at times I feel overwhelmed being through that cycle it’s a good reminder when in doubt take a break pause and look at your blessings you will learn how beautiful life is
For me it first of all means to bring alive the beauty of my space again, it means to simply declutter and do the usual spring cleaning. Happy weekend ahead! 😂
I am so blessed to live in a neighborhood with redwood trees, beautiful flowers & birds. I set an intention each day to walk, to get outside, to pay homage to the Almighty. These walks, this time with Mother Nature has been, is my therapy as I grieve & heal from the loss of my beloved brother & mother. I am sad & feel alone, however when I walk amidst the big trees I don’t feel so alone.
There is so much beauty all around, we just have to make an intention to look for it. ❤️
My heart goes out to you,
Dear pkr
on the loss of your brother and your mother.
I too,
experienced this loss last fall…
my mother to cancer in October.
and my brother to covid in November.
Grief lies heavily on the soul…
the pain of it is palpable.
Nature is a balm,
and I am grateful you find some peace there.
Please know you are not alone…
I hold you close
with love…
sparrow ♥️
Sparrow, I am sorry for you loss, too. Yes, it hurts, some days more than others. I hope you too find peace in Mother Nature. She is truly a “balm” as you say. Thank you for kind sentiment & your love. Love & comfort to you.❤️🙏❤️
I am here with you both. My father, mother, and one of my brothers died two years apart. In the park near my home someone installed a Telephone of the Wind, for talking to your loved ones. I walk to the tree every so often and the trees and the quiet bring them closer. (It’s a beautiful concept; more here https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article256099607.html.)
thank you for sharing but that link did not work – I ended up googled it. I love this concept and this made me think of my mom who loved the wind too.
Thank you.
No one of us
gets through our lives
without suffering loss,
and I share you pain,
dear Barb…
The Telephone of the Wind
sounds lovely,
and as Nature does,
I’m sure it is a comfort to those who go there
feel healing within…
maybe the idea will spread
with love…
sparrow ♥
ps. I just realized that there are these ‘telephones’
in other parts of the world as well.
Thank you for sharing your kindness with me,
dear Barb…
none of us get through our lives
without suffering and pain,
but it helps to here it expressed from others…
your link does not work,
so I will google Telephone of the Wind.
Healing takes its own time
with love…
sparrow ♥
No one of us escapes grief and suffering,
dear Barb…
I feel for your losses.
The link didn’t work for me,
but I love the idea
of the Telephone of the Wind.
I will google it for more information.
I find solace in Nature always
and sense that you do too
with love…
sparrow ♥️
Years ago I read that you shouldn’t have anything in your home that isn’t either useful or beautiful, preferably both. We’ve downsized a lot and I continue to let go of things that someone else can appreciate. At the same time I’ve bought some art and other items because they delight my eyes and I’ll continue to do that–make room for beauty. This question reminds me that I should stop and truly look at the things I’ve brought into our home and appreciate them.
Thank you! I so need to do this! I am about to retire in June, I will finally be able to get rid of things in all my surrundings. My heart is so ready to let it all go. I need the space for beauty, to find the space in my heart that needs calm. I am ready, I am ready!
I love nature and am grateful for it everyday. I’m lucky I have beautiful peacocks in my neighborhood, oak trees with Spanish moss, various birds, beaches, springs, and parks. I’m always looking up and down and being observant. Have a great weekend everyone:)
By actively setting time aside for it. Going outside and enjoying nature that god has provided. By focusing on it in a present mind and being grateful for nature’s wonders and offerings.
I have made an effort to appreciate all of the beauty in my life a little more lately. Several weeks back, I realized how my job was stealing my life. I chose the role; I chose to move up. Moving up in the current working environment has been exhausting, to say the least particularly when you work for a multi-billion dollar company who is not following suit and raising wages like other companies are doing, which in turn effects the workforce.
Anyhow, I had a realization that I didn’t have to stay in my role. Imagine that! I am stepping down, taking on a role with a more set schedule, which will allow me more time in my little garden, more time with loved ones, more dinners at home with my husband, more time for my YTT…. the beautiful things in my life that have been on the sidelines trying to wave me in.
