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Daily Question, October 23

What is bringing my life meaning right now?

  • Linda

    I am signing up to do meaningful community projects as a volunteer.
    I am also making an effort to have more good food on hand to prepare and eat at home with my husband. While working I didn’t bother much with that, and ate on the run (if at all). It feels good to prepare and eat good food!

  • Brown Rose

    Having goals/a to-do list

  • Sandra

    Fall and how it is showing us the beauty i.n letting go .

  • Don Jones

    I am thinking that “meaning making” is a reductive process. I am in an expansive mode at the moment, so it is more about paying attention to what is. An exploration of the hierarchy of Heaven and Earth.

  • Ose

    Closeness and intimacy with my dear ones with whom I am right now, where there is softness, honesty and space for the wrongs we all do, and equally for the good we all do leads to be intensely aware of our shared vulnerability. To take care even more and to love deeply.

  • Dusty Su

    Rest, reflection, realization, recouping!

  • dcdeb

    Helping others with what they have to do. Being of assistance.

  • pkr

    My daughter.
    My cousin.
    A renewed relationship with my Sister, who was “lost” for many years.
    Myself. I am trying to heal & care for myself, after being my mother & brother’s only caregiver for 1.5 years. Having been displaced from my home on the West Coast, I am back. I need lots of tending to, as does my “home”.
    My faith.

    • Ose

      Dear pkr, welcome back. May healing and care be with you. I will keep you in my prayers. Wishing you a good nights sleep and may you wake up refreshed to meet the new day, in faith.

      • pkr

        Dear Ose, thank you for your kind thoughts & prayers. Peace & Love to you from a very windy, rainy No. California. 🙏🌨💨❤️🙏

  • Elaine

    Hosting a gratefulness gathering which begins Monday!

    Supporting smart young climate justice champions in words, actions, money.

  • Pilgrim

    Life herself. Every day new and gift.

  • Marnie Jackson

    Working with people as a team to make a better school. Connecting with and enjoying my family.

  • sparrow

    . . . in a way,
    the dying of my mother in law,
    which brings me to an increased presence to my own life,
    and connecting with her
    in these last moments . . .
    an awareness of the cycle of all things,
    at one with the Universe . . .
    bringing to the surface
    what is important and what is not . . .

    • Sandra

      Sparrow, I am in a similar position. Your words have special resonance. I am glad your mother in law is peaceful and you have these insights as you and she journey through this process 🙏

    • Pilgrim

      I am sorry for your loss, sparrow. Gentle blessings and peace to you and your family.

      • sparrow

        Thank you,
        dear Pilgrim . . .
        she is still on the precipice,
        but is at peace…

  • Mary Pat
    Always my children and grandchildren. Our dog. Because I have Covid, and am now finished with quarantine, I hope to help others with making meals when they are sick with the meal train others have helped me with, as well as walking another persons dog when they are sick, just as others did for us. In helping others, I bring a new kind of meaning to my life. I thought I was too old anymore to make meals for others or help them in any way, but one of the "helpers" I have had is a young mother, and...

    Always my children and grandchildren. Our dog. Because I have Covid, and am now finished with quarantine, I hope to help others with making meals when they are sick with the meal train others have helped me with, as well as walking another persons dog when they are sick, just as others did for us. In helping others, I bring a new kind of meaning to my life. I thought I was too old anymore to make meals for others or help them in any way, but one of the “helpers” I have had is a young mother, and has started asking me questions about how to be a good mother to her baby…she had a traumatic childhood. I will offer what guidance I can, and that brings about another meaning to life now…I will be the “helper” when asked!

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  • Me

    Routine, work, calmness

  • Chester

    Simultaneous self cultivation and giving of my perspective and support to others – that has been the prevailing theme for most of my life and expect these two priorities will continue to be most meaningful and important – although expect the relative focus on each will continue to vary over time.

