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We make mistakes, we correct them, we change our course, and we try to fix what’s broken.

Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. Nikki Giovanni

Sometimes we think we’ve done everything the same but the outcome is not the same, and if a mistake was made, most of the time we are the ones that made it.

This happened to me when I received the author’s proof of my next children’s book. It wasn’t quite the same size as my first one. It was printed in Canada and the first one was printed in the U.S. but that wasn’t the problem, the problem was the size I chose for the first one was 8.5 inches by 8.5 inches and the size I chose for the second one was 8.25 inches by 8.25 inches. My Files were created to 8.5 inches so why did I choose 8.25 inches when setting it up?

Purchasing an author’s proof lets us see what the book will look like and we can make any changes before it is published. Yesterday, I realized the error and changed the size with the click of a button. It is easy to assume we’ve done everything right but when we double-check our work often we find something we’ve overlooked, or does this only happen to me?

There is a lot of human error that impacts our lives, sometimes it is as inconsequential as a book not being the same as a previous book, but there are many times when the error is consequential in ours and other people’s lives.

We might not be able to prevent errors from happening, we have to deal with them and correct them when we can, and live with the consequences when we can’t.

I remember when I used to sew and that first cut in the fabric, especially if it was nice expensive fabric was hard. That first cut committed us and if we made a mistake sometimes we had to start all over with new fabric.

You need to give yourself permission to be human. Joyce Brothers

How do people handle decisions that are important, sometimes life or death? How do they deal with that type of responsibility? Their decisions impact lives, businesses, and economies. Their decisions have intended and unintended consequences.

We may think if we were in power we wouldn’t make that decision, we would consider more carefully what we think needs to be considered. Everyone will not be happy with the decisions made by the decision-makers, and the decision-makers realize this and have to live with the decisions they make, and so do we.

We may work to influence the decision-makers, and complain, or we might work in our circle of influence to make our little part of the world the best it can be. Laws are changed all the time that were brought in, and it can be funny to look at old laws that leaders must have thought were necessary and good for society when they were brought in.

Do we realize we make mistakes but expect others not to? Is that realistic? Are we judging the past by what we now believe, and judging history and the decisions made more harshly than we should?

I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That’s very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures. Lawrence G. Lovasik

The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one. Elbert Hubbard

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Spring is coming, can spring come to our hearts as flowers bloom and trees bud?

Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas

The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs

On the weekend it felt like spring but it’s winter out there again, a blanket of snow covers everything. But, spring is coming and a pot of crocus, tulip and hyacinth bulbs are beginning to bloom in the kitchen. At the Horticultural Society before Christmas we potted up bulbs, I placed mine in our cold cellar and brought them up about a week ago and they are already starting to bloom.

Watching things grow is one of life’s delights, and it won’t be long before we can get into our gardens. Looking out at our garden some of the spring bulbs are already poking their heads out in sunny places.

When we live with the seasons we live with a rhythm and if we are out of step with the seasons life is harder for us than it needs to be. Everything in life has its season, and discourse between people seems to be in a winter of discontent right now. Perhaps it is necessary for polarizing views to polarize before we can find a way to process them and move in a positive direction.

Do we make life hard for ourselves when we worry about things that aren’t ours to worry about? Some things are in our control but most things are not. If we focus on what is ours to control and let other people focus on what is theirs to deal with, does this give us a better life?

Where does our business end and someone else’s begin? When should we keep our thoughts to ourselves about other people’s ideologies, practices, and habits? It might be challenging in families when we don’t see things the same. We might not have grown up in the same culture, the same religion, or the same expectations. We don’t always see dealing with authorities in the same way. Our expectations in life might be different because we are different people and we can’t expect everyone to see things our way.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet

The easiest thing in the world is to mind someone else’s business instead of our own. We can see the changes that should be made in their lives even when we don’t see the changes we should be making in our own. The only person we can change is ourselves even if we think we aren’t the one that needs to change.

We think if they only saw things how we see things, the right way, and this is one of the things that cause the most disagreements.

