Yes With Joy

Travel days can be challenging if you choose them to be. Or things can work out. One day last spring, I could have moaned and groaned about everything, but I just kept silently repeating, “It always works out for me. I don’t have to know how. It just does.” And it did. Here is how the travel experience went:

When I got to the airport, the computer said that I’d already checked in. “It always works out for me. I don’t have to know how. It just does.” It took the lady at the counter 30 plus minutes to straighten it out. I just stood there and radiated love. (Ok. I did a little bit of Matrix too.) Read the rest of this entry »

It was football Sunday and the Bears were playing. Now, I’m not a huge fan, but I will sit with the boys and watch so that at least we are together. (And it’s a whole lot better than a lot of the other stuff on TV.)

Well, today JT and I were watching the game while Adam was studying in another room for high school finals. As we were watching, I started thinking about an upcoming meeting and decided to Matrix the meeting. Topics like clarity and Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhere on the web this morning, there was an article about a woman who blogs about parenting. This is nothing new, but the uproar was because her son had overdosed and died, yet her readers didn’t know that she and her family were battling this. I’m on the woman’s side.

Yes, this experience would have enriched the blog series, but it would have also shifted the focus to what wasn’t working instead of what was, thus giving more energy to the negative. And as we all know Read the rest of this entry »