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Hacking Around in the Stream of Consciousness

Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “life hack.” Use it way you’d like. Enjoy!

To be completely honest, I wasn’t exactly sure what “life hack” meant. Do you ever have gaps in your knowledge that surprise you? So, I had to look it up and realized I have always had life hacks. When I worked on my books, I learned I had to do my writing before I opened any social media or even email. Otherwise, I’d get distracted. Maybe I could have set a timer, but better not to even go there on social media.

Social media and I don’t have a love/hate relationship, it’s more like a like/dislike. But is WordPress considered social media? If so, I do enjoy WP, even though I don’t get to spend as much time here as I used to. Of course, we all have choices and so many possibilities. It’s not good for my body to sit too long. I used to stand at my computer for a while, but not lately. Getting up and stretching is maybe a life hack if I want to be healthy. When driving, I’m better off stopping and stretching every hour which slows me down, but in the long run, I can go further once I get to my destination.

Speaking of health, I had a massage today (Friday) which was long awaited after having done a lot of driving, last weekend. Then I had a blood test for Lyme and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Monday, after taking Marley for a long walk, I found a tick in my hair! and dropped it in alcohol.

The tiny tick next to a penny

The next day, I found what itched like a tick bite on the side of my head. I had sprayed my ankles and shoes but didn’t think about my head. Anyway, I don’t usually get tested or prescribed antibiotics for every tick bite, because I’d be at the doctor a lot during warm weather. (Yes, I need to more careful about my head, but I have bought more light-colored clothes and often pull my white socks up over my pants, not caring if it looks weird. I guess those could be life hacks.) Something told me to go to the doctor this time. Maybe because I’ve been feeling achy and tired, but this could just be a common cold since I have a sore throat. It could also be a reaction to the colonoscopy prep from Wednesday’s routine (10 year) procedure. Don’t get me started (SoC) on that prep, but the first swallow of the solution made think, Is this s#*t safe for human consumption? Plus, I did not get a lot of sleep…

The good news is that the colonoscopy results were okay. Just one little polyp removed. It was recommended that I go back for another in seven years. We’ll see how I feel about that in seven years. Right now, I think I might be too busy.

I suppose I could think of more life hacks, like I just made vegan “parmesan” by putting cashews, nutritional yeast, and garlic powder in the little “bullet” blender. But continuing to think about examples of life hacks would not necessarily be writing in stream of consciousness mode. Life Hack is a strange term to me. Like if you hack away something that’s not good for you, then it’s good for your life. Like a cat hacking up a hairball. The word, hack, has a lot of meanings which makes it a good SoCS prompt. (Linda’s good at that.) Some meanings are negative, like hacking into a computer system not belonging to the hacker. There are also some horses called hacks, hackneys, or hack can mean to ride for pleasure.

Hack can also mean, to cope, in which case, may we all hack on!

Some of the driving I did last weekend was to western NC to take my granddaughter home after her spring break visit. Jess helped me volunteer at the shelter while she was here. One of the dogs was also named Jess. Then, my son drove us to nearby Tennessee for her guitar lesson, allowing me to take pictures from the passenger seat.

Jess and shelter dogs
Practicing before lesson
Tennessee landscape from car
Tennessee scenery from car

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Good News Tuesday for April 7, 2026: Monk Adopts Shelter Dog Amputee, Progress in Understanding Brain Diseases like MS, and 14 Good News Stories from Sam Bentley

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Walk for Peace Monk Adopts Shelter Dog Amputee

One of the Walk for Peace Monks, “Monk John” adopted a three-legged dog, Hopper, who had been in a North Carolin shelter for 121 days. For details and a video, click the link below:

Monk from Walk for Peace adopts three-legged shelter dog | 12news.com

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Progress in Understanding MS and Other Brain Diseases

A team of researchers from California and the UK have discovered specific nerve cells in the brain that are prone to DNA damage. The findings have implications for developing new ways to prevent damage from diseases like Multiple Sclerosis. For details, click HERE.

