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From this post forward, please read and SUBSCRIBE to my NEW BLOG: WTF? (Where’s the Faith?)…a critical and crystallized vehicle of expression for a very niche audience–faith-filled and spiritual inspiration for people living through personal crisis and loss–
a group that I am most proud to identify with.
My new blog “WTF? (Where’s the Faith?)” will replace THIS BLOG “Backyard Therapy.”
Before closing, I want to thank all my blogging-buddies for reading “Backyard Therapy”; without the encouragement and support, I would not have made it to this next stage. THANK YOU AGAIN!
Stay tuned!…until next time…faith forward!
Ever do perfect? Impossible.
Kindergarten 101 revisited: no perfect.
Remember?
Unleash the fire!
So, why is it that in my mind I do everything perfect? Or I don’t do. In other words, I don’t do lots of things that really matter to me because I know the outcome will not measure up to my super high standards.
Many of my students in my writing workshops are the same way. They say something like, “I don’t want to write my novel because it will never be a best seller.”
My advice, of course, is always: “Write it anyway. Just write it.”
You can’t LIVE a dream if the fabric of it lays snarled around your mind and never sees light of day. Yes, an idea CAN LEAD to a reality; but meanwhile an idea is as dead as dead can be if it does not take shape, color and form.
Imagine this eulogy: “She always had that book in her mind but now neither she nor the book will ever see the light of day.” Sad indeed!
For months, okay, nearly a year, I agonized over this “Backyard Therapy” blog. I wanted to revamp it. Tweak it. Change it. Transform it until it screamed with all its might, attracted millions of followers and fans …, and … phew, let me catch a breath … the reality is, months have gone by, and NEVER MIND changing anything – I did not write one word, NOT ONE!
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” Voltaire said; one of my favorite modern-day uplifting writers and thinkers Gretchin Rubin periodically refers back to that simple, but profound thought.
And, here is how I think of it: “Don’t let good out-shadow good enough.”
So now, at least for today, I have broken the frame around my picture-perfect world and I’m back again. I am especially grateful to some fellow bloggers and very special friends like Aileen DePeter O’Sullivan who actually inspired me to move out of my mind–not always the best of places to reside–and come out to be found, found out or, better yet, just find myself. There is no better company than that of other fellow travelers who like me, irk at exposing their imperfections, but marvel to see that these shortcomings are what bind us, inspire us and join us to the core of the soul.
So with that said welcome to a new year and a totally revamped blog: WTF (Where’s the Faith?) …a more critical and crystallized vehicle of expression for a very niche audience…faith-filled and spiritual inspiration for people living through personal crisis and loss…a group that I am most proud of being a member.
Fall's Masterpiece unveiled!
Here we are in the early days of October and it seems that already every leaf peeper on earth is out on the trail. Even my, otherwise, quiet hamlet of Easton, Connecticut, has turned into a bumper-to-bumper standstill of city folks hauling shiny pumpkins to their automobiles and waiting in lines at Sherwood’s Farm to partake of slow hayrides through the pumpkin patch. Likewise, if you are trying to book an overnight stay at a New England Country Inn, good luck!
There is no better time than now here in New England to join the many other trailblazers and go outdoors. To really rejigger, collect a few colorful leaves and scatter them as decorations indoors. If you have friends living in less colorful areas, plan a day trip with the sole purpose of collecting leaves for them. Then for five bucks or less, laminate them on an oversized sheet and drop the creation along with a sweet note into the mail. (I actually borrowed this idea from a woman I overheard at a copier shop doing this very thing for a friend.)
Color, color &, yes, more color!
Isn’t that the best way to rejigger, share your joy of the day-tripping experience with a friend? Let’s face it, e-mail is a convenient way to keep in touch, but taking the time to send an “I care” package packs a stronger message of love
Backyard Therapy--Live blissed-out, not stressed-out 