How will you celebrate the upcoming Labor Day Holiday?
If Labor Day feels like a comma in the year and not a semicolon — like Thanksgiving or Christmas — it’s probably all to the good. We need a holiday that needs no preparation, which is a true holiday indeed.
— NYTimes.com
I love a parade! Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones whose home town still has a Labor Day parade – if so, enjoy!
And yes, I’m getting a bit ahead of the holiday with this post but that’s because PattiAnn and I are both taking my earlier admonition to “savor the simple pleasures of summer” very seriously… we’ve planned a week long time-out from our BouncebackCafe.com “labors”. We’ll be back with new opinions right after Labor Day. And in the meantime we’ll be sending some oldie-but-goodies your way – we hope you’ll enjoy them.
The person who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
— Elbert Hubbard
Wishing you a relaxing and enjoyable Labor Day… take some time out to savor these last few days of summer.
Summer is slip-sliding away – last chance to enjoy its simple pleasures!
To lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
— John Lubbock
I just enjoyed the last, sweet chunks of a juicy watermelon – YUM! Why I waited so long to enjoy this simple pleasure is beyond me. Chalk it up to being a bit oblivious to the passing of the season. But now that I’ve indulged in this sinfully delicious treat I’ve begun to realize that summer is almost gone and all those perfect watermelons with it.
So I’ve made a new, short term and frivolous resolution: before the season’s treats become only a memory, I’m going to Continue reading » Last Chance to Savor Summer’s Simple Pleasures
Worries Got You Up a Tree?
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
— Proverb
Back in my tree-climbing days I pondered my troubles and nursed my hurts nestled high in the generous leaves of our front yard Alder tree.
The Alder is a tree that supports and protects physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Its associations with both weapons and shields reminded the ancient Celts that part of the skill of the warrior lies in knowing when to take up the sword and when to take up the shield…
The alder reminds us of the need to blend strength and courage with generosity of spirit and compassion. There is a time to challenge things and a time to hold our peace.
Sequestered in my leafy bower I dreamed of the day when I would be Continue reading » Tree’d by Troubles
This post is part of the ChronicBabe.com Blog Carnival hosted by Jenni Prokopy.
How do you survive the dark days of winter?
The Blahs: A general feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, or depression.
— thefreedictionary.com
This morning’s clear skies belie the COLD, raucous, house-shuttering GALE winds that pummel my psyche with dis-ease… “Not a very good morning for you” announces the newscaster on the early morning show… “No shit, Sherlock” retorts my weary, sleep-deprived brain. How I HATE this cold, cold wind roaring out of the Northeast! It’s fractured my sleep and overwrought my mind!
Yeah, that’s me sinking deep into the winter doldrums, feeling the blues, wobbling through the “dark days”, beaten by the blahs Continue reading » My Winter Heart Rails Against the Wind
Feeling a bit down? Help yourself to some ordinary pleasures and savor them!
I’ve had my share of necessary losses,
Of dreams I know no longer can come true.
I’m done now with the whys and the becauses.
It’s time to make things good, not just make do.
It’s time to stop complaining and pursue
The pleasures of an ordinary life.
Recently I heard a snatch of a lively song that tickled my fancy… and fortunately, I was able to capture the artist and song title. Today I found it on Youtube.com and it set my feet to tapping, got me laughing out loud and dancing a jig in my head. Listen for yourself: Stuck Like Glue by Sugarland. It’s hard to hold on to a bad mood while listening to that tune…
And, once again, a simple pleasure rescues my psyche from the doldrums… Must remember – lively music helps my mood. Here’s another one that lights up the happy in me by the Zac Brown Band, Lil Bit of Chicken Fried:
It’s the simple things in life that mean the most
Not where you live or what you drive or the price tag on your clothes
There’s no dollar sign on a piece of mind this I’ve come to know.
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