Things I CAN DO now!

I am 64 years old and until this year I could not touch a peach.  They were too furry!  Gave me the shivers or as we like to say in Louisiana the frisson.

(Frisson (French for 'shiver') is a sensation somewhat like shivering, usually caused by stimuli. It is typically expressed as an overwhelming emotional response combined with piloerection (goosebumps). Stimuli that produce a response are specific to the individual.

All my life whenever I saw a peach I got the frissons.  Now that can be good or bad.  Me and a peach.....bad.  Once I went to Dorignac's (New Orleans wonderful grocery store) and picked up a peach instead of a nectarine and screamed.  Silly, I know.

But about two weeks ago my next door neighbor brought me about 25 peaches.  I just kept staring at them, because all my life people have been peeling them for me or I put on gloves and peel them.  And then I just took the plunge.....I picked one up and peeled it WITH MY BEAR HANDS.

No one knows what a triumph that was for me....(Hey in this stage of my life, I take what I can get).

Now I have been eating a peach every day (but I have to admit, I still have to peel them).

I guess Life is One Insane Event After Another.  (a phrase that was written on a note give to me by my good friend Winfield Campbell when I was crying one day).  You string them together (along with the touching of the peaches) and it hasn't been so bad).

My friend Lynn H asked me yesterday why I wasn't blogging....I may start again......thanks Lynn.