{"id":4867,"date":"2012-11-28T22:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T03:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2012-11-28T22:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T03:37:26","slug":"the-28th-day-of-thanksgiving-month-vertigo-other-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2012\/11\/the-28th-day-of-thanksgiving-month-vertigo-other-blessings.html","title":{"rendered":"the 28th day of Thanksgiving month (vertigo &amp; other blessings) ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/files\/2012\/11\/image15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4868\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/239\/2012\/11\/image15-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I woke up in the middle of the night to a room awhirl. Seriously awhirl, as in the bed might well have been on a crazed merry-go-round. Needless to say, it was not a pleasant evening. Vertigo and I have met before. In my stomach. Unhappily.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to today&#8217;s thanks, believe it or not. Because there&#8217;s nothing like being sick to help you realise how an ordinary day is a gift. But I&#8217;m not pulling that kind of stunt. Instead, what I&#8217;ve noticed today, being sicker than a dog (and mine can cough up copious quantities of sick), is how much being sick throws my life into focus.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is, today&#8217;s recognised good fortune: I&#8217;m thankful for a soft bed to go whirling in. And a clean bathroom to go hurling in. I&#8217;m thankful for a washing machine, and hot water to fill it. And a shower, with more of that amazingly restorative hot water. I&#8217;m thankful for organic chicken noodle soup, too. It really does taste like homemade. I&#8217;m incredibly thankful for a husband who is solicitous, thoughtful, and soothing. He doesn&#8217;t feel well either (although at least the virus didn&#8217;t settle in his inner ear!), but still went to the store for us.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all? I&#8217;m thankful that I know this will pass. That the big sky mind will return in the near future, and this will all be another chapter in &#8216;vertigo I have known and lived with.&#8217; If there&#8217;s one thing I love about my Buddhist studies, it&#8217;s being able to breathe tonglen for someone who has it much worse than I do. And knowing how lucky I am that it will pass&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up in the middle of the night to a room awhirl. Seriously awhirl, as in the bed might well have been on a crazed merry-go-round. Needless to say, it was not a pleasant evening. Vertigo and I have met before. In my stomach. Unhappily. 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