And Paul

Life goes on in the big city

Well another day. Doctors, therapists, therapy, pt, then I had to deal with my Patience's. Life is strange. My father's estate is now about to close. Two and a half years with attorneys on the clock the entire time. We hope to finish by the end of this month, and the brothers can do nothing to effectively stop the legal proceedings. The summer air has begun starting yesterday. The trees around the house now blanketing the perimeter of the house. A 2 1/2 story house is totally hidden by trees, its wonderful. Summer has ushered in a grand start to summer. We are doing the usual summer transformations of the house, cleaning and setting up the porches for outside living. More trees will be added to the property. Paul and I have planted three Chinese Maples, 8 more rose bushes to join the current 25 bushes, now tomatoes, berries, pumpkins, herb garden for the both of us, and so on. Working in the soil is so grounding and relaxing, better than my personal therapist. So the two crazy Gay boys are out in the garden, also providing Music Appreciation, Bucelli, other forms of Opera presented by our out side speakers, both on the front and back of the house. The neighbors now get to listen to our music. Great for us, neighbors, not so happy. Oh well?
Stay in touch Boys and Girls,
Love,
Joe

New Beginnings with little time

I now dedicate this blog to all my friends to enable our group to keep in touch with our lives.

Well boys and girls, life has had it's us and downs, like the most of us. Weather here has been a little cloudy, but warm. Non in the 80's air conditioning is in full bore.
and Bereavement in today's Ia I has told some, I had a great time in NYC at NYU presenting a seminar on Traumaacademic environment. My seminar was split into two separate days to meet the numbers of students registered. I give you all my thanks and support and embarrassment of having flowers delivered in the middle of one seminar, 24 long stem roses, ?? Will/ Orr??? fess up. The students seem to enjoy my loss of focus. I stayed with my friend Orr, a writer in NYC. I was able to see several shows while in the city. And the cherry on top was the request to return to NYU next spring to give another seminar. And New School's request for the same seminar in 2 months, hopefully before I leave for India, and possibly Thailand. Dar fur is out of the picture till the violence subsides. So Doctors without Borders has pulled for now, but open to the future. I still have not heard from the Dean of Columbia who sat in on half of my presentation, but expressed strong interest in presenting my seminar there, time will tell, they know my spontaneous schedule with DWBs and travel arrangements. Still giving Pastoral Counseling at University Medical Campus. A new door has opened, one to the Children's clinic. This will be a very predominate clinic of many venues and I have been asked to be involved with the counseling center, not sure of the specifics or how involved, but I have agreed and will see what comes.
I hope all of you mothers had a great day, especially the women of the group.
Time to close, more writing to finish
Have a great day and please feel free to write here and let us know what you, are doing. again go to leiajoey.blogspot.com //use joebicejones@gmail.com PW denver
I look froward to developing this blog being as intended, filled with the memories of friends.
Joe (Syracuse)

I am alive!

I have had a rough few weeks. I know we are all fighting our battles I just keep asking myself when it will be enough! D finally made it back from his deployment Sunday night at 11pm. I had been waiting for him for almost ten days. On the 9th we lost one of our friends over there and it slowed D's return home. I was so stressed during this deployment that I broke out in a continous rash for almost a month. D is telling me that we may be out here for two more years. Work is being damanding like usual wiht more borderlines then I know what to do with and no time. I just dispise working with borderlines due to the vamperic nature of the interaction. I am always reminded by them that I will never be good enough. I am looking forward to getting some time to work in my garden this weekend. I am putting in a new garden in the back yard. I have been planning on doing this for a few years and finally I am going to do it. I have three doctors appointments on thursday to set up when I am going to have surgery so i will post after I do that. I hope you are doing okay. I know i have been bad at posting the past few weeks and I am sorry for that. Its been rough with everything that has been going on around me to get any time for myself. I seem to get so lost in taking care of my patients, kaiya, the dogs, my army wives, the house and so on that i loose myself. I finally got back into therapy and man is that been nice to have that one hour once a week just for me. What a concept right? I love ya. I send you lots of blessings and prayers.