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<\/a><\/p>\nTERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n
At the risk of sounding morbid, I am heading down the path of life as I think it is in the natural progression of things. I\u2019m a person who is very much in tune with his life, surroundings and his body. I know about where I\u2019m at in the natural order of life, which can make it fun at times and at times scare the heck out of me.<\/p>\n
What set me off in his mood was just now listening to The Platters on a doo-wop recording from the 1950s. They are singing \u201cOnly You\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cOnly you can make this world seem right
\nOnly you can make the darkness bright
\nOnly you and you alone
\nCan thrill me like you do
\nAnd fill my heart with love for only you<\/p>\n
Only you can make this change in me
\nFor it’s true, you are my destiny
\nWhen you hold my hand
\nI understand the magic that you do
\nYou’re my dream come true
\nMy one and only you<\/p>\n
Only you can make this change in me
\nFor it’s true, you are my destiny
\nWhen you hold my hand
\nI understand the magic that you do
\nYou’re my dream come true
\nMy one and only you\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
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I\u2019m in a stage now where most of my dreams are gone and I\u2019ve reduced my self down to looking out the window at the birds, squirrels and the occasional raccoon scrambling through the branches. From high above I also see the Bald Eagle that is consistently being harassed by local crows. It escapes them by circling higher and higher until the crows run out of oxygen and can go no higher.<\/p>\n
That reminds me that a few years ago while out walking around our neighborhood I watched as over a dozen crows harassed this eagle. Finally, the eagle took a sudden dive down toward the water as if it was a dive bomber during World War II. The crows tried to follow, but the movement by the eagle was so sudden they lost contract and the eagle, likely smiling, escaped.<\/p>\n
I clapped in appreciation of the brilliant maneuver.<\/p>\n
But now I have no such trick up my sleeve. I\u2019ve been recovering for other a month now from a major procedure and it doesn\u2019t seem like I\u2019m progressing to the point where I can suddenly dive bomb whatever ails me and escape the pain.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if this is the ending of my life progression, but it\u2019s closing in. My doctors \u2013 and there seems to be more and more of them \u2013 keep telling me I have a long life in front of me, but that is what they are educated to say by their schools and by their lawyers. So we\u2019ll see. But right now I can\u2019t see me dive bombing away from it all.<\/p>\n
In the midst of this, I can\u2019t bring forth dreams to escape the reality. I used to be able to do that, but not now. What ticks me off is this collection of expert doctors can\u2019t seem to find anything wrong with me that would contribute to the pain I feel. I don\u2019t know what schools they attended, but maybe they skipped an important class or two during their stay at them.<\/p>\n
So it goes for me. I summon what energy I have to keep going as best as possible. I\u2019m an A-type plus, plus, plus personality and not being able to work as much as I\u2019m used to is driving me nuts. I had to have grown son mow the lawn a week ago, but I\u2019m determined not to let him do it again even if I have an EMT standing by while I do it this time.<\/p>\n
The sad part is that my birthday and Father\u2019s Day are a week apart and my extended family hovered about for my birthday expecting me to get up and dance the way through it, and I couldn\u2019t. I was a party pooper for my birthday, was a quieter than usual participant for Michael\u2019s high school graduation and now tomorrow I\u2019m facing the prospect of being a sideline participant in Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
What I need is an injection of testosterone that allows a guy like George Bush the elder to parachute out of a plane on his 90th<\/sup> birthday. Only the way I feel right now, I would forego the parachute.<\/p>\n Be well pal.<\/p>\n Be careful out there.<\/p>\n Have a great day.<\/p>\n You are loved.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TERRY MOSHER At the risk of sounding morbid, I am heading down the path of life as I think…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column","category-mosher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}