Who wants to be reminded every day about how they see things wrong? We might not even think this is what we are doing, we are only discussing our view, but it comes off as disrespectful and judgmental. We didn’t mean to hurt someone we love with our words but there we go, doing it again. We might think what, we never get to have an opinion, but what if we should think a little longer before we speak and consider how what we say might be taken?

Everything is so polarizing right now, where is the middle ground? We aren’t even having the same discussions sometimes, we didn’t say what someone thinks we said, and we didn’t mean what they think we meant. It is as if we are living in the Tower of Babel times, where we really aren’t speaking the same language. How do we find the middle ground so we can talk about difficult issues that need to be discussed, and fix difficult issues that need to be fixed?

As winter leaves and spring arrives, can we find hope, renewal, and respect in our discourse with other people? Can we somehow find a wider view that includes everyone, find a way to work together, and not think the worst of everyone else’s intentions, and only the best of our own?

Spring is the time of plans and projects. Leo Tolstoy

The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. Edwin Way Teale

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. Ernest Hemingway

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Family day, reach out and touch someone, give them a hug, or a word of encouragement, and make a memory

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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe

Today is family day in some parts of Canada. We are all part of a family even if we aren’t speaking to any of them. If that is the case today would be a good day to pick up the phone.

We always need forgiveness in our lives because we do stupid things that hurt people without thinking, and they do stupid things without thinking that hurt us. If we can realize we aren’t perfect and don’t expect others to be perfect can we get along?

It is a good day to enjoy a leisurely breakfast, take a coffee break and spend time with people we love, or make a phone call or three. Let’s be honest, for some of us, we are fitting things in we haven’t gotten done. Today, I am planning to finish uploading my next children’s book to Amazon, “Krypto Goes To Puppy School,” which will be published on March 7, 2023. But, will fit in some family time too.

It is a great time to be a creative person. We don’t have to make our own paints or stretch our own canvasses, and putting our work out into the world has never been easier. We can watch artists’ videos to learn how to be better artists. Almost anything can be learned online, and some of it is available for free.

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. Paulo Coelho

Being creative is a gift we give ourselves by using the gifts we were given. Robert Burridge is an American artist who has videos on YouTube that are worth watching. Like Bob Ross, I can see people watching him who will never put a paintbrush on canvas because he is uplifting and having such a good time. When I am eighty I still want to be excited about my next creation.

Yesterday an artist, Robert Barron whose art is more useful was featured on TV; he’s also eighty and makes prosthetics for people who have been disfigured from cancer, accidents, or whatever. He used to make disguises and realized if he could make people look like someone else, he could make them look like themselves again. His art gives people back their lives.

With retirement looming for many of us, rekindling creativity may be what brings a spark to our lives. Finding a creative outlet lets us play and enjoy creating for the sheer joy of it. When we are happier our families are happier being around us.

Life is what we make it, and creativity is all about making something, a cake, quilt, painting, song, birdhouse, garden, or whatever comes to mind and it will give us a sense of satisfaction and joy.

For family day maybe we can make a memory.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. Mark Twain

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Finding awe every day. Do we find what we look for and focus on?

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

Awe is all around us if we are open to it. A magnificent sunrise, sunset, or rainbow is awe-inspiring, and we can see the sunrise and sunset every day if we choose. Scientists are studying the power of awe in our lives and research suggests that experiencing awe can make us healthier, happier, humbler, and more connected with other people.

We may think we’d love to experience awe if we could go see the wonders of the world, but we don’t have to go far to find awe if we are looking for it. Engaging with nature, enjoying great music, and art are ways to bring awe into our lives.  Awe might be why we find nature restorative.

Research suggests we feel awe when we encounter something bigger than ourselves and going for a walk once a week will help us cultivate a sense of awe. We don’t always notice awe-inspiring moments but if we are looking for them we will find more of them than if we aren’t, at least this is what researchers believe.

