Tuesday, November 25, 2008

An Update From Your Friend



So how are you doing? How's life? What's going on? What's new?
Me? I watched the Red Deer Christmas Parade and had hot chocolate while listening to a choir sing Christmas Carols in the balcony of City Hall. I found my true love.
Doing facials is my true love. I incorporate six different massages and spend an hour or two helping people relax while providing nourishment their skin. They come out changed people. Refreshed, understood, loved, capable, and ready to tackle life some more. Caring, capable human touch is so healing, and I think necessary. When I see the difference in my clients I feel like the world is a little better place because I gave a facial. I know it sounds superficial - but my clients are people who do a lot of caring work and as I lift them, everyone they influence gets better care. All they needed was to pause and regenerate. I think that's what I would like to mainly do when I am done here at school.

5 comments:

Q of the Wood said...

So much can be conveyed in touch.
Emotions given and taken, shared between. Language and knowledge too are also expressed through touch. Life is given and felt and the void of it when live is taken, all through touch. You can learn so much about someone by just holding their hand. It is no wonder we all yearn for someone to hold onto.

Julianne L. said...

For sure! Today after Institute my friend Faith said she needed a hug, so I hugged her and she held on for a while and oour other friend Betina felt she needed a hug to and joined us, then we were noticed by Faith's sister Ariel who wraped her arms around us all. We stayed like that for a while doing just what you said in your comment. And during that hug I thought, Yes, life could be better than I had previously believed - and peace and hope filled up the empty spaces in my heart. I said to the girls after a couple of minutes, We could only do this at church and have everyone approving as they walked past us. They just nodded in agreement and kept holding on. Do you think girls need more hugs than guys? Or its just a social stigma - because your comment sounds like you like hugs as well. Hugs, hand holding...same thing?

Anonymous said...

Hummmmm HUGS Can't Live with out them they are the best thing the world. I really cherish those who it does not matter where we are of what we are doing they will give me a hug or allow me to give them a hug.
A hug is a reasuring gift that a person really cares about you as a child of God that no matter what you do they will still love you for the person you are.

I love hugs and they love me hopefully....
Faith

Cinderella said...

Hmm...so hugs. Well, I think that some people you can hug and some people you just don't. Some people you get hugs from and give hugs to all the time. You just hug them for as long as you want until you feel full and then you're done. Some people, I've noticed, aren't receptive to that sort of thing. I think about giving them hugs and I don't see it as building or benefitting anything. In fact, in some cases, I feel that a hug or hand holding would ruin what ever good relationship we had. It would be forfeited into something materialistic and cheap. So, hugs are good unless done at the wrong way time even if it's with the right person. I hope that makes sense.

Julianne L. said...

It totally makes sense. Hugs are priceless treasures and shouldn't be squandered on those who don't enjoy them or would use them for evil. Excellent point my darling Cinderella!