As I am off today, I’m going to pull weeds from my little garden, talk to my tomato plant, baby fig tree and flowers, and lay in the grass under the cloudy warm sky. And I will be grateful for the opportunity and the changes that are in my very near future (two weeks from Monday, I am going to be the Cheese Buyer!).
Congratulations! You have made a decision that brings the power back to you. I am about to retire and as I look back I can see that these last ten years have brough so much stress, so much giving with out replenishing the well. It has dried out. I am a front line worker, I have not stoped during the pandemic, I am tired. I am so glad for the opportunity to retire next month. My heart needs healing, my soul needs rest. I pray everyday for this transition. It feels like a train going at 1000 miles per minute. It will be hard to come to a full stop. But I will and I must.
Thank you, Ana Maria! It feels good to be gaining my power back. Stepping down was not an easy choice, but I’m so glad to be doing it. I feel you on the tired thing! I can’t imagine the level of tired being in your line of work, as it’s been hard enough in grocery retail (and “upscale” grocery retail takes it to a different level). I’m excited for you being able to retire. It will be a big transition for sure, but one you will settle into and appreciate as you get to relax into the rest of your life. Next month is right around the corner! Congratulations to you, too 🙂
I love cheese, and totally appreciate all of the different artisan goodies. I ran the wine & cheese department before I went over to the wellness dept., so this will be an easy transition and a fun one as well!
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at times I feel overwhelmed being through that cycle it’s a good reminder when in doubt take a break pause and look at your blessings you will learn how beautiful life is
For me it first of all means to bring alive the beauty of my space again, it means to simply declutter and do the usual spring cleaning. Happy weekend ahead! 😂
Through creating, with the hands and with Love.
I am so blessed to live in a neighborhood with redwood trees, beautiful flowers & birds. I set an intention each day to walk, to get outside, to pay homage to the Almighty. These walks, this time with Mother Nature has been, is my therapy as I grieve & heal from the loss of my beloved brother & mother. I am sad & feel alone, however when I walk amidst the big trees I don’t feel so alone.
There is so much beauty all around, we just have to make an intention to look for it. ❤️
My heart goes out to you,
Dear pkr
on the loss of your brother and your mother.
I too,
experienced this loss last fall…
my mother to cancer in October.
and my brother to covid in November.
Grief lies heavily on the soul…
the pain of it is palpable.
Nature is a balm,
and I am grateful you find some peace there.
Please know you are not alone…
I hold you close
with love…
sparrow ♥️
Sparrow, I am sorry for you loss, too. Yes, it hurts, some days more than others. I hope you too find peace in Mother Nature. She is truly a “balm” as you say. Thank you for kind sentiment & your love. Love & comfort to you.❤️🙏❤️
I do find peace in Mother Nature,
dear pkr . . .
be well,
and know all is well
with love…
sparrow ♥
I am here with you both. My father, mother, and one of my brothers died two years apart. In the park near my home someone installed a Telephone of the Wind, for talking to your loved ones. I walk to the tree every so often and the trees and the quiet bring them closer. (It’s a beautiful concept; more here https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article256099607.html.)
thank you for sharing but that link did not work – I ended up googled it. I love this concept and this made me think of my mom who loved the wind too.
Thank you.
No one of us
gets through our lives
without suffering loss,
and I share you pain,
dear Barb…
The Telephone of the Wind
sounds lovely,
and as Nature does,
I’m sure it is a comfort to those who go there
feel healing within…
maybe the idea will spread
with love…
sparrow ♥
ps. I just realized that there are these ‘telephones’
in other parts of the world as well.
Thank you for sharing your kindness with me,
dear Barb…
none of us get through our lives
without suffering and pain,
but it helps to here it expressed from others…
your link does not work,
so I will google Telephone of the Wind.
