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Mood: Monday


Photo from Chatsworth Consulting Group

This photo made me smile when I saw it, and I speculated about why. Here are some of my conclusions. If it made you smile, can you add to the list?

Anthropomorphized pencils
Colors/range of colors/brightness
Smiles
Thinking of coloring
Thinking of art
Thinking of creativity
Wondering what makes pencils happy
Photography
Group photos of friends
Imagining a story about pencils
Wondering if I could write a pencil poem
Thinking of the pencil family from my childhood
Jim laughing about my pencil family
Remembering that I gave a character in one of my novels a pencil family
Giving the pencils names

Mood: Monday

Goooood morning! Today, February 7, happens to be National Send a Card to a Friend Day. This is a chance to tell a friend hello, or what they mean to you, or maybe remind them of a funny memory you share. But do this NOT NOT NOT in an email or a text message or on social media. Use honest-to-goodness snail mail that will be delivered to them in a few days.

Some of you do this anyway, so maybe on this day, pick a friend who isn’t on your usual list.

Perhaps as you drink your coffee, tea, water, or apéritif of choice, you can make a card, buy a card, or use one of those cards that comes to you free in the mail from some charitable organization. Write your message, address it, put a stamp on it, and mail it. Yes, it takes a few minutes, but show a friend he or she is worth those minutes. It’ll lift your mood today and also that person’s mood when the mail arrives.

Mood: Monday

I was looking for something that was not this at all when I found this.

It made me laugh so hard, and if you’ve ever loved a dog, you know why. No one can be more aggrieved than a dog who feels wronged about food.

Still, I think as humans we experience feelings similar to this. We probably all have some How can you say you love me, if/when… lines we draw in the sand, wherein a person who professes to love us, or would say they love us when asked, does or believes or chooses things that are so antithetical, even potentially harmful, to who we are that we wonder, DO you love me? Really? I’m not even sure how we know each other.

Just a little something for Monday rumination.

Also: Give your dog a treat before s/he wastes away. Or whatever animal in your household feels food-denied at the moment.

Mood: Monday

I spent a lot of time in 2021 taking stock. Reflecting. Assessing the past. Examining to what degree I let other people and events impact my mood. I knew that I wanted to begin 2022 being present, and if I looked in any direction, I wanted it to be forward, not backward.

When I give advice, it comes from my heart. It comes from my experience. It doesn’t matter. It has very little effect on the choices and actions of others. Even when people ask for advice, they usually hear it, heed it, only if it follows the narrative they’ve already created for a situation. I can’t write their lives as if they are characters. I can only write my own.

So I offer the below bits of wisdom knowing they are probably only for me. But I need them. Except for the one from Body Mind & Soul, they were found and published on the social media of a friend who’s moved away to embrace new beginnings in her life. I wish her the best.

I wish you the same.

Peace and love.