Bubbie's Night Before Chanukah

I'm glad you could comfort young Rubin so long ago and thank you for sharing the story with us here today, Yenta.  This is a time of year when many people have a lot of tears; the holidays stir up a lot of things related to our pasts for many, which, if unresolved, affects our present. My hope for all this day and season is that all reading go into the future moments continuing to heal and improve themselves and their wellness will be a result.  

I want to especially talk about Thanks -- to all who find the benefits of Lumigrate beneficial for their health and wellness and those they impact, promoting Lumigrate is a way YOU can do something to help others.  Family, friends, strangers, coworkers, neighbors, clerks in stores .... people!   We're in this thing together and by helping people learn of a place to come which is Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being, your lives and communities can be lighter and brighter. 

I am thankful and GRATEful to each contributor who gives of their time and energy to post at Lumigrate from their cache of talents and knowledge and share with our customers/followers/users.  Yesterday, Martine Ehrenclou posted a wonderful piece from her upcoming book about increasing your odds of getting a proper diagnosis from a medical provider and how to go about being an informed 'active' patient.  It had 300 reads in the first day, which pleased me because that's such a "base/foundation concept" that is so critically important for virtually everyone.  She then told others about the piece on Lumigrate, through her social media powers, and that brings people who are networked with her on social media for this critical 'core' information about health care.  

So today there might be many NEW people aware of Lumigrate who have not yet discovered we have a Yenta and I hope those new visitors to Lumigrate's forums look around and see something from Yenta, and they can follow the link in the signature to this forum and ENJOY so much. This is the FUN stuff that warms my heart and soul/my spirit.  

Lumigrate comes from the perspective of what I believe to be THE way of looking at health care, which is  'integrative medicine', embracing the person as a whole of body, mind and spirit.  What you, Yenta, bring to us is equally important to someone educating about the body and how to get it treated and diagnosed properly! Your talking to people face to face is making as much of an impact, in a different and powerful way. Through the combined efforts of MANY, Lumigrate's following is continuing to grow.  

I am GRATEFUL to all who help promote Lumigrate in whatever way they wish and can. We really have 'come a long way, baby', since our birth onto the Internet on March 29, 2009.  I attended a function last night and printed out a couple copies of Martine's new post because I knew there were going to be doctors there and I thought they would like the information and it would register for them to tell others in their offices about Lumigrate.  Today I'll likely email this to a few people who are not on facebook and Twitter, etc., and print this out, fold it and put it in my purse.  Since I'm going to the grocery/health food store at some point, as I'm out of reverse osmosis water, I'll likely end up talking to the cashier about my purchases and sharing as a little 'tip' and thank you for when they have their break.  I'd maybe better print a few, that tends to be what happens, is more people around me overhear and want a copy too.  I'm out of SpoildeyCat's favorite canned food too, it's cheapest at WalMart, and last time I was there I struck up a conversation with a woman looking at books before her surgery the next week.  You can imagine I was pleased to be able to offer her Lumigrate's information! 

Cashiers sometimes just make my day, I don't know about YOU, Yenta. Typically if going to the grocery or health food store, I print and take with me the recipe for Deirdre's green bean salad and green onion dressing and use that as a business card, essentially, since at the store you have people who are interested in food! It's quite an honor to be able to say "and she's the co-author of a cookbook that just came out this month with Jacob Teitelbaum, MD and his Beat Sugar Addiction Now! movement!"  

Lumigrate continues to have a GRATE GROUP here, bringing FUN into the mix of valid, progressive information which we hope streamlines people's learning by having GRATE information as it comes available, not feeling like we have to be chronically turning out NEW all the time.  If each provider posts something new once a month, we on average have one new thing every month and we keep people's attention without overwhelming them. 

So again, thank you! And A gut yontiff to all, and to all a good night!"  (I got up after only a few hours of sleep to check on the website as we had a mess of spam yesterday I spent half my day cleaning up and I'm only half done with so I didn't want more to do today!  So I am off to bed to pretend it is night, and wanted to share something that's one of the nicer things I've seen in a while related to thanks and appreciation.  This is a time of year for contemplation and deep thought and prayer, for going inward and, I believe, showing appreciation through gifts, historically.  "Gifts" perhaps can be something one prints and ties a ribbon around and gives to someone, and I thought this brightened this a bit and is a wonderful way to close here, related to my gratitude.    ~~ Mardy

Here's a lovely piece on PsychologyToday.com by a woman who has chronic illness and writes about how to live life homebound who is also an older WISE woman, brought up to celebrate the season in an 'integrative' way.  The link is: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/turning-straw-gold/201112/hanukkah-and-christmas-overlapping-hallelujah

THANK YOU for this post.   It is so comforting to have our own Yenta here on Lumigrate.  I feel your warmth and kindness shining through with each and every story you share.  And Mardy, it is we who are thankful for you, your passion for helping others, and your vision that keeps us moving forward.

 Robin

Oy my dawlinks!  I'm kveln (beaming with pride)!  All I did is write a simple truth and look what a reaction I got!  I'm tellink you, it's enough to make me plotz (fall down).  And Mardy dawlink, I'm so impressed, Gut Yontef (happy holiday) to you to too dear and to everyone.  Did you use the Yiddish Dictionary I posted at the end?

The picture of the Yorkies is just delicious!  Gut to know they were bark-mitvah. 

And I must agree with Robin, such a bubeleh; I too am thankful for you Mardy, gelibter (sweetheart).  Without you, many of us wouldn't have a venue or a voice; we wouldn't have met and have developed khavershafts (friendships), nor would I have learned the proper way to cook!  Moishe can FINALLY get out of the kitchen and relax.  You'd have made a good Yenta as you are such a 'connector'. 

Robin dawlink, so you enjoy?  That makes me tsufridn (happy).  Now that I'm making the time and creating gifts to give to friends I'm doing catch up on here as well.  Between the knitting, cutting, knotting, painting, dipping, baking, swishing, and sometimes spitting (I get farloyrn) I'll be back and forth to read and comment. Being part of Lumigrate is a wonderful hobby for me as my others are, and it makes me keep learning new, modern things! Not that I always enjoy that part, oy!

Until we meet again my dawlinks, Happy Chris-HanuKwanz -- Happy New Year, Happy Times, Happy Feet, Happy Hands, and most of all -- Happy Hearts.  It couldn't hurt! 

Your

Yenta