End of the month

Mornin',

A cold cup ending to my left

A hot pot ready to my right

refill, think, smile with the dawn

What day is it?

What does it matter?

The blur is here to enjoy

explore its' flow

sip, listen, feel

PET scans say

no active tumors.

MRI's say

scar tissue where

Anaplastic Astrocytomas

used to be.

I say WOO HOO!!!

Body says

I'm Gonna Live

This is Good

12 out of 21 agree

ole #57 rolls

again!

Somehow

Someway

Make

it

a Full Day

Peter

P.S. someone I relate to http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3786

St. Ignatius Comment Section

A year ago, at the end of my gurney was a white light. In that light was Fr. Dominique offering a benediction prayer of healing. Emphatically I joined him loudly. "IN NOMINE PATRIIS ET FILII ET SPIRITUS SANCTI AVE MARIA GRACIE PLENA DOMINUS TECUM BENEDICTA TU MULIERIBUS BENEDICTA FRUCTUS JESUS..." mixed it in with "KIITCHI MANITOU" and some form of garbled "ORA PANORIS PECIDUM" the operating room was a spiritual theater. The neurosurgeons then discussed, "look we were only supposed to resect a 2.9 cm anaplastic astrocytoma near the sulcus in the pre-motor cortex, who installed Latin?"
That was Mr. Raispis! See ya'll Friday

Peter Lott Heppner '75

Entering his own home while being black

Evenin,

Professor Gates was arrested, the other night at his home. Here is one opinion article.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/141485/the_real_tragedy_of_the_arrest_of_professor_henry_louis_gates,_jr./?page=entire

In February this year he spoke at the Aspen Institute: Here is the Video.

FORA.tv - Henry Louis Gates on Lincoln and Race

Source: fora.tv

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses two books he has coming out in early 2009 -- Lincoln on Slavery and Race (Princeton) and In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past (Crown Books).The Lincoln book is a companion piece to a PBS documentary.

From the Nation's Notion Blog Original Posting http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/454282/skip_gates_and_the_post_racial_project

Yep, There is so much in this story that revives a lifetime of experience in coping with sneaky people. The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rove Group hated to cede the White House To Barack Obama. Their venomous torpor seems to have awakened in Cambridge without fingerprints or a trail. Hallmark of the Machiavellian disciple, blameless yet guilty. Newscorp will pick-up the drumbeat, Lou Dobbs is using a Birth Certificate to distract the Health Care Debate. Can you see other acts of Social Sabotage going on? It is Terrible but, we are the Adults now and this madness has 2500 years of myth making experience. Fortunately there are our ambitious energetic offspring who have the benefit of ample records, deft organization skills with their futures at stake. It's just a hope that Together we can nip this injustice in the bud, while realizing the opposition does not care about right or wrong, it only cares about dominance with impunity.

It's Big copy for Al Jazeera

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/20097231380929658.html

A year ago I woke up from a craniotomy, Paralyzed on my left side and alive.

Even though Today is my anniversary and I am recovering use of my left side.

I am as happy to be here to support Professor Gates & President Obama in a cause for Honesty that has as much purpose as me staying alive.

And the Band Played on

Peace,

Peter Lott Heppner

P.S.http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/henry-louis-gates-deja-vu-all-over-again/?th&emc=th

P.S.2http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Over-Beers/

First Read

One year ago today, my anesthesiologist introduced himself.

We joked about how he would deliberately be polishing firearms when his 17 year old daughters' suitors would arrive to pick her up for their date.

He asked me to "sign here"
"What's this say?" I asked
"It says if you die, you won't sue me"
"No Problem, wake me up when you're, they're done"
"No problem, Sweet dreams"

Tomorrow is my one year anniversary of left side paralysis,

Mornin',

Stumbling around inside

East Light helps steady

First Read From

http://www.hazelden.org/public/thoughttodaysgift.page

Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
—Madeleine L'Engle

The ability to laugh at ourselves has always been important. In old days, fools and jesters held an important place in the royal courts. Today we have clowns who make us laugh.

If we look closely at a clown's face, we will often notice a bit of sadness around the eyes. Clowns are able to move easily from sad expressions to ones full of delight very easily. For all of us, laughter and tears come from the same deep well inside. And often, after a good cry, we find ourselves ready to laugh, easily and joyfully.

Laughter is a gift waiting for us on the other side of our sadness.

Can I begin to laugh by smiling now?

So a Facebook Friend Commented:

if it's a love story, then I sure as hell don't appear to be cast in it.

I Commented

Shake it off

You'll love better
When you're alone
it's a soliloquy
to rejuvenate
Who's the cast member on your skateboard?
on Your Surfboard?
in Your Camera lense?
Who feels the breeze?
Your skin contains yet connects Your Love Story
Your thoughts explore it, Your Spiritual moments write it.

Enjoy Your Shining Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XIMuUBVuWM

Followed by From http://www.dailygood.org/ July 22, 2009

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. --Martin Luther King Jr. For example:http://www.myspace.com/jasonelibecker Then From a Friend, butterfly searches: http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/rising-above-adversity-the-amazing-story-of-jean-dominique-bauby/ There's a movie too. http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/005089.html Family's re to movie: http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2008/02/23/diving_bell/ This ties into Truth versus Hollywood, Enjoy, Peter P.S.My left side is returning, my dreams are full of Strong Singing and fast riding

"and that's the way it is"

Uncle Walter "and that's the way it is"


From:http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/20/walter_cronkite_1916_2009_legendary_cbs

"The legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died at the age of ninety-two at his home in New York on Friday. For nearly twenty years, Cronkite’s broadcast was a nightly staple in millions of American homes from 1962 until he left CBS Evening News in 1981. Praise for Cronkite’s work and legacy is all over the news, but few in the mainstream media have mentioned what many consider Cronkite’s most important news moment. In February 1968, soon after he returned from a trip to Vietnam, Cronkite cast doubt on the war and helped turn the tide of American public opinion against it. [includes rush transcript]"

Recommend reading A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite

Am up to page 89

Funny, Honest, Serious & Wise. For me it is worth savoring slowly. Picked it up over a month ago, Wondered when I bought the book if Cronkite was alive. It would be a few weeks later. that I would learn that he was ill with cerebrovascular disease

Now he's gone.

