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November 25 – Healing and Nurturing

Healing and nurturing is the topic today in one of my writing groups. When I saw today’s topic on healing, I immediately thought of taking time to breathe, slowing down, even pausing. And sleeping.

I’ve had to do that this week. Each year, I reserve our favorite campsite one year out for the next year, as I did last year for this year for Thanksgiving (even though we skipped last year to travel in New England following the NCTE Convention). Imagine our disappointment when vertigo, as it does, struck yet again on the day we were to pack and leave. I couldn’t do it. I had to cancel the week for fear that even if I tried to follow through with the plans, I’d have a setback. That has happened more frequently lately. It’s getting downright debilitating, with both the blessing and the curse for this bout being that we are out of school this week. I don’t have to take sick days.

And so I rest. And sit, eyes closed, grateful for the gift of Audiobooks to help pass the time while I stay put because of the dizziness.

I began using magnesium foot cream to help me sleep when I gave up on Melatonin because of the nightmares. Today, I wrote a haiku chain to celebrate the healing of foot cream. I use Wholesome Hippy, but Sweet Bee and other companies make great ones, too. When you need to rest, this works.

need to get to sleep?

this magnesium foot cream

takes me to dream land

if you haven’t heard

all the hype about this cream

let me assure you

it’s every bit true

you can get to sleep and stay

asleep with this rub

…..especially if

you’ve laughed too hard all evening

with your book club gang

eating snacks and sweets

playing two truths and a lie ~

sidesplitting stories!

….and even when you’re

down and out with vertigo

dizziness needs naps!

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March 31: 9:00-9:31 p.m. The Goodnight Magnesium and Music Festival

bedtime rituals

foot rub magnesium cream

relaxing music

I’m a firm believer in sleep – not too much, and not too little. I wish I knew the sweet spot of food like I know the sweet spot of sleep. I head bedward at 9:00 so I can start getting sleepy. The goal is to be fully asleep between 9:30 and 10:00 and to wake at 5:00 without exercising the snooze option more than a couple of times (much more challenging on a Monday).

For years, I took melatonin, but the nightmares were real. That’s when my sister in law told me about magnesium foot cream, and my sleep has never been better. This is the first part of my sleepy time ritual.

Plus, there is music. Which leads me to Leigh Anne Eck’s Music Festival. I’m showing up in pajamas and slippers, hair up and face drenched with moisturizer because my music is focused on peaceful relaxation and not feeling like I want to get up and dance or bust a move my body can no longer handle.

Let’s start with Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World. No one on earth offers greater reassurance that things are still okay with the world than Louis himself. I need that at the end of a day when everything has reached the crescendo of doubt. Trees of green and red roses, skies of blue and clouds of white and babies…..it’s a feast of all-is-well, now go to sleep knowing it’s going to be okay. Tom T. Hall’s I Love is one that offers some reassurance, too, but not quite like old Lou.

B.J. Thomas may be in my top 5 artists with songs like Don’t Worry, Baby for relaxing. This one is on par with The Alan Parson Projects’ Eye in the Sky, which brings it waaaaay up on the list with its one greatest line in the whole song: the sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing.

But the best ever, the top top top line I love in a song is actually a question, and anytime we hear it playing, my husband and I look at each other and answer, “Yes.” The Eagles: Take it to the Limit – – if it all fell to pieces tomorrow, would you still be mine?

Now I could go far down the John Denver Country Roads and Calypso lyrics a long, long way…. they’re on my relaxation playlist, too, at this Goodnight Music Festival.

Let’s get this goodnight party started as we close out another year of The Slice of Life March Challenge and look forward to the Tuesday slicing all year long.

Good night, Moon! Good night, March! Good night, Slicing family! Thank you for the stories and for sharing your lives this month and inspiring everyone. See you on Tuesday!

Hey, wait……that’s tomorrow! In that case, see you around 5:00 a.m………

Special thanks to the TWT crew for making this month of slicing possible, to each of the writers for all of the inspiration, and to Glenda, Barb, and Denise for slicing in time increments throughout the day. Your writing kinship means the world to me, and I’ll end with a group hug and an invitation to write through April with another writing community starting tomorrow as we kick off VerseLove 2025 at http://www.ethicalela.com. If you wrote for 31 days, you can write for 61 – – believe it! Hope to see you there!