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Mission

Mission
Location
Saint Petersburg, Florida, somewhere, over the rainbow
Birthday
December 05
Title
the everything girl
Company
please wipe your feet first
Bio
still breathing every day the last time I had it checked..

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MAY 29, 2011 3:47PM

Random Musings about nothing at all

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I went for a short swim today. Water was cold and higher than in this picture I took last weekend from a similar trip.

I would be willing to fill up this post with photos of these wonderful mountains I love so much, but the last time I tried that I could not even comment back to y'all over the absolute, mind destroying, soul sucking slowness it took to wait on the wee tiny blue wheel to turn towards this page.

So today I managed to post my very first link here at the bottom left hand side of this page. You can see many complete frames I have taken here and others that I take at random on any given day. And I add more frequently so you can view them in full size, leave silly irrelevent comments on them, and enjoy the views of this spot seeing them with my eyes....

I am happy to report that I have learned something very important to me in regards to this monster named Lupus that is eating me.

I go swimming very frequently and soak for a long time sitting in a waterfall like the one in this picture at the top. Afterwards, I lose all the swelling from my slowly failing kidneys and for a time today, I will feel no pain. Living for a few brief minutes or as long as a couple of hours without the chronic pain is the sweetest gift to me.

So in complete honor of this day we remember things above all others, let us remember this day posting nothing but random nothings.

 

 

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What do you say looking at a dog laying in the dirt like this snoring along to the sleepy heat on a drowsy Sunday afternoon??

'Mission, I am glad you are sleeping peacefully in the shade dear.'
So now I go and look a this post after posting it. I managed to cut off half the head of Mission.
Yessirreee, I will someday become a movie star photographer one day. I don't know why the whole picture did not post...laughing away...
I envy you living in the mountains! There's always some kind of special magic that envelops life and nature in the mountains. I'm so glad it works a little to help relieve your pain too, Mission. My love and best wishes.
I'm happy you can find a few minutes or longer from the pain and you know how much I love your pictures.
I also love you included a very satisfied and comfortable Mission!
I am off to check out your Photo page :)
always Kate dear. There is true magic to find here.
And very cold water too.
Let me know if the link does not work please.,
I love the land you live in. I drove through it with a friend. Nothing but bliss and beauty.
Cute Mission and glad you can get some relieve..
rated with hugs
Nothing but random nothings? There's no such thing when you're speaking what's on your mind. I love the pictures, will check out your photo page now. I wish you peace and relief from pain.
I hear wonderfully bad jokes here Linda. I went down for a beer a couple of days ago and heard a great one. Goes like this:

Dad, I am bringing home my new girl his Sunday from Tennessee for you to meet her. She is real sweet and a virgin at age 22...

Son, if she is still a virgin at age 22 there must be something bad wrong with her. If her daddy and brothers did not want her she must be right ugly...
The water looks beautiful. I have a lot of pain too, and I think the answer is to return to the water, weightless and graceful and free. I've never tried cold water, but I keep swearing to fill the bathtub up and make myself sit in it. You say it works to make the pain go away? But my bathtub won't look lovely like this. Is it the cold or the beauty that works?
I feel no pain right now and do not wish to utter the word.
I will however, continue to post very bad jokes or you can list you own right along with me..
Mission has the right idea. Asleep in the shade. I would dearly love to be there laying in that streaming water with you. These old bones could use it!
I think it is the water flowing over me since I sit there as long as I can Sirenita. Seems like the volume of water flowing over me washes all the toxins out of me.
Nana, missed you already. Boy I am good.....will post some of them wonder flower bushes you asked for soon. The buds of them are opening here now.
LL, I hope his works well for you..
Scanner my man. Oh yeah. I wish you were here too. has to be hot out there living in the flats where you are dear.
I felt my nervous system relax just seeing this photo at the top. We are in sweaters over here, it's so darned cold this year, but I'd love to sit with you dozing by that spot, it looks just right.
It also reminds me of a spot on the Toccoa River, where we hiked each summer at camp long ago....watch out for leeches!
Hug all that humidity for me, as it's surely hugging you. : )
ps -- Sorry to hear you have lupus! That is a challenging disease...
It has been a very cold rainy spring season here JT. And these mountains are high up and the temp drops at night lower and does not rise so much in the afernoon as lower in elevation.
Hope you get some warm weather your way soon.
I live in the mountains as well....aahhhhh.
Happy Sunday to you! : )
Love your dog...and hope to see you soon in Asheville!
It is getting to that time, isn't it Patrick??
Pack up and move on in....keep me informed dear.
:( I did not know your kidneys were going. That sucks beyond measure. I hope you get more than a few minutes relief from pain today. Gonna go look at your photos now.
Too beautiful!! I dunked my feet into the Ohio River yesterday. Wasn't the same, but killed off some spores I had growing there!! :D

