What I'm Reading This Week #27
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you've got the day off to enjoy. I would really appreciate the weather dialing it back from Satan's taint to dryish heat please. I'm not even asking for much. Like 83 degrees would make me happy at this point but there's no end in sight to the 90's. The Mr and I have both been plagued with migraines this week. He had a two day event and I had an ocular migraine which is just so crappy to deal with since you can't read or do anything until your vision isn't screwed up. I got to wait on hold for an hour Tuesday with the state tax department so I decided to sand and prime the newel post while listening to hold music designed to make you hang up. To quote Bugs Bunny "he don't know me vewy well, do he?" I got that squared away and later went out between pop up storms to deadhead some zinnias which you may have seen in Wednesday's post. Speaking of Wednesday, it was a busy day in the ga...
My Dad made it clear to me while he was in his last months that a lesson he learned was to live life the way I wanted and not let everyone else run it. I like to think I have heeded that to some extent. Obviously it's not easy doing that when you have to answer to a boss, co-workers, etc but I know that I am a more authentic version of myself than I was before and it helps to think about that from time to time.
ReplyDeleteI have a loved one give me this bit of wisdom that has stuck with me (although I admit to being a poor example at it more times than not, but it's been resonating a lot lately):
ReplyDelete"When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."
Then they said something funny that I also had to write down:
Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. Truth!