UPTURN

The long-living Turtle carrying a baby on it's back resting in this disembodied open hand has been decorated by a bracelet meant to symbolize all the gifts, calls, cards, kind words, caring and generous giving of many friends over my recent month + of illness. It signifies an upturn in my health. Although I'm not entirely out of the woods, I am most definitely up out of the dark ditch and standing.
Thank you

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I'm avoiding wheat and found Rice Pasta to make this Mac and Cheese - not bad.

Good choice - Blood Orange for juicing

Not so good choice - Oreo cookie

I returned to my Writing Group Monday and It was productive.
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Tuesday I registered with the 'Stein Senior Center two blocks away. They had an after lunch program of Broadway songs ending with a sing-a-long

"There's No Business Like Show Business"

Lunch Volunteers

 Food Cost $2
Mostly nothing I can eat partly due to my dietary restrictions, partly personal choice and a strong preference for organic, but others were glad to accept what I did not eat. The task of feeding so many on a daily basis is amazing when you think about it, and community is a big part of the process. Too many seniors are isolated. I saw several people I've known casually from the neighborhood for decades. Here, food is served with love by mostly volunteer assistants to the paid, hard working professional staff. A fifteen minute Dancercize session before lunch was fun, and good for all who chose to participate. Easy music and easy steps. Energizing. There are other services and benefits offered as well (see LINK), including $2 theater and concert tickets.
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Media Scored This Week
Audio Book $1 at Stein's Sale table
"When journalist Maureen Paschal begins the research for a new book, she has no idea that she is stepping into an ancient mystery so secret, so revolutionary, that thousands of people have killed and died for it. Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the French Pyrenees: the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, her version of the life of Jesus and the events of the New Testament. To search for the scrolls, she must unravel clues that link history’s great artistic masters, dynasties, and scientific minds. Ultimately, she comes face-to-face with Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, and a love triangle that changed the course of history in a deeply moving and powerful new gospel."

 Video $1 at Goodwill Thrift next door to the center

"K-Pax is a 2001 American science fiction-mystery film based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel of the same name, directed by Iain Softley, starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack and Alfre Woodard. The film is about a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. During his treatment, the patient demonstrates an outlook on life that ultimately proves inspirational for his fellow patients and especially for his psychiatrist."  I viewed this and it is quite brilliant.

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Good Advice

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Gramercy Park blooming beautifully.

Spring
An Eastern Redbud in the distance.

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Wednesday I returned to the New York Zen Center

 and spent some time in the library there

 before the sitting.

Today it's cold again and rainy.
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LINKS

Stein Senior Center
http://steinseniorcenter.org/

K-Pax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-PAX_(film)

Kathleen McGowan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_McGowan

Eastern Redbud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercis_canadensis 

NYZen Center
http://zencare.org/