Comments on: I Want To Live

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:13:36 +0000

Hi Lyn,

Welcome, and thank you for your wonderful comment. I appreciate knowing we share some of the same challenges.

Maria

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:12:24 +0000

You’re welcome, Maggie. Thank you for your lovely comment. So glad you found my blog, and may your own slow motion miracle continue.

love and blessings back to you,

Maria

By: Lyn Grey

Lyn Grey — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:38:47 +0000

I have huge food allergies and cerebral palsy, too. Thanks for being real. I really needed to read this.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:12:29 +0000

I just happened upon this blog while looking for vegan recipes. I’m only two weeks into my own “slow motion miracle”, using a plant based diet. This is exactly the kind of inspiration I have been hoping to find. Thank you for sharing your life, your struggles, and your insight.

Love and Blessings,
Maggie

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:34:11 +0000

Thanks, Cherie!!

Maria

By: Cherie

Cherie — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:17:28 +0000

I love the way you think!

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:45:11 +0000

Hi again Michelle!

Thank you for your wonderful observations on living well, and your kind words about my writing and my life. I have been called “tenacious “and “persistent” more than a few times!! They are good words to go by when it comes to being committed to healing, in all its dimensions. Thanks for reminding me of them. You made me smile.

Maria

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 06:27:11 +0000

Hi Maria:

Catching up with your posts – I really have to read and re-read like one a week. This is because there is so much going on in each one and so many things for me to ponder, as relates to my journey too. In my first read though this one — the thing that stuck out for me was the ‘fighter” term.

I similarly have struggled with this term! I can’t say that I have a terrible feeling for it when it comes to mind: as in the phrase the “Fighting Irish” the name of the university of Notre Dames team. Since I am of Irish heritage – I have to love the wee leprechaun with his “dukes up”, but me a fighter no!

Then there is the “survivor” tag that gets tossed at me after the round I had with breast cancer – I really don’t care for this one either!! I recognize more than anything that even though I have health issues – I am not deluding myself they exist or can be tamed by medications. I have often been told this or that drug is the first line of defense for what ails me – “war what is it good for”.

I don’t want to fight or survive my way through life I want to choose to thrive each day to the best of my ability. Instead of fighter or survivor, would I call myself a thriver then? Nope – that doesn’t sound right either. I kind of like the idea that might be self described as tenacious.

From Merriam Webster
“tenacious |təˈnā sh əs| adjective:
– not readily letting go of, giving up, or separated from an object that one holds, a position, or a principle : a tenacious grip | he was the most tenacious politician in South Korea.
– not easily dispelled or discouraged; persisting in existence or in a course of action : a tenacious local legend | you’re tenacious and you get at the truth.”

When I have an image of you floating through my mind – like the picture of you in your warming vest at the destination of your amazing hike – I think this is the gift to a person that will not be dispelled or discouraged and who persists in existence ( I love that phrase – yum) – and does so slowly, deliberately, warmly, well and lovingly.

I think of us as not fighting, or surviving but living with a tenacious bent.

Thank you for your gift of beautiful words and the very thoughtful telling of your life 🙂

Much love and respect _/!\_ Namaste – Michelle 🙂

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:57:43 +0000

Hi Kim!

Thanks for your continued appreciation and vote of confidence for my blog, and also for generously stepping up to the plate right here right now to help support Donna details from your own life. You are a sweetheart! I especially appreciate your articulation of how people feel something may be taken away from them when someone closechanges to this way of eating, when the opposite of that is actually true. Instead, we DO, then, feel better, live longer, and can be more present in our lives with them, which ultimately improves and enriches those relationships. Here’s to the long loving haul.

Maria

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:08:58 +0000

As ALWAYS I simply delight in your writing! For DONNA, go to the McDougall boards, you’ll find support. Email me whenever you want! Kphogan3@surewest.net I lost 105 pounds by flowing Weight Watchers and then my already bad thyroid flew off the charts and while following WW I GSI ed 60 pounds in 6 months, devastating to the way my body felt. I have a Neighbor, we call Angel Angie, she’s been vegan for years and it shows! I went from vegetarian to Vegan fairly faithfully about 3 months ago a d am down about 35 pounds. People regardless of our relationships sometimes feel “threatened” by the diet/living choices we make feeling like we are taking something from them. In reality we are doing the opposite! As a mother, daughter, wife etc. what they don’t realise typically is that we are as to do more, feel better and live longer with the lifestyle we’ve chosen. When people question my way of eating, although none of their business, I say “I lost my father to a massive heart attack when he was 53 and last year my 30 year old nephew, with no fore warnings, died of a massive heart attack, YES 30!” I too want to live! And that is what it is. Is the quality of your life worth a diet change to you? Eventually your husband will see what you’ve done and at the least appreciate it. Hang in there and keep reading this blog, all inspiring and real.