March 18
It hardly seems worth blogging when days are regular or
normal for me. The only unpleasant
reoccurrence is that I frequently, toward the end of the day, get very tired
and a little depressed. My pills have
been taken on time and I usually have been working at something but I shouldn’t
feel particularly tired. I guess that is
a part of Parkinson’s.
Other things have been interesting. Jan and I went to the annual Parkinson’s
meeting and day of information. Rather
than each speaker talking to the whole crowd, they come to each table (for 10)
and take thirty minutes to talk about their activity and answer questions –
quite informal. If you are in the “P”
category, you should consider going. I
believe that similar events are held across the country.
For me personally: my “Dancing with Death” story was
published in the spring publication of the Dance Nova Scotia group, that made
me feel good. If you have been watching
the news recently there has been a continuing saga about the deplorable conditions
in Attawapiskat on James Bay . It is a community I have visited several
times when I worked for Indian Affairs.
It was not a very prosperous place when I was there fifty years ago and
it now seems much worse off. I wrote an
article with my views and sent it to the Globe & Mail. It was much too long for a “Letter to the
Editor” so my hopes aren’t too high about it being printed.
There are two other carpenter type projects I’m working
on. I think I mentioned previously that
I am making a mahogany box/urn for my cremation ashes. It is progressing – slowly. A friend I told about it suggested I should
have made a practice one out of pine – much cheaper. The other carpenter job is replacing some
rotten wood in our back deck. This is
going slowly as well, but mainly because of all the rain and cold winds. A friend came for a few hours today and we
got the main support post installed.
Tomorrow my granddaughter arrives from Australia
