Certifiably Serene

Looking outside, I am already seeing the subtle changing of colors of leaves. Along with how the morning air is starting to smell like fall. You can actually feel and sense the shift of the season.

September teaches us to notice the subtle turnings instead of rushing past them. The month holds that tender mix of warmth and change. Reminding us that every shift in our life has its own quiet doorway. When you feel nature (at least right now in the northern hemisphere) preparing to welcome autumn, it’s an invitation to consider what you’re ready to set down too.

🍃Shamanic Journey Invitation: What part of you is beginning to sense the quiet turning of the wheel? This journey invites you to meet the subtle shift within yourself.

Text on Image: “September arrives, carrying both the warmth of what has been and the first whisper of what is changing ahead. It steps quietly across the turning wheel. Gathering the last gold rays of summer while opening a path toward the seasonal descent. In its gentle shift, you can feel nature start to prepare for the arrival of autumn.“

Original reflection • DailyShaman • 2026

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To explain

At the end of April, Joseph had a hard fall, at speed and from a height. He went to the Stayton ER and, after CT scans and MRIs of his head and neck, was transported and admitted to the Salem hospital with a severe concussion and a spinal cord injury due to a "significant" stenosis in his neck, pinching his spinal cord. After he started developing additional symptoms throughout his torso and received no consideration from the care nurse that elected to take his concussion nausea as a sign of drug use (despite being in possession of lab results that tell all), he left the hospital early.

Over the next week, progression of his pain lead back to the Stayton ER after a most fruitless and terrible almost-detour to Good Samaritan. There, they halted the course of treatment Salem had started, administered some simple tylenol, and MRI'd the rest of his spine. Joseph has a mildly bulging disc in his thoracic spine, causing that stomach pain. He had two severely bulging discs in his lumbosacral spine and he has a severely bruised sacrum. He got enough reprieve to get around the pain.

A little over a month ago, he had a slip and fall while bringing carparts out of the loft and things escalated. Fast forward to now. Those two bulging discs herniated big time and Joseph has cauda equina syndrome. "Expedited emergency" surgery had us waiting two weeks for evaluation with a surgeon, which happened last week. Surgery next week.

Once he's healed, Doc says the neck is necessary and next. On the plus side, he thinks Joseph has a very high likelihood of returning to pre-injury capabilities AND he thinks Joseph's shoulder issues are from his neck and he doesn't need shoulder surgery- saving him from a third surgery and a 9 month recovery.

Happy Father's Day

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