Rest is essential.
Nobody ever explains.
Our cats just know this.
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Sunday haiku – rest
Category: rest
Sunday haiku – safe harbor
Look for safe harbor
In difficult times in life
Shelter within you.
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Wellness Wednesday – go to bed
Cristy’s dialogue with her (left) brain on Super Tuesday (primary election night in Minnesota and many other states):
Higher self: You need rest; time to go to bed.
Left brain: But there’s political news! What if I miss something?
Higher self: Whether you stay up late or not, you won’t change the results.
Left brain: I wanna watch news coverage and eat snacks.
Higher self: That may be the pattern you have established in times of stress. But it really doesn’t help anything.
Left brain: I’m still gonna do it.
Higher self: I forgive you.
Left brain (while watching disappointing news coverage): Why are people such idiots?
Higher self: Go to bed. People seem less idiotic when you get more sleep.
Left brain (sticking tongue out like a toddler): I don’t believe you.
Higher self: That’s okay. I love you anyway.
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cristy@meximinnesota.com
Input fatigue (a timely re-post)
I went back into some entries from last year (Nov 2018) and found one I especially like so I’m posting it as a reminder to myself for this weekend. Hope you have a delightful Thanksgiving and a beautiful weekend!
‘Tis the season for me. I can feel it. Holidays approach. Work deadlines and projects to wrap up.
Countless emails in my inbox imploring me to get in on Cyber-Monday deals… that feeling of trying to filter it all out but feeling that it has clogged up my internal operating system somehow.
My plan is to give myself extra quiet time tonight, wind down early and allow for some rest from it all. My body and mind feel tired. What I have learned in my last couple of years is to honor that call for rest.
The beautiful discovery about this rest, when I take it, is that I discover nothing falls apart when I take that time away. It is all still there when I return, though usually I have fresh perspective on it.
How often do you turn everything off and allow for rest? What happens as a result?
Sunday haiku – cat kisses
Postcards from Bemidji
My hubby Clem took both of these photos and because I’m a proud wife, I am posting them for my Saturday Share this week. 😉
We took our ice cream from Big River Scoop across the street and found this familiar and much-photographed landmark. Side note: my husband owns a real red flannel checked wool lumberjack shirt from Bemidji Woolen Mills.
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