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March Good News from Sam Bentley

Sam’s good news summary for March includes Portugal’s refuge for elephants, getting rid of plastic pollution in Indian’s oceans, harvesting water from air, cooling neighborhoods in Brazil with rooftop gardens, indigenous communities save a river in the Amazon, the Eastern Imperial Eagle is making a comeback in Serbia, southern elephant seals are gaining ground as are giant tortoises and India’s cheetahs, Scotland legalizes water cremations which are better for the environment than traditional cremations, Sierra Leone gets its first NICU and maternal care center, a new immunotherapy treatment for prostate cancer, the UK’s first geothermal power plant, and inspired by AI videos, a NYC Animal Care Center has created real life “Love at First Wag” adoption events where shelter dogs choose their new guardians.

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Good News Tuesday for March 31, 2026: Nineteen Cities Make Progress in Cutting Air Pollution, Landfill Grows Food in Green Dome, Med School Graduate Gets Hometown Residency, and a Sweet yet Questionable Dog Story

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Cities Make Remarkable Progress in Cutting Air Pollution

A recent report shows that nineteen cities around the world have cut “toxic air pollution by 20-45% in a little over a decade.” Beijing, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, London, and San Fracisco were some of the cities making remarkable progress. The Guardian has details HERE.

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Landfill Channels Waste to Grow Fruits and Vegetables on Site

A landfill near London collects methane-rich biogas to heat a huge inflatable growing dome on site. This one site alone has, “…the potential to produce over 8,000 tons of affordable fruit and vegetables annually, creating 130 new jobs, while preventing the release of 3,800 tons of CO2 each year.” The Good News Network has more information and photos HERE.

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Woman is Returning as a Doctor to the Hospital Where She Worked as a Janitor

Shay Taylor-Allen will be graduating medical school in May and just found out she was matched with her first-choice for residency, Yale School of Medicine, the same hospital where she was born and later worked as a janitor when she was 18. Read more of Shay’s story and see a video of her reaction to the match HERE at ABC News.

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Based on a True Story?

There was a video I wanted to share about a shelter dog surrendered by his deaf owner who could no longer take care of him. Five months later, a five-year-old deaf girl comes to the shelter and discovers the dog knows sign language. Her mother adopts the dog. It’s a very moving story and went straight to my heart since I volunteer with shelter dogs.

But something felt off, so I looked a little closer. For one thing, the story was completely narrated. I found two other videos of the same story, same details, but with a different narrator, different buildings, different names and different people in the same roles. I read that it was based on a true story from Reddit and then found a disclaimer way at the bottom that the video is fictionalized but inspired by true stories.

The story has educational value and would make a great children’s book. It teaches us to not judge too quickly (or for that matter, believe too quickly that something is true.) Though I still have mixed feelings about it, Here’s the video that initially moved me.

I’d like to know what you think, but please don’t let the questionable dog story overshadow the good news that it real. I believe some parts of the dog story are likely to be true.

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SoCS: Forgiving Myself, Again

Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “review.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

Linda’s great at giving us interesting prompts with multiple meanings. There’s the review of a play or a book (I could use more for mine, but that’s another story.) There’s re-viewing movies that I’ve watched over and over again because the familiarity is comforting like listening to an old song, and there’s reviewing information for some kind of a test or to make sure you understand, like to sign something. Who actually reads all those legal details that make my eyes cross?

In school, I was good at reviewing my notes for tests. I was good at memorizing and mnemonic devices. Now, that I’m officially old at 70, I’ve started writing things down more, though I’ve always liked to write things down. So, when a new procedure came out at the no kill shelter where I volunteer with dogs, I copied and pasted it and reviewed it multiple times. It had to do with new dogs. Not a big change, but a change from what we’ve done for the year or so that I’ve been there. I’ve always been a rule follower. Well, not always… not in my early 20s, but that’s another story, too.

That’s why it was so bizarre and embarrassing that I forgot the new procedure I had reviewed so carefully! It was only one mistake, and no one got hurt. In the grand scheme of things, not something to beat myself up about, but I did. Then I analyzed the heck out of it: The mistake was at the end of my self-determined volunteer shift. I was tired. I was trying to get as many dogs as I could out for a potty break before leaving and driving home 30 minutes on the curvy roads before dusk when there might be deer out on the road

That night, I figured out ways that I’d avoid this mistake in the future: Slow down and breathe more often. Take a step back. Take more snacks. Drink more water. Read my note card that I made. Start with the new dog new procedure first when I’m fresh and not tired. Then I worked on letting it go, sort of, but not really, because here we are again.

