Fairy Reminder

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

–Joseph Chilton Pearce

Creativity isn’t just something we do.

Being creative doesn’t mean just drawing pictures, writing books, or sculpting statues out of clay. There’s not a limited pot of creativity available only to the artists.

Creativity is a vital living force in the universe that is available to each of us, to assist us in living our lives. All we need to do to align ourselves with that force is let go of our fears.

Need a new idea on how to fix that room, that thesis, that relationship? Need an idea about how to fix your life? Let yourself be creative. Encourage your ideas to flow. Listen to your intuition, to your spirit.

Listen to that small idea you have, the one you have so much passion for. Let go of your rational thought process just for a moment. Let creativity help you live your life. 

Another Reading....

There’s a “refresh” button you can click on the computer when you’re on-line. It makes the computer operate more efficiently.

Sometimes we get a little sluggish,too. We’ve been pushing too hard. Mulling the same thoughts over and over. Doing the same things over and over. Sometimes we need a change of scenery. Sometimes we need to refresh our thoughts with prayer, meditation, a few words from a friend, or spending some time with a good book.

Maybe it’s our bodies that need refreshing. We need a cold beverage, a brisk walk, a nap, or a hot shower.

Maybe we need a bigger refreshment, a weekend at a spa, a vacation. Even if our budget is low, we can pitch a tent in a park and take in the refreshing beauty of the world around us.

Look around. The world abounds with refreshments. The next time you get bogged down, stop pushing so hard. Do what you need to do to become efficient and operate with ease.

Refresh yourself.

Evaporation

Joys

 

Friday—woohoo!!

Pink Ribbon Sunrises

The Cinderella Pumpkin on my desk

The Mason Jar with Sunflowers in it

Watching the IT fella combat static cling

The work stations that are awaiting fall decorations

STUFF I collected for decorating purposes

Excellent coffee made by yours truly

The gourdy guys and lights and leaves on the  top of my work station

 

 

Whoda thought showing up for work could give you a good start on the list for the day.  And I arrived at 6am—the lights came on at 8.  Something about working without fluorescent lights is appealing to me.

 

This evening we’ll pick up the Bug and have a whole weekend of one Joy after another.  Hewholovesherhugely has plans—they’re  raking leaves (which oughta be a hoot!).

I think I’ll be in charge of the hot cocoa one they’re done.  Or, maybe I’ll be in charge of instigating a leaf fight (doubt that’ll be my job—pretty sure granddad has one on his agenda……)

 

They’re all over, those Joys.  It’s just a matter of hanging on to them and not letting the little things in life take up space in your head.

Yeahyeah……I say that knowing they’ll evaporate into thin air once something stupid gets my attention.

*sigh*  Maybe I need to put that “Joys” list around my neck.

 

WHY do I continue to let go of things I need to hang on to and hang on to things I need to let go of.
Oy......

Fairy Reading

Don’t worry and fuss about what you’re going to do tomorrow, or how tomorrow’s answers will come. The way to get through a task, a day, a life is to stay in the present moment.

Racing, pushing, trying to force things forward doesn’t work. Not anymore. Hurrying will not speed up the process, or the journey. In fact, if you race ahead of yourself, you may find you need to go back, return to the parts you skipped over, and go through it again fully present.

Yes, there are times we need to press on, times we need tp push a bit more. But hurrying won’t speed up the process. It will just keep us tense, out of step. To speed up the process, we need to fully immerse ourselves in the moment and then focus our energy, our presence, our emotions, our thoughts, and our heart.

Stay in the present moment. Listen to your heart right now. Be gentle and loving with yourself right now. Be open to the guidance around you right now, guidance that will make the present moment come alive.

The NoIdidn'tbutIshoulda pumpkin

TFTD

Fight one more round.  When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.

–  James J. Corbett

One of the problems we most frequently hear about when a person is ill, whether it be mentally or physically, is exhaustion.  We tell our doctors, our friends, anyone who will lend a willing ear, “I’m just so very tired.”

To live in the fullest sense of the word, we have to, first of all, take care of ourselves.  If what we feel is physical exhaustion, then we must allow ourselves the needed rest.  We don’t have to take on additional projects or commitments to prove ourselves.   If, however, our tiredness has an emotional base, we may have to push ourselves — for just one more hour, for just one more day — trusting that the energy will come.

