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Life is about attitude – seeing weeds or seeing flowers and food. When we first married, my husband went along with my love of flowers. When I wanted to build a food garden, he went along. Now he points out the zinnias in the planter by the driveway. He puffs with pride when his clematis flowers are profusely blooming. He trains our Mandevilla vines, trying to get them to go up the trellises and across the deck up high. We go out to see how the garden is doing. His favorite food plants are the tomatoes because we LOVE sliced tomatoes, but he is pleased when I get the garden planted and bring in harvests.
The quote above can be taken at face value, the love of gardening, but I think it applies to every aspect of our lives. If you focus on the weeds, it colors your whole world, your relationships with friends and family, coworkers, bringing down your hopes for the future. We need to remember to focus on the flowers in our lives – for there are many. Nurture the people in your life. Take care of yourself as much as you are able. Focus on what is going RIGHT. Enjoy all the special moments we might otherwise miss or take for granted.
My garden is full-to-overflowing right now. I hope yours is, too.
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Charter for Compassion via Cathy Ruggiero
This is a reminder I needed. I realize I’m getting older, and I fight the urge for comfort, particularly when it comes to trying to learn new things – but it’s HARD.
Last night was a case in point. My husband ordered a remote that was supposed to be an omniscient being that would take the place of our having to juggle remotes constantly. (Besides having to decide WHICH remote is appropriate for what we’re trying to do, we find ourselves trying to control the TV with our calculators or our phones….)
The idea was a nice one, but the jury is still out on whether I can deal with a remote that is smarter than I am.
First, we found that it really can’t control everything we would like it to.
The new remote WILL NOT deal with the Wii Fit Plus. We would need to buy an adaptor, and it just isn’t worth it. I’ll just get up (which I was going to do anyway), turn on the Wii, and get ready to listen to the insults.
The new remote WILL NOT control our Playstation3 (that we use as a DVD player) since it is radio controlled, not LED controlled.
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I got really upset trying to work with it. As my husband lost patience with me, I reacted to HIM, rather than being able to even TRY to think about what I was doing wrong on the remote. We ended up going bowling with our friends, and then doing a second lesson. I did better this time, and my husband regretted making my previous lesson so stressful.
All this shows that I’m really getting averse to not knowing how to control something, resisting change, being intimidated by things I don’t understand, rather than calmly trying to figure them out.
This reminder, which I will print and post beside my computer, will remind me that I NEED to keep an open, curious mind; NOT be intimidated when I don’t catch on right away, and – most of all – keep an attitude that I CAN master things if I keep on working at them.
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