I was not in trouble. I of course felt compelled to admit my mistake and my embarrassment. No body yelled at me. They can’t dock my pay. I didn’t get fired. But I still feel embarrassed. Intellectually I know I’m making a mountain out of a molehill to still feel this level of embarrassment. (Deep breath) My shift the following week went fine.

The surprise came two weeks later which was this past week. I went in and got the run down on new dogs, etc. and chatted with the office volunteers a bit. Then I saw a picture of me posted on the wall near the door.

“Hey, that’s my picture on the wall!” I said. Under the photo it said, “Volunteer of the Month.” It took a moment to register. I was shocked. I didn’t think I’d ever be volunteer of the month, because I make mistakes. Not a lot, but sometimes I’m a little, um….. slow. I ask a lot of questions. I try to follow the rules, but every now and then, I have a brain fart or a senior moment.

Another volunteer pointed to an envelope on the desk with my name on it. There was a thank you card and a gift card to a restaurant. (What a great non-profit organization to do this every month.)

Driving home on the curvy roads which I’m slowly getting used to, I thought, maybe they just felt sorry for me… Then, I reminded myself that I’ve been consistent, volunteering almost every week and calling if I can’t make it. I offer good ideas. I ask questions. I take and share good photos of the dogs that they sometimes use on their website and social media.

When I told my daughter about all this, she said,

“Well, they would not have made you volunteer of the month if they thought you sucked.”

She makes me laugh sometimes, in a good way.

Is anyone else too hard on themselves for mistakes?

We need to stop it!

We need to include ourselves in our circles of compassion.

We need to forgive ourselves.

I know this, but sometimes I forget.

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Here are photos of some wonderful dogs from the shelter: Spot, Cooper, and Odie

Spot is posing
More Cooper Kisses
Spot loves this ball
Odie and his shadow
Odie watching the tunnel
Tunnel was blowing in the wind

On this windy day, Odie was a bit scared of the tunnel which, blown by the wind, seemed to move on its own.

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SoCS: Love Transcends Distance, Remembering my Sister, Shelter Dogs, and an Apology

Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “distance.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

You’ve probably read here, and elsewhere, that sometimes we have to love people from a distance. That might be because a person is toxic and we’re trying to take care of our well-being. Or it might be because they moved away, or you moved away, or deployment in the military which makes me think of my parents when dad was in the corps for 20 years. Letters were the thing back then. Talking on the phone long distance was expensive.

David, my first boyfriend moved back to Connecticut with his family in 1972. I loved him, pined for him, from North Carolina. He wrote two letters and I wrote four. It as summertime and I was 16 so life went on. and on… Then in 2011, David found me again online. We had a long-distance relationship. Fortunately, we had cell phones by then, and it didn’t cost extra to call. My heart would beat faster as our regular 9pm calling time approached. Then we visited a few times, and he moved down to NC in the fall of 2012 after his company told him it was time to retire after 30 something years. Good timing! We got married in December of 2012.

Love can transcend distance. Prayer transcends distance. There’s even such a thing as reiki healing from a distance. My younger sister was killed in a car accident on her 16th birthday. A drunk driver hit her boyfriend’s car and killed both of them as they were going out to celebrate her birthday. That was so long ago. March 7 is the day she was born, two years after me. Today is her “heavenly birthday.” Though it’s easier to feel my father’s presence from heaven, I can also feel my sister, Mary Kaye’s presence, if I tune in to her. It’s vague. Or are these just memories?

My little sister, Mary Kaye
Mary Kaye and Lobo

Sometimes, when I watch a Harry Potter movie, Harry’s friend, Hermione Granger reminds me of my sister.

