Have you ever found yourself thinking: OMG! Did I Say That?
When asked her opinion on punctuality, an applicant for an office job assured me she thought it was extremely important. “I use periods, commas, and question marks all the time,” she said.
— Mel Roberts
from Reader’s Digest
Sometimes we mis-speak and sometimes we mis-interpret by answering the wrong question and sometimes we simply say exactly the wrong thing. My mother-in-law’s favorite quote – she was a very misunderstood woman – was:
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
And unfortunately, for whatever reason, she was right – people often mis-took her meaning and assumed the worst. My friends were convinced that this dear mother-in-law of mine hated me based upon Continue reading » What I Meant to Say
When you woke up this morning what did you most look forward to doing?
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh.
“What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.
— A. A. Milne
On a recent yardsaling excursion I came across a family game by Food for Talk
. Their company tag-line reads: Bringing families together one conversation at a time. Food for Talk Games contain a deck of cards and each card is inscribed with a thought provoking question to be answered by either the individual who drew the card or the entire assemblage. What a Continue reading » Waking Up to Possibilities
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.
— Colette
Last week, one of the women at work lost her 93 year old grandmother. It wasn’t entirely unexpected and they had been very close since my friend was a little girl. Expected or not, when someone we care about dies, it is always difficult.
Sending a sympathy card or note is what we do when a friend suffers a loss. That’s why Hallmark was invented, to help us say what we don’t know how to say ourselves. When a friend loses someone close to them, we instinctively want to provide comfort. For me, what I want is to Continue reading » Growing Up Means Figuring Out How to Do the Hard Stuff
Is weisure time a blessing or a curse for you???
I had a weisurely weekend… “What,” you ask, “is weisure?” It’s blending work with leisure, leisure with work. Work + Leisure = Weisure. Is it a good thing? Maybe, maybe not.
Weisure makes a value judgment and comes across as critical of the way in which many western men and women live ‘lesser’ lives because of its instant and in-touch nature. I see the experience as enriching and don’t bemoan the passing of the ‘old’ way of life, since there is no reason why the two cannot co-exist.
— William Keyser
Shackled or Free?
I remember a time when I rejected the idea that Continue reading » Is Weisure Time a Good Thing?
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