Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 15 Feb 13 - 07:23 PM

Up Spaw, Jane, billybob, tommy, et. al.!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Feb 13 - 10:01 PM

Well. Billybod,


there are advantages to hindsight....

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 14 Feb 13 - 09:33 PM

Ah Wendy, a good sense of humor is a precious gift to remember we have on occasion, eh?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 14 Feb 13 - 07:39 AM

Note to self ........ when mother sits down make sure her glasses are on her nose and not beneath her derriere!!

whoot,
rowing on......

Wendy xxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 09:41 PM

My heart feels warmed by all of you.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 06:41 PM

"It brings on the feeling of normalcy and usefulness like nothing else for me."... cool. I can relate to that, Spaw.

Wire brush sideways.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 06:10 PM

UP HIGHER, SPAW!
Frogprince, that's one of my favorite songs by Mustard's Retreat.
Nigel, I think Jane's plan to do one special thing each day is wise. And as she moves around her kitchen, she might gradually rebuild some strength.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 05:56 PM

Let me report that the UP campaign has met with moderate success!!! I was overjoyed to find that I maintained the same number from last week. When you have been going down pretty regularly that's damn good. We'll see where we are next week and continue on from there. Throw in the occasional UP thought if you get a chance and I thank you for all the ones given last week that seemed to help!!!

Nigel, tell Jane I know something of what she feels.   I love to cook and those times over the past years when things have been bad, I never felt right or myself again until I was cooking. It brings on the feeling of normalcy and usefulness like nothing else for me. Everyone has something different I suppose but I can really identify with Jane in the kitchen.   

Sending a giant cast iron soup kettle of great thoughts Jane's way today!


Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 03:58 PM

Something else that has spoken to me for several years now . David Tamulevich, on the right, wrote it; they're in our area, and we get to see them fairly often

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 12:42 PM

lovely to read of janes positive and thoughtful spirit and enjoyment of accomplishment in the kitchen when she might justifyably not have found the energy.good too,nigel ,to see that your music construction is countering the depression.
continueing to wish the best to the well known folkie and to wendys brother in law.[i,m sure the 13th is incidental!]

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 11:44 AM

Who wouldn't?

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 13 Feb 13 - 04:37 AM

I guess I've been taking a bit of a back seat over the past few days...been concentrating on composing. Apart from the fact that it's something I enjoy immensely, the 'creative process' has helped lift the severe depressive episodes I have been experiencing over the last month or so. What is also pleasing is to read your posts, safe in the knowledge that our Thread is in good hands.
       So we have information about the snow storm in America & Canada; beautiful words from a beautiful song (would it be considered a hymn?)...more folks in need of our thoughts & prayers...interesting personal anecdotes & a cheery sprinkling of humour. Nourishment for the Heart & Mind.
       Jane is 'between treatments'. She has finished with the radiotherapy, but can't resume chemo for another couple of weeks. She remains cheerful, but needs plenty of timeouts to rest. Jane is trying to set herself one, achievable task, job, a pleasurable, personal moment. One special thing for each day. So far, she has not missed a day. She is a wiz in the kitchen, so that's where she often ends up, but what the hell, her sense of satisfaction & achievement is worth it's weight in gold. Jane has even gone out of her way to make (and buy) diabetic friendly food, just for me. With everything she has on her mind, she still makes time for others. I love her so much.
      Keep warm, stay safe,
                                       With Love,
                                                      Nigel & Ann.
                                                      xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 12 Feb 13 - 08:04 PM

Rise Up Thread!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 07:38 PM

Wendy, I hope your brother-in-law recovers quickly and fully.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 07:42 AM

adding my good wishes to the UK folkie - & everyone!

sandra

Pete, you need to be a member to send a Personal Message. If you want to join Mudcat, send an email to [e-mail] & he will join you up.

To send a PM you either click on the little blue PM in the From: line or go to your personal page & search for the member's name.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 07:36 AM

I too lived in Toronto for a year in 1980, we were on St Clair, loved the city in winter, a different cold to the UK!I remember taking the children to see Niagera falls when it was frozen very beautiful!

Pete my friend is very well known in Kent, thank you for your prayer!
Now we have heard that my brother in law in New Jersey has had a heart attack. What is going on ? Is it because the year has a 13 in it?

