12-25-08 @8:40 AM ~
Hola Doctor Linda ~ Yep, it is Christmas Day here and I appreciate your post. I will post this as a draft and slam it into your poor neglected blog:
http://shabbat-shalom-jerusalem.blogspot.com/
I had a pretty quiet Christmas Eve here. I was not feeling well, in fact, I was feeling ill with a cold and a slight fever. I stood here by myself with Sammy our Chihuahua. Peach went over her half-sister's Beth and visited with a few folks over there. This has been planned for a week or so and I was just not up to spending Christmas Eve with a few strangers. Usually on Christmas Eve I am either at Sally's or over my Aunt Laurie's with family in West Sacramento. Peach came home with some dinner from her Sister's and I ate some, then she watched a Jesus Christ program on CNN and I came in here to the Command Center ~ my room with a view ~ and slept in here last night alone. Ahh. the joys of married life!
@9:33 AM ~ Peach is coming down with a cold too that she probably got from me. I call it the 'Sally flu' because so many at the shelter come down with a cold this time of year. There are always different kinds of colds, flus and bugs at the shelter.
I told Peach that I am going to work on my Personal Inventory and Resolutions for 2009 and I got one for her too.
Peach and I are engaged to be married in August of 2009, but we are still only engaged for now. I believe a long engagement of a year is a great idea. Other lovers who are really contemplating a lifelong marriage should consider lengthy engagements before they decide to 'tie the knot'. I do not want the knot to turn into a noose! Peach knows that I deeply want this relationship to work for spiritual, mental and social reasons.
We both have huge egos in our own ways and we are still learning how to change, adjust and harmonize with each other. I do really want this relationship to worik out well. Peach can be so pretty, sweet and a real delicacy, but she has some old middle-class ways that drive me nuts at times. I am still a poor man with no crime on my conscience and I try to live within my means. Sometimes she can splurge on stuff that I would never get when we are grocery shopping, but then it usually comes out great.
The truth is that sometimes I really do not see Peach and I living in marital bliss the rest of our lives together. We have such different backgrounds, styles and temperaments, despite any astrological aspects. I am pretty well set in my life philosophy, analyses and opinions and do not see any foresee any personal major metamorphosis in my psyche any day soon. I am still the same ol' radical shit and set in my ways.
I have been on my own a lot since my first marriage fell apart all of a sudden in 1975. Peach was married for about twenty-five years, had two children who are now grown and recently came out of a twisted relationship with a man after about five years. She can tolerate a lot more than I ever could or want to even try to tolerate.
In general, Peach makes a good wife, she is a strong supporter of CASA, she attends CASA Meetings with me every Sunday and participates. Plus, we share the same basic political ideas, though I am openly supportive of democratic socialism and can consider myself a Christian socialist with my own philosophy, ideology and cosmology.
Related Website:
http://www.superstringtheory.com/cosmo/index.html
So there is much still for me to work on and work out. I believe that the concept of Spiritual Healing is where i am at now in relation to my own spiritual path and I will continue to help others heal their own spirits. It is a trilogy of daily sobriety, progressive recovery and spiritual healing. I have come a long ways and bring up subjects no one in my circle of friends do. Sometimes it gets lonely being out here, away from the maddening crowd, but then I have always been kind of a lone wolf.
P.S. A few pics attached.
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From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: Linda Olsvig-Whittaker <Linda.Whittaker@npa.org.il>; Linda Olsvig-Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 7:23:02 AM
Subject: shabbat shalom 25.12.08 Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukka, Sol Invictus!
Hola Doctor Linda ~ Yep, it is Christmas Day here and I appreciate your post. I will post this as a draft and slam it into your poor neglected blog:
http://shabbat-shalom-jerusalem.blogspot.com/
I had a pretty quiet Christmas Eve here. I was not feeling well, in fact, I was feeling ill with a cold and a slight fever. I stood here by myself with Sammy our Chihuahua. Peach went over her half-sister's Beth and visited with a few folks over there. This has been planned for a week or so and I was just not up to spending Christmas Eve with a few strangers. Usually on Christmas Eve I am either at Sally's or over my Aunt Laurie's with family in West Sacramento. Peach came home with some dinner from her Sister's and I ate some, then she watched a Jesus Christ program on CNN and I came in here to the Command Center ~ my room with a view ~ and slept in here last night alone. Ahh. the joys of married life!
@9:33 AM ~ Peach is coming down with a cold too that she probably got from me. I call it the 'Sally flu' because so many at the shelter come down with a cold this time of year. There are always different kinds of colds, flus and bugs at the shelter.
I told Peach that I am going to work on my Personal Inventory and Resolutions for 2009 and I got one for her too.
Peach and I are engaged to be married in August of 2009, but we are still only engaged for now. I believe a long engagement of a year is a great idea. Other lovers who are really contemplating a lifelong marriage should consider lengthy engagements before they decide to 'tie the knot'. I do not want the knot to turn into a noose! Peach knows that I deeply want this relationship to work for spiritual, mental and social reasons.
We both have huge egos in our own ways and we are still learning how to change, adjust and harmonize with each other. I do really want this relationship to worik out well. Peach can be so pretty, sweet and a real delicacy, but she has some old middle-class ways that drive me nuts at times. I am still a poor man with no crime on my conscience and I try to live within my means. Sometimes she can splurge on stuff that I would never get when we are grocery shopping, but then it usually comes out great.
