Feeling the Education

Makiah's ear was checked out by the doctor and assisting Doctor Bob. A small cut on the inner ear, no ear infection. Makiah was pleading "pain, pain, pain" till the verdict was in. The pain went away immediately, and any hope of staying home from school also was erased from his plotting intentional genius self. So, I dropped him off at Washington Elementary School and rushed home to get ready for my outing.

It has been at least a decade since I got a massage. And I love massages! One of my top priority gifts to myself is to be able to afford a wake-up massage every morning then a trip to the spa retreat outside my bedroom door. So, I have been working on the SageHouse.org website and met Tracy Thoreson who is a massage therapist, who wanted her own web site to link to SageHouse.org and with everyone else who might desire her healing genius touch. I can truly say she is amazing! How lucky can I be? She was born and raised in Mt Vernon, went to the local college for music, switched to the University of Iowa for theater, then decided to study massage in San Diego, went on to learn every healing technique not known by most Iowans via New York, Canyon Ranch and Austrailia ...and here I am lucky enough not only that she found her way back home to Iowa, but that I was in need of her healing touch and I was available to be healed. Wow! It was heavenly, what a golden touch. She has definitely been educated into her passion. Iowa could really be heaven, if only the natives who left and learned, returned to the state to be recognized and appreciated for what amazing treasures they truly are...Iowa would be more like a state growing corn with pure gold kernels rather than growing corn to run our cars, ethanolsucks.us.

To be touched, rubbed, healed via someone how is a master at so many diverse modalities of healing, she is THE ROSE...I'm blessed she found her way back home.

No history here, before 1840. No field trips into the old battle grounds. We do have the Meskwaki Indian Casino in Tama. The Ioway and Hohokoms before that, but something to be taught and shared in schools?...no bus rides going there.

Today, is Saturday...the FUN DAY! Nick, Emilee, Matthew, Makiah, Shari and I are heading north to see the #1 UNI Panthers play "whomever"...Shari was a UNI Cheerleader so I'm sure she will be in rare and true to form today.

Then Makiah and I volunteered to sell books for Jennifer Azzi, talking on reseting your life.....what do you do post Olympic Gold?
Post Heroine of the sport, post this post that....looking forward to all THE FUN!!!

ps.Maybe your boys should consider playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes, the team needs them NOW! Maybe they could learn what real Iowa battles are about. Face to face combat in the drenches of "Playing THE GAME!"