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Hobbes is my hero. 🙂
I find life presents me with enough challenges nowadays without me having to look for more. What about you?
Febraury 10, 2016
Enough Challenges?
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There’s a reason that chronic illnesses are sometimes termed “health challenges,” so I also engage in overcoming many challenges. They’re not necessarily the ones that I would have chosen, but they have also forced other choices that I’m glad to be considering. Okay, I’m not going to be trekking to see the homes of the Anasazi: how can I find joy otherwise? This week, it’s been in helping a thirteen-year-old neighbor tackle relative clauses for his English class and Facetiming with my oldest granddaughter to help her solve an AP geometry lesson in which she was asked to translate a quadrilateral and then reflect it twice across two given axes. Yippee! My mind does still work. I am trying out a new accompaniment pattern for “Worried Man Blues” on the piano, and it doesn’t matter how bad or good I might play with my clumsy hands: it’s a challenge and it’s fun. I watched a program about robotics and learned that self-driving cars are likely to be available years sooner than I thought. The possibility that I might be able to get places without my husband having to drive me exhilarates me. I’m planning all kinds of short trips that I’ll take, such as calling one of my daughters when I’m having a good day and asking if she wants to meet me for lunch! I’ll have to wait another few years, but I’m patient!
do you have any idea how much you are admired?
you go girl!
I’m with tammy!
finding small ways with chronic health issues [which I had hanging about] means so much to oneself – you feel validated when someone needs you for whatever reason. Your brain may be tired from doing something for someone else, but in the long run it’s worthwhile – because you have said “my brain still works”
I used to own an entire book of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Whatever happened to it? I love your choices. Thanks, Jean!
I have a collection of Calvin and Hobbes, too. Thanks to Amazon they are readily available when/if the mood strikes us. 🙂
YES! hobbes is my hero too.
i own all those books.
they’re like potato chips… you can’t stop at just one.
wisdom in little blocks.
i’m so glad you’re a cartoonist too! i like that about you. XO
Hobbes inspired me. I started years ago by trying to capture the expressions on his face. Now I just try to sketch one or a couple of animals/faces a day. They make me happy.
Yay, scribbling!
My life isn’t at all challenging and I prefer it that way. I like security, but it’s not by any means stupefying security. I have plenty of things to exercise my mind and imagination. I’m sure I’ll face a few challenges in the future as I get older and less healthy, so I’ll enjoy the lack of challenge in the meantime.
Sometimes it’s the little day-to-day challenges that are the best learning experiences. I figure handling them well is the best preparation for the future.
some people assume that I can do lots of things fast – but on the whole, it can be days of “what-if”, “should I start now” and so on.
since the medics asked a year or two ago “what’s the hurry?” I had no answer but over a few weeks of “why” I discovered there was no hurry… yesterday I was talking to a trainee bus driver and basically said “if I miss a connection, there is no hurry…and today when I get off at St Lukes, I’m going on a short hike but no hurry to the art shop in Taylors Rd, and then I’ll probably come back to St Lukes Mall and wander about…” and yep, that’s what I did!
you know how when I’m out I have encounters – well yesterday an elderly lady was explaining to me about fairies in the tree across from the bus stop – that when there are no leaves they live in the earth beneath the tree, and then climb back up – leaves when they come out via golden ropes!!!
then a large leaf flew down off the tree and landed on the roadway – she was all sad, because it was too dangerous to retrieve it…
her bus arrived at the same time as mine [busy stop] and she said “nice to help you understand fairies…”
I’m smiling at that story, Cathy!
What a sweet interaction. Thank you!