Sometimes I imagine (or do I hear?) my father’s voice. Maybe I feel or hear him more because I have more memories of him. He died in 2017. I’m glad we got closer before he died. I only have 16 years of memories with my little sister. If she had lived, I think she would have been a nurse or something like a home health aid. She did not do well in school, but she volunteered regularly at a small home for disabled children in the 1970s. She was kindhearted and a free spirit. I guess I’m missing her today and wishing we could have had more time to work through our sibling rivalry. I wish my daughter, my son, and my granddaughter could have known her.

I did not mean to go into so much detail, but that’s the stream of consciousness for you. If Mary Kaye had lived and was alive today, she would have maybe gotten me to not take things so seriously. Maybe we could have sung together. My older sister, Linda liked to sing, too….. They would have encouraged me to sing and to enjoy life. Maybe they are encouraging that right now as I write this.

Take time to laugh, to sing, to play. Eat chocolate. Dance. Laugh some more. That’s what they’re saying to me. From a distance, or from right behind me.

My mother collected angels. They’re all angels now. Smiling, dancing, because I am listening to them.

I feel their feathery kisses on my cheek.

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Speaking of kisses, I got sloppy kisses from Cooper at the no-kill shelter where I volunteer.

Cooper is healing from a skin condition and is starting to put on weight. He’s great at fetch!

Cooper just wants to be loved. Not from a distance, but up close and personal. Dogs remind me to enjoy the gift of the present.

Here are a few more dogs from the no kill shelter which rescues exclusively from the high kill county facility.

Apollo
Rocky
Odie
Milo
Beautiful Ivy
Spanky

There aren’t enough homes for them all. Please consider rescuing a homeless dog or cat.

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I wrote the above Friday night. This morning, I read that US airstrike was probably responsible for killing 165 people, mostly students at a school. I mention this because I want to be clear I am not oblivious to this horrible news. I am deeply sorry for the actions of the US government. This is sadder than anything personal that I wrote above, but it feels personal. Iran does not feel so distant today. It’s not enough, but I apologize for the actions of my government which does not feel like my government.

Still, the daffodils bloom. They give me hope.

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Good News Tuesday for March 3, 2026: Missing Prosthetic Leg Found, Anonymous Donation for Osaka’s Old Water System, and Two Winter Rescues

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Missing Prosthetic Leg Found Ten Months Later

Retired nurse Brenda Ogden waited for over a year to get the customized prosthetic leg that allowed her to swim. Her leg had been amputated after a car crash, and she’d only had the prosthetic for one week before it was swept out to sea by a wave that knocked down Brenda and her swim group. Ten months later, Elizabeth Forbes found the prosthetic leg on Yorkshire Beach and returned it to Brenda. The Good News Network has more HERE.

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Anonymous Gift of Gold Bricks Donated to Fix Osaka’s Aging Water System

Osaka, Japan received an anonymous gift of gold bars worth 560m yen (over 3 million dollars) specifically to fix the city’s old water pipe system. Osaka had 92 cases of water pipe leaks under the city last year, some resulting in dangerous sink holes. The Guardian has details HERE.

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Snowplow Driver Rescues Two Dogs During the Blizzard

Snowplow driver Kenny McGowan rescued two dogs running down the highway during the recent blizzard in New York. The sister dogs are now back home thanks to a microchip.

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Lio Saved the Baby Blown into Lake Michigan Harbor

Lio Cundiff didn’t know how to swim, but he jumped into a cold Lake Michigan harbor to save an 8-month-old baby in a stroller that had been blown into the water. You can read details in this article from The Guardian and watch a brief interview with Lio below.

I looked up Lio who is a comedian and works as a server in Chicago. A friend started a successful GoFundMe for Lio’s medical bills.

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Good News Tuesday for February 24, 2026: NJ Citizens Stop Data Center, Mystery Dog Leads Police to Missing Child, Illinois Requires Climate Change Education, and a Teacher in India Wins Award for Transforming Low Income Communities

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Citizens in NJ stop City’s Plans for AI Data Center

Citizens of New Brunswick, New Jersy got their city to stop plans for an AI data center. Data centers use lot of electricity and water leading to increased utility bills. Enough citizens said no for the city council to listen. Instead of a data center, the city plans to build apartments, a park, and a warehouse for small businesses. Here’s the story I found in my GoodNewsletter.

