Always Starting…The Art of Never Giving Up
Journal of a journey through life, true love and lessons learned along the way.
Resolutions abound as we all wake up on this New Year's Day morning. People around the world have resolved to make changes that start today. But where did it all begin? According to "How Stuff Works": The origin of making New Year's resolutions rests with the Babylonians, who reportedly made promises to the gods in... Continue Reading →
Let's face it, we all want to know what to do. What is the expectation? We spend the first 18 years of our lives begrudging bossy parents telling us what to do at every turn. Brush your teeth, make your bed, and eat your vegetables. It is maddening. I hear my kids remind their Dad... Continue Reading →
Photo by Monica Turlui on Pexels.com Who's to say what is right for you? I am learning that all of these lessons we learn along the way are simply ingredients to a classic recipe that we bake to represent our lives. The brands that work for us. The regimens that give us wellness. The jobs... Continue Reading →
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com What a question. Who am I? No better yet, who am I…now? 50. Married 25 years. Three grown children. “Always Starting” and trying to stop. “The Art of Never Giving Up” but I should. Who am I? That is is going to take a long time to define. Who am... Continue Reading →
Overwhelmed without a plan to decide everything! Here is how I am overcoming “overwhelmed”. Wow, I pulled up this my treasured blog and realizing that it has been two months since I wrote anything and then realized that the final blog post was on my mom’s anniversary of her passing, more than two months ago.... Continue Reading →
And just like that it occurs to me. That I have indeed manifested this, the life I always dreamed of without realizing I was heading right for it. It just occurred to me this morning as I was finishing a 12-week program via the "The Artist's Way", that everything that I have done for the... Continue Reading →
Silence. The word elicits a response regardless of the emotion. When said out loud in exclamation it will quiet a room. When said in a whisper it will quiet the brain. It is something we long for and in other times something we run from. It is a word, a state of being, an emotion,... Continue Reading →
Day 21 prompt: Michelle Obama said, "I was checking the boxes defining who I was supposed to be." Are you checking boxes or living or striving or standing still? My answer: I am definitely checking the boxes because I have created a purpose-driven life that is defined by planning and then doing. In the last... Continue Reading →
Day 12 prompt: If we agree that there are variations of normal, than the normal we seek is one variation of many; is it content normal, happy normal, young normal...how many "normal's" do you have"? My answer: I think there are two ways to answer this and one is about the current situation we are... Continue Reading →
Day 9 prompt: People talk about the "new" normal. What was the "old" normal? Did that label ever fit you? My answer: Well once again I could not have known when I wrote this prompt that I would one day be answering it in a world where the "new" normal is a daily condition. My... Continue Reading →
Always Starting...The Art of Never Giving Up 