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The art of the possible. In the face of difficulty, we can despair, get angry, or we can choose what is possible.

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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and then suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi

What is possible might be a question we should ask ourselves. When we enroll in something, begin something, or encourage someone isn’t that what we are doing, looking for what is possible? We may be able to light a spark of possibility for someone and they light one for us. We must not be too pushy or too sure that if we try to light a spark in someone it must become what we want. That then becomes control.

This is why joining groups is so good for people. We are energized by others and their ideas and when we see others doing things, we think we can do things too. Sometimes we have things we want, but maybe what we should ask is what can we have? Especially as we age we may have to ask these questions.

If we can’t have independence can we at least have dignity? If we can’t be rich can we be happy and have enough? Can our relationships be pleasant instead of filled with contention?  Henry Fonda was a liberal Democrat and James Stewart a conservative Republican and after a major blow-up over politics agreed never to discuss the subject again, and they were friends for fifty years.

It is possible not to agree on things that are so important to you and still remain friends? Sometimes we have to agree to disagree. There are issues out there that can become so contentious I think it is the only way to handle them. If we have no control over the issues, except to argue over them does it make sense to give such weight to things we can’t change, or does it make more sense to do what Henry Fonda and James Stewart did, agree to disagree and enjoy the relationship without the turmoil? Arguing over things we can’t change, and have no control over does not do any good for anyone, but it can destroy relationships.

In these cases what is possible is to center the relationship on everything else. Who you vote for is after all your own business, as is what you think about contentious subjects. Instead of arguing we can decide to have fun and enjoy everything else and discuss that particular subject with other people. This is why politics and religion are not subjects to be brought up at the dinner table because they often do nothing but divide and cause contention and hard feelings.

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past – let us accept our own responsibility for the future. John F. Kennedy

We don’t live in a world where we accept and respect other’s opinions, it seems to me. Expressing some opinions that seem perfectly fine to me, even if they are not expressed as perfectly and as carefully as I think they should be, doesn’t really bother me but they cause consternation in other people I love.

It might be great if we are on the same page about major issues with people we love. It may have seemed we were years ago, or we thought we were because we weren’t discussing them the way they are discussed today, and every negative was not magnified years ago. We were all getting along, or so it seemed.

What changed? The big thing that has changed is the population doubled in our lifetime, and real problems have presented themselves we don’t know how to fix. We don’t all agree on what the problems are, and we certainly don’t agree on how to fix them. People have always jostled for their place and position in the world. With more people there is more jostling, more blame being laid, and more fingers being pointed.

We have to be careful we don’t worry about what we can’t control and not deal with what we can. We have our sphere of influence but sometimes we talk about big issues we have no influence and control over, instead of the small ones we do. When I grew up we lived a pretty “Green life.” Instead of pointing fingers, we should all green our own lives, by reusing and recycling. Many of us can plant a tree somewhere. We can lessen our own footprint upon the world instead of shouting at others to do it. We can make a difference in our small sphere of influence and our influence may grow, but even if it doesn’t, doing our best to build harmonious relationships, happy, healthy families, live a non-wasteful life, do our best to green our part of the world, and treat the people we interact with respectfully and in a dignified manner is worth doing.

Even when people are thinking of the next generation they don’t necessarily think the best way forward is the same. If we do in our life what we think is possible and positive, we may have more of an impact than we can imagine. Is it possible to live our best life where we are, with the people we love? We can all ask ourselves what that life looks like and work toward it.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician worries about next elections, while the statesman thinks about the next generation. Winston Churchill

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand

Truth, it’s the new hate speech. During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

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Enjoy the little things. One day we will realize they were the big things.

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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius

My friend and I went for a walk yesterday. What a lovely day, cool enough to need a jacket, with the sun shining and pockets of early spring flowers blooming. We saw two open houses and popped in for a look. The first house was a bungalow with potential; the second was a bungalow with its potential realized by the current owners. It was gorgeous, with an addition and renovation completed about ten years ago, in the backyard was a pool, hot tub, outdoor kitchen with grill and pizza oven, a change room, and a bathroom. This is the house for people who love to entertain.