We can find awe anywhere but we are told we will find it most often when surrounded by physical vastness and novelty.  We don’t have to visit the snowy peaks of Kilimanjaro at sunrise, the Grand Canyon, or Niagara Falls to feel awe; we can take a new path, go to a new park, find a new hiking trail, or look at the sunrise, sunset, and cloud formations from our own home.

See the world through the eyes of your inner child. The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things. Henna Sohail

Brief experiences of awe lead people to think about others more. In an eight-week study, people were asked to take three pictures, at the beginning, middle, and end of each walk. The researchers were surprised that people who experienced awe dedicated more space to the background of their photos and also had bigger smiles on their faces.

Dacher Keltner, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, defines awe as “the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.” According to Dacher Keltner, awe is different from fear or an appreciation of beauty – though both can be present when awe is experienced.

To find awe, Dacher Keltner tells us we must look for “eight wonders of life.” These are nature, music, visual design, and moral beauty (when we witness people helping other people). More profound but less common is when we experience “collective effervescence,” the experience when our team wins, spiritual experiences, and epiphanies (when we learn something unexpected that changes our view). Births and deaths are awe-inspiring, the beginning and ending of life.

Often our encounters with awe are rare but they don’t need to be. If we look for awe we will find it in our everyday goings and comings. If we appreciate the small and the great things in our lives we may find awe in everything we see and touch.

Finding awe may make us more grateful, and being more grateful may help us be awe-struck by what we see. A small goal may be to have one awe-inspiring walk per week, and even if we walk the same path it is never the same because nature is always changing.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields, has the power to move you, if the simple things of Nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse

The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats

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We fall in love, but we build a marriage. Anything we build needs maintenance.

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Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day. Barbara De Angelis

Creativity feeds our soul, food feeds our body, books feed our minds, and love makes our world go around. This is why we love to cook for people we love. We stir our creations with love and sharing a meal becomes more than just a pit stop for food.

When we have family gatherings we have food. Yesterday we were all getting together and then realized it was the Super Bowl so instead of the dinner I had planned my daughter made nachos and chicken wings. Everyone stayed for the half-time show and then it was time to go home to get ready for the week ahead.

No matter what else we accomplish in life building a family is what gives us our greatest joy, most worry, and biggest sorrow when they break apart. Family is the glass ball we juggle along with all our other balls, and it is the one we must protect as we build a career, fit creative endeavors, and everything else into our lives. We often take our family for granted until something happens and we realize we should have put more into it, made more time, and realized it was the priority that needed tending.

Marriages are the foundation of our families but anyone who is in one knows “happily ever after,” is a fairytale for most, because it implies that getting married was the big thing when staying married, and staying happily married is the challenge.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

We don’t want to hear that love is a verb but we might be better off thinking of building a family as a duty we are taking on, rather than buying into the idea of a romantic fairytale, one true love, and the ideal partner.

What if our job is to do our best to become the ideal partner, for our one true love which we chose to go through life with, and they only become our one true love if we continue to be true to them? We are the ones that need to have true love by being steadfast, honest, and true as we go through the challenges that life throws at us. What if it is only at the end of our lives that we can say we have true love because we endured to the end?

It doesn’t sound romantic to endure, but isn’t part of life enduring, getting through the hard parts to get to the better parts? The winter of our relationship will give way to springtime if we don’t give up, we don’t get bitter, and if we don’t do something that sabotages the relationship.

Giving up may be one of the great mistakes of our lives, we give up on ourselves, or someone we love in a moment of weakness, and see everything we’ve built come tumbling down. It might be a “little thing” that leads to winter in our relationship, but if we don’t repair the rift, we won’t be walking hand in hand in the sunshine of the spring that is coming.

If we are lucky enough to have a partner we need to hold on tight and make the best of the lives we are building together. We don’t only get the good parts we have to move through the seasons of life and love.

Marriage stands the test of time when both you and your spouse work toward making things better. And we are tested the most when we face adversities. If you can sail through the adversities as one, as a team, then you have won half the battle. Unknown

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin

True love stands by each other’s side on good days and stands closer on bad days. Unknown

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Planting and reaping, we reap what we sow, and if we want a harvest we have to plant it first.

