Originally published on December 8, 2010.
Is it too cold for you too?
Winter is hear and I’m COLD! Brrrhhh!
Oops, I’m so cold I have brain freeze – I meant “here” not “hear”.
Lately I’ve been longing for a quick jaunt to my favorite winter getaway – anywhere with beaches still warm and balmy… But “getaway” isn’t in the tea leaves for me this winter. I’m officially “home for the holidays” – so my next best and “doable” choice is a good, long soak in a HOT tub… Or a Continue reading » It’s COLD Out There!
How quickly the wondrous becomes the worry!
Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
— William Wordsworth
There are moments that smack you in the face with their magnificence and my first glorious glimpse of the bright purple Morning Glories cascading over my neighbor’s stucco-ed wall, well, they WOW’d me!
Each morning as I embarked upon my “hill walk” challenge, I admired the beauties and noted their increasing abundance. And then I missed Continue reading » Morning Glories!
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
— Proverb Quotes
I was raised in K-Mart, Woolco and Sears, with Sears being the top of the shopping pyramid. My mother liked nice things but she believed that none of us kids would take care of anything, so we shopped exclusively in the discount houses. She couldn’t sew and even if she could have, by the time I was in high school, she was teaching full time while attending DePaul University full time. It would even have been impossible if she had had the Continue reading » What is Sufficient?
This post is part of the ChronicBabe.com Blog Carnival hosted by Jenni Prokopy.
Is it too cold for you too?
Winter is hear and I’m COLD! Brrrhhh!
Oops, I’m so cold I have brain freeze – I meant “here” not “hear”.
Lately I’ve been longing for a quick jaunt to my favorite winter getaway – anywhere with beaches still warm and balmy… But “getaway” isn’t in the tea leaves for me this winter. I’m officially “home for the holidays” – so my next best and “doable” choice is a good, long soak in a HOT tub… Or a Continue reading » It’s COLD Out There!
What are your questions – and how many right answers (and interesting futures) can you discover?
Recently, Freddie, one of our blog members, shared a very pragmatic resilience strategy:
I agree entirely that we learn more by failing, falling down and picking ourselves back up. Doing everything correctly the first time makes it so that we only know how to do what we were attempting that one way. We never even consider doing it any other way since we never had to contemplate it. One of my managers when I first started my career told me, “there is a wrong way and there are fifty right ways. Your job here is to improvise, adapt, overcome and get it done one of the right ways.” That told me that I am not expected to do it “perfectly” but to use my own experiences, knowledge and skills to find a way to make whatever needs to happen, happen. That mantra “improvise, adapt and overcome” has empowered me over and over to find a way to do it, find something that will work or make this situation/day/week come out mostly positive. With that idea in my head it is easier to actually find a solution.
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