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After two busy, stressful days in the city, this was the sunset view from the back of the ferry, as we returned home to the island. This evening I sat on my verandah looking out to sea, as the cockatoos squawked and circled overhead on their way home to roost in a forest on a nearby island.
Will I ever go back to the city? I hope not!
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blueeyedblond

I suppose ANY life with Jesus at the end of it is a bonus... even a precious gift,
and one to be thankful for.

If you are inclined, do some research on PEMF (Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field (or Frequency) ) and FSM (Frequency Specific Micro-current). From what you've described, either therapy might help you. :-)

Beb.

You gave me a good chuckle with your comment about the doctors telling - when they can't find a reason for the pain and symptoms we are having - that it is all in our heads.
I chuckled because that was said to me so many times and each time I wanted to slap the doc silly. Then about 8 or 9 years ago I came across a book on MS entitled: "It Is All In Your Head". I don't know how much you know about MS but plaques develop in the brain and along the spinal cord. These plaques are like taking an electrical cord and going down it and stopping at random points and cutting a slice of the protective covering off of it. These "spaces" along the spinal cord causes interruption of the signal going along the nerves to the different parts of the body. There are also plaques (or lesions) on the brain that were thought to just be on the white cells but it gas recently been found that the grey matter can affect the body in MS. So, you see, it is all in the head of a person who has been diagnosed with this very disabling disease. I have Primary Progressive MS along with Fibromyalgia and about 30 other diagnosis. Some because of the MS and some are hereditary, i.e., heart disease - Dad's family.
Also some because I didn't have the monies for a good balanced diet after I went onto Social Security (was on Welfare for a year or so prior to getting onto the Social Security program I was on at that time). It has been an interesting life - maybe I should write a book - but not one I would have asked for. But what we want our lives to be is usually much different than the one God wants for us. Even though I wouldn't have picked our this life I doubt very much if I would have found Jesus if I lived the life I had chosen for myself. So, I am very thankful and grateful to my Father in heaven for leading me in a much different direction and for choosing me to be a child of His.

It has been a very long, hot, humid day and I am very tired so will say good night but do hope we can keep writing to each other. Have a good night's sleep and have a wonderful day tomorrow. God's blessings.
Jeri

blueeyedblond

What a story! And it took 33 years of suffering before evidence came to light that proved you were telling the truth! By coincidence, I am watching an online video series at present that goes into a lot of scientifically proven approaches to wellness and healing that go far beyond mainstream western medicine. It asserts (and I agree!) that much of western medicine, supported by big pharma, focusses on suppressing symptoms instead of eliminating causes. Hence: no symptoms equates to no cause!

One point the video series has made very clear is that the causes of some illnesses can have been building up for as much as thirty years before any symptoms appear. The symptoms are likened to the eventual overflow of a container that has been slowly filling from an undetected leaky tap. The "cure" is not to take a painkiller or some other symptom-suppressing medication, but to empty the container and turn off the tap. (I have had NO symptoms of heart disease, but was shocked to discover a couple of years ago that I had a critically high coronary artery calcium score and that I could have dropped dead without warning within two to five years. My GP referred me to a cardiologist who cheerfully informed me that my condition had been building up for forty or more years. He said it was like the tread on a car's tyres. It's at a maximum depth when the tyres are new, but wears down slowly until one day, without any warning, the tyre blows out and the car veers off the road, out of control, and hits a tree. Cheerful fellow! He also told me there was NO WAY to reverse a disease of degeneration and that the best I could hope for was that with massive doses of medication and careful monitoring he could "slow down the rate of wear on what little was left of the tread on my tyres." Cheerful prognosis! All this gave me the motivation to do some fairly intense research into lifestyle, diet, nutrition, micro-biology, etc., and it turns out (with clinical evidence to prove it) that coronary heart disease CAN BE reversed, although very slowly. So, three years later, I'm doing better on stress echo tests than when first diagnosed and I'm still rock climbing whenever I get the opportunity.)

The current episode touches on the plight of people who, while experiencing severe chronic pain, show no evidence of trauma, so are dismissed as either liars or with "There's nothing wrong with you. It's all in your head"... which I think is a terrible insult to someone who is genuinely suffering.

Here's a link to the current episode, in case you're interested in looking further into it:
https://proven.thesacredscience.com/episode6qls

And here's a link to what each episode covers:
https://proven.thesacredscience.com/thankyou?
You'll have to scroll down a bit to find it.

Each episode is being run, with free access, for about 24 hours. It is then taken down and the next episode is put up. Until the end of the series unlimited access will be available for purchase at a 50% discount. I will be buying it myself because there is so much in it and some of it approaches the miraculous.

More I would like to say but once again, I am being called for tea!
(History repeating itself?) ;-)

Beb.

