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Each Day Already is a Challenge
A Texas Sunrise
 
A friend, William Taylor, took this picture. He visits Surfside Beach with his dogs almost every morning, watching the sun rise while the dogs prance about at the water's edge.
This is only about ten miles from where I lived in Lake Jackson, Texas. Sadly, I only visited this beach about four times in the six years I lived nearby.
Each day is a challenge. A challenge to get by without thinking about the fibromyalgia pains. A challenge to stay awake when chronic fatigure wants to take over. And a challenge to navigate through fibro fog.
I haven't been writing as much as in the past. For years, I wrote at least 500 words a day. Now, I'm lucky if I write 500 words in month. Sigh.
For more information about what my day (or life) is all about with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic pains, IBS, depression and everything else thrown in, check this out:
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Nope. No trash here.  Just needed a blog entry title that was new and different. 
So, let's see...How about a few quotes. From my notes. From today? No way. Yesterday. Hey, hey. Okay...
I'll stop. With the rhymes anyway. Oops.
"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time." - Edward L. Bernays
Hmmm. Perhaps that's why people start writing, at least writing with the intention to share and sell it. We humans want to have meaningful work that we enjoy. 
A pastor put sanitary hot air hand dryers in the rest rooms at his church – but after two weeks requested they be taken out. When asked why he confessed that they worked fine but when he went in there he saw a sign that read, "For a sample of this week's sermon, push the button."
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.” -- Gail Sheehy from Passages
Oh, think about that one. "Growth demands a temporary surrender of security." Wow. No wonder people just moan about life rather than doing something about it. Growing and changing means that we have to step out of that comfort zone that every motivational speaker mentions when they try to get us, well...motivated. While we ponder that one, maybe we need Gloria Estefan's song, "Get On Your Feet" playing in the background. Don't know that one? "Get on your feet. Get up and make it happen. Get on your feet.
Stand up and take some action."
“Creativity, when not used, turns to depression.” -- Joey Reiman -- from Thinking For A Living
I never thought about it that way, but I think this is a pretty wise thought. Don't you get a bit down in the dumps when you're not being creative. I think writers experience that...when they're complaining about writer's block. The longer the block, the more we're feeling blue.
Here's something different. This link will take you to a YouTube video about health care problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPI7zdGdqo4
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