● One Good Year

Sj in a pink sweatshirt, glasses, black headband over-wrapped with a and flower bud band.

Getting up early each morning gives me a whole day to think, to laugh, and to be grateful that I can. Many cannot — rest in peace. Some days it seems impossible in a world that is coming apart at the seams. I do not believe it’s over just yet, but those threads are surely straining. The entire planet is under continuous renovation.

Like most people, I want the world to get better. Ahhh! Those tiny cells of matter are merely rearranging. So do you really think the world is ending? Or just yours?

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
– Helen Keller

There’s a future being planned. Will you claim a piece of it?

Let me describe the start of my day. I wake up, get up, and stand up. It’s quite simple. I begin by appreciating the gift of resources granted to me. And I look in the mirror…

Oh that face!

They are no longer here, but in that mirror, I confirm that I am my mother’s child and my dad’s maybe (his joking words, I think).

Each day I honor what my mother and father have made. I am the miraculous manifestation co-created by very young parents who faced an uncertain future.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller

Who will you be?

  • Good to your mother and father, sister and brother, children, neighbor, co-worker, friends and strangers,
  • Good to the cleanliness, safety, and hope of your home and community,
  • Good to your body, womanhood, manhood, personhood,
  • Good to the world and the earth.
  • Good to your mind,
  • Good to yourself,
  • Good to your purpose.

One good year can change your whole life.


Shirley J 🌹

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