"Your role isn't to set up a path for them to follow but to set up the environment for them to explore."
photo by Sandra Dodd
Life has some inconvenient realities. Be happy anyway! Admire the beautiful birds, but watch your step.
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It's really okay to "cherry pick" in regard to the stories you let into your day. There's enough horror somewhere on the planet at any moment to make us all suicidal, so make it a habit NOT to collect or dwell on those stories. You have a responsibility to create as safe and peaceful a nest as you can for your own family.
Thank you, Heather Booth, for saving that and putting it where I could find it again.
art and photo by Sandra Dodd
(the switchplate near our kitchen sink)
This is a re-run of a post from 2012
"Be responsible for your own thoughts and feelings, and notice when your thoughts are borrowed." —Cheri Tilford
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My attitude continues to make the greatest difference to my happiness. Most of my needs are met in joyfully giving and being with my family. Those that are not met that way, are more able to be met when my daughter and husband are already happy and feeling generous. And if I am feeling like I need a break, I can take one in the space of a breath, a memory, a moment, a hug.