I know I should be happy to be alive. Just getting out of bed each morning is an accomplishment. When you think about how life manifests itself, most life just is. Look at lichens and moss. They have hung around for billions of years in pretty much the same state as we see them today….
Category: Some days I feel like myself
Feeling cloudy may only be seasonal allergies, not a relapse into depression
Boy do I feel silly. Two days ago, I woke up feeling cloudy. My head was not right. I was feeling unfocused and I just couldn’t get going. So, my mind jumps immediately to this must be the work of depression. Something must be going on. I must be relapsing. I am headed down the…
I didn’t time travel this past weekend
I never gave much importance to living in the moment. My life has been much more about time travel. My comfort zone is the future. The planning and anticipating of future events have been my go-to place. There everything is perfect. Or sometimes not, if I am catastrophizing about some future event that may or…
I’m alive, that is my success today
Busy, busy, busy. I cannot stop to write. But I am alive and I am grateful for today. Sometimes celebrating the small stuff is the biggest thing you can do. What will you do with today?
I’m not the smartest person in the room
You’ve heard the saying; “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” Well today, I was in the right room, with very smart people. All day, every session I went to, from the continental breakfast to the breakout sessions, I was listening and learning. The presenters were…
Is this what getting to know you feels like?
For a moment, I was thinking about what you need out of this conversation. Although I always told myself that I have the other persons interest at heart whenever I interact, the feeling I had yesterday was new. I grew up with “treat others as you would like to be treated,” and “a person’s true…
I want to say thank you for yesterday.
Focusing on the one thing I could control, I decided to look at my attitude towards the weekend. On Friday, I had decided to understand how I needed to think if I was going to relax and enjoy the day. It was clear that I normally would be stressed out about not doing things I…
I’ve got one hand in my pocket
I’ve got one hand in my pocket Traveling into work yesterday, this song came on the radio. I am not ashamed to admit that I cranked up the volume and sang along. A month ago, I wasn’t even turning the radio on. I was on a winding backroad through cornfields and soybean crops. The sun…
No Debt But Love, has nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award.
“Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Well, maybe not just yet. After all, I have only been blogging for four months. But thanks to readers like you, my day just got incredibly better. No Debt But Love has nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. View the Nomination Here You can learn more about…
Self-care can be hard work
I took the day off and devoted it to self-care. Ok, so my self-care includes weed eating around the fenced-in part of the property and mowing several acres on the riding mower. Today it also involved removing the netting from over the strawberry plants and weeding around the plants. And then my daughter and I…
