I hope you’re having a good Last Day of Summer 2022.
Last Day
Tag: Encouragement
T-Shirt Tuesday “We’re All Connected”
On our morning walk in the mall today (with all the other “it’s-too-hot-to-walk-outside” old folks), HR and I came across this t-shirt in the window of one shop. Robert immediately suggested it for T-shirt Tuesday.
I didn’t quite get it at first. It just looked like an expensive Nike t-shirt.
But there was something about the first photo I took (capturing some neat reflections from behind) that exuded a bit of otherworldliness.
So I looked closer.
And closer.
Mentally removing the “Nike,” I appreciated the truthfulness of the quirky artwork.
Thanks for stopping by. I’m glad we are connected.
Life.
Life finds a way.
QQQ — Quick Quality Quote #4
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.“
Light … come on in!
QQQ — Quick Quality Quote #3
A blog category featuring meaningful (at least to me) quotations.
A lovely and aspirational truth.
“Robert and … #26”
A blog category of pics I’ve taken of HR (Hubby Robert) and … well, just about anything
Robert (aka HR) back in February and … his healing-from-pneumonia/Covid walks in Savannah squares near us.
Pulaski Square here. With his portable oxygen. And (notice his finger) his oxygen saturation thingy.
My fellow. All better today!
Hello Anxiety: “Hell’s Bells”
This blog category is the journaling and journey-ing of my quest to say (with cautious sincerity) “Hello, Anxiety” and to take a look at the condition from my “me-andering” views.
I recently came across this definition for anxiety, which rang so true for me.
“Anxiety — a condition in which the brain’s alarm bells keep on ringing, ringing, and ringing … Long after they have served any useful function.”
(from Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation)
P.S. Just between us, I really don’t like some definitions, truthful though they may be.
A Sunday Night Truth
“Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel
May you “be” tonight.
May we all “be.”
Five Friday Happy Bringers 8/26/22
1. Realizing that some broken things CAN be fixed.
My special wooden “N” (for Neal) that I somehow dropped and splintered.
But now it’s back on the top of my Desires Board, next to Mr. Happy and down just a bit from my Yes Stick. (Okay, I can see your furrowed brow. During the pandemic, HR and I traveled to a bunch of Georgia State parks, where we went on many a hike. I would often see a Y-shaped stick or tree branch on the trail and tell Robert it was a Yes Stick, to pause and think of something to say “Yes!” to. On one marvel-ous hike at Tugaloo State Park, HR saw this Y Stick, brought it home and shellacked it for us. Yes! TMI?)
2. The incredible ability to walk (which I usually just take for granted). To be able to put one foot in front of the other … and go forward! Try it!
3. Finally finishing with Robert this week the eye-, mind- and heart-opening A New Origin Story: The 1619 Project.
A difficult but so important read about the role that slavery and racism played in our nation’s founding—and continues to play in the U.S. today.
I wish its meticulously documented truths could be taught in every high school.
5. Butterflies
Callaway Resort and Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA
4. Soap. (For sensitive skin)
I wish you a joyfully clean weekend ahead.