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Mystery Dog Leads Police to Missing Three-Year-Old Child

A mysterious hero dog led an intuitive police officer to a missing three-year-old boy trapped in a car behind a house. The officer said he does not know who the dog belongs to and has not seen the dog since. (I wish they’d had a leash and some rewarding treats.) This article from The Good News Network includes a social media video with the officer’s body camera.

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Illinois Becomes the Fifth US State to Require Climate Change Education

Illinois has joined California, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to become the fifth US state to require education on climate change as part of students’ curriculum. Chicago-area high school students with the group It’s Our Future worked for the passage of the law requiring education about the impacts of climate change and solutions to mitigate the impact. Click HERE to learn more.

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First Indian Woman to Win Global Teacher Award Inspires Change

Teacher and artist Rouble Nagi became the first Indian woman to win the 2026 Global Teacher Award, with a prize equivalent to one million dollars, for her work transforming low income “slums” into colorful open-air classrooms. Rouble was motivated to make a difference early in her teaching career when she discovered a school aged child who had never seen a pencil.

“What began 24-years ago with 30 children in a small workshop has grown into 800 learning centres and murals used to teach literacy, mathematics and history among a wide range of subjects.”

Source: see MSN Article for more.

The following video shows an overview of the work Rouble Nagi does in her foundation.

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SoCS: Preciousness, a Mini Beach Vacation, and Back to the Present

Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “starts with ‘pre’.” Find a word that starts with “pre” and use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

This planet, Earth, is precious. If only more people would realize how precious our natural world is.

Time is precious. It zooms by even when we thought it was crawling. Time can be deceptive in that way.

The word precious means of great value. I didn’t look it up, I just think that’s what it means. Value. We value different things, but we all have things in common.

The word precious has sometimes been used in a derogatory way: Well, isn’t she precious, with a snarky tone (or maybe in a genuine tone which would be complimentary) Gollum in Lord of the Rings calls his object of addiction, the ring, “Precious.” That of course is creepy, so let’s not go there.

Now, I have an earworm of the song, Precious and Few … are the moments we two can share… from the early 70s I think. Sigh. I don’t want to write about that. Why not? I liked it in the 70s. But that was then and this is now. Now as in the present moment, a topic or focus on mindfulness meditation which I am trying to practice more.

Still, there’s something to be said for nostalgia – good memories. Like the ones that came up when we visited Wilmington for Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras in a low key church potluck kind of way. We went to our old church in Wilmington because David missed the oyster roast/potluck they do every year instead of a pancake supper. We took Marley who was a very good boy and stayed two nights at a Kure beach motel that was very pet friendly.

Marley at Seabirds Motel Dog Yard

I had not predicted the strong feelings of nostalgia and discomfort as we drove across the Cape Fear River into Wilmington. It felt like we should turn left to go “home” to our old neighborhood. You don’t live in a house for almost 40 years and not feel like you’re supposed to go in that direction. We did not go that way. I miss the old neighborhood, but I think it’s the fond memories tickling my brain. I do NOT miss the abundance of mosquitoes, or the big cockroaches we called “waterbugs” so prolific in warm climates, or the heavy humidity of summer that does not lift at night. David and I both agreed we do NOT miss the traffic of a city growing so fast. I do not miss the parking meters, though I sometimes miss access to all kinds of stores and restaurants. I guess that’s where the traffic comes in. It was nice to smell the ocean, but it’s also nice to smell the earthy freshness of the foothills and nearby mountains.

Where we live now is closer to my grown kids and grandkids. Where we live now has FIREFLIES that will emerge soon! We see snow in winter and sometimes deer from the back deck. The summer nights are cool. Where we live now is where I prefer to be. I want what I have.

Yesterday is history

Tomorrow’s a mystery.

Today is a gift.

That’s why they call it, the present.

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Below are photos of Wilmington traffic, a restaurant I DO miss and a view of the river front from the bridge:

Wednesday noon traffic
I DO miss this place.
See ya later Wilmington!

