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RUSTLES AND FLOURISHES

I am off aspirin for the first time in several weeks.

First was the sinusitis; then my foot hurt. So I maxed the dosage of the extra-strength.

I don't do well with the alternatives to aspirin. This time I tried Aleve and it sucked. No control. An eight to twelve hour dose.

It is a little like drinking too much coffee. Once the dose is down there you are pretty much stuck with it. It works or it doesn't. I had the old in and out effect of some time release products; pain/no pain/pain.

Anyway, now I am clean and clear and it is a bit strange to have all my body feelings back; my percussion section.

You know, the creaks and whistles and jerks and flashes of little pains here and there. Actually they are not pains. They are feelings. They are old friends. Mine. They tell me who I am and how I am responding to my physical and emotional world.

Bing, crack, bobble, whiz.

Hello old friends. I have missed you.

Now there is something to feel going around my body during meditation. Or, when I hit the sack at night and pay attention to feelings in my frame, there is something to feel.

No pain, no gain. Of course it is the middle of the road, huh? We don't want too much or too little.