As we walked through the first house my friend said, “You need to have a vision of what it can become to buy a house like this, and the pocketbook to make it happen.” The second house was an example of someone with a vision, the pocketbook, and making it happen.

In the morning my new grandson’s other grandma and his aunt came over. They brought breakfast and we talked and laughed, while they admired and held the new addition acknowledging the changes since the last time they saw him.

As we talked and laughed I started dinner so it would be finished when my friend and I finished our walk. She is a first-time grandma herself but last year with the restrictions during this pandemic did not get to hold her grandson when he was brand new. She stayed for dinner and held my grandson marveling at how small he is compared to her one-year-old grandson.

The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most of every day. Unknown

My son tells his fiancé that when he sees me holding my grandson it looks like I’m on crack. “My mom has this perpetual smile on her face.” It’s true, being a grandma is wonderful and I am enjoying every moment of it knowing he won’t stay little for long. My friend goes through her picture gallery showing me pictures of her grandson. I’ve already done the same with people.

We don’t know what a day will bring. Yesterday was wonderful, filled with laughter, joy, friendship, and exploring our neighborhood. My husband and I are planning to go on day trips this summer, explore different areas, and see the sites near us. We can be tourists in our own locale.

Wherever we are in life, whatever our age, there are joys to be had. Some things we have to plan, some are spontaneous, some are even serendipitous, but if we are open to living in the moment and going with the flow we can enjoy these moments. They are especially sweet because they are fleeting.

We need to grab onto the moments of joy the day brings, and suck out all the sweetness in life. We never get to live the same day twice, we have to make the most of each one as it comes.  

Make each day a masterpiece. Don’t think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can’t today be a great day? It can be if you believe it will. John Wooden

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last. Emmet Fox

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Live, love, matter, the way we spend our days is the way we spend our life.  

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If your absence doesn’t affect them, your presence never mattered. Unknown

Are we living, loving, and mattering? What do we mean when we ask, are we living? Are we living the life of our dreams? Do we even know what that would be? Do we have an answer for what our perfect day would be? Who would we spend it with, and what would we do?

Do we have people we love? Do they feel loved by us? Is there something that needs to change in some or all of our relationships? Do we love ourselves; are we happy with who we are, and who we are becoming?

Do we matter; do we treat ourselves as if we matter? Do other people treat us as if we matter? Do we treat other people as if they matter?

In Brendon Burchard’s book “High-Performance Habits” he asks us to choose three words to describe our future selves. The three he chose were live, love, and matter. What popped into my head was healthy, wealthy, and wise. One of his clients came up with alive, playful, and grateful.

Brendon Burchard was in a car accident at nineteen his three one-word commands live, love, and matter helped turn his life around. Every night he asked himself, “Did I live fully today? Did I love? Did I matter? He has kept asking himself those questions for over twenty years and they have guided him to a better life. He doesn’t always live up to his ideals, none of us do, but having clarity can help us determine are we doing something that matters, or are we just doing something?

If you only knew how much those little moments with you mattered to me. Unknown

Right now, the time I was spending illustrating my next children’s book in the evening is spent holding, admiring, and enjoying my grandson. The book will get illustrated in-between the time I spend with my grandson, (I still expect to meet my goal of publishing it on October 25, 2022) but my grandson is only little for a very short time. My daughter and I are watching movies in the evening as he feeds, needs changing, and fusses. We will treasure this time together for the rest of our lives. I am grateful I get to spend it with the two of them.

At the beginning of the year, I chose the word grateful as the lens through which to view life. There is so much to be grateful for and now being a grandma there is even more. Holding him is such a joy, the faces he makes, the sounds, how he looks around at everything, and how intently he stares back at me.

