I couldn't get on this morning, it's my computers' for some reason disliking the forum's set-up but I'll keep working on it on the grounds that this lump of plastic and fake synapses is NOT going to win.
My act of kindness kicked my scrawny backside today but it was a blast, too. Like an idjit, I really DID do an entire birthday cake for someone, sans charges. I just could not for the life of me see this person spending a gazillion bucks on her granddaughter's birthday cake and I knew perfectly well I could do the one she was looking at better and um, free. It's just labor intensive, esp. for the R.A. She picked it up a little while ago, and was pleased so cool. There's a 100 bucks that minimum wage worker can keep in her bank account.
It was a perfect morning for the 3 miles, although my concentration has been blown the last few days due to a route change. There's a darn deceased deer by the side of the road on the other route, which might be ok for driving past but running? Iew. If I ever do have a tough time getting on track with meditating and praying while I'm out there, I use some of the apps available on Kindle, audio or no. The new Kindle has a capability I'm crazy about, which is it will 'read' to you, albeit in a metallic voice, any of the print books or documents you download. A Psalm is a Psalm no matter who is reading it to you, some ofthem are wonderful segways to meditation.
A creation of artists? Perfect, with zero reservations, thank you!!! There's just no other suggestion which would come close, now that 'creation' has been thrown out there. I tend to refer to a bunch of us all together as a big, old clump, but that would be because I've found too many artists sharing the same breathing space for too long isn't a great idea. There are not many who have sterling egos, despite what you hear, and genuine support isn't something we encounter from others as part of professional experience, either. I've known some amazingly talented, knock-down, drag out artists who have gone on the attack when I'm nowhere CLOSE to being in their league, I suppose just plain threatened, believe me, for no reason. This 'creation' thing, so postive, would be a great collective self image.
That's not really off topic, hence off thread. Changing perspectives changes experiences, changing experiences changes perspectives, it's all SO interwoven in our fragile tapestries down here on earth. This 21 Day Challenge, you deliberately change what you say, how you say it, own what you do and say and think and feel and how responsible we're willing to be for other people on the planet. I'm crazy about the whole thing, and please know that even if I'm not quite organized enough to always keep track on 'paper' every, single day of all the items, I've studiously done them.
I'm grateful for that thing my husband and I can do, where we laugh together at things no one else gets beecause they're just ours.
I'm grateful for friends I've had for 30 years, who pop up and continue the conversation where it was 3 decades ago.
I don't think I've said this yet, and if not it seems silly to have missed it but I'm grateful for this forum.
Having said that, you'd better believe I'm grateful to the person/people who came and got me and brought me back here. Sometime soon I'll have more time to contribute, for now it's pretty nice to belong to this place.
I'm grateful that Dad died knowing how much he contributed to my life as a father, how wonderful a parent I thought he was and how lucky lucky lucky I consider myself to be. I'm hugely grateful that I had the chance to tell him that.
