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The Shadow

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DSC03494 A shadow.  Recently I have been exploring aspects of my soul as I read Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul, A Guide For Cultivating Depth and Sacredness In Everyday Life.   I like to think that I am honest with myself.  However, Regena Larrabee Seehausen said to me once. “It is hard to know how you are perceived by others. ”  And in fact I am finding that others sometimes see my shadow where I feel I am radiating light. The shadow is the flip side, the dark side where we are not, or where other aspects of our personalities,  besides what we think we are showing , dwell.   I have long thought that our good and bad qualities are the same.  We just exist and interact, as we are or make ourselves to be.  What we consider good and bad are aspects of the same qualities.   Much more poetically Regena Larrabee Seehausen  (1964) says something related to this in:

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A Common Cold

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DSC02177 At first, on a Wednesday there was a sore throat, accompanied by  increasing sneezes.  I drank tea at night.  I still had energy.  On day two I vacuumed, and we went shopping.   There was not too much coughing yet.  But it was soon to start, together with a laryngitis.  From Saturday through the next Wednesday, I made my daytime spot on the couch, and slept frequently during the day, marveling that in my younger days, I would work when so afflicted.  Over the next five days I went through at least 1200 tissues isolating coughed up phlegm.  My appetite was going down.  Sunday evening I had a fever of about 100 degrees, and I coughed literally all night incorporating it into a dream story about how good it was that I had this illness, so I could warn a little someone that they needed to watch out for such things.  We determined that I should go to the doctor to get something to relieve the cough.

DSC02176 On day five, we went over to see the medical group.  There was an opening in the resident clinic, and the doctor prescribed these benzonatate pearls, and an over-the counter decongestant, as well as
Amoxicilllin for a little ear inflammation.  Armed with this we went home and I began my regimen of three Amoxicillns per day and four of each of the cough suppressant and decongestant per day.

DSC02175 My coughing has gradually eased up, my throat is no longer sore on day seven.   My wonderful husband took over cooking breakfast, all the meals, and otherwise helped.  I think this is quite a bad cold, though a common one, because it is still lingering.  They told me it would take a while to get rid of the cough.  Tomorrow I will pick up where I left off with the laundry!

Visiting Our Compost Pile

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DSC02160 Mr. Possum came to eat from our

compost pile.

DSC02162 Sometimes he did not look  friendly, and I thought about what he could be carrying in the way of noxious microbes and parasites, so I decided to discourage him.

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I remembered a safe formula for discouraging cats and dogs from entering a garden in this book, and thought it would work for possums, so I looked it up.

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Here it is!  DSC02171  I made a quart of this by blending up a whole head of garlic instead of using the garlic powder.  I added the 1/4 cup of Tabasco sauce, a 1/2 teaspoon of vegetable oil, and  shook it up in the one quart spray bottle.  The spray mechanism did not get plugged with the garlic at any time.  A very small residue on my hands did not hurt my eyes when I rubbed them.

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I squirted a couple of squirts of this into the compost, and lifted the sides off of the compost.  Mr. Possum went scampering down the alley.  I hope he will not return.  I sprayed by far the most of it around and into the garden to discourage cats and dogs from entering our garden.  We’ll see how long the spray effects will last.