Rated!
It is a silent scream with my body in a downhill race and which wheel is flying off bouncing away first Julie...
I have had it too long to remember little else now. but in June of this year I celebrate 3 years of no big pharma. I don't take anything. Nada. Not any kind of pill.
'Tis the sweetest aniversory to me..
There should be an app for that Tink....
Oh Mission :(
My biodad has Parkinson's and Fibro and it's all he can do to stay at a 5 on meds. I wish we had better pain medications that didn't fog people or get them addicted. It's a piss poor situation that you have to choose your own version of hell.
Psych meds and pain meds are still in the dark ages. Years from now our ancestors will be horrified at what we did to our bodies just to function.
Thank you for sharing this with us. I'm so sorry to hear about your illness, but I am glad to see you have found a way to reduce your suffering. Btw, I love the photo of your dog. R
I have been longer in the hospital it seems sometimes than outside a home Julie. over 10 major surgeries. ICU several times. he whole enchalida. No more for me please. I am happy to report good food and regular walking helps what ails me most of the time here.
If I die with my hiking boots on along a creek it is a good day.
Glad to see ya drop by Trudge.....(there is a seed of some sort under my T key...my apologies..)
Lovely to sit on the porch with you and imagine you soaking pain away in your waterfall. Nothing more important than all of this.
I try hard to celebrate the small things life gives Anna1.
That is what matters in the end doesn't it??
When I die, I want to come back as an old mountain hound dog. What a life! I call places like your spot in the stream, position "A". Give that ol' hound dog a hug for me, Suz.
Nothing but random nothings sounds like a good plan to me, Mission. You are something, madam.
Thank you so much Mission.
r.
Am I supposed to reply back to you Brassure as Sir??
Life is a funny thing sometimes...
Micalpeace!! Damn, I thought you had fell off the planet...
Michael, what can I add to that one??
Mission has got it made in the shade...
Lovely post and poignant. I hope you find more calming moments, free of pain, and enjoy your sweetie doggie.
Calm seeps out of these hillside Rei.
I keep aiming my camera at it hoping for a real photo to share.
I keep aiming for the one special shot.
It really makes me happy to hear you can get some relief fom your pain for at least a little while.~r
Sweet, savory, and bitter.
remember this day posting nothing but random nothings...

ha,that is my call to action!
With complete lack of health care, what else is a body to do but seek out alternative options??
Joan, I am so glad you saw this. I think of you and yours often.
Holly dear, get that butt of yours down here and I will soak you with clean cold water woman.
I cannot manage to keep out the bitter Bill.
Hearts your way Fusun.

Get to it James...
Little moments can mean the most.
Yes Harry. It is the small flowers along the way that lift your spirit.
Enjoy the waterfall, and the absence of pain. That's not nothing.
Life is indeed what you make of it Pilgrim.
I also wanted to say I love that you seem to allow nature to heal and renew you. I feel the same way.
Works for me Joan. I always feel tired but rested after going out for a swim and soak surrounded by beauty on all fronts.
Lupus just like Multiple Sclerosis, Autism, and take your pick of hundreds of other life destroying illness’s, is far more prevalent today than it was 25 years ago. We can thank globalism and the Corporate profiteers who are its disciples. They have laid waste to our environment and use their media lap dog to cover up the fact that their greed is killing all of us.
Oh Neighbor, What could be finer that a plump puppy sleeping comfortably in the shade of a grand river bank. What a great spot to hold close to the heart. This coming winter . . . this will be a memory that will put a mysterious smile on your face. So grand!!!!
What is more magical and healing than a waterfall? Ah...I can feel it now. Lovely post. And photos.

And I'm getting SO annoyed with the slow server problem here. It's so deterring.
What is more magical and healing than a waterfall? Ah...I can feel it now. Lovely post. And photos.

And I'm getting SO annoyed with the slow server problem here. It's such a deterrent.
I wish I could sleep like that!

My back went out on Monday as we were helping our daughter move...much better now, but your paragraph on pain has meaning to me, in a way that it wouldn't have before. I caught a glimpse. And it was terrifying. I hope you experience many more pain free days!
So sorry about the chronic pain you have and I too have it and have for many years. But I never knew cold water could help with Lupus as a friend has that?
Heat, I crave heat. Available on ebay.uk - made in China.

"Rated with an Ug. Press send please FRed(tm)"
OMG get on a tumeric diet. I mix it into a drink. Oh poor you. Sending some healing energy and good thoughts and more. Love that image it looks like many places north of Montreal.
My complete thanks to everyone kind enough to comment here. My keyboard has been out due to spewing coffee and dropping food on it. My sincere thanks to Mr Michael Rodgers who sent me a wireless wonder to use!! Now I am back!!
Beautiful, mission. You gave me a moment of pause and beauty in my work day. Thank you and wishing you healing and strength.
Erica
Being in beautiful surroundings free from pain isn't nothing.

I keep forgetting you're in-state
What a sweet treat water relaxation is and the relief you get from being in it is a great plus. I am sorry you are suffering. I love mountains too. Thank-you for sharing these wonderful pictures.
Beautyfull means full of beauty. Keep your life filled with it. Don't allow the nasty things of life crowd out your happiness.

This is a one to a box world.