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So my horoscope today:
September 28, 2012
Taurus (4/20-5/20)
Today you are finally coming to a deeper understanding of a task that has been particularly challenging to you. You’re getting a handle on things and feeling more and more empowered about what you need to do. This will be a wonderful day for you — your power is growing and it feels very good. You are starting to think that you could pretty much overcome any obstacle that comes your way. And you know what? You are absolutely right.

Not bad, huh? No, not bad at all. Steve wrote that he is submitting the LaLa for an AIA award, something that I was trying to do here but missed the deadline. Which so perfectly dovetailed to a conversation I had on my power walk through City Park this morning with the dogs and a friend and her dog. She was saying that in thinking about all the challenges that I have faced over the last seven years, I have been successful in meeting these challenges in positive ways.

Wow, good way of thinking about it, I told her. Thanks for that perspective. She also has Hashimoto’s Disease and was telling me that the end result is the thyroid is killed off and that she was diagnosed five years ago and still has to go in and get checked every two to three months so it is a lifelong project. “I wish I would have broken my leg, gotten a cast, and then healed, but this is a screwy, uncertain, and constant thing you have to deal with,” she said. Great, I thought.

She said the hardest part is dealing with the inexplicable weight gain. Twenty pounds, I thought, twenty heavy pounds, and one day at the gym I had gained 10 pounds in four days – seems impossible – but I can tell you that the old ball and chain is pretty severe. It’s like you swallowed the iron ball and you are chained to the earth.

But let’s get back to what’s right about this picture, the truth is that the clouds are clearing and that my thyroid will one day be level and then I can see what it takes to keep it that way and then weight, hair, energy, nails, will all fall in line.

We had a young couple over last night – both bright – both headed to India for six months for an exploration (it’s their second trip). One is going to enter a PhD program on Iranian studies and the other philosophy. Wow, you sit across from these kids and you feel hopeful, because they are thoughtful, open minded, and risk takers. And one of them has an auto immune deficiency and has been dealing with that for some time. Asked what was the worse part of it – inexplicable weight gain! Argh – the bane of our disease.

The truth is this is all a big game of amusement and someone keeps putting these interesting obstacles in my way, and I have to be nimble and negotiate the hairpoint turns like a race car driver or even better, like Secretariat; I need to run my own race. So Victory Lap: I’ve been winning this race for a long time.

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