…and Kure Beach:

Kure Beach pier

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Good News Tuesday for February 10, 2026: Levis Teaches Jean Repair, Norway’s Healthy Polar Bears, Puppy Bowl Embraces Older Dogs, and the Singing Resistance in Movement

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Levis is Teaching High Schoolers to Mend Jeans

The “Levi’s Wear Longer Project,” launched Jan. 14 in San Francisco with plans to go global. Workshops will include virtual and in-person lessons to teach adding buttons, patching jeans and altering hems. You can find details HERE.

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A Group of Norway Polar Bears is Healthier than 25 Years Ago

Polar Bears living around islands in Norway are healthier, with more fat reserves, compared to 25 years ago in spite of reduced ice from climate change. Scientists suspect these particular polar bears have discovered more opportunities to hunt on land. The Good News Network has details HERE.

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Older and Special Needs Dogs Included in 2026 Puppy Bowl

This year’s Puppy Bowl, an adoption event aired on US TV before the Super Bowl, included older and special needs dogs for the first time. You can read more about it in this article from ABC News.

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The Singing Resistance Movement

Anderson Cooper brings us Singing Resistance, a group in Minneapolis that sings for grief, solidarity and courage. They practice in churches, then take their peaceful resistance to the streets.

Another example of singing resistance is when Minnesotans gathered outside hotels where ICE and Border Patrol have been staying to sing encouragement to quit and join them, singing: “It’s okay to change your mind, show us some courage. Leave this behind. It’s okay to change your mind. You can join us. Join us here anytime.”

Resistance can be peaceful.

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SoCS: Hope for A New Chapter in the US

Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “chapter.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

One of the things I enjoyed when writing Trust the Timing, was organizing chapters. My favorite chapters were after the rebound from hell when I learned to love myself better and then of course when David found me again after 39 years. I guess I like organizing things in chapters. Not that I’m a neat person by any means.

Even if we’re not writing a book, it can be helpful to think of starting a new chapter in life, or at least turning the page and moving on from what was hard with lessons learned and still being learned. Moving from the coast to the foothills of NC was definitely a new chapter, maybe even a new part of the book of my life.

Pilot Mountain, aka Jomeokee

Life…… At 70, it seems like this is getting late in my book of life. Not the end, I hope, but there’s a lot more behind me than ahead of me. Then again, who knows what happens after death? Another life? I’d like to see all my dogs and live in a cabin in the woods with them. That would be my heaven. My family members can visit of course, sit on the front porch…., or live there, too if it’s a big cabin. No pearly gates for me, but a big cabin, lots of trees and a lake, that would work well. I’d have like a long vacation in that cabin before any new assignments, like as a guardian angel. God knows I owe them.

Why am I thinking about death? Well, it’s a part of life, right? The Buddhist monks I’m following online and in spirit teach that nothing is permanent. I like their idea of doing good works in someone’s name to deal with the grief of losing that someone.

Did you think you’d get away with not reading about the Walk for Peace in this post? Oh well. The venerable monks are on my mind a lot as they approach Washington DC, having walked through heat, cold, snow and rain after leaving Texas in the fall. I’ve been worried about who in Washington would welcome them and worried about their safety.

Well, I didn’t have to worry so much (my lifelong lesson). I recently found out the venerable monks will be welcomed at the National Cathedral in an interfaith ceremony on Tuesday. I saw this Thursday night on the FB page of Bishop Mariann Budde who asked our current president to have mercy on those who were afraid when she gave the inaugural homily at the cathedral. Makes me proud to be an Episcopalian.

The monks will also be going to the Lincoln Memorial, which is fitting. On Wednesday from 4:30 – 7:30 there’s a loving kindness mediation planned. Can you imagine thousands and thousands of people in the US and around the world meditation on loving kindness at the same time?

Here’s the Walk for Peace website.

Maybe we can start a new chapter in the United States of America, a chapter of loving kindness and more peace. What a wonderful world it would be. I know it might take time, but Anything is possible.

I’m not expecting perfection, but we can do better. It starts with each one of us, individually.

In the meantime, lets enjoy the gifts of the present.

We’ve had a lot of snow lately:

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace.

🙏

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