Quiet

This weeks word, quiet, is a very fitting word to end the holiday season and 2009. Jean and I have really enjoyed all the opportunities of meeting new friends, taking lots of pictures, writing of times past, and eating new dishes prepared by some of the greatest cooks in the world!

We love Paris, Tennessee, and want it to grow and prosper. We want to help in any way we can, but we think January and February must be a time to really quieten ourselves. I have neck problems that have been neglected for way too long, and this winter is the time for correction. Being nine foot tall and bullet proof in my younger days is the main culprit, but being rear ended twice a couple years ago, made my range of motion totally unacceptable.

Neither Jean nor I do doctors, unless we just have to, but I went to a chiropractor Tuesday and Thursday and I left believing I could really be helped. I was told that we are straightening out many years of problems, and results cannot come overnight, but that the pain will go away, and the movement will become much better. I can only bend my neck 15%, up and down, and to the right, and 25% to the left. I have learned to compensate for the motion by turning my whole body, but I have been experiencing a lot of pain recently, and I do not want to spend the rest of my life in constant pain.

We will take this winter to renew, rejuvenate, and to be quiet. We believe it to be necessary, and will continue to help, as we can, but we have decided we won't feel bad when we have to say no. We wish the best for all of our friends, and all the fine folk of Paris and Henry County. May two thousand and ten be the best year ever!!