I think I will adopt Brendon Burchard’s three words live, love, and matter as questions to reflect on at the end of the day. If we live fully, love deeply, and matter by making a difference in people’s lives what a great life we will live. When we decide what we will pursue, we may find clarity, as we make the best choice of how to spend our time, because we only get to spend it once. 

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. Unknown

The best things in life are free, and it is important to never lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love… there is your treasure. Neale Donald Walsch

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

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Spending time with family is one of the great joys in life. We can stay close through time and distance.

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A family doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to be united. Unknown

Life surrounded by family is a joy. At Easter dinner two places were empty, one was sick and one was working, but our newest member was with us. Babies are so much work and so much fun, and as grandma, I get the fun but not the work.

What a beautiful time to be born with April flowers poking their heads out of the ground. In places where there is still snow – it is the last of it. The other day I saw seeds for sale and I purchased a bunch. My husband asked, where are you planting those. Over the years many of my flowers have died out as trees and shrubs have grown larger.

My garden has been neglected especially in the last few years. If I want a beautiful garden I have to put the work in. A garden is a metaphor for life. I’ve let weeds take over where flowers used to be. I need to find new flowers that will flourish with my shrubs and trees. I should have planted spring bulbs last fall, but I didn’t.

One of the things I want to do this year is to find more balance in my life. I was working very hard on writing and it is necessary to put the work in to accomplish something. But, we also have to find balance in our lives and now I need to find time for a fuller richer life as a grandma.

I expect now I’m getting into the groove as a writer that it will be part of my life for however long I have on this earth. Art and writing are two pastimes I enjoy and enrich my life. Life is what we make it, and making time for all the facets of our life is important. It is not good to focus too much on one part of our life to the detriment of other equally important parts.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.  Robert Breault

Yesterday it would have been so easy to say. I don’t have time to make Easter dinner this year. With all we have going on no one would have questioned that decision. We would have missed out on a lovely evening we shared in the glow of getting together with family we haven’t spent time with for a while and introducing them to the newest member of the family.  It is the last dinner we’ll have with everyone before my son’s wedding.

My son said to me as we cleaned up. “Thanks, Mom, for doing the work to make this happen.” He is marrying into a family that celebrates big and often. As I look back over our life I wonder if we celebrated enough. My friend sent me a picture of her one-year-old grandson with his birthday cake all over his face. She is a first-time grandma and so am I.

Families are fragile things. Our circle can be broken easily and like Humpty dumpty can be hard to put back together again. We watch famous families disintegrate before our eyes, sometimes we watch our own disintegrate and don’t know how to fix things.

Families aren’t perfect, they are always comprised of imperfect people thrown together, stirred and shaken by the winds of fate. We don’t know how our lives will unfold, “Will we be rich, will we be happy, Que sera, sera? The future’s not ours to see. Whatever will be, will be, Que sera, sera.”

What we can do, is gather our loved ones around us when we get the chance. We can make phone calls and stay in touch. We can make the best of what we have. If we do these things then, whatever happens, we will know we did the best with what we had, and live a life of few regrets.

Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions. Yet our roots remain as one. Unknown

If you want to bring happiness to the world, go home and love your family. Mother Teresa

You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them in your heart, your mind, your stomach because you do not just live in the world but a world lives in you. Frederick Buechner

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Are we grateful for the little things? The little things we take for granted are the big things.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthis Ozick

Things can change in an instant. Everything is going along even if not merrily, it is rolling along. Then we get the phone call, someone is in the hospital or didn’t even make it to the hospital. Whatever it is, it catches us off guard.

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. Roy T. Bennett

I sit here today as a grateful grandma. Have a happy Easter. As we gather together this Easter we will feel even a little more blessed to share time with each and every person at our table.

Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out. John Wooden

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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At peace or at war with reality? Is this our choice in life?

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Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. Wayne Dyer

It is with awe and wonder, that we watch our new grandson. Even our dog’s maternal instinct is on high alert. What a wonderful time this is with a new baby and a wedding on the horizon. My mother-in-law is recovering from a hospital stay and is enjoying her great grandson’s first days before she goes back to her own home.

