Monday, Monday!

Good morning, one and all!  The Santana Winds have arrived!  They usually show up around Hallowe'en and sure enough, sometime in the night, I heard them roaring around the apartment complex.  Lots of my neighbors have umbrellas shielding patios and I wondered if any were blown away.  I didn't see any evidence of that so perhaps the wind wasn't blowing quite as hard as it sounded.
Before I forget, I want to take care of some business that has been buzzing around in the back of my mind.  I may, from time to time, use the proper name of a place of business or refer to a book or a play.  I most certainly do respect trademark names and copyrights.  If I err in not acknowledging that fact, please be kind and, of course, bring it to my attention.  In my profile, I didn't check the box for posting my email address.  Not sure why I made that decision and I will change it so you can let me know directly by email.
That said . . .
I have just returned from my Monday workout at Curves (a trade-mark registered name).  I have belong to this exercise club since October of 2003.  Years and years of sitting at an office desk and doing no exercise at all had certainly taken it's toll, so after I moved to Yorba Linda and the company I worked for moved its location to E. Orangethorpe, and as I was driving to work one morning, I passed a sign that said "Curves"!.  I simply could no longer ignore it.  I stopped by that afternoon and signed up and I have been there, pretty much three times a week, ever since.  I have lost close to 60 lbs and a whole lot of inches.  It took a long time to be sure and it certainly was/is worth the effort.  My aim is to make sure this body-temple is as healthy as possible.  The weight and inches loss is great, of course, and mostly I am just so grateful to be in touch with my body; to bless it each and every day.  In his book "The Biology of Belief" by Dr. Bruce Lipton, he suggests that, inasmuch as each cell is enclosed in membrane that acts not only as a transmitter, informing the cell of the work it is to do, but that it is also a receiver, so everytime we bless our bodies, everytime we bless the trillions and trillions of cells that make up our bodies, we are supporting our immune system to its maximum.  So simple, so easy, so miraculous, so amazing!
I have been and continue to be in awe and wonder at the loving and supportive comments I have received from my words.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!  (As I type these words, I am reminded of a friend who read the draft of my book a couple of years ago.  When I went to retrieve the manuscript, she told me I had included the words "Thank you" 26 times!  It was her suggestion that perhaps I had overdone it, so I did go back and edit out a few of them.  I am so reminded that Meister Eckhart said (and I paraphrase, of course), "If the only prayer we pray is Thank You, that would be enough".
And so, my dear, dear readers -
Thank you!
Thanks for it all!