This was beneficial, thank you to every poster. Being here at all is an excercize in mindfulness for me. I think I generally have a shot at being 'busy', hence not able to participate in something interactive like this. I AM terribly busy, but so many, many things in my life will just not change unless and until I change this particular aspect of myself. Ha!, to Green Forg, so funny, how people view themselves, when to outside perspectives you'd be someone to emulate, since I genuinely DO lack that resolve. I don't particularly care what other's think of me, wierd, just would like to BE more like some folks I see here. Well, this challenge is very helpful. I think it might bring people onto the same playing field in some way, if that makes any sense.
Thanks Alba, and please do let me know when I'm not clear on some of these points. I'm SURE this program was written the way it was for a reason, you know? Brains a few light years further on in evolution than mine figured out what-works-when-and-how, so probably best to try to stick to it as closely as possible?
Grateful I'm getting a better idea on why my children might have somewhat of a grip on life, perhaps having to do with my take on their place in the world. It matters and has always bugged me. I'm not there yet, SO much appreciate the input which, if it doesn't give me food for thought, has given me a chicken leg to chew on.
Grateful for the gift of imagination/creativity, stuff which seems to come out of thin air, but I'm aware it does not. I'd like to know to what purpose, where it all requires to be used, but have yet to really get a good answer to that prayer.
SO grateful I got to know my parents as well as I did before Dad died. It should have been awful, abysmal situation but I had a blast. It was plain, old fun, mostly, and never would have happened if my sister had done what she did to them. Light out of darkness.
Act of kindness, and yes, that's a REALLY good point, Green Frog, how much easier to say anything at all here. I'll claim something else I do a lot, which is to take all our stale food and old fruit, etc., out into the woods to leave for the squirrels, birds, racoons and any other beastie who would like a meal. I took a big bowl out yesterday, I see this morning it's mostly gone.
Did the 3 miles yesterday, am finding it easier than before this started to just be STILL, listen to the woods sounds, the creek running, my footsteps, commune with all of it for awhile before doing my usual prayers for the day.
I actually do not quite have the time to journal about a postive experience, although I'll say what it was. I took my son to soccer practice, which is at an old church, in a field. They have a graveyard there, where I'll look for photos to post on Find A Grave ( that will be tomorrow's act of kindness, posting for someone who asked for a pic. ). I came across a grave, a Civil War soldier who died Sept. 30. 1862. That's the First Battle of Newtonia, by the way. Anyway, this Daniel Webster who was killed that day was not only from the same regiment as my grgrgrandfather,( 50th PA Vol. ) who of course must have been there that day, but also in HIS company, only 100 men out of the entire Civil War and I'm looking at his grave. He must have known him, is the thing, so awfully wierd and it was a posititive experience in the extreme. I really wish had time to blah blah blah about it because WHEW, it would get long! :)
