Tag: gratitude
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Good and Bad in the World
A walk to the post office, a shattered hubcap, an old man quietly cleaning up after rude boys, and a tip that was worth more than money. The good in the world shows up where you least expect it.
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Romance of Nature
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. How strange it is, this juxtaposition of nature and technology. It is midnight on the last day of March, and I am sitting at the top of a green and grassy hill, alone, with my laptop and a great wireless connection. The moon is almost…
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I’m Grateful for… Cheap Car Insurance!
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. Gratitude lists are in vogue these days. I’ve kept them for years but I don’t normally publish them. However, today I’m feeling particularly grateful for…cheap car insurance! Not that it’s particularly cheap. Or inexpensive. It’s just that we made some good moves when…
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Gratitude with Attitude
Figures. Mercury’s in retrograde, Mars is squaring pretty much everything in my chart, and the Sun is opposing my natal Pluto yesterday and today. And we all know what that means: I’m just looking for someone to skewer. That doesn’t mean the results will be bad and if I know it’s coming, I might as…
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The End-of-Winter Challenge
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. It’s the end of Winter. At least, according to the calendar. Spring is a mere month away, so I offer you a challenge. Pick one thing, maybe two, that you could do to make your life better in the next 30 days. Something…
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A Bearable Lightness of Being
Not getting slammed for a change While everyone else seems to be crashing around me, I’m not having a bad time. Maybe I’ve done my share for the past few years (at least definitely since March of 2005!) and the meaner stars in the sky are focusing on other people right now. I understand the…
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Shifts for the Better
The veil is so thin now The energies are shifting again. I wish I could describe it in a better way, but then, until I became sensitive to the shifts, I wouldn’t have known what I was talking about either. I’m grateful to have met so many others in recent months who also feel such…
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Bad on One Hand, Good on the Other
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. Sigh. What next? Breakage, theft, loss. Just shell out the cash! Geez. The “bad” today was when I was dragging the watering hose to the far corner of the yard, the one little spot I hadn’t thought to ward, and…well…the plants were gone.…
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Just…Good Stuff
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. Just random good stuff. None of it on its own is particularly exciting, but there’s a flow to all of it together that’s rather nice. The way the orange and purple impatiens are filling out and looking so welcoming on my front porch.…
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The Little Differences Make the Best Memories
Christmas Past, a blur I don’t remember the ghosts of many a Christmas Past. They’re so often a blur of fast and frantic road trips, my mom’s chicken and dressing with cranberry sauce and her sweet potato pie with little marshmallows on top, my dad not speaking to anyone other than a grunt of acknowledgment…
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Celebrating November
November turned out to be a month none of us really expected, and I’m not sure if I’m glad it went by fast or not. In any case, I was told repeatedly that it would be a month for celebration. Looking at my royally messed-up roof and quite unhappy that I’m going to have to…
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In Spite of It All, Life Is Good
Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom. Two women from the Philippines are helping me with a home project. They’re smart, they work hard, and they’re compassionate. Traits I obviously admire. And even though they’ve both been handed their share of tragedy, they still agree, “Life is good.” One is a single mother of six…