Sailing on with love to all aboard,

Wendy xxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 11 Feb 13 - 07:00 AM

hi bruce-we went to the toronto area some years ago [i know its a long way from you] and the first day there i went for a cycle along the lake.it was very refreshing but perishing cold,even without snow.

hi wendy-is this folkie a regular at footscray or kemsing sessions?
apart from those i mostly do open mics.i dont know how to do a pm but maybe if he wanted me to know he will mention it.
posted with a prayer-God knows who he is.
blessings    pete.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 10:11 PM

Thank you so much, Allison.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:55 PM

Hello, all. Here in New Hampshire it was just a blizzard out of the good old days. We didn't even lose power! Alouette and I and a few of our friends attended the village church service this morning, at the request of a dear woman celebrating her 90 th birthday today. All she wanted for her birthday was for the five of us to sing a sweet song we do called "Here in this place" by Peter Fischmann, about the beauty of rural New England in February. The chorus goes:

Here in this place, I have all I ever wanted.
Here in this place, I have everything I need.
I have love, I have beauty, I have grace,
Here in this place.

I am grateful that I can sing this song with a full heart- every word is true. May it be true for us all.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:42 PM

billybob best friend - best wishes... T&Ps.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:17 PM

Good thoughts on their way to your anonymous friend, billybob.

Nigel, there is a thread about the recent storm In the US and Canada here. thread.cfm?threadid=149449&messages=108 In the US, Connecticut may have got the worst of it.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 12:35 PM

good thoughts needed for one of my best friends, had some chemotherapy recently for some months, now having stem cells taken tomorrow, he is a very well known folk musician in the UK , but would not like me to mention his name. But mudcat mojo is going to help I know. Pete, I think you may know who he is so pm me and I will give you more information.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 12:01 PM

I could tell that last photo was a fake; if gnu had peed that hole in the snow, the snow around it would have been yellow.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 11:11 AM

Hey, Pete. Howzit? Just fooling around with the summer scene remark. Gnu would understand because that's often what people think the country is like year 'round. We had a wee bit of snow--a half meter in places. Nothing major. At least nothing to prevent people getting out and about.

Good 'seeing' you.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:52 AM

Good morning all and UPSPAW!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 08:32 AM

did you say summer scene bruce!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 07:04 AM

Hahahahahaaa!

Tandem shovelling. Been there, hated it.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 05:40 AM

This is what happened the last time gnu had three cups of tea.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 05:34 AM

Hey, Nigel. We had a foot of the white stuff for the third or fourth time in a month and are eagerly anticipating the onset of winter.

Summer scene in southern Quebec.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 05:33 AM

Still having light fluffies here. Approx 40cm but the wind was 60 to 90kph so we had some drifting. Didn't lose power. Cleanup begins in about 3 cups of tea.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 10 Feb 13 - 05:10 AM

It would be good to hear from all those Crew Members in America & Canada who have been deluged by the snow storm. Assuming you have power & your internet is up, a quick check in just so's we know you're ok. If you know of anyone who is cut off, no power etc, etc & can't check in, let us know too, then we can paint a rainbow around them, keep them safe & warm & maybe, who knows, perhaps the snow will melt a little faster.
                              With Love,
                                             Nigel & Ann.
                                             xxxxxxxxxx

PS Up Spaw & at 'em, but stay away from the grog!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: rumanci
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 08:30 PM

UP SPAW and at 'em! and UPS to everybody here along with the usual and sincerest repetitions of love, hope and hugs and you're never far from thoughts all of the time xxrum

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 08:14 PM

Yer on the grog? I'll raise a jar wit ye. Here's to you and here's to me and if we chance to disagree... you know the rest.

Take care of youse and yours.

Bless all.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 01:17 PM

Well if all this doesn't do it, especially with the additions from Nigel so musically spoken, then I'll just have to figure this is the wrong medicine or I need an additional one!

Thanks for all the UPS!!! LOL.....Surprised I can type being that grogged UP..........



Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 09:08 AM

Just checking in to wish everyone well.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 08:23 AM

UP SPAW!
With my spotty rural internet it's been hard to load this thread very often, but somehow today, even with Nemo blasting through, 8'm able to be here (UP SPAW)!

