The Power of Letting Go
I sit here in front of my open window with the woods full of greened bush honeysuckle and singing birds. The wind is at breeze strength with a steady motion in the red cedar tree. It is a beautiful day. Lovely start to any day. I note that our small bat house on the garden shed finally seems to have tenants. Not bats but a small bird not yet identified. Our bluebird boxes are also occupied and we have rabbits in the stacks and piles of wood from last year’s ice damage. Although annoying when they raid the bird food we also have a raccoon pair. It is a country kind of place even though I can still see the house on the street behind us. Three acres, mostly woods, gives us plenty of space. Although I lament that we did not find, nor could we have afforded, a place with a view of the lake, we are only five minutes to the boat dock and access to one of the loveliest, purest lakes you might find.
I Was Asked For Five Reasons I Love Being A Mother
My friend at Eve’s Lungs tagged me to write a post about five reasons I love being a mother. Since I wrote about why I like being a woman, this is a natural sequel. Is there a post on being a wife in the wings?
I will preface this with my philosophy of parenting. Our job is to prepare our children for the world they will live in and to be good people in that world. We need to avoid getting hung up in the minute details, they seem to take care of themselves. Teach them to solve problems and learn how to make decisions which means allowing them to make poor decisions and to fail with a safety net. Teach them to be kind and to stand up for others when they are being mistreated. Hug, kiss, cuddle and laugh with them. Tell them that we love them. Tell them we are sorry when we mess up. Keep our sense of humor. That’s enough! Continue reading
THE NATURE OF FRIENDSHIP
The general consensus of various online dictionaries and encyclopedias is that friendship is basically “cooperative and supportive behavior between two or more beings” I write beings because one of the sources used the term social entities while another used humans. So, I figure beings covers both terms reasonably well. However, “cooperative and supportive behavior” makes a rather thin quilt to cover all the nuances of friendship and does not come close to touching the visceral nature of friendship.
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Making Peace with the Woman in the Mirror
For this post I am borrowing one from a favorite Blog I read. It sums up some of my thoughts on aging bodily when my mind is still 30something. Actually, I gravitate to about 34, one of the best years of my life because it was the first year I spent with my cherished daughter, Lydia. For now, I seem to be the size and shape I vowed never to be when I was resigned to being a Rosalind Russell figure rather than an Audrey Hepburn figure. However, the styles I love to wear would look, at this time, more like the work of a tent maker than a tailor.
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