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Re: What would you be doing if you weren’t watching TV?

jennifersage — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:55:09 -0000

What a smoking piece of truth. Yikes!!!!! I amoff to Amazon to have a look at this book. The Truth is painful. I am mindful if Lucia,s posting on the arts

Re: What would you be doing if you weren’t watching TV?

jennifersage — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:16:54 -0000

Anna you hit the nail exaxctly on the head here. I was in in dependant practice as a midwife for nearly 20 yearsand saw the pregnant mothers for their antenatal care in my consulting room in my house.I had a good range of toys and books. I could always easily pick the children who had no TV in their home. How did I do that
:EASY They could entertain themselves with what was provided for as long as the consultation lasted.
My appointments were placed an hour apart so the mothers could take all the time they wanted.

Re: What would you be doing if you weren’t watching TV?

jennifersage — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:38:34 -0000

TV out of bedrooms yes. They are for talking dressing, loving, cuddling and sleeping. And out of living room. Note the word: LIVING, talking,cuddling,listening, sharing, playing, watching fire, being and doing alone and as a family.
We hav eours in our den so the decision to watch it is much more purposeful. I watched hours of TV in my 20s,30s and 40s and into my 50s and then we shifted house and the TV ended up in the den. Our kitchen dining living area is for that one purpose:LIVING

Re: What would you be doing if you weren’t watching TV?

jennifersage — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:01:42 -0000

OK, for the last 3 nights I worked an afternoon shift 3pm to 11.30pm. Always on Thursday night we meet as a group of twelve friends for a pot luck meal, good food, good wine, good conversation. Very nourishing for the soul. It's about intimacy,community, authenticity and vulnerability

Re: What’s your favourite thing to watch on TV?

jennifersage — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:36:42 -0000

What is it with the makeovers. They are so compelling. I have not seen the USA version of what not to wear but saw a book by Clinton ans Stacey (did I get those names right). They appealled to me straight away. I do not like the Brit version of what not to wear at all. Those to women are such vipers.
some friends of mine told me to watch Gok someone (he is Brit )and he seemed quicky and very gentle with the women. I think I saw a couple and then it finshed

Re: What’s your favourite thing to watch on TV?

jennifersage — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:23:47 -0000

Cindy thanks for reminding me. I feel, Like Duh!!!!!!, Camera illterate, Camera Challenged. It on my list of things to to
Sometime

Re: What’s your favourite thing to watch on TV?

jennifersage — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:20:12 -0000

Oh Band of Brother is brilliant, From the haunting music to,well just everything
Thanks for reminding me, Ginger

Re: What’s your favourite thing to watch on TV?

jennifersage — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:27:27 -0000

Have you watched Upstairs Downstairs like this. Its an oldie but a goodie. Spooks, The Darling buds of may (See Catherine Zeta Jones before She became famous).
Lipstick on your Collar (My personal fave Euan Mc Gregor before he was famous).
Actually I will max out on this sort of thing commercial free no interupptions

Re: The Totally Superficial, But Surprisingly Effective Ways to Choose A Therapist

jennifersage — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:33:18 -0000

The longest and best relationship of this nature I have had was with a man (Catholic priest) who was my Spiritual Director for 10 years. He is currently seeing my husband not me. Jim's office was very ordinary and he dressed in a very ordinary way. He did not have high fees. I always paid him more than he asked.
It was all in the eyes. I loved his eyes, blue, compassionate,tender, tough,humourous and occasionaly naughty. I could tell you about some fantasies that could have had me banned from his office but I won't.
I have a female practice supervisor who meets all the crtiera above and is paid for by my workplace. Thank you Te Omanga. Someone I saw recently five times had a down hill walk through huge mature trees and thick ferns. I loved that going down thing into the depths. She was good, well, very good, and dressed in a slightly off beat way that I really liked.
Come to think of it for me it is all about the eyes. Both the women had lovely eyes too.

Re: The Totally Superficial, But Surprisingly Effective Ways to Choose A Therapist

jennifersage — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:22:15 -0000

I hope you put some good quality bubbles inside you too

Re: Tsh Oxenreider asks: In what way are you delightfully conventional?

jennifersage — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:32:09 -0000

Reading all these lovely postings remind me of Jean Shinoda Bolen's eloquent writing Goddesses in Everywomen and my real favourite Goddesses in Older Women. She writes about Hestia the goddess of the Hearth. She lit the sared hearth fire that burnt at the centre of the home.It gave light and warmth to all who entered.
There is something deep in a women's soul that intuitively knows these things. The lighting of the Sabbath candle in Jewish home that is always done by the women. We, women, are earth and water but we welcome the fire and air into our lives in a very beautiful way.

Re: Tsh Oxenreider asks: In what way are you delightfully conventional?

jennifersage — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:16:48 -0000

I sometimes say that when I got married for the second time there was a celebration in heaven and in hell. Marriage is the most challenging and the most rewarding of relationships.
I am saddened when I hear women railing against the male sex in general for years after the end of a marriage. I had a "starter" marriage did the blame thing until I woke up and took responsibility for my part in the sad and sorry mess I had made.