Hopefully there will be others in the Journalism who will demand of themselves the same critical demands they apply to others however, these aspirations are just as categorically imperative, for being human.

Reflect

Forethink

Myself

as well

Peter Lott Heppner

P.S. from PBS.org

Health Care Expedition

From Democracynow.org

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/16/former_insurance_exec_wendell_porter

"As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies on Capitol Hill, we spend the hour with a former top insurance executive who’s now exposing the industry’s dirty secrets. Wendell Potter once served as the head of corporate communications at CIGNA, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. We speak to Potter about his own transformation from industry mouthpiece to whistleblower, the healthcare industry’s extensive PR and lobbying machine, the campaign to discredit Michael Moore’s filmSicko, and the insurance industry’s most pressing task: the fight against a public option, let alone a single-payer system. [includes rush transcript]"

Enlightening,

Where the Premium dollar goes.

Peter Lott Heppner

People Telling People

Mornin'

E-newsletters are great.

They are people telling people about all sorts of schtuff that are linked together with other people.

Today is my comment in the Harvard Business Review

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2008/04/are_you_spending_your_time_the.html

After receiving the Daily Good Newsletter

http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?qid=3770

There so many ways to use/spend time in the 60-80 years (hopefully more) that each of us is blessed in Breathing. Purpose is a good place to start, Big Picture? or Moment? Doing nothing is in essence doing something it is in itself invigorating. My Purpose Somehow Someway: Leaving this Campsite better than I found it. What I have learned is: I am only as good as the phone calls/e-mails returned and vice a versa. What I believe is: Live each day as if it is my last because one day I am going to be right. If that means taking a nap, then a nap is my last breath. Big things are a combination of many little things. A smile can have such magic. Honesty is better. When I point me finger, 24,000 miles away is my back. That's it for now, wish ya'll well

Enjoy,

Peter Lott Heppner

P.S. Time for some Mountain Opinions

My Answer

Peter in Illinois writes:

How-To go from Multi-Polar to Multi-Partner requires Honesty, Courage and Ambitious Energy of Youth. We are passing Planet Earth on to a new group of caretakers. We must have in place The Yin and Yang of Life; Health & Education. All encompassing words that Linguistic Gymnasts have usurped and impeded through falsehoods of Honor and Duty.

Albert Einstein was worried about the extinction of Humanity. His conversant asked him "Why?"

Posted on Sun Jul 19, 2009

http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entries/q_multi-partner_foreign_policy/

Chronically Befuddled

Mornin'

A friend commented,"just does not understand some people!"

Befuddlement is my chronic experience so I concur.

But! I keep trying, why? I don't know. Maybe it's my Compulsive Obsessive Curiosity Disorder. Maybe one moment I'll learn and pass it along, but it does trigger a memory from my grandmothers kitchen where in addition to the plaque that said "Sit long,Talk much" there was a smaller Northwoods piece entitled The Fisherman's Tale. It read:
"You can fool some of the people all of the time
All of the people some of the time
but not all of the people all of the time!"

Many a really Big Fish got away up there.

Life was Farmland near Forest next to Fields & Streams that connected Ponds and Lakes.
There were cattle in clover, deer in the corn, dew on the raspberries. Pike smelled different from Bluegill from Catfish.
Raccoons loved your crawdad bait. Harvest Moons were bright. Aurora Borealis was God's light show. Bear liked the City dump. A Horse was a powerful friend that made short work of a carrot or an apple.

Kids drove tractors all day long row after row after row. Both genders baled hay, helped each other love life. Civilty was the "hello wave" going in the opposite direction. The locusts dueted with crickets. At night the frogs and toads exchanged harmonies. Celebration was everywhere.

It has carried me when others tried. My sister Candace described "then" as an "Emotional Savings Account" from which she dips into from time to time. For some lucky reason there is always something there to withdraw whenever I need it.

Some people I will never understand. So much history, so little time.

Lotsa Love,

Peter

Vascular Reminder

While walking

head swoon today

wanted to sleep

tipped left forward

kept walking stopped

grabbed a breathe of calm

returned home tired

now Sitting still

with Spins

This helps me rewire

to develop rejuvenation

From UCTV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9BOHUll0Oo

"What makes us who we are? What makes us fall in love, become addicted to chocolate, or become a musician? Renowned neuroscientist Terry Sejnowski, whose cutting edge research has unlocked many of the mysteries of the brain, joins our host, David Granet, to discuss this fascinating topic." Series: Health Matters [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16063]

Category: Education

Tags:

cultural biology brain behavior neuroscience Sejnowski

In pursuit of my healing, insight & inspiration arrive in many forms.

This also arrived tonight. Hope you enjoy it.

From UCTV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iz4lpQ6_KY&feature=channel

"Ever wonder why children can watch the same movie over and over and never tire of it? Learn more about a childs thought processes with UCSF pediatrician Dr. Andrea Marmor." Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16720]

Category: Education

Tags:

pediatrics health child development

I'm feeling Better

Peter Lott Heppner