This is a picture of me and my oldest niece, (who knows what we were eating, but we were enjoying it). It was taken ten years ago. She turns 14 today. When I look at this picture, I see how much younger we both were, and wonder at how much more innocent.
In the past ten years, we’ve both been through some really hard things — some of them happened to us but some of it was self-imposed suffering. We are both smarter and stronger for it. My wish on her birthday is that in the next year we each experience more love and more joy. Happiest of birthdays to you, Love Bug!
This post is late. I had a long, long, hard, busy day yesterday, and by the time I got home at almost 8 pm, I just didn’t have it in me to do it. So, here it is–better late than never?
2. Neil Gaiman announced that he’s writing another Sandman. You might not already know this about me, but I love Neil Gaiman’s writing and his voice, and the Sandman series was how I first encountered his work, so I’m very excited that there will be another.
3. This quote: I couldn’t live without dog. ~Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher). Me either.
5. Maybe. Maybe Not. on Nourishing the Soul. “If we are caught up in defining the events of our lives as positive or negative, we lose our ability to see and to hear the quiet ways in which other opportunities are presenting themselves.”
6. Convalesce on SouleMama. “I don’t know that we currently live in a world in which we can all lay low, painting in the sunshine and spending weeks recovering from illnesses. But I do know for certain that in small but important ways, we can all be a little bit gentler on ourselves – and each other. And that a cure for so many things lives in moving slowly and being still. ”
There are times in life when we need to go with what feels right. Ignore all the critics, the naysayers, and those who will judge us by their own definition of truth. Create your own path, forge your own destiny, and make all the mistakes and dead-end turns necessary to arrive alive. Sometimes what we need cannot be put into the context of right or wrong but must be defined and acted upon by the compass of our soul.
11. This quote: What most of us think of as fear is primarily a mental process of imagining situations that do not exist in the moment. ~Cheri Huber
P.S. Tuesday’s Three Truths and One Wish will be a day late this week too, will be written and posted tomorrow. I’m sensing a theme, seeing a pattern to this week…
This is a picture of me and my oldest niece, (who knows what we were eating, but we were enjoying it). It was taken ten years ago. She turns 14 today. When I look at this picture, I see how much younger we both were, and wonder at how much more innocent.
