Posts by Pat:
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 moving the clock ahead an hour smacks of messing with the time continuum, we can certainly use it as a mechanism to jumpstart our individual Spring.
And any day can be our new start! So…what have you been thinking of doing but haven’t gotten around to yet? (As you know, any day can be your January 1.)
So today is as good as any day to…
- make that decision,
- take that action, and
- move ahead.
Choice 2: Bloom Where You Are Planted!
This one could be really fun if you don’t want to make a drastic change, but just be effective and beautiful where you are.
And you could become a guerrilla gardener or pothole gardener and create something that’s fun and special!
So…whatever your choice, have a happy Daylight Savings Day, whether or not the hour change makes any sense to you!
After all, it doesn’t have to be either/or…
springing forward or blooming!
It could be both/and!
What resonates with you?
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 […]
What’s your definition of life?
If you were to choose your favorite life metaphor, what would it be? Do you agree with Forrest Gump when he said his mother told him that “life is a box of chocolates” because “you never know what you’re going to get”? Or do you prefer the phrase from the 1930’s tune that “life is […]
What we really want!
Here is a shortcut to getting what we really want. (just an example from a former Realtor’s perspective!) What did the mythical client want? Asked about their dream home, they described it. “It’s on a hill, surrounded by tall trees, with a panoramic view.” What feeling does the house give you? “Security.” And the hill? […]
The Opposite of Distraction
What is a “distraction” anyway? We usually think about them being external triggers…notifications on our phone, a honking horn from that car behind us, an ad that reminds us we’re hungry. It’s easy to point fingers at technology, but the most common source of distraction is not what’s happening outside of us. It’s our internal […]