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Ramblings of a 100 Degree Saturday
A good day for sleeping and thinking, not so much doing
Art Bram wrote an article, “Dare Each Day to Be the Amazing Person You Are” that got me thinking.
As it was 100 degrees outside today, it was a good day to stay inside and think. Unfortunately, I’m still recuperating from my vacation up North, so I spent a lot of the day sleeping, which doesn’t include a lot of thought. (It did include a dream where I was beating the crap out of ex-husband #2, which is a whole other story. For God’s sake, we’ve been divorced for almost 30 years.)
But the sleeping made me feel guilty, which brought me back to Art’s article. In it, he very correctly pointed out that most of us were raised being praised not for who we are but for what we accomplished. So a day like today, where all I accomplished was mostly napping, makes me feel worthless.
Last Monday, we bought a riding lawn mower. I’ve wanted one since I bought this house with the huge yard, wonderful for the dogs but not great for time needed to maintain. I took care of all of it the summer of 2019 before Dave moved here and took over the back yard, but I insisted on taking care of the smaller front yard, because I always enjoyed cutting the heads off of green growing…