Hi beb; Actually the accident was a hit from behind 2 days after Christmas, 1970. We had had a snow storm the day before and the roads hadn't been plowed very well. I worked at the local hospital from 11p - 7a and had stayed to have coffee with some friends down in the hospital cafeteria. My co-worker had just come back to work after having nose surgery. Back then we only had lap seatbelts and they weren't required so my friend didn't have hers on and was sitting sideways in the seat. I always wore my seatbelt, thankfully. When we came out of the hospital parking lot and headed home we came to a set of traffic lights. I had the green light but noticed a young man at the red light gunning his engine like he was in a hurry or he was afraid the car was going to stall out cuz it was very cold that morning. A little way down from the light I had to turn
to take my friend to her house and when I did I went into a skid and wound up at about a 10 degree angle into the snowbank. All of a sudden we got hit from the back and spun 180 degrees and wound up facing the opposite direction from where we had been. Thankfully my friend wasn't hurt at all as she was able to brace herself between the back of her seat and the dashboard. I was just afraid she had hurt her nose but she didn't. However, I wasn't so fortunate. When we got hit and spun something popped in my lower back. I was living with my folks and trying to save money for an apartment of my own. I hadn't reacted to the accident since it happened then when I got home it was much later than normal and my Dad looked up from his coffee and paper and asked me why I was so late. It was at this point that I lost it and started to cry and all I said was I had been in an accident. He showed no concern, even though I knew he was - that was just Dad being Dad. I went up to my room and Mom came up to make sure I was ok. I showed her my back and she said I had a bruise bigger then a clenched fist. It was shortly after this I started having trouble walking and dragging my right leg. That started 30 years of going to doctors and being told that nothing was wrong and my Dad and Mom believing them. The docs just told them I just didn't want to work. That was the farthest thing from the truth. What had actually happened was that it got my MS going and unfortunately I was in the 5-8 % that nothing showed up on the tests. I was finally diagnosed in 2003 with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. There's more to tell but that's enough for now. Have a great night and a blessed Sunday.

blueeyedblond

Wow! We all have our stories! Life is SO PRECIOUS! And we each get such a small serving of it. How tenuous that serving is. Your car accident must have really smashed you up? Have you been able to travel much since then? What have been the best highlights of your life?

Our island is Macleay Island in southern Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. There is a long, high sand island (Stradbroke Island) between us and the surf which will protect us completely in the event of a tsunami. Macleay Island is one of a group of four served by a fairly regular passenger ferry from the mainland and a very busy (and expensive!) vehicular barge service. The biggest island has a population of about 11,000; the smallest a population of 155, and ours is estimated to be between 2,500 and 5,500.

I don't know the official story about the geology but my impressions of it are that it is mainly highly eroded volcanic conglomerate. Soil quality varies widely and is very localised. One person will assert that if they plant nails, they can come back a few months later and harvest crowbars; while their neighbour will assert that they can't grow anything. It has taken me more than six months to even start to understand the soil, but I think I'm starting to get there. I have a good compost system in operation and will be starting shortly to build a series of raised garden beds. I am also looking with longing at the 1500 sq metre vacant block next door. If I can get that, I've already planned more garden beds, the location for planting a large tree which I will equip with nesting boxes for the prolific local bird life, a water feature with a gurgling little waterfall and a fish pond, paths, and a few other off-the-wall creative features. BIG project! Big dreams! Will I live long enough to bring it all into reality?

I'm being called for tea, so better go...
More to follow. Let's stay in contact. :-D

Beb.

beb; I am sorry to hear about you teeth problem. I lost all mine - or what was left of them - back in 2006. Because I was on MaineCare (Maine Medicaid program) I wasn't able to get dentures right away and by the time I did the arch - where the teeth are setting - had shrunk so much I had to use so much dental paste to keep them in it felt like I was ripping the roof of my mouth out so I stopped using dentures. Even tried just using the bottom set but it didn't work very well so now I am toothless. But one gets used to things and adjusts. I live in a nursing home in Biddeford, Maine, U.S.A.
But I keep myself very busy and the days just fly by. Where is this wonderful island that you live on? Are you retired and if so what kind of work did you do? I didn't work very long - was involved in a car accident when I was 21 and by the time I was 22 or maybe 23 I had to stop working. When I did work I was a respiratory therapy tech. Have a good night or day. It is 5:25 P.M. right now and my dinner is here so I will sign off but will be online for the rest of the night. God bless.

Jeri

blueeyedblond

BTW, where are you?

blueeyedblond

That's about the story. :-)

Unfortunately, due to an incompetent dentist about forty years ago, I now have to have all my remaining lower teeth extracted, and a very expensive implant-anchored prosthetic device fitted in their place. This will necessitate a few more overnight visits to the city.

In the meantime, we get a monthly grocery order, delivered free of charge from the mainland, while we work toward self-sufficiency in delicious, nutritious, home-grown food production. So far we have established pumpkins, bananas, ginger, passionfruit, sweet potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, chokos, radishes, rocket, pawpaws, ONE beetroot, a few half-hearted lettuce, some silver beet and have four different citrus trees on the way. More variety will follow as I get the garden beds established. Then we'll have organic, free-range chooks before the end of the year.
I've never had the opportunity to do it on this scale before and while it's a LOT of hard work, I am really enjoying the experience.

Yesterday, two plovers nesting in the vacant lot next door hatched four baby chicks, so now we watch these delightful little birds as they venture out into the world under the watchful eyes of their very attentive parents. This is an unexpected bonus we'd never have got in the city. :-D

Beb.

beb; Maybe go back to the city to do shopping once in a while but other than that I wouldn't leave the island. I can picture how wonderful it must be.

cnaaga

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