You can only post on this baby if your adding....Arnald says; "Dahts da rool, baby."

Here's mine; (for now)

"Now is the time in your life to find the "tiger" within. Let the claws be bared, and Lyme BEWARE!!!"

Troutscout

Talk about great minds etc... Even to the minute!!! Please see "Incite Hope" thread.

Thanks for your empowering post and thread.

Remember it, say it and live it next time you herx.

Here ya go...

"In electricity 101 the first thing you learn is this, 'Where there is a negative, There must ALWAYS be a Positive.' "

Boooy, are we gonna be strong after all this is over!

Dance as if no one were watching,

"...and I have miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost

"Keep your eye on the prize." (For me that
is my health and remission.)

Either Fear will Master YOU
or
YOU will Master Fear, BUT

There will be a Master

Me

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Attributed to Edmund Burke,
1729 - 1797

Author Unknown

Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or greater intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change."

Robert Kennedy

Vaclav Havel
(Said shortly before the unexpected dissolution of the Soviet Union while Havel struggled as president of Czechoslovakia.)

I also recommend the weekly *Now* program with Bill Moyers on PBS for a life-affirming approach to current events. You can read the text of the programs at pbs.org choosing "Now* at the prompt.

cws

Never had a kitten, cause I wasn't that kind of cat.

They are a blowed-up peanut peddler

are more like they are now...

We kicked it's royal butt!!!"

"If there is no wind, ROW!"

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

"There's no thrill in easy sailing
when the skies are clear and blue,
there's no joy in merely doing things
which anyone can do.

But there is some satisfaction
that is mighty sweet to take,
when you reach a destination that
you thought you'd never make."

ENJOY!

Winston Churchill said:
"We make a living by what we get,
and we make a life by what we give."

"We can do no great things -
only small things with great love."

The spirit of the posters inspires me as well as the posts themselves!

Thanks for the "uppers."

Here is a blurb from a poem I wrote about my Lyme Disease. I have it on my mirror, so I can remember I have a goal, and will get better.

" I want to wake up in the morning, and feel alive, and pain free. So, I'll keep on taking the medications, and Pray for victory."

~ Missy (Brat)

About 8 months ago, I was trying to decide if I should take my Infectious Disease doctors advice, to accept that I was cured from Lyme, and that the pain was in my head.

OR.. should I go see a LLMD, and get a second opinion. I was debating this one night with my husband, when he reminded me of his favorite quote:

"If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice" by Geddy Lee

He told me that if I didn't go to the LLMD for a second opinion, that I chose to decide that the Infectious Disease doctor was right.

Soooo.. I made the call to the LLMD the next day. And real glad I did.

And remember;

"For those with a vision,
Accomplishment is the true reward!"

A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region in Africa to study the prospects for expanding business.

One sends back a telegram saying:
SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES

The other writes back triumphantly:
GLORIOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY STOP THEY HAVE NO SHOES

Whoa.

A wise women once said: " No one can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody."
--Unknown

Ain't it the truth?

Love your post.

To put it a more prosaic way,

"You have to experience a bad toothache before you can realize how wonderful it feels *not* to have a toothache."

cws

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and enobles those who wield it. It is a sword that heals."

cws

It takes strength to fit in,
It takes courage to stand out.

It takes strength to feel a friend's pain,
It takes courage to feel your own pain.

It takes strength to hide your own pains,
It takes corage to show them.

It takes strength to endure abuse,
It takes courage to stop it.

It takes strength to stand alone,
It takes courage to lean on another.

It takes strength to love,
It takes courage to be loved.

It takes strength to survive,
It takes courage to live.

If you feel you have neither, May the world hug you today with its warmth, and love.
And may the wind carry a voice that tells you there is a friend Sitting in another corner of the world wishing you well!

I think that courage is something that grows with practice, like a muscle.

It also is important to have at least one good role model.

Luckily we've got great role models among the LLMDs and others and lots of opportunity to practice.

Just watched a video "Dietrich Bonhoeffer:Agent of Grace" the German theologian who was executed for his defiance of the Nazi's one month before the liberation. Powerful!

I'd be happy to lend my copy of the video to anyone "known" to the Lyme community (a support group leader who can vouch for you , etc) who would like to see it.

Would love to see the video....but you don't have to send it to me....do you think I can find a copy at Blockbuster or something??

Yes, Bonhoeffer is someone we should hear more about. I don't know if I would have made the same decisions as he did, but it I do want to know more about him.

I could not locate the video through blockbusters. It is available to buy through PBS. (Item number BAOG801, "Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace", $24.95. To order phone 800-645-4727 or shopPBS.com.)

Maybe your library or place of worship or civic group would be interested in ordering it. This is a film that could be also used as the basis of a discussion group.

If any LLMDs are interested in making this or other inspiring films or some books on advocacy available to their patients, I would be happy to start a loaner advocacy "care package".

Hugs,
cws