Captured Memory (...yikes!!) 18

Yup....Mel's baking!!

 

.....Baking pine cones and honey locus pods....  :-/

I'm blaming Diane.

The intent was to teach the young, single, penny pinching new home owner who shares some of my work space that you CAN do decorating on a shoestring budget.

But dang.....they're too cute and I wanna keep 'em all!!

I won't, of course.

Might keep a couple of each though.

They'd be cute with the gourds left over from Halloween.  :-)

Empty chairs...

I go into the meeting and make small talk.  It's more like several of us giving each other grief than it is about "making nice" and saying righ, polite things.
There's a hint of truth in there as someone laughs and calls another a "selfish puke".  We tend to do that, stick the truth in there with a good coat of sarsasm....it's a bitter pill sometimes hard to swallow.
I note he's not in his usual chair and I sidle up to a buddy of his to ask the question that has an obvious answer.

How is he?
"Not feeling the best....in need of prayers and good thoughts."
Of course he's already in mine.
I thank G-d every day for taking such good care of him but damn.....He knows what I want....give it to me already.

His chair will be empty again this evening.  I know cuz I talked to his wife this evening.
He won't be there.

I'm sad.
Angry even...
But here's another fine example of me thinking I know better than G-d.
*sigh*

Just another TFTD

As you change, what works for you may change.

The purpose of the journey is to open up. But with it comes the responsibility of watching how we feel, how our bodies feel in certain circumstances. With it comes the responsibility of knowing that certain things that used to work for us, certain things we used to be able to handle, may not work as well any longer.

As we change, we will want and need the energy around us to change,too. We’ll want it to feel better, energize us, be good for us. At first we may say, This never bothered me before. I don’t know why I’m so sensitive now. Then we may wait for our bodies and lives to return to normal, to return to how they used to be.

You are becoming more sensitive, more open than you’ve ever been. When you were closed, you didn’t feel as much, didn’t respond as much. Sometimes you weren’t aware of what you were feeling or how your body reacted. Now that you are more open, your body, mind, spirit, and soul will be far more effected by what you take in– whether it is food, drink, or the energy of a person or situation. You will feel more intensely. You may want different foods, different people, different places, different clothing, different activities. As your energy changes, you will likely want different energy around you.

Listen to your body and emotions when they tell you something no longer works for you. Let the old fall away. Listen to your inner guidance as your heart leads you to someplace new.

The "No-see-me" kind

Things that make me happy....

....the Bug with her Spider Girl 'web spray' (aka silly string that she sprayed herself in the face with...LOL!!)

....mom's taking photos of Stanley hugging kiddos.

....the tiny monkey in the stroller.   He was sooooo cute!!

....the extra jack-o-lantern cuz himself was worried mine was "too small for a candle"....it was not!  Ha!!!  SCORE on one more!!!

"Pleasant, helpful and kind"....words the auditor used to describe me.....ME!  ROFL

....PASSING the audit....holy cow, my first one in this new job position!  Wooohoo!!

....decorating with the youngster who works two wrork stations in front of me.  She's a good one,  that gal!

....another gal to work with!  Holy cow.... there won't be enough time in the day if the Big Guy keeps this up.  :-)

More from the fairy...

“I walk in and out of many worlds.”

–Joy Harjo, CREEK/CHEROKEE

In my mind are many dwellings. Each of the dwellings we create ourselves – the house of anger, the house of despair, the house of self pity, the house of indifference, the house of negative, the house of positive, the house of hope, the house of joy, the house of peace, the house of enthusiasm, the house of cooperation, the house of giving. Each of these houses we visit each day. We can stay in any house for as long as we want. We can leave these mental houses any time we wish. We create the dwelling, we stay in the dwelling, we leave the dwelling whenever we wish. We can create new rooms, new houses. Whenever we enter these dwellings, this becomes our world until we leave for another. What world will we live in today?

AND hot cider with cinnamon sticks

We go through this every freaking year.....

Yes, turkey.
Yes, roasted potatoes.
Yes, brussel sprouts.
Yes, cranberries.
Yes, green bean casserole......k....wrong answer---NO, absolutely NO green bean casserole.  Never, ever.
No, I don't know if we're having guests.
Buy big and we'll either have plenty if guests happen OR we'll be eating turkey til Christmas when we'll do it all over again.

