my sweet Husband had already 

planned on us eating out today and we did so and I had a really nice salad

and he had mussels and that was really nice.

And things I enjoy I am still looking forward to,

like breakfast tomorrow.  

I just love breakfast and that first pot of tea.

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And so it goes, beauty, worries and caring for each other.

I know, no matter what, that I have a lot to be thankful for.

***

Lord have mercy on us all!

Still Looking / My Eyes Have Seen Salvation...

I am listening to Beethoven right now.

I forgot how much I love his work;

the quietness of parts

and louder sections are so expressive.

I need, at times, the more explosive music of Beethoven;

it helps me process things.

Bach's music too can help me inwardly progress through things.

A time for sound and a time for silence...

I am seeking to keep the basics:

morning prayers, a Saint's reading, the Scripture readings

from my Church Calendar.

I have looked at various apartments now.

Some good, some not so good, some down right bad.

I look at two more today,

possibly one tomorrow,

one on Saturday.

God will bring me to a good place,

just as he cares for the small birds,

the squirrels in the city...

Christ has come,

I have been baptised as an infant,

chrismated as an adult.

Confession, my spiritual father quickly reminded me,

is a renewal of baptism.

I have been baptised

and thus scorn the devil and all his works.

Christ has put his covering protection over me

a sinner

and in the end Christ is my Joy, my Delight, my Home

my Ever-Present Help in sadness, darkness and

He will have mercy.

Monastere Vierge Marie La Consolatrice

It was a dream come true to be at this monastery

with many from my home parish.

The protection there is felt, as well as their dependence on God.

The air was so clear.

The Abbess talked to us as a group and answered many questions.

One of the life-long parishioners, the next day,

said that he learned more in those few hours than

he has in years.

It was such a relief to pray vespers in their chapel.

The prayers, the incredible beauty, the protection and love

that is there is truly of heaven.