Making Do
Category: Life
Broken beauty — Forty Something Life As We Know It
REBLOG: Please read this important piece. ❤
As a Forty Plusser I could and probably would never ever figure out why women stay in abusive relationships. What is it with us woman??! Why do women keep up with this shit? Are we genetically wired to always hope for the best? I don’t even have the slightest answer! Growing up with an alcoholic father, I […]
Balance of Life
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”
Osho INDIAN SPIRITUAL TEACHER
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Say A Little Prayer
I don’t usually ask anything of my followers. Your visits, comments and continued support has been more than enough for me for several years now. But today, I am asking you to pray for my dear friend Denise. She has been diagnosed with Lung Cancer. I’ve done a few posts about Denise over the years. Suffice it to say that she is someone very dear to me. She’s the sister that I never had. We have had a close relationship for more than 40 years.
I don’t care what your religious stand is, but I feel that whether you believe or not, Prayer is a powerful thing. When you pray, you send out your positivity (if that’s a word) into the universe. That positiveness has an effect. A simple way to look at it is this. If you are around a angry or negative person, that “feeling” tends to rub off on you, right? The same goes for the positive side of things. If you are getting positive support and encouragement, you feel that and it helps.
I will be traveling to Oregon soon to be with my bff, but I’m not sure when. I’ll keep you posted. Meanwhile, please say a little prayer of healing for Denise.
Thank you, my Dear WordPress Family! And thank you for joining me on this journey. ❤ Penny
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A Few Kind Words
“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”
Dale Carnegie MOTIVATIONAL AUTHOR
Choose an Attitude
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Viktor Frankl NEUROLOGIST, PSYCHOTHERAPIST
House of Cards
Jacks fluttered wildly with their pomp and circumstance. Kings at each corner. Queens at each access, overseeing the construction. The clubs checked the munitions while the spades collaborated to dig trenches. The numbers, Aces leading the way built each story; taking turns, red and black. The roof was a sturdy covering, done in diamonds. But the Joker was at work... The fortress I'd built so carefully, card by card, layer by layer crumbled with the breath of your single kiss. Copyright 2020 Penny Wilson Photo by jalil shams from Pexels
Not a Destination
Gratitude
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
Johannes A. Gaertner ART HISTORY PROFESSOR, THEOLOGIAN, POET
Kindness