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Whatever it is you want, plant it, sow it, give it, and it shall be given unto you. Adrian Rogers

How long do we keep doing whatever it is we do? Until! Until when? Until we reach our goals until the children grow up, or until our side hustle can replace our job, until… That’s a positive take on life, isn’t it? Much of life is routine, we get up, brush out teeth, make a coffee and start our day. Some people throw some exercise in there, but no matter what our routines are much of life is following one routine or another.

Good routines will give us better outcomes than bad ones, and the routines in our life are setting up the rest of our lives. If our routine is a bag of potato chips or pushups before bed will make a difference to our outcomes.

Spring is coming and we have to think about what we’ll plant. We just got through harvesting what we grew last year, and if we want a bigger harvest we’ll have to plant a bigger crop. We might have planted something that we didn’t get to harvest last fall. Some crops take years to develop. We don’t plant a vineyard and start making wine the first year.

We don’t always see the correlation between what we’ve planted and what we harvest. Sometimes we don’t believe we planted what we planted, but in life like produces like. We don’t plant tomatoes and reap pumpkins. It can be hard to believe we planted discord and separation, but if that’s what we are reaping we better take a closer look. How do we plant harmony and togetherness?

This can be very tough for us to swallow, and of course, we aren’t the only ones planting so we have to be careful when we are figuring things out so that we can distinguish between what we planted and what someone else planted. It might be easier to see the weeds in someone else’s garden than our own, but weeding someone else’s garden won’t help control the weeds in our own, and pointing out to them the weeds in theirs won’t do anything to minimize ours.

If you don’t like what you are reaping, you had better change what you have been sowing. Jim Rohn

We get more of what we focus on, just like we get more of what we plant, and focusing on things can be how we plant things in our minds. What is the fine line between keeping abreast of what is going on in the world and becoming fearful that everything is getting worse?

We’ve never had so many opportunities to put our ideas out into the world before. But, we need to figure out what ideas others put out are worth listening to, reading, or watching. I say this as I want more and more readers, but I think sometimes, does the world need another blog? Am I part of a solution or part of a problem?

Content is king, and there is so much content on the internet that we have to be careful about what we are choosing to consume. Whose ideas are we allowing to come into our minds? What thoughts from someone else are shaping our thoughts? What beliefs are shaping our beliefs?

There are a lot of ideas out there looking for a home, but we better be careful what we let take hold of our minds. Are we becoming cynical of other people because we are listening to cynical people? Are we distrusting other people’s motives, do we think other people want to destroy our society because someone is telling us this? Are we hearing how the opposite sex is manipulating us, and it’s better to go forward in life alone?

Whose ideas are coming out of our mouths? Are we sure we know where those ideas originated, have we asked ourselves, is that true, or just what someone wants us to believe, and what will we reap by allowing those seeds to be planted in our mind? We are our own control board. We need to choose what we want to reap by what we plant. If we aren’t reaping what we want to reap we better take a good look at the seeds being planted, where those seeds came from, and what harvest they will bring.

We might feel offended when we are told we are reaping what we’ve sown, but if this is true then we can sow different seeds, we can change our lives, and we have more control than we might think.

Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others exists in you. Zig Ziglar

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

You can only reap what you sow. Sometimes you only reap a lesson, not a reward. But you take that with you and keep it for the rest of your life. Sow the best you can with love, honesty, trust, and effort. It won’t always pan out, but when it does, it will make everything, even the struggles, worthwhile. Doe Zantamata

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Build back better; making the best of the worst that happens can change our lives in unexpected ways.

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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and take whatever comes your way. Anonymous

Life is going along. We get a phone call that jolts us. Someone had a medical emergency, but they’ll be okay, a fire, but everyone got out safely. We give a silent prayer of thanks at that moment because we know the news could have been so much worse.

There is little we can do when situations are far away. If we don’t live in big close-knit families often help comes from the kindness of strangers. Organizations like the Red Cross are there to help in times of need and we are lucky to live in a society that has organizations like the Red Cross.