Oh.....and YES to pumpkin pie and those pickles rolled up in dried beef and cream cheese, and those sausages wrapped in bacon (even though...) and YES to whip cream and waldorf salad and olives and pickles and---

He really needs to write faster.... and have a bigger list!!
Or... Maybe we oughta put the list through the copier and make half a dozen copies!
Nah.
Where's the fun in THAT....

Captured Memory 17

Daily Reading

What, then, do we do when we find we don’t agree with our friends on everything? We may discover that we don’t share the same taste in music as our dearest friend, or that we don’t agree with our spouse about how the furniture should be arranged, or even find ourselves voting differently than our sponsor at a service committee meeting. Does conflict mean that the friendship, the marriage, or the sponsorship is over? No!

These types of conflict are not only to be expected in any long-lasting relationship but are actually an indication that both people are emotionally healthy and honest individuals. In any lasting relationship where both people agree on absolutely everything, chances are that only one person is doing the thinking. If we sacrifice our honesty and integrity to avoid conflicts or disagreements, we give away the best of what we bring to our relationships. We experience the measure of partnership with another human being when we are fully honest.

More Fairy Stuff

The key to life and power is simple. It’s knowing who we are. It’s knowing what we think, what we feel, what we believe, what we know, and even what we sense. It’s understanding where we’ve been, where we are, and where we want to go. That’s often different from who we think we should be, from whom others want us to be, tell us to be, and sometimes even tell us we are.

–Melody Beattie, Stop Being Mean To Yourself

It’s get to get hooked into other people’s expectations of us. Sometimes, it’s even easier to get hooked into what we think they expect of us.

One of the biggest traps is locking ourselves into a preconceived notion of ourselves. We can keep ourselves so busy living up to an image of ourselves that we forget who we really are. It’s tough enough to break free of the expectations, spoken and unspoken, that others put on us. It’s more insidious when we start telling ourselves to be what we think other people are expecting us to be– whether they are or not.

Look in the mirror. If you see a person who has been confined with a limiting image that doesn’t fit or feel right anymore, set yourself free.

Captured Memory 16

"Grumpy 'ol Grandad"......

190....I think the cold weather, coupled with the wind,  got the better of them.  Oh, but they were cuter than cute.
I think we liked the little dragon and the dad dressed as a hotdog the best.  What a hoot!

And I've decided "Grumpy 'ol grandad", as the Bug calls himself, is right.
Oh, out of the mouth of small children.  She's been calling him that for a few years now.  LOL  But she's right!

This morning I sat on the patio--tucked in warmly with my blankie and my cuppa coffee (it was a whopping 31 degrees).  I watched the leaves swirling as the sun warmed them, dancing and twirling as the frost turned into steam and softened their landing.

Pretty amazing sight. It was a 'two cup of coffee' event.

"Honey--the leaves are dancing and swirling and going 'plink plink'......you can see the ballet in the mist of the melting frost if you hurry."

"Wonderful.  Sounds like we'll have some raking to do."

Hmmm...  Sounds like I need to get him out in the woods where he's surrounded by the dancers so he can 'get' how cool it is.
What are the odds of that....apparently there's an agenda that doesn't include leaf watching.

HA.....little does he know I have an agenda, too.
*snickering*  Now it's just a matter of a wrong turn while we're out looking for some 'mount' for his television in the basement.  :-D

Today's Reminder

Sometimes, we act in a manner with which we are less than comfortable. That’s human. That’s why we have the words: “I’m sorry.” They heal and bridge the gap. But we don’t have to say, “I’m sorry” if we didn’t do anything wrong. A sense of shame can keep us apologizing for everything we do, every word we say, for being alive and being who we are.

We don’t have to apologize for taking care of ourselves, dealing with feelings, seeking boundaries, having fun, or getting healthy.

We never have to change our course, if it is in our best interest, but sometimes a general apology acknowledges other feelings and can be useful when the issues of a circumstance or relationship are not clear. We might say: “I’m sorry for the fuss we had. I’m sorry if what I needed to do to take care of myself hurt you; it was not intended that way.”

Once we make an apology, we don’t have to keep repeating it. If someone wants to keep on extricating an apology from us for the same incident, that is the person’s issue, and we don’t have to get hooked.

We can learn to take our apologies seriously and not hand them out when they’re not valid. When we feel good about ourselves, we know when it’s time to say we’re sorry and when it’s not.