Life’s been all work and no play lately, you say?
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
— Jennifer Yane
Geez, three, count ’em THREE posts already from me about New Year’s resolutions – you’d think I was stukkk in resolution mode! But more than likely I’m stuck in feeling that, no matter how busy I am, no matter how much I do, “it’s just not enough”. I get to the end of the day and I make a list of what I did because, without it, I’m feeln’ like Continue reading » Stukkk in Resolutions
Do you have to love the process or 2-Hell-With the goal?
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living.
Out of our over-confidence, fear.
Out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope.
And out of hope, progress.
— Bruce Barton
In answer to the question “how do you get back up on the horse?”, one of our readers, Shoalisme, wrote an interesting response:
Hm-m-m! I never really thought much about that before, but I suppose I don’t ever get ON a horse that I don’t want to ride. It has 2 look pretty fun and pretty gentle…or I just take a pass. I have 2 REALLY believe I want to ride it – and if I get on and discover it’s a buckin’ bronc or a boring old nag, I just move on to something else. I don’t usually look back and regret that I moved on.
For me, life is way 2 short 2 b uncomfortable or 2 push myself towards Continue reading » 2-Hell-With-It?
What’s a body to do when you wake up on the gloomy side of the morning?
When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.
— Winnie the Pooh
Today I needed pretty – and that’s why a joyful mountain scene tops this post. You see, despite the fact that I actually slept-in this morning and probably got one of the best night’s sleep I’ve had in ages, my day started out “a little eleven o’clockish” – overcast and gloomy… weatherwise and moodwise… and with good reason I might add. But, be that as it may, overcast and gloomy is “not helpful”.
Not Helpful
I’ll let Timothy Pychyl explain the back story on the “not helpful” refrain: Continue reading » Today I Needed “Pretty”
Nostalgia reigns at least once every summer for me. How about you?
Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Do you remember a time when you felt the WHOLE SUMMER stretching out before you? Remember that joyous walk home on the last day of school when you wanted to shout: SCHOOL’S OUT FOR THE SUMMER – YAY!
For me, summer was a time of possibilities tangled up with long boring days of “nothing to do”… until my Mom would throw up her hands and put all us kids to work! I know now that summer is a mixed blessing for parents… it’s a more relaxed time with moments of fun interspersed with lifetimes of being chief Kool-Aid maker, bottle-washer, daycare arranger and on-call-chauffer. And if Mom has an 8-5 job outside as well as inside the home, well then, the late Erma Bombeck says it all in a nutshell:
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Wise woman that she was, Erma also said: Continue reading » Lazy, Crazy Days of Summer
I challenge you – Take time out. Experience your easy entertainment a little more creatively than usual.
Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination — think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
— Terry Brooks
A few weeks ago, in the company of friends, I mockingly discounted a recommendation from the Reflection Booklet we use as a guide for our discussions:
Avoid easy entertainment and distraction this week. Turn off the television and do something that gives rise to real joy. Take a walk, work in a garden, play a musical instrument, read a book, call a friend you have been out of touch with for a long time.
— www.sccquest.org
As I read those words, I thought: Yeah, that’s NOT gonna happen… especially the Continue reading » Easy Entertainment, Easy Distraction…
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