To Jayne Re: Response to Mt. Everest

[Guest guest]

Hi Jayne, Your email's

sentiments are so inspiring I

have copied them and printed

them out to remember that

little steps get you there

too, it just takes longer.

Taffy

<<I absolutely agree!

Concentrating on what is

achievable rather than

continuously mourning what is

not is a much less dismal way

to live

(if not always 100%

attainable). If the summit is

a full time job and

doing my own housekeeping and

still having energy for a

social life,

I'll never get there.

For me, base camp is being

able to look after my own

needs again. Now

that I've (re)conquered

washing my own hair and

showering (but not

at the same time), and am

fairly stable at cooking for

myself (and

occasionally the family), I am

aiming toward driving myself

to the

grocery store and library

(even though I'll still have

to depend on

one of the kids to push my

chair into the building). It

has taken me

2 full years to get back this

much independence, and might

be another

year before I'm comfortable

driving for more than five

minutes, but

it is really good to see those

tiny signs of progress towards

'base

camp'.>>

" And the consequence of our

existence

Is the reason for our

being. "

Stuart Todd 5/27/71 -

3/13/90

" God be between you and harm

in all the

empty places you must

walk. "

Jill Riley 4/24/63 -

10/12/00