Strong daughter-in-law

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My Mom and Sister get weekly updates on the neighborhood frictions. Mom sent an article about HOA nuttiness. These are such first world issues compared to what our neighbor is living through now.

Biking through our neighborhood a car slows, rolls down the window, and chats as we maintain a slow pace together. We stop in the street. Not uncommon in our community.

We talk.

His daughter-in-law is one of 500 Americans annually who get ALS at her ‘younger’ age. Her prognosis is 10-40 months from the first signs. It’s been six months.

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Spirituality is art

Timing (luck) is when preparation meets opportunity.

Spirituality is art.

Imagine the creating involved in order to love something or someone by letting them go.

Surrendering to what you want and hope for in order to allow someone else to follow the path they choose, which can be vastly different than your path.

The generous art of daily surrender, starting with self.

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Was i supposed to feel compassion and pity?

Louisville sunset
Sunset last night from hotel room.

 

Was i supposed to feel compassion and pity?

Asked a worker yesterday, “How’s life been treating you?”

Him: With a heavy sigh, “I’m working two jobs.”

Me: “Sorry to hear that. Hang in there.”

The long walk home (to the Omni) last night i rethought the conversation and wished i would have asked, “How many hours are you working?”

Why?

Because a gut feeling says the number of hours i spend working is equal to or greater than his combined two-jobs total.

He never asked, “So what about you?”

i pray especially focused prayers for people who feel like a victim. The prayers revolve around them discovering gratitude as a weapon to fight against “feeling sorry for themselves”.

Additionally, the prayers focus on “the victims” being more aware and empathetic to everyone they encounter. Why? It’s helped me over the course of my life and i am convinced it will help almost anyone.

 

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Such an insignificant life in the big scheme of things

releasing household bug
At 6am yesterday, a small silverfish (bug) was in our master bathroom sink. The old me would have grabbed a tissue and quickly killed it. The new me caught it and released it outside. The blue paper is a post-it note.

 

Maybe it was too much concern.

i may never know for sure.

All i know is i felt better about myself for what i did.

PS. Thanks to our son (17) for inspiring me to .think .differently about bugs.

 

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