Tag: Personal journey
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Finally, some optimism.
Even some of my gun-toting Trumper friends were concerned about Inauguration Day. They hadn’t condoned the insurrection on January 6th, but didn’t denounce it either and thought it possible that act was just the beginning. They would finish our conversation with “You know Biden is already after our guns, right? That’s why it will be…
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Goodbye… Hello!
Aside from all the political bullshit, it was a pretty good week. It is hard not to get drawn into it but at some point my mental health won’t take anymore. I decided (for the umpteenth time) to focus on something, anything really, that is different and hopefully positive. That opportunity came about in two…
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a distraction.
So much for 2021 right. The new calendars I handed out promised a better year, at least the pictures did, and of course it had 2021 splashed everywhere! None of us were naive enough to think that with the “flick of a switch,” 2021 would magically transform into the respite our weary souls needed, but…
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Don’t act your age.
Christmas and New Years turned out nice. Unlike Thanksgiving, we treated ourselves to having our family over. Our group only grew from three to seven, but what a difference it made! Thanksgiving gave me a sense of what it must feel like for millions. To be isolated from loved ones on not only holidays and…
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Take a picture
I receive so few handwritten letters anymore, probably because nobody has time to write them. I can text or email so why bother with pen and paper and who even sell stamps? My mom-in-law does it weekly which makes me appreciate the fact I am watching a dying art form from a front-row seat. Now…
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Staying neutral
I have been doing reasonably well cutting back on my news viewing; mostly local with only enough national to start shaking my head, because that’s my cue to turn the channel. Since local news is primarily weather, sprinkled with our news I’ve thought it the safer choice until recently. Cottonwood Heights is a affluent upper-middle…
a life always under construction 