When you work hard, and life still remains unfair, what can you do?
Count your blessings.
Your life could always be worse.
Always.
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Category: Day To Day
Purge Baby Purge
How much stuff do you have?
How much stuff do you need?
But if I trash it, give it away or donate it, I may need it later.
I keep, relentlessly, reminding myself, “You will never use this. Get rid of it. It’s suffocating your joy.”
Remember MP3 players?
Did You See This?
Over at jungle jeff today, I posted about the latest bit of challenging news.
And you hear me, over and over, talk about how life is a daily grind.
Don’t get me wrong, there is joy, hope and goodness surrounding us. I get that. And am sustained by it.
Yet.
Yet the latest news says we better be prepared for stormy weather.
Been talking about that too.
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1 Thing That Was Most Touching
This blog, of the five, is about the day to day stuff that doesn’t fall into one of life’s big four choices – MIND, BODY, SPIRIT, MONEY.
I mean, where would picking out a puppy fall? Or picking a Vet?
We’ve been going to the same Vet for 23 years, in Kissimmee, Florida.
As our most recent Lab Carter, began to fail rapidly on February 10, we chose a Vet much closer.
Why? Because I knew we’d be making many trips, maybe even daily. Chapin came with Carter and me several times.
I dug the grave (above) and buried Carter on Valentine’s Day.
Then the day after I laid Carter to rest, a Monday, I went in to pay the Vet bill.
Amanda, who saw me first, well, the first thing she said was, “How’s your son?”
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Sacrifices & Rewards
These two generally go hand in hand.
If you can sacrifice some things in order to create and maintain an organized, fairly systematic way to run your life, what do you think the payoff might be?
We all have to figure this out.
And as soon as we do, or maybe even sooner, something else will come along to knock us and our system down.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
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