Birth Verse

Here's something neat I found. Check out your Birth Verse. Pretty cool!

My Thursdays are devoted to Giveback.

There was quite a crowd at last night's meeting and we had an extended time of socializing after learning from Dr. Schutz and each other. Giveback continues to provide me and other TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) survivors with expert as well as tried and true tools for recovery. Family members and therapists also learn a lot and share insights. This is not a support group but a self therapy roadmap wherein progress useful to all is made at every meeting. The web site has resources including Dr. Schutz's books, free for downloading. In fact, everything about Giveback is free. The only expectation is that as you progress along the road to recovery, you "Give Back" by helping others along the way.

I continued to work on taxes today. I am slow because I make errors when I speed up, plus I need to double check everything. True, we could hire a professional but since tax preparation was always a forte of mine, I cling to that part of the "old" me. One year it cost us over $5,000, but that's not where I want to go just now, so we'll change the subject.

I reread yesterday's book entry this morning and was shocked at the rewriting needing to be done. Well, these are indeed first drafts, completely unedited. The writing is jerky and the reader has to work at the story. It needs instead to flow. That will come. I am having a great time with the project, though, especially remembering how, after she was in her eighties, Mama felt free enough to share many of the details of her life she had kept to herself before.

I can see that the project is going to take a while. I am slow and can't stick to any task for very long at one sitting, so have to take many breaks. There is also the fact that it wear my brain to a nub so I can't really do it two days in a row. I was wiped out today and only worked on taxes for about an hour total. Took two naps.