Posts by Pat:
A memory for me…
As I get older, I find myself looking backwards in time for inspiration and lessons from stories, from songs, from cliches to make my life more fun and more meaningful. (Maybe it comes from having been a teacher? from owning a bookstore?)
Anyway, here again (did it in 2018!) is my take on the old childhood song, Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Let me know what you make of it!
Row, row, row your boat…
Waiting, drifting, wishing won’t get us where we want to go. We need to DO what’s in front of us to do. This life is our boat. We need to ROW our own boat; direct our own life. And not our children’s, our sister’s, or our friend’s. (this is sometimes challenging!)
Gently down the stream...our time here on this planet doesn’t need to be a struggle, to be difficult. We don’t have to swim upstream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily…though we may not be able to pick all our experiences, we CAN pick our attitude and our attitude will AFFECT our experience!
Life is but a dream…
Do YOU have a song that has a message for you?
Enjoying the “dog days”
It’s summer time (and the living is supposed to be easy!) Sometimes we complain about how warm it can get here in the valley! But we do know that it is the “dog days” of summer! From July 3 through August 11 is traditionally considered to be the hottest and most sultry weather of our […]
Time really does seem to fly!
It wasn’t really that long ago, was it?! At this point in my life, I have already had a whole lot more past than I have of future. And… now we all are half way though this year of 2026! Time is moving faster than I remember… (We often act as if we had all […]
Wisdom comes with age?
I just had my birthday! And I’ve been giving some thought to some “wisdom” we’ve been hearing over the years. See if any of these resonate with your experience! “They” say… Life has been, and continues to be, GOOD! There’s always so much to see, hear, do and enjoy no matter which birthday it is. […]
Shake it off and step up again!
Remember this old, (but tried and true) lesson? I shared it back in the olden days of 2019! A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule braying or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully […]
Tides are inevitable…
No matter how bad things may appear to be now, nature guarantees a turn for the better because change is always happening. Nature’s cycles are dependable. And there’s a tide in our lives… Our lives have their ups and downs. It’s the natural rhythm of life. To succeed, we must learn to accept the tide […]
What can be counted?
If we take down our clothesline and buy an electric clothes dryer, the electric use of the nation rises slightly. If we go in the other direction and replace the dryer with a clothesline, the consumption of electricity drops slightly, but there is little credit given anywhere on the graphs to solar energy which is […]
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 […]