Re: Tsh Oxenreider asks: In what way are you delightfully conventional?

jennifersage — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:05:58 -0000

In NZ this is now called snail mail ( we are great poets here!)

Re: What immediately comes to mind when you say the word, bliss?

jennifersage — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:07:30 -0000

Maslow: one of my teenage idols at a time when I knew I wanted what he wrote about but was so far from it.
Thanks for the reminder. Lifetime journey it takes

Re: What immediately comes to mind when you say the word, bliss?

jennifersage — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:01:21 -0000

Mmmmmm! How well blissful

Re: You Smell Good: Is sniffing an act of adultery?

jennifersage — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:46:17 -0000

This is how I put this
God made man (and lets be honest he did a pretty smoking hot job in every way). He paused and then looked at the other members of the Trinity
The thought was there and the words were spoken " I believe we can do better .......and that when he made women" Who can blame men for ogling.

He saved the best until last!!!!!!!!!!

Re: You Smell Good: Is sniffing an act of adultery?

jennifersage — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:20:06 -0000

OK I now have to 'fess up. I have a good memory for faces and after I had read Is sniffing an act of adultery? I was drifting thru the SS book on a rainy Sunday and made the connection (you look way better with a fringe by the way). googled.
I almost wish I hadn't. Being from NZ your name was not on my radar as an anything........ other than storyteller.
How very Holy and Courageous to write the way you do as a Christian. It is like a breath of fresh air. Most of the worthwhile reading I have done that has grown my faith has been just off the edge of the radar. It grows good strong "Faith Muscles" to have ones beliefs challenged and exercised. I am going to buy copies of your plays just for the sheer pleasure of reading them.
Maybe I will see them on stage one day.
In the 1960s when professional theatre was in its infancy in NZ I used to wander into the city in bare feet, jeans and a duffel coat (teenage angst and a good antidote to a student nurses uniform 6 days a week for 3 years) to go to plays at one of NZs first professional theatres.

Re: You Smell Good: Is sniffing an act of adultery?

jennifersage — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:56:52 -0000

My response to this article is a series of heart felt sounds, sighs, giggles,outright laughter, sniffs, Abrupt inhalations and exhalations, and a tear of two (good ones). I felt every word you wrote.
Have you considered the other senses? I would by the book
Love and joy to you

Re: What kind of award would you like to win?

jennifersage — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:08:36 -0000

Dear MoJo
The one award you can go in for is to be MoJo. The most beautiful and the most wonderful and the most MoJo you can be. Inside and outside. Wholeheartedly MoJo. Teaching Jade to shake hands so well is way more important than Miss Canada

Re: Creative Control: Love Your Preferences

jennifersage — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:50:18 -0000

Danielle

This reminds me of something you said about wanting a mentor/expert and then you corrected yourself and said something like look within. I am coming to believe that is true human maturity. When we confidently look inside first for our own answers. In a world faced with a dazzling aray of experts (and God knows I've consulted a few).

Our preferences really do contain our story and our authentic beauty. I must trust this. I will make that my birthday present to myself (October18) and then spread it on to the community I am in. Bless you heaps for your youthful wisdom. J

Re: What kind of award would you like to win?

jennifersage — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:52:36 -0000

Why thank you. Kat and Linda. I am about to have my morning latte and go to bed after my night duty.
And thank you to Carrie and Danielle for your wonerful web site for keeping me stimulated and amused and provoked over the night shift
LOL
Jennifer

Re: What kind of award would you like to win?

jennifersage — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:00:15 -0000

The one and in fact the only one that matters would be after I had died to be told I had been fully and completely me and that the world was a better place because of that fact.

I would be weraring a low cut coral pink top, coral pink lippy that matched, a long aqua crushed velvet coat with a shawl collar, elegant loose cut evening trousers in donkey brown, very high heeled boots in donkey brown, a clutch evening purse in a soft gold color. Rings:1 aquamarine stone 2 SSring 3 wedding ring, large pearl earrings and a long pearl necklace that hung low nearly to the neckline of the top.
I would be trailing in the air behind me some Yosh Yan perfume smelling of jasmine, violets, lily of the valley, lilac and roses and a rare wood that I don't know the name of yet.
I hope Kat the Drumming Diva would be there to seranade me as I recieved the prize. something with a smoky rhythm that told everyone in the room there was going to be a good party to celebrate. .

Re: Patti Digh asks: What would you be doing today if you only had 37 days to live?

jennifersage — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:04:18 -0000

Alison with the exquisite writing materials you have your sending letters would make the whole world a better place now.
Genteel Dramatic indeed

Re: Patti Digh asks: What would you be doing today if you only had 37 days to live?

jennifersage — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:58:21 -0000

Suzyn
Yeah breath up all your creative joy and kiss him.

Re: Patti Digh asks: What would you be doing today if you only had 37 days to live?

jennifersage — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:50:29 -0000

I confess:I saw a aposting well below here and decided life would be made even more perfect with daily massages Something I definitely would indulge in given finite time.
It is such a Karios (time out of time sacred time part of life). Ones death is such a teacher if I listen many things that seem unclear become so pure and clear. Our finiteness makes the life we live very important.
I hope I win one of your books. Shameless boldness: I would donate it to our hospice library