"Enjoy life, you children of God."
I'm in the enviable position of having such a good, full week that I've not had time to write...but I have a ton of things to write, so I'm just going to kind of blurt them out in a random wad and let you sort it out...;-)
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First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, mxmagarita!!!
Best wishes for a happy day, and for a wonderful year to come!!!
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For those of you who aren't on hitchhiker's friend's list, he posted this this morning, and I think it's quite possibly one of the most succinct, eloquent, reasonable and cheer-worthy treatises as to why atheists--and a lot of us who aren't atheists--are angry, about a lot of things.
If you can read this and not get it, I suggest an immediate injection of IQ and a week of writing "I will not be an idiot" on the blackboard.
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Work has been more manageable this week, probably because I refuse to let it be anything BUT manageable.
The computer crashed again this morning.
It was Jeff's fault, I'm sure...;-)
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Paul went back to the eye doc today, who is taking the non-diagnosis that turned up during the MRI very personally.
This is a very, very good thing.
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"Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of
the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the
tiniest generosity can cause to be set in motion. Be outrageous in
forgiving. Be dramatic in reconciling. Mistakes? Back up and make them
as right as you can, then move on. Be off the charts in kindness. In
whatever you are called to, strive to be devoted to it in all aspects
large and small. Fall short? Try again. Mastery is made in increments,
not in leaps. Be brave, be fierce, be visionary. Mend the parts of the
world that are within your reach. To strive to live this way is the most
dramatic gift you can ever give to the world."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
American Author, Poet and Psychologist
"Be brave, be fierce, be visionary"....
Yup.
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One of my friends at work, one of the nicest people I know, had been kicking her husband around about the carpet in their sons' room.
She has two boys and two girls, and the carpet in the boys' room drove her crazy from the day they moved in. She hated it. She described it as sort of a muddy yellow, and it was just...repulsive.
So she nagged her husband and nagged her husband and nagged her husband to pull it up so that she could re-do the floor underneath.
After months of this, he finally put down the remote control and did it.
As he was working, she heard him, from the other room, make a strange noise that she thought might be the result of him hurting himself.
She ran in, and found him peering into the closet, where he had just pulled up the carpet.
And there, on the floor, was a stack of bills.
A BIG stack.
Of BIG bills.
$10,000 in all.
True story, swear to God.
The moral of the story?
The next time your Beloved nags you to do something that sounds like a big, nasty chore?
Put down the remote and do it.
You never know.
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And in case I haven't said it lately...
I am so delighted, so thrilled, so grateful and so delirious to be married to the man I'm married to that I can hardly stand it.
It makes me cry sometimes, just to think about it.
He's the BEST.
EVAR!!!!
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First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, mxmagarita!!!
Best wishes for a happy day, and for a wonderful year to come!!!
************************************************
For those of you who aren't on hitchhiker's friend's list, he posted this this morning, and I think it's quite possibly one of the most succinct, eloquent, reasonable and cheer-worthy treatises as to why atheists--and a lot of us who aren't atheists--are angry, about a lot of things.
If you can read this and not get it, I suggest an immediate injection of IQ and a week of writing "I will not be an idiot" on the blackboard.
****************************************************
Work has been more manageable this week, probably because I refuse to let it be anything BUT manageable.
The computer crashed again this morning.
It was Jeff's fault, I'm sure...;-)
*****************************************************
Paul went back to the eye doc today, who is taking the non-diagnosis that turned up during the MRI very personally.
This is a very, very good thing.
*****************************************************
"Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of
the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the
tiniest generosity can cause to be set in motion. Be outrageous in
forgiving. Be dramatic in reconciling. Mistakes? Back up and make them
as right as you can, then move on. Be off the charts in kindness. In
whatever you are called to, strive to be devoted to it in all aspects
large and small. Fall short? Try again. Mastery is made in increments,
not in leaps. Be brave, be fierce, be visionary. Mend the parts of the
world that are within your reach. To strive to live this way is the most
dramatic gift you can ever give to the world."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
American Author, Poet and Psychologist
"Be brave, be fierce, be visionary"....
Yup.
****************************************************
One of my friends at work, one of the nicest people I know, had been kicking her husband around about the carpet in their sons' room.
She has two boys and two girls, and the carpet in the boys' room drove her crazy from the day they moved in. She hated it. She described it as sort of a muddy yellow, and it was just...repulsive.
So she nagged her husband and nagged her husband and nagged her husband to pull it up so that she could re-do the floor underneath.
After months of this, he finally put down the remote control and did it.
As he was working, she heard him, from the other room, make a strange noise that she thought might be the result of him hurting himself.
She ran in, and found him peering into the closet, where he had just pulled up the carpet.
And there, on the floor, was a stack of bills.
A BIG stack.
Of BIG bills.
$10,000 in all.
True story, swear to God.
The moral of the story?
The next time your Beloved nags you to do something that sounds like a big, nasty chore?
Put down the remote and do it.
You never know.
***********************************************************
And in case I haven't said it lately...
I am so delighted, so thrilled, so grateful and so delirious to be married to the man I'm married to that I can hardly stand it.
It makes me cry sometimes, just to think about it.
He's the BEST.
EVAR!!!!