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Something to reduce work stress. I might paste it on top of my monitor. Because
Because sometimes I get to feeling like I have to do everything, at all times.
And with the coming of Not-Winter, a great weight lifts off of me that I hardly realized was there. Suddenly I love my life without effort.
This is my 27th spring in Vermont, and it has never stopped being a miracle.
“I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else it must be in my own way.” Edward, Sense & Sensibility
Me after 3 glasses of wine! Celebrate the good times.
One of my awards for helping save the economy Sunday before last.
This isn’t the main award I picked. It’s nice and shiny and red, but my main award is even prettier and should be coming soon. This was something I chose with leftover points. X had fun playing with it.
Bono has been joining me lately during my crafting hours. These are such beautiful albums. How much do I love the song “One”?
Of course they also bring me back to my super-young adulthood and periods of psychological unrest. Aren’t we glad we’re past all that now? Aren’t we? Then again I wasn’t doing so well 10 years ago, either. It’s more like I have intervals of Ordinary Time, but that doesn’t mean I’m ever ‘better’, or ‘beyond’, or ‘quite right now’.
Xopher walking on Lake Carmi, Franklin, Vermont
Ya know it doesn’t seem to matter how much or how little I sleep. I can have a lousy night and still feel just average the next day; I can sleep seemingly plenty and still feel like crap. And in a similar vein, Saturday night I eschewed burgers and fries and ice cream when we went out to eat, yet I still had a lousy night. I feel so exhausted today, and I didn’t even buy into that DST bullshit (I’m protesting and shifting my life an hour later, which is to say, NOT shifting my life). I really can’t remember the last time I felt physically “fine”, in fact. So just f*ck it. Do what you want, body. You’re gonna do what you want anyway.
I’ve referred to this before. I keep a line-a-day-journal. In recent times it’s taken the form of “one great thing from the past 24 hours and 3 blessings” a.k.a what is sometimes called (ick) a “gratitude journal.” But I’m going to morph it into a combined anti-gratitude and gratitude journal. You should definitely think of a great thing that recently happened every morning when you get up, and count your blessings. But first you should think of what was the worst thing that happened in the last 24 hours, and what are three other things you have to be ungrateful about. Because that way when inevitable bad things happen, you won’t feel, on top of bad, the feeling that you are stymied, that this bad thing wasn’t SUPPOSED to happen, you wuz robbed, you were gypped. With practice, you’ll instead think, aha, this is the Bad Thing, or one of the Bad Things, due to happen today; right on time!
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