Do you know someone? do you Really? When you stop to think about it, in this fast-paced world, of technology, we are all online. we’re here. we are connected. but can you possibly say that you know someone for who they really are?
Day: April 27, 2020
Post-covid
can we press reset ~ can we rewind to before ~ can we start again? —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
Zephyr
Today’s Word of the Day is Zephyr.
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News of you moving on
Came as a sudden shock
Your name triggered memories
Moments of laughter
School Concerts
Stories untold and doing your hair
Mini makeovers, shared meals
Family Gatherings
Cookouts at the Park
You crossed over to day
No more pain or sorrow
Joyful Peace
Eternal Rest-Yonnie
InHisCare
Honoring a beautiful friend.
“I no longer have a relationship with my calendar.”
We closed Parnassus Books, the bookstore I co-own in Nashville, on the same day all the stores around us closed. I can’t tell you when that was because I no longer have a relationship with my calendar.
All the days are now officially the same. My business partner Karen and I talked to the staff and told them if they didn’t feel comfortable coming in that was fine. We would continue to pay them for as long as we could. But if they were OK to work in an empty bookstore, we were going to try to keep shipping books.
In the first week we did kerbside delivery, which meant a customer could call the store and tell us what they wanted. We would take their credit card information over the phone and then run the books out to…
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Reality Sinks
Focus on what’s in front of you. I’m right now.
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A Story of Struggle
“Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.” ~ William Goldman
I like stories of struggle. Not because I enjoy struggling or seeing other people struggle, but because there is a strength of character and wisdom earned from struggle that could never be honed by anything else. Today, I’m sharing with you one of my favorite stories about struggle, one I always call to mind when things get tough and I need to be reminded that there is purpose even in difficulty.
This story is about a man and an emperor moth. There are many variations and attributions of this story, but it seems to be mainly attributed to British naturalist and biologist Alfred Russel Wallace. I paraphrased a version of it below:
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The story has it that Wallace once found a cocoon…
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No Mercy
“You see, I wanted you, but I didn’t need you.”
Surrender was never an option. You see, I wanted you, but I didn’t need you. The last thing I needed was to feel like giving away my heart would rescue me. I didn’t need anyone to love me, because I had a backbone that allowed me to stand on my own two feet without a crutch. I didn’t need a savior. And this war I wage within me is no one’s fight but my own. I didn’t need a knight to stand in front of me, just someone in my corner. Someone to push me to get back on my feet if I fell down. And until the day came that you understood, I would never surrender this broken heart of mine.
© Sarah Doughty
2018
I wanted you in my corner,
not to fight for me.
The 2020 Daily Writing Challenge – April 25
Writing is like driving at night in the fog.
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
– E. L. Doctorow
Today is Day 116 of the 2020 Daily Writing Challenge.
Did you write yesterday? We are living in an upside-down world. The hustle and bustle of daily commutes, the never-ending parade of constant stress, unreasonable demands, over-hyped experiences, and thrilling activities competing for your time, attention, and energy—evaporated. Self-isolation, social distancing, work from home, eLearning, family time, and dog walking, are the newest must-do exercises. No one would blame you if you are feeling directionless in your suddenly open schedule.
Abrupt changes can induce anxiety, but what if you considered this an opportunity to cultivate deep working habits? Deep work is a concept defined by Cal Newport, associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and self-help author. He defines deep…
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