“…The flight attendant reminds me quite often, “If the plane is in an emergency situation and the oxygen masks drop from the ceiling, please make sure to put your mask on first before you assist those sitting around you.”
The message is simple. You are no good to anyone around you if you donʼt take the time to breathe in the oxygen that you need. So, before you go running off to help those around you, make sure you put your mask on first…”
You First.
Just Breathe
“…Our bodies aren’t shy about telling us that we are stressed out! Muscle tension, backaches, stomach upset, headaches, burnout and other illness states are ways in which the body signals to us the need to relax. Rather than run for that anti-anxiety medication, we can utilize our easiest, natural defense against stress: our breathing…”
Old Farmer’s Advice
“…It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.
You cannot unsay a cruel word.
Every path has a few puddles.
When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
The best sermons are lived, not preached…”
Advice for Muggles, from J.K. Rowling
“…So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes…”
I Rescued a Human Today
Soon my kennel door opened and her smile was so bright that I instantly jumped into her arms. I would promise to keep her safe. I would promise to always be by her side. I would promise to do everything I could to see that radiant smile and sparkle in her eyes….
Private Showing
“I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it – how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please….”
Don’t Let People Put Thoughts in Your Head
“…How easy it is to be unaware of the process, to walk around with other people’s words in our head, taking them as truth, taking them as our own, letting their ideas about us control our lives and our beliefs. We don’t have to let others put their spells on us. We don’t have to believe what they say…”
Today my heart broke and I was grateful
“…Today I watched an old man give up his seat on the train for a young, beautiful woman; and my heart broke because she didn’t thank or even acknowledge him, and then broke again because he smiled at her anyway; and I was grateful for his patience, kindness and humility….”
What if There Really Was Enough in This Sweet World?
“…I’ve been thinking about my future. It’s a place us divorced women at midlife go a lot in our minds….Can I really rely on just me to bring me whatever I need for the rest of my life?
It’s a practical question – and one that must be asked. Especially by me. Because somewhere long ago, I got programmed to believe others should take care of me — like a husband, or Master Card…”
This is Vuja De
There was once a woman who looked so long and so intently at the moon,
That it possessed her and she became the ocean.
She cast off her worldly clothes
and stripped clean to her soul skin.
She became a seal, a dolphin, a manatee, a selkie….
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See you on my next visit to Huntsville.