The truth is that sometimes I really do not see Peach and I living in marital bliss the rest of our lives together. We have such different backgrounds, styles and temperaments, despite any astrological aspects. I am pretty well set in my life philosophy, analyses and opinions and do not see any foresee any personal major metamorphosis in my psyche any day soon. I am still the same ol' radical shit and set in my ways.
I have been on my own a lot since my first marriage fell apart all of a sudden in 1975. Peach was married for about twenty-five years, had two children who are now grown and recently came out of a twisted relationship with a man after about five years. She can tolerate a lot more than I ever could or want to even try to tolerate.
In general, Peach makes a good wife, she is a strong supporter of CASA, she attends CASA Meetings with me every Sunday and participates. Plus, we share the same basic political ideas, though I am openly supportive of democratic socialism and can consider myself a Christian socialist with my own philosophy, ideology and cosmology.
Related Website:
http://www.superstringtheory.com/cosmo/index.html
So there is much still for me to work on and work out. I believe that the concept of Spiritual Healing is where i am at now in relation to my own spiritual path and I will continue to help others heal their own spirits. It is a trilogy of daily sobriety, progressive recovery and spiritual healing. I have come a long ways and bring up subjects no one in my circle of friends do. Sometimes it gets lonely being out here, away from the maddening crowd, but then I have always been kind of a lone wolf.
P.S. A few pics attached.
From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: Linda Olsvig-Whittaker <Linda.Whittaker@npa.org.il>; Linda Olsvig-Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 7:23:02 AM
Subject: shabbat shalom 25.12.08 Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukka, Sol Invictus!
Hi everyone, Christmas Day: the drizzles continue all day. I'm curled up by the fireside along with a dozens cat who face the woodstove like devout Moslems facing Mecca.    Hanukka and Christmas overlap this year; Hanukka began last Sunday and ends next Sunday; Western Christmas is today (and Orthodox in a couple weeks, and Armenian after that....) So last night I had a few friends over for a winter solstice party (pick your own), with the hanukkia lit and the Christmas candles too:      (Okay, I'll quit playing with the clipart....) It was very cold and windy and the woodstove was cranked full blast. I had gotten some sourdough starter while down in the Negev, and made sourdough pancakes. Haven't made them in many years, and it was a little tricky to get it right , but my guests downed them with enthusiasm and lots of homemade jam. I had a small gift for each one. We had a lady from Sweden who writes children's books, so at the end of the evening she entertained us with her latest, the true story of "Viktor" who left his village in Sweden to settle in Minnesota in the 1880's. It was a sweet and innocent Christmas eve. Today I was supposed to start with a visit to the local army base to renew my Palestinian cleaning lady's permit, but she messed up with the forms and it wasn't possible. I missed the Christmas services in the Old City. Instead, I had a Christmas Day lunch with a friend in Sheikh Jarrah, where the little bistro had a tree nicely decorated, decorations all around and a blazing woodstove warming the room. It's a favorite spot for foreign journalists, clergy, NGO's etc, so it had something of the air of Europe, maybe of Italy.... So much for Christmas. I still have fruitcakes to bake for a party at work (Russian New Year, or whatever winter solstice holiday you pick. They all come down to some form of Sol Invictus, so I put out scented candles and lots of glitter, and a little plastic tree. Most folks at work really love it. Now I have them bringing cakes and candies for it from their travels around the world, so we will have chocolate from Italy, cookies from the Netherlands, cake from Germany, tea from Nepal and whatever else turns up. This is starting to evolve into an event. I was a little hesitant the first time I did it, with most of the people on the floor being Jewish, but they keep asking me to repeat it the next year, so I do. We all love light at this drab time of year.... What else....I tend to turn inward and batten down the hatches at this time of year, but I know things are heating up politically. We have elections coming. Hamas declared the truce over and is tossing rockets from Gaza with enthusiasm that makes me wonder for whom they are grandstanding. We are preparing to go in there again. Round and round. At least on the West Bank things look a little better. Bethlehem was packed with visitors this year; the first such time in many years. I understand the new Catholic Patriarch is pretty good and was well received. It's about time Bethlehem starting seeing some light at the end of the tunnel; they got caught in the crossfire between radical Islam and Israel, basically wanting to go ahead and keep making money off the tourist trade. Oh, and stealing cars, but heck that trade already moved to Ramallah. (Bethlehem used to be famous for "chop shops" that disassembled stolen cars and sold them back to Israelis as spare parts. A kind of accellerated recycling.) My poor Arab gardener had his truck stolen and had to ransom it from Ramallah last week, using up all his savings. Poor bastard. Personally, I have a ton of work to do. Thank God my arthritis subsided. It was probably related to the bout of flu I had this year since it started a week after I got past the flu. My registered nurse friend tells me that arthritis, being yet another autoimmune disorder, can flare up whenever the immune system has been activated by an infection or virus. Great; the flu knocks me down once and kicks me in the butt when I get back up. At least next time I can expect it. Well, it is getting dark and the cats need to be fed and the dogs need to be walked, Christmas Day or not...Still stuffed from lunch (first steak I've had this year) so I think I will end this day with some herbal tea and one of the good cigars my pastor gave me, feet stretched out by the fireside and a good book in my hands. Sounds nice, doesn't it? shabbat shalom, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukka, Sol Invictus! Linda |
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