Published by Jnana Hodson
I post from a small seacoast city in northern New England, where I really do have a small barn packed with mementos of my lifetime journey from my native Ohio to the Pacific Northwest and then back east.
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coordinate your tri-focals
keep a cane handy in case you have to get up
mind your back while adjusting the chair
what’s with the feather overhead?
LOL …
I need a tracker thingy for my canes…or maybe more canes.
Go for more canes and put ’em around the house. A cane collection sounds kinda cool.
My grandfather had a collection of canes. He was injured when my Dad was 5, an used a cane all of his life. I was very impressed…I think people had given him canes over the years. I have no idea how many he had. My kids made some really cool walking-sticks for everyone this christmas out of thick branches from trees…simple but very effective. They put cane tips on the bottoms, and a wrist/strap at the top. Grandpa kept a cane holder, which had originally been an elephant’s foot. Very cool, except for the elephant I guess.
Yes, the cane holder … something I’d forgotten about, from some distant past.
Well, I love my red metal cane, especially after standing for three hours yesterday waiting for my turn to get my covid-19 vaccine. I doubt that I could have stood near as long otherwise. I went to a health dept. clinic instead of anguishing over trying to make an appointment elsewhere. There were hundreds of people in line. I always find people vastly interesting enmasse like that. There was only one guy I think jumped the line…very slick. (I would be cautious about cutting in line among hundreds of people armed with canes and walkers.) 😉
Great advice. The British, I’ve heard, also use their umbrellas as self-defense weapons. I’ll try to remember to have one or a cane when I get my vaccinations!
The cane helped me stand up for those hours. There were the occasional chairs, but most of us apparently decided to tough it out. I actually enjoy watching people in settings like that. I think its the writer in me.
I suppose imagining a steel ball bearing hanging overhead might work also, more substantial of a contact with one’s head.
Knock yourself out, as they say …
that’s funny…
Oh, the feather? It’s supposed to make you sit up straighter. Not that I have one.
It’s a real feather? If I had one I’d never know where it was.
I think we’re just supposed to imagine one there. Of, course, for those who are really enterprising, they can tape a string from the ceiling and tape a feather to that.