I know I'm blessed with good health and healthy family, so I am more than willing to put my energy towards all of you in need of it (UP SPAW).

So, here's to the healing, the ailing, and the caregivers: GO, TEAM!



UP, SPAW!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 07:33 AM

very poetical, Nigel!

sending good wishes to the sick & their caregivers

sandra

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 06:25 AM

Up Spaw, up Spaw & raise another glass.
Up Spaw, up Spaw, you've fallen on your arse!
The grog has proved too strong my boy & gone straight to your head
So get ye down below the decks & get ye straight to bed!

       Love & Hugs,
                           Nigel & Ann.
                           xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 09 Feb 13 - 04:03 AM

Up Spaw, up Spaw, the only way is up.
Up Spaw, up Spaw & down another cup.
Down another cup my boy & down it to the dregs,
Then sleep it off upon your bunk & dream of grog filled kegs!

       With Much Love & Healing Thoughts,
                                                               Nigel & Ann.
                                                               xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 11:10 AM

Good point Spaw. I am in awe of my Rog and how he takes care of me, goes to work, and a myriad of other things. Since last summer, he's had to take on a lot more in caretaking me. I am grateful, but worry about the stress on him.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 10:11 AM

Thanks for all the UPS!!!

So good to keep hearing of progress for so many. Pete brings up a point that we often need to remind ourselves about......Caregivers are in need of a some backup too. Many here are Caregivers and I suppose you could argue that this group is here to help in that support function. But I think we need to throw out some good vibes, prayers, Mojo, or VooDoo, to them.

Personally, I am sorta' in awe of how they do what what they do without completely freaking out and wearing out. I know what Karen often goes through with me and reading above about Becky and Pete and Wendy just triggered the suggestion in my lame brain that we all need a rousing "GO TEAM" sent out to all of them be they parents, sisters and brothers, ........To ALL of those who are weary to the bone yet we stupidly call them tireless because that is what they seem...........To everyone from the Nigel and Ann to all who have told of loved ones they have cared for...........

THANK YOU
GO TEAM

Spaw

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: billybob
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 07:22 AM

Glad Tommy is doing well Pete,bless Becky ,I know the feeling! I have turned the " baby" alarm off for the last two nights as mum is able to walk out to the bathroom safely in the night now so I am sleeping better at last!However last Friday woke up in the early morning and heard a high pitched whistle that sounded like the fridge door was left open so I assumed mum was up and about in the kitchen( not very safe) so jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to find mum fast asleep, no one in kitchen but the dustcart was reversing down our lane and that was the noise!!Those baby alarms work a little too well!

SPAW UP you go

with love to all

Wendy xxxxxx

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 08 Feb 13 - 07:06 AM

we all doing our best to SPAW UP the drop
tommy doing well,thankyou for asking wendy.becky has been dozing in his room as he needs more checking for his breathing on the new equipment.she thinks i might not wake up if i do it!.are you still up at night with your mum?.
blessings pete.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 11:54 PM

When I say "UP SPAW" it reminds me of a German wedding I was at. They spent the night with a polka party at the grange. i heard a lot of "Oop-pah" or something similar. Quite an image...Spaw swinging round at a polka dance!*bg* UpSpaw! May it be so!

We've had an air inversion cross the valley, so very washed out gloomy skies until today. Big, warm, beautiful Rocky mtn. sun. I could just *see* it shining on all those in need. Wishing you all the best.

In the meantime, whether you agree with Tibetan Buddhist practices or not, here is a favourite HEALING MANTRA with beautiful images, text, and music. I find it very calming.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Janie
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 10:39 PM

Ditto!!!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 09:33 PM

It's always a pleasure to read good news from some of you.

In addition, UP, SPAW!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 11:29 AM

Nigel - you're not alone.

You know that everyone here one is willing you and your family to bear this awful load.

You have the strength of us all.

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 09:00 AM

UP SPAW!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 13 - 06:52 AM

Great to hear good news.

UP yours SPAW!

Subject: RE: Healing thoughts & prayers please (Nigel Paterson)
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Feb 13 - 08:05 PM

Way-hey, UP SPAW rises!

I had some good news at the kidney doc's today. All numbers are normal for me, but creatinine went up. Good news, it's probably due to low BP, so i get to reduce another med. Really relieved.

love to you all