WRITEON FOR APRIL 29, 2020
sister alies.
Can you conjugate the verb? I’m firm, you’re stubborn, and s/he’s pig-headed? Or, just go to the 3rd grade math page on any online school at the moment…I didn’t understand one word! Really? How are we expecting folks to ‘home school’? Oh my, things are difficult on so many levels for so many folks. But, we’re hanging in there and doing all those very common sense things. Shall we change the subject?
Yes. Some folks are using their ‘down time’ to reflect upon their lives. I found this in a fav book of mine called THE PRINCESS WHO BELIEVED IN FAIRY TALES by Marcia Grad (1995). The princess had been spending time looking back over the years at all the time she took to be ‘perfect’. It never seemed to work out. She went to her friend the wizard and here is a bit of their conversation:
“When you accept the miracle of who you are and love yourself without condition, changing things that need changing will come easier. But some of the things about you that you have always thought needed to be changed—things you believed were your failings, your enemies—have actually been your loyal servants. It is because of them that you are who you are. A unique, perfect you—unlike any other who has come before or will follow.”
The princess thought over all the times she’d been angry with herself for not being different, better.
“My poor dear,” the wizard said taking the princesses’ shoulders in her hands and looking directly into her eyes. “You have always been good enough to be loved. Not because of what you said or did not say, or what you did or did not do, but simply because you are a child of the universe. The time has come to honor that which you have denounced for most of your life.” Finally, the wizard reminder her: “When you look for beauty in all that is, you begin to see beauty in yourself. If you look only for imperfection, you’ll only find that.”
What a great reminder. Though this virus is ugly and causing so much havoc around the world, some of the responses to one another are beautiful. Mayor Gov. Cuomo reported one. A man in Kansas had five masks. He had a family of four and his wife had only one lung and diabetes. So, he kept four for his family and sent one to Cuomo for a doctor or nurse. Simple, small, and very touching. Let us do what we can. TY to those who have shopped for me!
BLESSINGS.
