Posts by Pat:
Using all the colors in the box…
Life is like a box of crayons. And we are always choosing the colors we prefer.
I love the possibilities suggested by Terri Guillements, a quotations anthologist, that
- grey is cloudrainy,
- red is passion-lit,
- orange is flowerageous,
- yellow is suntastic,
- pink is lipsensual,
- blue is skyful,
- green is lifebursting,
- and purple is berrydancing!
(Aren’t her descriptions just awesome?!)
I believe it is heresy to get into the habit of calling a grey day a “colorless” day even in this sometimes grey season! Grey is a color and can be a very powerful and pleasing color.
One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like a dove’s feathers. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens. (as described by G.K. Chesterton, author)
And as many of you may know, I believe in adding color to my life (even on grey days) by wearing some of my many colored socks!
I’d love to have you share what YOU do to add color to YOUR life!
an older but wiser story
Here’s a story I told five years ago…and I still like the lesson! As I’ve gotten older and find myself looking ‘for a gate to open rather than climbing over a fence’, I can at least say to myself, “I may be slower, but at least I am wiser.” With that thought in mind, here’s […]
Both the dark and the light…
Last Sunday we changed our clocks to begin Daylight Saving Time. We seem to have gotten used to wanting more light sooner and so we artificially “Spring Forward” yearly to get an “extra” hour of sunlight! And now this coming Friday (March 20) we celebrate the first day of Spring (the vernal equinox), that point […]
Spring forward or..?
Although that image of cutting off a foot at the top of the blanket and sewing it on the bottom of the blanket doesn’t really make much sense, we still do it! We all have two choices as we move our clocks forward an hour for Daylight Savings Time. Choice 1: Spring Forward Today! Although […]
got a dragon on your mind?
The current events of our days may well feel like we are confronting dragons. Ever feel like you are hemmed in by the dragons on the edges of our present map? What’s just outside our experience of our known world today? Do we imagine it like some ancient mapmakers did, as being home to the […]
What does YOUR desk look like?
Remember this quote that is sometimes attributed to Einstein? And remember that “half full, half empty” glass question? Maybe we should also be grateful that whether we see our life as “a desk” or as “a glass”, we have been blessed to have one and (cluttered or clean, full or empty) we have the opportunity […]
Dropping some balls!?
It may be time to drop some balls! More balls in the air requires more juggling (and often more ball dropping.) When we forget to do something or accidentally drop the ball, we often feel guilty or unworthy. (Both are undesirable and unnecessary feelings!) What if we intentionally drop or just remove the ball from our juggling […]
7 truisms to smile over!
Some stuff that is true is also funny. Here are seven thoughts for you to mull over! Do you have a favorite you could add to this list? If you are one of those folks like me, who have had many birthdays, I would guess that you could make quite the list of your own!
My mortifying experience at 8 years old!
I was 8 years old when I was on Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say the Darndest Things” radio program and…was mortified by what my family thought was a scripted response, but wasn’t! (don’t ask me how to spell Mississippi…it really did overflow that day! So I can really appreciate (and enjoy) some of the following things […]
A philosophy of “maybe?”
Do you ever find yourself caught in a mental loop of negative thinking? Do your everyway worries sometimes seem to be overwhelming? Can you think of 5 ways something can go wrong instead of right? Instead of thinking just in black and white, positive and negative, good and bad, could you be intrigued with the […]