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Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland  Welcome to the place were I chronicle my own falls down dark holes and adventures chasing white rabbits! Come on In, Take a Bite, You Never Know What You May Find... "Curiouser and curiouser." Alice in Wonderland    |
| Blog City Feb 17th Prompt: "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." Oprah Winfrey This prompt is poignant for me this morning. It feels right that I should re-commit to blogging again today, with a prompt that is so aptly fitting for where I have been mentally lately. I think I have been burdened by my own doubts and perceived failures this past year. I learned that the career and future I was building wasn't what it seemed to be. I was building sand castles and didn't see the tide coming in until it was too late. I felt like it left my floundering about, trying to find something secure again. I kept looking at the choices my siblings made, and faulting myself for making different ones - from "buying" into a family business, hooking my one horse to a buggy that was destined to go off the rails. I've been plagued by thoughts on how I should have been smarter, I should have seen through the false promises. I should have paid more attention, fought harder, been more...always more. I still am struggling but I am trying also to see that my choices have brought us blessings. My choices enabled us to have a beautiful home, to be healthy and have good quality of life. We get to take a family vacation once a year, our bills are paid and we are able to enjoy a full life. I may not have built the legacy I wanted to for my daughter, but I've worked hard. I'm been successful in my own right. I think Oprah is right, if a person sends time lamenting what they don't have...they will always feel unfulfilled. I'm trying to be the person who looks at their lives and sees accomplishments, not failures. Some days are easier than others. Blogging Circle Day 3014: February 17, 2021 Prompt: “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” ― William James Use this quote to inspire your blog entry. I believe that one of the things this pandemic revealed in the basic human connections we all have. Isn't it always the case that something becomes more desirable once you take it away? For most everyone, we were all just going about, trying to love our best lives when the world changed overnight. Suddenly isolation was imposed and we had to severe some of our most beloved and important connections to our friends and families. It because clear that the world was really "in this together". I think of the scenes of the people singing together off separate balconies in Italy. We might be all islands but we crave that sense of connection, we reach for it when it is pulled from our grasp. This quote by Williams James is really the perfect representation of the world in this time of COVID. |
| Soundtrack of my Life Feb 17th, Entry 10 Rainbow Connection - Kermit? Truth be told, I don't know if there is an original composure other than Kermit but this is how I came to know this song. I used to sing to my grandmother and she loved it. She was an artist and a poet who had always been called a day dreamer like it was a bad thing. There was something that spoke to her in this song and my singing it to her only endeared it more. My grandmother is my kindred spirit, I can see what she loves about this song. I can see her singing along with me as a child and it brings me an immeasurable amount of joy. We don't get to see her much these days. Since the pandemic she has been living largely in isolation from us and it is the worst thing about the past year hands down. She turns 92 in April and as time passes I am more and more aware of how precious it is and how the pandemic has taken so much from us we will never get back, like time with our elderly loved ones. It is heartbreaking. Listening to this song and I am writing this today makes my heart a little lighter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnC5gwNAN0 |
| Soundtrack of my Life Challenge Feb 16th, Entry 9 Lazaretto - Jack White I typically have music playing at work, a wide variety of music. My coworkers have learned that on the days when Jack White, in particular this album, is playing...they should steer clear. This is my angry music, my "working through the bullshit" soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI-95cTMeLM It is not that it is a particularly hard song but the driving baseline and free ranging vocals can be more of a musical assault when compared to other selections in my library. I think Jack White is pretty much a musical genius and this song is a good reflection of why. Its a cacophony of sounds that are shaped into this great track with surprising violin solos and that infectious baseline, a little funky, a little punky and a lot fun. |
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