It is said that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I understand the phrase and I agree.
I also realize that before you can make the lemonade, you need to peel away the bitter outside layer. After that layer is removed, the extraction of good things to come begins. This is the time for me personally to begin exactly that.
haven’t written half as much as I had planned to this year. To say so much got in the way would be a poor reason/excuse. Things happen to all of us. I’m not special or different or targeted. I got lazy. I procrastinated. Then I didn’t want to share what I am dealing with quite yet.
Waiting. I feel like I spend so much of my life waiting to reach goals, to be fully happy, to be treated kindly and fairly and to be treated with the same respect and love that I treat everyone. My gut tells me that this will never happen. I’ve come to realize too that waiting […]
Nothing that we plan or imagine for ourselves actually happens as we think it will look like. It’s good to have goals but also necessary to be flexible because that is what will be most needed to avoid disappointment and/or depression. We may never know the reasons things don’t work out as we thought they […]
I’m not cool. I’m not fashionable. I’m not fancy. I wish I was but one thing is certain, I am real. I am sincere. I’m authentic. I’m kind. I won’t trade any of that to be cool, fashionable, hip or fancy.
Our scars both physcial and emotional help mould us into who we are. We are not who others see, we are who we feel we are inside. I recently painted my kitchen cabinets and..
This year has been a challenge for just about everyone I talk to. To be perfectly honest, the past few years have been wonky. For me, the reasons are various but not limited. As well as more difficult, stressful moments, there have been some pretty amazing moments too. Today, for the year end, I’m going to pour out my bucket to give myself some space for new experiences in the year(s) ahead.
If you read an of my past posts, you know that my childhood and young adulthood weren’t necessarily filled with love and hope and encouragement. My past in fact took a lot of time and energy from my present because I let it. I let it because everything needed to be pocessed in order to let it be. Today, I appreciate each day with my chin up.
Today, while I was completing a menial task, my mind wandered off to remembering how time felt like it dragged on so slowly as a kid and how time seems to fly by now. Becoming truly caught in my past through thought, I remembered how much I wished to get out of the home, the […]
Change is always going to happen whether we like it or not. Almost three weeks ago I had to help my dog cross that rainbow bridge. My heart is aching. Still. Despite knowing that she was almost 13 years old and that there was nothing anyone could do to make her better, it was traumatic for me. Making that call is traumatic for most people who have to undertake that role whether it’s to help a pet or a family member. It doesn’t get easier with each passing day, it just gets familiar.
