Define your own Thanksgiving

I have to admit, I'm a little confused about my feelings this year about many, many things. I'm living in new and uncharted territory in my life, but I thought maybe I would save that list for another day.

I want to tell you all that I am thinking of you today. No matter where you are in the world, I hope you feel a wave of blessings come upon you. Know you are loved and cared about. I wish you well.

Thanksgiving for our family is like 25 people and lots of cooking, and don't ask me how, but I ended having to make just two spinach quiches! Weird. Maybe I'm supposed to bring a dessert? I can't remember, but I have learned by now, there are always plenty of desserts.

I don't cook turkey any more. Nope. No matter how I cook them, what brand I buy, what secret ritual I try to perform, they are dry, and, to me, tasteless. I don't even eat turkey any more. So, if I had my way, I'd pardon all the birds. I am done with turkey.

But Thanksgiving is not the turkey. I guess what it turns out to be, is what we decide to make it.

So, I'll make it about Payback --

Because I am in debt --

So this is my Thanksgiving.

I will be showing my family and friends love and support unconditionally, as they have shown me in my times of need. I'll make it about being there when my family and friends need me, listening to those who need an ear or a shoulder. I doubt I will ever reach the amount I owe, but I will make this effort my passion.

I will love and support those in my life, blindly. I will love first, ask questions later, if I ask at all. I will remember that you get out what you put in, so I will put in only good stuff.

I will tell my inner child that everything's alright, we can love like the big people do now. We are okay.

I will forgive without being asked. I will save my anger for things that it can be useful for.

I will take care of myself as best I can, so I can be here for those who need me.

I will be relentless in trying to learn what is right and what is true. I will not judge, if I do not have, too. And if I have too, let mercy be my guide.

And, I will always, always be kind.

I wish for each of you a wonderful day. Please take a second to feel the love that is out there for you. Breathe it in, breathe it back out into the world. Yeah, you are loved. I wish for you to know that.

My best wishes to you
on this third Thursday
in the month of November,

Roxie

Some Mark Twain wisdom

" Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

~~Mark Twain

Floating days

On the days one awakes and doesn't know what to do, one must still move about with common chores. Those things that we consider so mundane and boring, turn out to be things that can steady us and bring us through our darker more confused times.

Today, I am grateful for my daily tasks. The big picture is for me today, foggy and glazed over by blurred thoughts that cannot link themselves to decisions and actions. And that's okay. It's all okay. The clouds always part. The river comes to places where the water runs clear. The animals of nature sometimes allow you to come close to them before they run away. Things always happen in graphic patterns of ups and downs, but we must never forget that sideways may be a way to balance all that is upon us. Even in places the river runs low, the water is still nourishing the growth around it.

It's all a process, that part I know.

And if one cannot find their inner peace, one must keep looking.

May your day be peaceful and you find what you are looking for.

Don't Over Think It.

Over Thinking

The biggest disease of the mind is over thinking, especially too much thinking about others. Thinking too much is like eating too much. The heaviness makes it impossible to remain light and flexible. ~~
from Thought for the Day

Wow. This is so true. I had this happen to me this past weekend. Just became overwhelmed with the thoughts and worries of other people. What a weight that was! I am physically sick and I feel like my body is on fire!

It was as if my higher self said, "You know what? I'm taking some time off. If you want to stress about all those things, have at it, you are on your own with your Pain Body"

And, I am here, as a witness, to tell you, it was awful!~! I really don't want to ever do that again.

This is what it felt like ... ARRRRGGGGHHH