The other grandparents and my son-in-law’s sister came for a visit. Our grandson won’t remember having all these people around him who love him but what a blessing to be wanted and loved before we are born, and to be born into peace and plenty.

On the other side of the world, babies are as wanted and loved but are born into turmoil and strife through no fault of their parents. It would take so little to have peace and plenty turn into turmoil and strife. It would take so much to turn it back into peace and plenty.

We are basking in the joy of our golden moment because wringing our hands in angst doesn’t help anyone else. I haven’t been touched by war and yet parts of the world have been in a never-ceasing round of wars. “The world as a whole has not been at peace since 1914, and the 20th century is regarded as the most murderous in history,” states Eric Hobsbawm, in an article in the Guardian from Feb 23, 2002, and conflict has continued since then.

How then can we be content to live in peace and plenty when others are not living in peace and plenty? We live in our own little bubble and we always have. If our neighbor’s house burns down we feel bad for them, we may even help them out in any way we can, but we continue to live our lives as they try and put their lives back together again.

Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree. You still believe it to be a beautiful place. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Even here in Canada where most can live in peace and plenty, not all are. What would need to change for everyone to live in peace and plenty? Does everyone even want to live in peace and plenty? Would some people think it wrong of me to think we have a choice?

We of course don’t have a choice if bombs are going to be dropped overhead. We don’t have control of the negotiation being made around the world. We can choose to look at what is, what we have control over in our lives, and make it the best we can. Is it possible for our mind and soul to be in harmony, to be free from desire and wrath, and to know ourselves? Is this what all religious doctrines, philosophers and wise people are trying to teach us?

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. Buddha

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King Jr.

There are two ways to be. One is at war with reality and the other is at peace. Byron Katie

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Parents with newborns are a joy to behold. A new baby is the beginning of all things.

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There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. Jill Churchill

As expected my grandson arrived at 10:30 am on Monday. Visitors are not allowed but he came home the next day and what a bundle of joy he is. He weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces so he is a substantial baby. I pulled out my son and daughter’s baby pictures from the hospital and he looks just like them. I haven’t seen a newborn baby picture of my son-in-law. It will be fun to watch him grow and change over the next little while.

He already has his own personality and if that little face isn’t smiling back at me I don’t know what that is. I’m pretty sure he has a dimple, he’s looking around taking everything in, and he’s very hungry, but is content most of the time. He’s getting enough to eat but he wants to eat often and with enthusiasm.

Our little dog is already concerned when he cries and wants to sit by mom and baby. It is a very special time and we are blessed to share it with my daughter and her husband.

New mothers are kept in the hospital for a very short time and I’m sure it must be overwhelming for some new mothers who haven’t been around many children to bring their newborn home and be totally responsible for this new being who seems so fragile in their newness. Breastfeeding is hard for many new mothers and one of the hardest parts is you can’t say I know he drank four ounces. They have to trust their body and their baby, and we don’t have a lot of trust in ourselves, we want evidence.

My daughter said to me yesterday, “Can you hold him while I have a shower?” Of course, I was happy too, when she came up baby and me, and Lulu the dog were sitting on the couch almost having a nap. One of the mothers at the hospital where they gave birth is probably not having such a serene experience. Her baby cried the whole time they were there.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. Leo J. Burke

I remember when I had my son, he hardly made a peep. One afternoon the nurse came in and woke me, “Aren’t you going to feed your baby?” My son was crying but I’d been listening to a crying baby that wasn’t mine for so long I didn’t realize he was the one crying. All he wanted was food and he was happy again.

Do we put too much pressure on new mothers to breastfeed? I don’t know, I do know it isn’t easy for everyone but when it works it means you always have lunch ready at the right temperature. Breastfeeding is thought by some to statistically significantly lower the risk of postpartum depression. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and collaborators are the first to examine breastfeeding status and postpartum depression by studying a large national population-based database of 29,685 women living in 26 states in the US. Findings showed women who were currently breastfeeding at the time of the data collection had a statistically significant lower risk of postpartum depression. I’ve always thought about this and now there is a study.

