Comments on: My Love Is A Red, Red Umbrella

By: Maria Theresa Maggi

Maria Theresa Maggi — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 02:16:26 +0000

HI Lee–thank you for your comment. Really enjoyed reading about how you love umbrellas too, and your childhood memory of the gentle pattering on the taut fabric. There certainly IS a reason people sing and dance in the rain. 🙂

By: Lee at Veggie Quest

Lee at Veggie Quest — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:49:57 +0000

Maria, I love this post! First, I love that you can use an umbrella with little trouble–what a wonderful victory. Like you, though, I also just love umbrellas. I tend to steer clear of somber black ones, though, favoring instead bright colors and splashy prints.

Even as a child, I loved listening to the gentle pattering of raindrops against the taut fabric while I stepped lightly around puddles–and I still do. There’s a reason that people sing and dance in the rain, right? 😉

By: Maria Theresa Maggi

Maria Theresa Maggi — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 02:42:12 +0000

Thank you, Gena, for this wonderful comment. I like how you put this because I truly do love what the unexpected and surprising bring me. I once said to a dear friend that being “right” was okay, but that I’d really rather be surprised and enlightened if I had the choice. He had to think about that for a while. 🙂 And thanks for the Happy Thanksgiving wishes. We had a great low key vegan and relaxed time. Hope you did too. 🙂

By: Gena

Gena — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:39:23 +0000

As always, Maria, I love the way you tell stories and reflect on your experiences. I was interested to hear about the associations that turned your umbrella red! It also occurred to me that red is a color often associated with vitality, energy, sanguinity — and as a reader, I connect the reddening of your umbrella to the fact that you found strength that you imagined you might not have. As always, you have such a wonderful way of talking about the unexpected, the surprising.

Happy belated Thanksgiving to you! <3

By: Maria Theresa Maggi

Maria Theresa Maggi — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 05:32:01 +0000

Thank you Pam! I’m so glad you enjoyed the part about how the umbrella turned red for me. 🙂 And I enjoyed hearing this story about you walking along with your heads uncovered behind 3 people who each had their own umbrella. Different strokes for different folks indeed! 🙂 Yesterday we had very high winds and rain at the same time and had to go out so Romeo could do some business and the umbrella kept turning inside out! Even so, it was a good shield from some of the elemental action and helped me us not to get totally soaked, which in turn helps me not to catch cold. But it sure was funny–I thought we might actually blow away like Pooh and Piglet on a blustery day! 🙂 xo

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 21:42:57 +0000

Maria, I loved reading about your accomplishment as well as how the umbrella turned red for you! 🙂 I remember when we first moved to western Washington from CA, I noticed that not as many people used umbrellas. Darren and I were in downtown Seattle the other day, walking along with our heads uncovered, and it was misting lightly. Three people in front of us each had their own umbrella, each of them opened up against the mist, and I heard the one woman say, “Look at all of these people without umbrellas!” And I was thinking to myself, “Look at these folks in front of me. They each have their own umbrella!” 🙂 Funny how our perspectives are different, and change sometimes.

By: Maria Theresa Maggi

Maria Theresa Maggi — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:02:58 +0000

Dear Laura, Thank you so much for this beautiful comment, and for sharing some of your own experience with us here. You brought tears to my eyes. I write these posts to affirm for myself a record of meaningful moments in my healing journey, and when I hear that they are also beneficial to others like yourself it is truly a gift to me, and helps me keep on writing them down for others to read. I am so lucky to have such thoughtful and articulate readers! And it is wonderful you have the will and courage to work with the food you eat to heal you. Many blessings.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:06:05 +0000

Dear Maria, I had been following your blog very sporadically for awhile. Recently, I come to follow it much more closely. Due to some health issues, I have gone on an elimination diet to repair my gut, and eventually, through re-introducing foods, to track which foods aggravate the arthritis-like pain I experience in my hands and feet. I haven’t been diagnosed with RA as of yet, but the symptoms are pointing in that direction. I have, in the last few months, come to terms with the fact that I do, at 43 years old, have an autoimmune condition.
Your blog has been such a huge help to me! I have come on here to read your experiences and to reassure myself that yes, it is possible to live a very full and vibrant life with an autoimmune disease. And it is very possible to enjoy life and enjoy food, all while getting better all the time. Your “small victories” are so wonderful to read! They are all significant. I love how you celebrate them here on your blog. That public celebration is beneficial to all who come to read!
Thank you so much, from me personally, for your posts! And thank you, also, for sharing your sunny spirit with the rest of the world! I am very grateful!

By: Maria Theresa Maggi

Maria Theresa Maggi — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:23:29 +0000

And good morning, back, Beth, from rainy (but not snowy) Portland! Thank you for your lovely comment–you are most welcome! And yes, let’s savor those day to day accomplishments and their profound individual meaning for each of us.

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:00:01 +0000

Good Morning from rainy/snowy Nova Scotia Maria. Thank you for your recent story. It was helpful for me to remind myself that the day to day accomplishments we achieve are often some of the most meaningful to us – if we take the time to contemplate and appreciate them. I needed to be reminded of this important lesson this monring. Thank you 🙂
Beth