Healing takes its own time
with love…
sparrow ♥
Barb C., thank you. I will definitely look up the Telephone of the Wind. I love the concept! I am sorry for your losses. Sending you love. ❤️
No one of us escapes grief and suffering,
dear Barb…
I feel for your losses.
The link didn’t work for me,
but I love the idea
of the Telephone of the Wind.
I will google it for more information.
I find solace in Nature always
and sense that you do too
with love…
sparrow ♥️
By shifting my focus outward. I’m very lucky to live in a very beautiful place with a beautiful partner and two beautiful cats.
Step outside the door, walk through to the woods, breathe & simply listen.
Years ago I read that you shouldn’t have anything in your home that isn’t either useful or beautiful, preferably both. We’ve downsized a lot and I continue to let go of things that someone else can appreciate. At the same time I’ve bought some art and other items because they delight my eyes and I’ll continue to do that–make room for beauty. This question reminds me that I should stop and truly look at the things I’ve brought into our home and appreciate them.
by finding beauty
in things I never thought were beautiful before . . .
I love this answer. We find what we seek, we see what we look for.
Yes.
dear Barb…
I think so too.
Clean house relentlessly – literally and figuratively, in the space that surrounds and in the space within our selves.
Thank you! I so need to do this! I am about to retire in June, I will finally be able to get rid of things in all my surrundings. My heart is so ready to let it all go. I need the space for beauty, to find the space in my heart that needs calm. I am ready, I am ready!
I love nature and am grateful for it everyday. I’m lucky I have beautiful peacocks in my neighborhood, oak trees with Spanish moss, various birds, beaches, springs, and parks. I’m always looking up and down and being observant. Have a great weekend everyone:)
somehow I deleted my reflection below. sorry for that
be it pain or pleasure,
remember,
seek the treasure
By actively setting time aside for it. Going outside and enjoying nature that god has provided. By focusing on it in a present mind and being grateful for nature’s wonders and offerings.
Setting an intention, slowing down, pausing will create “space” to see and experience the beauty that is always around me.
I have made an effort to appreciate all of the beauty in my life a little more lately. Several weeks back, I realized how my job was stealing my life. I chose the role; I chose to move up. Moving up in the current working environment has been exhausting, to say the least particularly when you work for a multi-billion dollar company who is not following suit and raising wages like other companies are doing, which in turn effects the workforce.
Anyhow, I had a realization that I didn’t have to stay in my role. Imagine that! I am stepping down, taking on a role with a more set schedule, which will allow me more time in my little garden, more time with loved ones, more dinners at home with my husband, more time for my YTT…. the beautiful things in my life that have been on the sidelines trying to wave me in.
As I am off today, I’m going to pull weeds from my little garden, talk to my tomato plant, baby fig tree and flowers, and lay in the grass under the cloudy warm sky. And I will be grateful for the opportunity and the changes that are in my very near future (two weeks from Monday, I am going to be the Cheese Buyer!).
Congratulations! You have made a decision that brings the power back to you. I am about to retire and as I look back I can see that these last ten years have brough so much stress, so much giving with out replenishing the well. It has dried out. I am a front line worker, I have not stoped during the pandemic, I am tired. I am so glad for the opportunity to retire next month. My heart needs healing, my soul needs rest. I pray everyday for this transition. It feels like a train going at 1000 miles per minute. It will be hard to come to a full stop. But I will and I must.
Thank you, Ana Maria! It feels good to be gaining my power back. Stepping down was not an easy choice, but I’m so glad to be doing it. I feel you on the tired thing! I can’t imagine the level of tired being in your line of work, as it’s been hard enough in grocery retail (and “upscale” grocery retail takes it to a different level). I’m excited for you being able to retire. It will be a big transition for sure, but one you will settle into and appreciate as you get to relax into the rest of your life. Next month is right around the corner! Congratulations to you, too 🙂
Ooooh, cheese! So many delightful flavors and colors and textures and aromas and shapes. Beauty in the cheese case for sure.
I love cheese, and totally appreciate all of the different artisan goodies. I ran the wine & cheese department before I went over to the wellness dept., so this will be an easy transition and a fun one as well!