This one is easy. To SLOW DOWN! That is what I have learned, and is important. I put this on my FB page early yesterday…..
“Remember even though you recognize where you are going in life, at this point in time, it is very important that you honor where you have been, and bow to it. Grieve the parts of it where you feel loss, and allow it’s completion at this point in your life so you can truly move on. Most of us do not, we just want to move on.
We need to SLOW DOWN and grieve it, then set it beside the path of our lives and move on down our path. Hard work!”
I had been listening to a talk by Ram Dass, and he struck a cord in me with something he said, and that is what I began to write. It is exactly what I need to do at this time in my life. I’m going to find a turtle picture or even a piece of jewelry to wear because I need a constant reminder to slow down. Too much “doing ” in my life is not a good thing.

I have two glass jars in our house: in the basement, one on the main floor. I have pens and paper underneath them. The sign on both says
“What good or great thing happened today?” or something like that .
I start it always on January 1st, and do my best to write down at the end of the day something good or great that has happened in the last 24 hours. I have been known to not wait until the nighttime, and just write it down right after the “good or great” has happened! Sometimes they are small things, sometimes quite big.
I always date them at the top of the page.
So here is the thing….by August, sometimes even July, I start to falter. I hate heat and my attitude reflects that…..There are usually not many entries in July and August until I do one very important thing: I take a few random papers out and read them.
This simple practice reenergizes me to see the good again. Because of some physical challenges this year, it has been harder, but simply looking back at my year really does the trick to change my attitude. And I begin seeing the good or great once more.
The last week of the year I open them all up and read every one of them, and I go into the New Year with much gratefulness and a happy heart filled with gratitude.

It may seem obvious, but it is the way things have been going lately for me. First, Cystitis, now three wasp stings in the past two weeks. I can’t get a shoe on the foot that has experienced this onslaught of more-than-bad-luck. I will call the doctor to get in and find out what can be done-probably steroids-but it seems like something is always happening to me physically, just when I was on a path to better health., and doing really well! Really. I am pretty discouraged. There is a Buddhist story about a farmer I can relate to right now, but I would rather not have to relate to it at all!
UPDATE-turns out I have a secondary infection from the wasp stings and that is why I can’t get my shoe on. So glad that is all it is! Thanks for the prayers!!!