  • Holly in Ohio
    I think most people want very much to do something about climate change and pollution, but they don't always know what they can do, or how easy it is, and may feel a little powerless. I feel blessed that now I'm almost accidentally of service to others, in helping them find little things they can do that have a big impact. I was just asked yesterday if I would speak about recycling at a nature center in Texas, of all places! It's a bit too far for me, practically, but I was flattered. So to ans...

    I think most people want very much to do something about climate change and pollution, but they don’t always know what they can do, or how easy it is, and may feel a little powerless. I feel blessed that now I’m almost accidentally of service to others, in helping them find little things they can do that have a big impact. I was just asked yesterday if I would speak about recycling at a nature center in Texas, of all places! It’s a bit too far for me, practically, but I was flattered. So to answer the question, service is one of the things that gives meaning to my life right now, being able to answer questions or hold a lantern to show the way, to empower others and help them realize that they can make a difference.

    Love for humanity and the earth brings meaning to my life.

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  • Nelson

    I shut down my work computer early yesterday. I promised my partner this weekend I wouldn’t work. This weekend is all about quality time with family. It feels so good to reconnect with loved ones.

  • Patricia

    Using the last of the garden veggies: a bunch of green cherry tomatoes… I mean a whole bunch! … how do I use them if I don’t want to pickle them? I found a chicken and green tomato chili recipe that I’ll make later today. I find that using as much as I can of the produce of my own garden brings joy and meaning…. and immense gratitude.

    • Holly in Ohio
      There are also two ways I've found to ripen many green tomatoes, Patricia. One year before frost I pulled up whole tomato plants, roots and all, and hung them upside down in my mud room. It actually worked! In a week I had more red tomatoes. The other way (less messy) is to take green tomatoes and put them in a brown paper bag, and then check them every day. As tomatoes become red, remove them from the bag. Not all the green tomatoes will ripen. If they are still small and hard, they will st...

      There are also two ways I’ve found to ripen many green tomatoes, Patricia. One year before frost I pulled up whole tomato plants, roots and all, and hung them upside down in my mud room. It actually worked! In a week I had more red tomatoes. The other way (less messy) is to take green tomatoes and put them in a brown paper bag, and then check them every day. As tomatoes become red, remove them from the bag. Not all the green tomatoes will ripen. If they are still small and hard, they will stay green. I hope you have a lovely meal tonight, Patricia! I know what you mean about “the last of tomatoes until next year.” 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

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      • Patricia
        It's so funny that you wrote this - I did the same thing with a ton of regular tomato plants a few years ago, but hung them upside down in my unheated garage - (but under the house, so it never completely freezes but just kind of a root cellar temp). When I'd open the garage door, it looked like I was drying marijuana plants in there, seriously! ... Luckily we live in the woods so no neighbors could report my suspicious behavior! We had tomatoes ripening all the way to Thanksgiving that ye...

        It’s so funny that you wrote this – I did the same thing with a ton of regular tomato plants a few years ago, but hung them upside down in my unheated garage – (but under the house, so it never completely freezes but just kind of a root cellar temp). When I’d open the garage door, it looked like I was drying marijuana plants in there, seriously! … Luckily we live in the woods so no neighbors could report my suspicious behavior! We had tomatoes ripening all the way to Thanksgiving that year. I’ve done the paper bag thing with large tomatoes, but I frankly just want to use up these little guys and be done with them! Big tomatoes are worth the time and effort to baby them along…

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  • Michele

    The joy of watching an armadillo and a feral cat I named Daphne in my backyard. What an active morning! I have been feeding this cat for over a week now – I think she is feral and not a neighbors because she is very scared of me and does not come up. I talk to her and she meows back at me. She is soo cute. I had seen the armadillo once before months ago so it was a treat to see him very active all over my yard this morning. Oh and of course the peacocks too.

  • Nannette

    My faith, the love of my husband and the love and craziness of my life with my dog and two cats. It is now Autumn and the air is cooler, leaves are dancing as they fall…a time of looking back and looking ahead. I am so thankful for this life.

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