Julanne's Village Jewels

PLEASURES BLEEDING HEART When I look around the VILLAGE, I find more and more scenes, activities, support and people that give me PLEASURE. It’s so easy for me to experience new aspects of my life at the Village. So much is available here and I’m open to more adventures everyday. There are several activities I want to try. One PLEASURE I have done is watercolor painting and I intend to do more of that. The activities I enjoy every week are exercise classes, swimming, gardening, meeting new people, writing my blog, teaching classes, my garden and generally enjoying each day to see what comes up. Every night when I get into bed at night I give thanks for a most rewarding and surprising day!  Remember, you can rotate activities, or stagger them and you can rest whenever you want to! I love this new attitude I have adopted because I no longer fret and plan each day to the fullest. I derive much more satisfaction from being free and spontaneous a great deal of the time.

PLEASURES BLEEDING HEART When I look around the VILLAGE, I find more and more scenes, activities, support and people that give me PLEASURE. It’s so easy for me to experience new aspects of my life at the Village. So much is available here and I’m open to more adventures everyday. There are several activities I want to try. One PLEASURE I have done is watercolor painting and I intend to do more of that. The activities I enjoy every week are exercise classes, swimming, gardening, meeting new people, writing my blog, teaching classes, my garden and generally enjoying each day to see what comes up.  Every night when I get into bed at night I give thanks for a most rewarding and surprising day! Remember, you can rotate activities, or stagger them and you can rest whenever you want to! I love this new attitude I have adopted because I no longer fret and plan each day to the fullest. I derive much more satisfaction from being free and spontaneous a great deal of the time

MUSICAL NOTES RAIN Sweet and glorious RAIN! How I love and appreciate RAIN nourishing and feeding all plants, all nature. My son Jonathan from California came to visit for 4 days and there was a fair amount of Rain. That did not impede on our adventures together. We enjoyed some meals here at the Village, went shopping, buying a new bed for me and a new pair of Sketcher shoes, all very exciting. One of the days we wanted to be out in Nature and so went to La Chua Trail and it stopped RAINING long enough for us to enjoy a gorgeous walk on the ‘trail’, a boardwalk. It was staggeringly beautiful, watching the Egrets, 2 alligators, and other birds singing and foraging for food.   The water was higher from the RAIN and we saw these magnificent water plants floating about on the water. It was another world! The RAIN started once we got back in the car. Amazing timing! That happened every time we were out. I realize more and more how the RAIN is such a gift. It is cooling,

HEART MANDALA FRIENDSHIP In this wonderful world of The Village I am discovering a new meaning of ‘FRIENDSHIP’. It has always been easy for me to make FRIENDS and to be FRIENDLY. I made FRIENDS in kindergarten, 2 of whom I have remained FRIENDS with. Once when I was a little girl, I was with my dad and I called out to a family friend across the street and my dad scolded me, ( I embarrassed him). The friend in turn scolded my dad. He said,” don’t you ever scold Julanne for speaking up! Do you know how few people speak to me like that?” I’ve never forgotten that. The second day I was at the Village, I saw a woman sitting on a bench and went up to her to meet her and we have been good friends ever since. I have met lovely people here at the Village, not all of whom I’m friends with in the usual sense ( doing many things together) but in a friendly sense. We can have brief conversations that are pleasing and very satisfying to me. I love to meet people and find out abo

EMPATHY One day I over heard 2 people talking, both were having a hard time being patient. I found myself becoming irritated and feeling quite helpless. I did nothing. Later, I mentioned this incident to someone and he suggested I use EMPATHY, a technique, if you will, using the ability to recognize and share emotions and understanding of another. It is a way of reaching out to someone to embrace them in their feelings of frustration, loss or whatever. I had never felt his exact situation but one close enough to understand and feel for his pain. If the situation had been conducive, I could have reached out to acknowledge how he must be feeling, endeavoring to impart that he was not alone in his feelings. It is basically seeing his situation from his PERSPECTIVE . What I did was to JUDGE his harshness. None of us really knows what the other person has/is experiencing, but if we are even half awake, we can feel and see his/her distress and even with a look, or a g