Addison's Disease

Today is Tuesday, OCtober 21, 2008



It has been a long and busy day. A workshop in Garden City about Episcopal Health Misteries. On the way home I stopped by the library to read.



John Quincy Adams...was involved in the Monroe Doctrine...I must refresh my memory....what is the Monroe Doctrine? I read quietly until I got to addition...another multipage topic, more Adams's, Addams, ACTH, when I closed the book and went home. I admit that getting to the middle of the A volume will be a challenge, much less getting to the end of the volume. It may be just a function of my bipolar disease that makes me believe I can read the complete set and I admitted as much on the way back home from the workshop when talking with a woman about my experiences with bipolar disease.



It is a noble activity, though. That's the rub, staying in the noble zone. Doing things about which one can be proud of oneself. I am reading Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, the first of the Waverley Novels. It has lots of Scottich dialect and foreign phrases in it. So I am in front of the computer with one window open to a website of a gloassry of terms used in Waverley, one window open to the Mirriam Webster Online Dictionary, one window open to the net for words I can't find in the former two windows. And I persue each chapter noting the words and terms I don't know and looking them up conscientiously. I find the story enchanting and very romantic in its descriptions of the Highlands and Highlanders. I plan to read the rest of the Waverley novels, but I must go slowly not to plan too many projects...another symptom of the bipolar disease.