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Looming Along

Apr 05, 2011 09:43

It is just shy of 8:30 am, as I plop my butt, into the rickety old chair (which I know will one day BREAK under my weight), and begin this post. It is a bright day, outside. Golden with sunlight. Sunshine, I can deal with. After all, who doesn't love a nice, sunny day ( Read more... )

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kjerlandsen April 5 2011, 18:35:22 UTC

lol I claim to hate monotony as well, but then I find I have difficulty with big changes.

I had a teacher in high school that made us meditate for the first 10 minutes of class every day. I always fell asleep. Pretty sure I was meditating wrong!

kae1crafts April 5 2011, 19:28:10 UTC

So glad that you are feeling better after yesterday's post. Meditation is always helpful to me and I look at knitting and other yarn tasks as a form of meditation or therapy as well.

Hugs, happy looming and gardening,

Kae

adelheid_p April 5 2011, 19:35:24 UTC

We had one day of nice weather and now it's cold and rainy. This is Pittsburgh-- our two seasons are Winter and Construction! LOL!

You should not be ashamed at all. I'm so glad you are feeling better. Finding joy in the simple things in life is so important!

carambolinha April 5 2011, 20:27:43 UTC

I am so glad to hear that you have gotten to feel some peace since writing that post yesterday. One of the things I've learned in my counseling sessions is to be honest with myself and face the hard stuff. If you just keep making yourself think about something else, not crying, not dealing with what is there, it won't leave. It'll still be there under the surface, manifesting itself in unexpected ways and affecting the way you think about everything else.
I was bullied mercilessly pretty much all through elementary school, and I had to face that and understand how it was affecting me NOW, 15 years later, in order to start moving on and being okay with who I am, fundamentally, as a person.
It sounds like you did that, too.

Meditation sounds like a wonderful idea. Letting the mind be silent is a powerful thing. I'll share a quote with you that my priest shares with us sometimes, about the prophet Elias, who was trying to hear God's message: God's answer was: "Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh ." Then God marched ( ... )

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theyarnproject April 6 2011, 02:38:12 UTC

It was a rather difficult entry to write. But, I felt compelled to do it, so I did.
And now...because of that short hard time, I feel like a weight has been lifted.