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DAY-CENTRE STAFF.
One thing about the centre-staff
is their skill to make us laugh.
This is a skill they will apply
especially when we want to cry.
There’s many ways they bring good cheer
creating a great atmosphere.
They’ll always go that extra mile
but not without a great big smile.
They are generous to a fault
and their kindness does not halt.
They’re pleasant from the start of day
an ...

Every morning when I enjoy my big cup of coffee I scroll through this site and this warm feeling just overwhelms me.
I never post anything (too shy and it feels like I don’t have anything of interest to share tbh) but I sure read a lot of posts from you guys and they are so informative, supportive encouraging and so so full of love and a big dose of humor.
I feel like part of the best fami ...

A FEW MILES EAST OF PANGUITCH, UTAH, and seven miles west of Bryce Canyon National Park, off Highway 12, there is a dusty dirt road that leads to a tiny parking lot and the trailhead to hike Casto Canyon. It is a beautiful hike but a disadvantage, for a purist hiker, is that it permits ATVs, the ultimate peace destroyer. However, I found that, if I hiked there on a weekday, I had a good chan ...

DAY CENTRE (1).

In this verse I wish to enter
the world inside the day-centre
where kind and caring people are
often below mainstream radar.
Many carers are volunteers
who have been doing this for years,
yet it seems to be tradition
that they get little recognition.
So, in this verse I hope to show
what people really ought to know
about the work that goes on there
and how the staff ...

So I got my ileostomy on the 21st October 2025 so very new! Even with the soreness from surgery the pain is already so much better than before and I’ve adapted easier than I thought I would, managed to find the right bag and set up while in hospital so was much easier once I got home. The plan is to see how I get on with the ileostomy and then remove the colon and convert to an end ileostomy ...

COVERT KINDNESS AS A CHOICE.
Covert kindness is a choice
made by those who want their voice
to be heard in what they do
where they may think it rings more true.
Those who raise their voices loud
will often do so for the crowd,
so audiences will lavish praise
which helps self-confidence to raise.
It needs little explanation,
to show those seeking adoration,
do their kind deeds for this reaso ...

Adopted a new doggie today, he is a sweetie...

Pelicans in formation
Pelicans cruising
Where did that sand crab go?
Tidal channel
Surfers hoping for a wave... I waved at em.
Quiet day
Perfect November morning and day.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween. Now I'm looking forward to turkey day and hoping my ileostomy cooperates!! Lol. Have a wonderful day

my name is Jess. I've had a colostomy and illiostomy since 2021. I have spina bifida and use a wheelchair full-time. Having both made my life easier to handle.

REACHING THE CORNER OF WALK AND DON’T WALK, I bumped into Bob Dole. “I thought you were dead,” I told the senator and one-time presidential candidate. “I suppose there are a few who wouldn’t mind that,” he replied with a sly grin. “But I remember you as a guy who got things done,” I said. “Back then,” Dole reminisced, “we actually tried to work together. That’s why ...

WE’RE NOT VERY GOOD at looking either backward or forward. When we try to look back, we misread history, or falsify it, or ignore it. Hindsight isn’t so 20-20 when attempted with one’s eyes squinted against the dust of bad memories. When we try to look forward, we’re faced with the impossibility of foretelling what’s ahead. “Prediction is very difficult,” said Niels Bohr, “ ...

I DON’T HAVE A GREEN THUMB but I work at it. An old lady that my wife befriended invited me to take plants from her overgrown and unmanaged yard. One that I dug up was a stunted little specimen that I recognized as a rose bush. It was maybe 6” high, as if it had been mowed down multiple times. I planted it in my back yard. Once it commenced to gain some height, I realized it must be a ...

CONTRASTING CHOICES.
Contrasting choices may-well be
a useful way for us to see
how the decisions that we make
may be good, or a mistake.
A quick look through the things we do,
might give to us a clearer view
of some contrasts that might then show
a kind or unkind way to go.
Would we forgive, or hold a grudge?
Could we move on, or do not budge?
Do we prejudge and then lay blame?
Or do we thi ...

Hey. I'm new to MoA, but have been living with an incomplete spinal injury in 2005 and I was diagnosed with Crohn's in 2012, the combination lead to me having a stoma in 2023. I love getting out and about in nature and exploring new places!