tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post6721279756034344209..comments2024-02-29T17:01:17.028+00:00Comments on LUPUS IN FLIGHT: Surprised by JoyShaistahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259344471712162333noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-84641516473258489942011-02-17T10:39:26.037+00:002011-02-17T10:39:26.037+00:00That is wonderful. Do post the radio interview an...That is wonderful. Do post the radio interview and the article when it comes out.My Courageous Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08345969893980080274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-28540736534626779702011-02-13T21:23:39.986+00:002011-02-13T21:23:39.986+00:00Hi, just a quickie to let you know I have a blog a...Hi, just a quickie to let you know I have a blog award over at mine <i><b><a href="http://pillowofthecommunity.blogspot.com/2011/02/roses-are-red.html" rel="nofollow">The enigmatic, masked blogger</a></b></i>The Blogger Formerly Known Ashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04310345690134317710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-87546103614231687992011-02-12T16:01:57.956+00:002011-02-12T16:01:57.956+00:00Good luck with all your endeavours!Good luck with all your endeavours!Cait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-62825129410111717922011-02-11T15:15:02.398+00:002011-02-11T15:15:02.398+00:00Your voice will be heard!!!! Those that listen, wi...Your voice will be heard!!!! Those that listen, will be changed!!! You are such an aware, sensitive soul that surely all the birds and animals will help......mermaid galleryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04678555215616371872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-8273805700940752892011-02-11T06:47:09.740+00:002011-02-11T06:47:09.740+00:00There are few books I've read that have change...There are few books I've read that have changed my life, reading Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning was one of them (I read it while in grad school back in 1999). <br /><br />Another book I'd recommend, along similar lines: Corrie Ten Boom's Hiding Place (have you maybe read it aleady?).<br /><br />Frankl taught me many things, most of all, that joy is a choice.<br /><br />Have you reached p. 65 yet, and the passage,<br /><br />"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."<br /><br />I took handwritten notes when I read this book, pages of them I've since re-read, nearly to shreds, then typed up. I refer to them often.<br /><br />Glad for the turning of the tide, from dark to light. Here's hoping for more light, and for the finding (and choosing) of it.<br /><br />xoxoxo<br />Terresa*https://www.blogger.com/profile/06484208765656281917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-31244746334401609482011-02-07T13:18:05.476+00:002011-02-07T13:18:05.476+00:00It takes a tender heart to welcome small joys with...It takes a tender heart to welcome small joys with such a big embrace. <br /><br />Your parents' art is wonderful!Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-50161249030914450862011-02-07T10:00:58.873+00:002011-02-07T10:00:58.873+00:00It's amazing to see the word joy amidst the ne...It's amazing to see the word joy amidst the news about your treatment. It shows that he/she who wants to see a bird perched on a fence, only needs to think of fluttering wings. I wish you the best of luck.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-23709113194612055052011-02-07T01:57:03.353+00:002011-02-07T01:57:03.353+00:00It has been a while since stopping in and I'm ...It has been a while since stopping in and I'm amazed at how good you sound. Wonderful news about the radio broadcast.<br />A college trip took my daughter to the concentration camps in Germany and she came home a changed person...for the better actually. <br />I will look for this book by Frankl...I hope you will continue to be surprised by joy dear one.karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16749464659476217501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-76559712603160119162011-02-05T22:22:27.743+00:002011-02-05T22:22:27.743+00:00Shaista Super Star! The medical establishment wont...Shaista Super Star! The medical establishment wont be the same after they hear your voice!Jeanne-ming Brantinghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16289074358298750184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-50281303606504607572011-02-05T07:50:29.868+00:002011-02-05T07:50:29.868+00:00Hello again.
I saw this message printed on a pair...Hello again. <br />I saw this message printed on a pair of socks (!) and thought it might chime:<br />"My disabiling chronic illness <br />is more real than your imaginary medical expertise"...<br /><br />Do keep at the Frankl. My dad recommended it to me when I was younger and I have come to love it. Does your copy have a preface in it from Gordon Allport? In it he quotes Frankl quoting Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how". He goes on to point out that in the concentration camp all that really remains is "the last of human freedoms": the ability to "choose one's attitude in a given circumstance".<br />Your attitude is evidently one of grace, dignity and strength.<br /><br />Hope you get through to your consultant. Mine has - again, and again - refused me anything useful (like the extended hospital stay he offered me so long ago). There is no money, so they palm me of with yet more medication for symptom control and leave me to deteriorate and remain literally housebound for another year.<br /><br />Keep smiling your radiant smile :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-66192177596237372872011-02-05T04:03:48.334+00:002011-02-05T04:03:48.334+00:00Parents of my son's friend too could not come ...Parents of my son's friend too could not come home because of the evacuation of Malaysians from Egypt. And wow the books your family reads Shaista. I am impressed. And I am thrilled that many more now would be able to enjoy your beautiful writing. I am jealous of those that would be hearing you;)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02399300464457820101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-52372607207070677802011-02-05T03:10:17.602+00:002011-02-05T03:10:17.602+00:00Oh, it is so wonderful to hear some happiness and ...Oh, it is so wonderful to hear some happiness and joy from Shaista!!!!!! Dont you love the synchronicities of such things as your poem, the Rilke quote, the book, the bird on the barbed wire? It all sort of fits together to give is hints that more is going on than we are even aware of, at all times.<br /><br />I am thrilled at the request for you to write articles and speak on the radio - because once the media has your story, these 8!@#*!!!! cost-cutting doctors might have to do a re-think!!!!!!! I certainly hope you get the full treatment you REQUIRE and that she stops putting you off. ARGH!!!!!!<br /><br />But it is wonderful to hear such good and hopeful news from you. Yay! And it's a bonus that Angie gets to stay longer! Double yay!Sherry Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769154286598233146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577160948898919178.post-15038409410212094062011-02-04T19:37:32.108+00:002011-02-04T19:37:32.108+00:00It is good that you are being able to speak about ...It is good that you are being able to speak about lupus on the radio and to write about it in a medical journal. Who better, really, than you, who knows lupus intimately. You are so brave, dear Shaista. May this consultant see reason and not put obstacles in the way of your treatment.RNSANEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02841873957894861725noreply@blogger.com