We hope we’ll be prepared for what comes in life, but are we ever really prepared? I spoke to someone recently whose apartment was gutted by fire. She said when she saw the orange flames, she froze, and if someone wasn’t there with her she’s not sure she would have gotten out. Being in a fire, for many of us is one of our worst fears. It’s why we hold firefighters in esteem; they are running in when everyone else is running out.

Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress. Thomas A. Edison

We can always rebuild, as long as everyone is okay. It’ll take a while but we’ll be okay. The strength of individuals seems to come out when they face hard times, disasters, and adversity. Does it take hard times to make the best of us come out, is that the silver lining of hard times?

If we need to rebuild our health or lives because of a disaster, we want to build back better. We want to learn the lesson of why something happened if there is one.  If we get the chance to build back better we better take the opportunity, we might not get that chance again.

Fire, water, and wind wreak havoc and yet when we harness them we get heat and power to run our lives. Do we also have parts of ourselves that if we harness and bring under control can power our lives to greater heights? We might be dissatisfied with areas of our lives, is that a power we could harness to build a better one? Could dissatisfaction be part of what fuels change? Is discontent a fuel that can drive us forward? Can dissatisfaction help us create something purposeful and beautiful?

You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow. Idowu Koyenikan

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength. Theodore Roosevelt

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward. Lu Xun

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We are what we eat, how can we be anything else? Are we choosing for health?

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When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. Ayurvedic Proberb

What is easy to do, is also easy not to do. There are many ways we can make small changes in our lives. I was watching a podcast by Dr. Tim Spector about eating thirty different plant-based foods per week as a goal. Bread, rice, and pasta don’t count but seeds, nuts, legumes, fruits, vegetables, and even spices and herbs count as ¼ of a plant, but each one only counts once per week. The idea is the more varied our diet the more varied our gut buddies will be and the healthier our gut health the healthier we are. Some experts say all health begins in the gut.

It can sound daunting to eat thirty different plants in one week especially if our diet is not varied. This is where stir-fries, soups, and salads really get our numbers up.

Health is our first wealth and without health, we really won’t appreciate everything else in our lives to the fullest. Throwing a bag of frozen mixed berries and some frozen mixed vegetables in the shopping cart is an easy and economical way to add to our numbers. One of the things I don’t want to end up doing is adding to my food waste. Salad kits are another way of adding to our numbers without breaking the bank.

I thought it would be harder than it is to get thirty plants in my diet, and now I have an excuse to have a bowl of popcorn, but I only get to count one bowl, and then only if I haven’t had corn on the cob. There is also now an incentive to scout out exotic fruits and vegetables, look up new recipes, and get more inspired in the kitchen.

It is easy to do, but also easy not to do. It is easy to have a day when I haven’t added one new plant to my list. Too many days like that and on day seven I am cramming everything into a soup or salad.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Hippocrates

Is this a fad or a better way of eating? Kombucha is part of my diet and is supposed to be good for gut health and I have been making it since 2019. No one else in the house drinks it and I make a batch a week.

Dr. Tim Spector from the British Gut Project is pushing for 30 plants a week. He says the wider diversity of fiber-packed plants we eat, the happier and more diverse our gut microbiome will be. I like the idea of someone telling me to eat more and more variety instead of less and less. There was an idea that we should eat five plants a day – but some of us would eat the same five plants and that would not give our gut much diversity.

Our gut microbes do many things for us:

They train our immune cells.

Increase our resilience to infection.

Strengthen our gut barrier.

Communicate with our brain.

Balance our blood sugar, lower blood fats, and help prevent many diseases.

It makes sense we are what we eat and it is one of the areas in our life where we have control. Small changes can pay big dividends in our lives. It’s our life and it is up to us to make the best of it. What if a more varied and colorful diet is part of the answer to better health, does it start when we choose what food to put in the cart at the supermarket?

The beauty of food as medicine is that the choice to heal and promote health can begin as soon as the next meal. Unknown

Medicine is not healthcare. Food is healthcare. Medicine is sick care. Unknown

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. Ann Wigmore

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