My reasoning was, that our bodies control our thinking more than we might like with the hormones they produce, and a breastfeeding baby means a live baby. There is also the effect breastfeeding has on getting our body back to pre-pregnant status. The bond that breastfeeding creates between mother and baby can’t be duplicated with a bottle, and the superior nutrition it provides makes it the best way to feed the baby. Breastfeeding is linked to lower rates of autism. The studies trying to find the correlation between breastfeeding and lower rates of autism haven’t been able to isolate the factor, but they do see a relationship.

Not everyone will be successful in breastfeeding, but it might be so important that every baby should get the opportunity to breastfeed even for a short period of time if it is at all possible.  The colostrum produced before the milk comes in might be so important that every baby should have access to it.

I’m looking for the benefits of colostrum and what comes up is how important it is for a newborn calf. If it is so important for a newborn calf why would it not be equally important to a newborn infant?

Being a new parent is a minefield full of judgment. It is important to do our best but that is all we can do, and we have to be okay with our shortcomings as people and parents. Breastfeeding may be best but it isn’t always possible, hopefully, my daughter can breastfeed until her baby weans himself. We are fortunate to have access to formula to feed our babies if it is required. There are so many “expectations” placed on new parents. It is so easy to let society make you feel inadequate because you aren’t doing what they think you should do, or looking how they think you should look.

As I watch my daughter and her husband with their newborn son my heart is filled with gratitude and joy. How wonderful to see the next generation taking their place as parents. A baby loved and wanted comes into the world and a family is created. It doesn’t get better than this.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. Unknown

As new parents, the days may be long, but the years are short. You’ll never look back and wish you held your baby less. Unknown

A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. Eda Leshan

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Born on a Monday? Waiting for glorious news our grandbaby has come into the world.

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Birth is the epicenter of women’s power. Ani DiFranco

I’m pretty sure our grandbaby will arrive before the day is out. Do we wait for our grandbaby’s arrival with as much or more anticipation as our own children? Every woman who has a baby has a story to tell. The hero’s journey for women is pregnancy and birth. For women in the past, this journey was fraught with much more danger than it is today. It is a journey that tests us, remakes, us, and through which we grow into mothers.

We can’t go through traumatic experiences without changing and growing and pregnancy and birth are one of, if not the ultimate experience. My daughter will now have her war story. Her moment of thinking I can’t do this; it’s too much for me. A dark night of the soul takes us from one phase of life into another. Becoming a mother surely fits the definition of a deeper perception of life and growth into a new state of being.

Most women get through the birth process with the object of their desire, a beautiful baby to hold, and a feeling of lightness in their body again. They can walk more easily, and be able to see their feet.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. Osho

I’ve been thinking of the old nursery rhyme.

Monday’s child is fair of face. Tuesday’s child is full of grace. Wednesday’s child is full of woe. Thursday’s child has far to go. Friday’s child is loving and giving. Saturday’s child works hard for a living, and the child born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

Here is another one:

Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all. He who is born on the day of rest in health and fortune has the best.

My husband and I were Sunday babies, my daughter a Tuesday baby, and her husband a Friday baby. We often seem concerned with the future instead of letting things unfold as they will. We know the sex of the baby because we have the technology to tell us such things.

We can’t visit them at the hospital but we can talk on the phone and get pictures instantly. They don’t usually stay in the hospital long so I can hold him in my arms soon. I have my phone beside me waiting for the call that he has arrived.

I would have loved to be with my daughter during this process but at least her husband is able to be with her. There is no experience like bringing new life into the world, and there is nothing as promising as a new life with all that lies before it.

There is a power that comes to women when they give birth. They don’t ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it. Sheryl Feldman

A woman in birth is at once her most powerful, and most vulnerable. But any woman who has birthed unhindered understands that we are stronger than we know. Marcie Macari

Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom. Harriette Hartigan

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