Posts by Pat:
What do we really mean?
Sometimes I wonder why we say some of the words or phrases we do even though they sound ridiculous.
Yet most everyone understands our meaning and intentions!
As an ex/English teacher of course I really do know that it’s fun and creative and even humorous.
After all, I’ve been fit as a fiddle, have blown my top, and even been in a pickle!
(I’ve even paid an arm and a leg for something!)
But sometimes it would be smarter to choose my words more carefully, rather than try to be humorous. I remember a number of decades ago that I said I wanted to be debt free in the worst possible way. What I meant was I wanted it very intensely. But I got debt free in the worst possible way by going through a bankruptcy!
I might have been smarter to have paid attention to the feelings and the energy those words created and shifted my language to that which could have empowered me. (Maybe “I’m really committed to finding the best possible way to improve my financial situation”)…?
Now I’m older and wiser. I now have wisdom enough to know that my thoughts and words are creative and powerful and to choose them much more carefully!
I imagine that I’m not the only one who has been cavalier in my word choices and regretted it. I know that “foot in mouth disease” seems to be rampant, at least online!
I’d love to know that I’m not alone just in case you’d be willing to share an experience of yours!
Thursday is special!
This Thursday, August 13, is officially International Left Handers Day! The day is meant to promote awareness of the inconveniences facing left handers in a predominantly right handed world. It celebrates our uniqueness. And I’m part of the 7-10% of the population that is left-handed, as was my dad and my son! What about you? […]
Another way to say it…
Or maybe just a more specific (or creative way) to say it! Another post from me, the ex-English teacher who used to own a bookstore… I just can’t help playing with words! If we can’t BUILD a relationship this week, maybe we could find a way to (create, begin, deepen, enjoy, develop, find, strengthen, advance […]
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 […]
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 […]