summer rain

These summer days are rolling on and I am loving nearly every moment. It rained, hard, the other day and I had to stay inside, so I painted the entire day – taking breaks only to mess around on the computer and gaze out of the window. For me, this was a proverbial “heaven on earth” situation. I’ve said this before, it’s not the “big” things in life that bring happiness – those things can sometimes be spawned by ego and laced with vanity – it’s the little things – the things that all of us have. It’s you appreciating the rainy summer day and the sunshine that illuminated the earth when the rain stops, it’s seeing the good in people and doing good, it’s the self-satisfaction you feel when you have completed a difficult task or created a piece of art or it’s the cup of coffee and an early June morning when the house is still and it’s just you and the universe – anyway, I had that kind of day. Awesome stuff.

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Dog Days

 The "dog days" of summer are here – they began this past Sunday, July 3. They will continue through August 11. It’s something we’ve all heard – those dog days of summer – and certainly have all felt, but do you know why it’s called “dog days”? It’s all about Sirius, the dog star (it’s the largest star in the Canis Major constellation).During these sultry days of summer, Sirius rises and sets with the sun – a belief from antiquity that "explains" why it is so hot. Okay, that’s an oversimplification but it’s the general idea. Now you know why it’s so hot – because of Sirius.

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adjustments

The day seems sunnier today. I had a good cry over the phone with a special friend and just her listening was magic for me. What would we do without our friends?

 Each day is defined by how you “look at it” and yesterday was like a picture hanging slightly slanted on the wall – I was bothered by it and probably overthinking it – just a simple exercise in self-inflicted torture. I’m a mom, so there is always something quirky occurring in my life and I cannot control hardly any of it. I know this, so on most days, I just control my attitude, but on some days, it controls me; that would be yesterday.

 I still haven’t written my column, so I will now – going forward with an attitude adjustment. I have to remember to not take life so seriously and remind myself that it’s all going to be okay. I struggle to even know what I stressed over last July – it’s all in my foggy past and everything in my present moment is fine. What a waste of valuable time all that worrying was.

Take good care of your friends – they are your lifelines, they remind us of what we are really about when we lose our way.

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."

Epicurus

Lucy Hunnicutt

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crows over the wheat field

Not very productive today on the keyboard. I have a column due tomorrow at 4 and it is taking all I have just to piece that together. I am in some sort of creative void presently and my raw thoughts are not so positive so I choose not to post anything. I will spend some time doing something physical – like cleaning out something, there’s plenty of that to do here – and maybe I can shake this temper that I find myself in. Art is about being ultrasensitive, you have to be, but when it turns on you, it is paralyzing. I will find my way back; nothing is really “wrong”, it’s just that I need to adjust my attitude.

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positive energy

I ran across this proverb in an email this morning and it impacted me so I wanted to pass it on to you.

“Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up”
(Proverbs 12:25, NLT)

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