Posts by Pat:
Choosing a life lesson…
So…what have YOU learned about life so far?
Below are eight of my “lessons learned!”
I bet you also have a number of lessons you have learned through the years. I’d love to have you share a favorite or two!
(And here is an extra one that comes to my mind!)
Some “elder” thoughts of mine…
Some people try to turn back their “odometers.” Not me. I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved! I would like to know why the easiest way to find something that I lost around the house is to go out and […]
Did you get that diploma?
Maybe we got the diploma/ license/award… but we are still enrolled in Life 101 and have more to do. Maybe we finished something or brought it to a conclusion, but aren’t yet where we want to be or thought we would be. And that’s okay. A “graduation” is also a “commencement.” And Life 101 is […]
Telling yourself a story?
Like me, I’ll bet you have a “story” for just about everything! Why you can’t lose weight, why you can’t keep to your budget, why you can’t learn a new skill… “I’m just big-boned.” “I’ve never been good with math.” “I’m too old.” Like me, you probably know that the story we tell ourselves is […]
Does English make any sense?
(In my first incarnation in the olden days of long ago!), I found some humor in teaching recalcitrant 7th and 8th graders the “rules” of the English language. Some rules do seem to have the fun of being self-contradictory! Our language continues to change. Perhaps it’s evolving, not just degenerating? Whatever the reason, it sure […]
Which do you believe?
Many popular sayings are correct, even insightful, when we apply them to our life’s circumstances. But when properbs are viewed without qualification, they can cancel each other out! (Thus, my nerdy ex-English teacher and avid reader side has taken control of this post!) And we’ve all heard that “birds of a feather flock together” AND […]
The ‘weeds’ in our lives…
When do we consider a plant a weed? Simply expressed, a weed is a plant that grows where it isn’t wanted by us. Weeds are defined by their tendency to flourish at the expense of a gardener’s overall vision and we tend to battle their presence in our yards. (Guess what I’ve been doing these […]
A story about being lost…
Once upon a time…a man was walking down a road. At first the places were known to him, but became less and less familiar. Finally he knew he was in a new place and was lost. The traveler kept walking until he was at the foot of a steep hill. He was too tired to […]
My new favorite color!
Almost nothing else represents the emergence of spring like the beloved yellow daffodil, happy and bright after its (and my) long winter’s nap. I think some things on this earth were designed to bring happiness to the hearts of humans: thus the daffodil! It’s as if the sun had shed a layer of skin and […]
It’s a miracle, isn’t it?
To our ancient ancestors, it must have been a most startling event to see a new and live creature emerge from a seemingly dead object! That delicate shell is a paradox: sturdy enough to shield the life growing inside it, but frail enough to give way to the emergence of the life within it, protective […]