Ever have one of those days when no matter how hard you try, you just can’t get things to process properly?
You’ve been 404’rd… you are sooo having a bad day and require chocolate or wine straight away. We do not recommend using any technology until you have ingested the required medication.
— Terry Hershey
I need a Time Out… No, I haven’t been a bad girl. I’ve just temporarily lost my connection to the topic of Transitions. My server is down… in my last three posts I explored Stage I – Letting Go, and Stage II – the Neutral Zone… I’ve been befuddled, bedazzled and creative and I’m just not ready – in oh so many ways – for contemplating and Continue reading » I Need a Time Out
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
Are middle-of-the-night worries hosing your sleep?
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
— John Jay Chapman
From my Not-Quite-Daily-Insights-Journal: …Things that made perfect sense worrying about all night long [now] by the light of day make no sense at all; I wakefully toss and turn fretting and deciding and then about 5AM fall into a sound sleep from which I awaken with only a sense that something is wrong but try as I might I cannot resurrect the perfect sense-nonsense anymore… SIGH. Solutions so fretfully won have evaporated into confused mist. What was I thinking? Continue reading » Drinking from a Fire Hose – Gulp!
When something you’re worried about turns out better than OK – how do you express yourself?
Joy is the grace we say to God.
— Jean Ingelow
After what seemed like a long and worrisome wait, we got GOOD news… Hearing that precious news brought us to our feet and left us babbling with elation and relief. And still, days later, our smiles are wide – we’re jumping for joy!
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
— Chinese Proverb
For the sake of this post, it doesn’t matter exactly what our good news was… suffice to say that we are most happy to be once again looking at the world through the lens of hopeful optimism. Continue reading » Jump for Joy!
This post is part of the Pet Writer’s Blog Carnival.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
— Richard Wagner
Today, Wonder Dog (WD) and I walked to the local grocery store. We were going there because I have recently discovered Redbox (www.Redbox.com). If you’re not familiar with Redbox, it’s the magic machine in most local grocery stores that lets you rent a relatively recent movie for just $1.00. What a deal, when you go out to the website you can watch trailers and reserve a movie at a particular location. Then you go pick it up and it’s due by 9:00 the next evening or, horror of horrors, you owe them… another dollar. This I can afford.
But Redbox isn’t why I’m writing this post. I’m writing because I have discovered the secret of creation. I know this sounds a bit Continue reading » Joy to the World
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