A Moroccan Souk Selling Beads and Gemstones!
Okay, its late and I have drifted into looking at beads online and remembering a trip I took thru Morocco, about 20 years ago (goodness it doesn't seem that long), and walking thru souks (open markets), where you have vendors selling all kinds of spices you've never heard of in one stall and then loose beads that are just breathtaking in another! And this is where my love of beads began.
It is almost meditative and spiritual for me to touch layers and layers of beads as I did at a gem and jewlery show this past weekend. Unfortunately, though I can't buy as much as I would like so I try to choose carefully.
My girlfriend that I ususally attend these shows with has no interest in beads so she wonders off to look at jewlery only and I walk through my world of beads and talk to fellow beadaholics.
I also used this time to mentally prepare for the visit to the surgeon regarding my son's medical problems with reflux.
He will indeed need surgery, for what we hope will allow him a better quality of life.
But it is still pending on more testing to determine how envasive the surgery should be.
I really appreciated the surgeon who I am familiar with, spending alot of time (which they normally don't have) and listening to my concerns about having such a social and congnitive 16 yr old who looks forward to every day, already confined to a body with Cerebral Palsy, be further affected by procedures with a 50/50 outcome.
I have worked with surgeons and other medical professionals before who tend to get lost in their specialty and don't always see the patient, but I did feel that at least for that moment he talked to me as another parent concerned about their own child.
I guess it relates to what we are learning about mind body and spirit.
So, yes I look to my love of beading and other forms of meditation to help me with such important decisions in addition to gradually incorporating Buddhism into my daily life, which is a topic for another day.
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