Everything sublime is as difficult as it is rare. Baruch Spinoza

Monday, November 18, 2024

See the Light

More lovely light.


I've been struggling with the realization of what happened two weeks ago and what it will mean. Seeing this beautiful light filtering into a room lifts my spirits. I'm deeply, seriously trying to live the moment. It is so not me, but it must be my approach if I am to stay mentally and emotionally stable. Well, that may be a stretch for me.

So, keeping my weekly routine of Monday laundry, two loads washed, two more to go. Mark is on his second day of manure spreading, he has until perhaps 3:00 before we get rain. Tomorrow he will get the windows in the barn as we are going to go to normal November temperatures. The beasties would complain. I got the glass kitchen doors and the kitchen window washed yesterday. Suddenly it is brighter in there.

That's all the news for now. Another coffee and another load of laundry up next.

10 comments:

Miss Merry said...

Virtual hugs. I am with you. I would like to just cancel the holidays. And I am over peopling. I am so defeated. Hope you get some sunshine in your life.

Lori Skoog said...

Speaker Johnson said Trump has picked these people for his cabinet because he wants to shake things up. How's that for an answer as to why he selected them even if they were not qualified? There are an awful lot of people working behind the scenes to try and protect us....let's see what happens. In the meantime....carry on. Let's see if there is any justice in this world.

Sandra said...

Miss Merry, the sun is gone and rain is on the way. Kind of a metaphor for the future, I think. Thanksgiving is just us, so I don't have to people. Thankfully.

Anvilcloud said...

Ah, I just wrote some depressing stuff, so I erased it so as to not bring you down.

Sandra said...

Lori, as much as I hope this is so, I don't know how it would happen. The governing institutions are under that party's control. The highest legal authority is, as well. Along with many federal judgeships. We are not a parliamentary system.

Rita said...

For two big reasons I am trying to live in the present moment. I'm having more success with the personal event one but am having more trouble with the anticipation of the one for the country. I am working at it, as you are. :)

Sandra said...

That's ok, AC. I have a good idea where this will lead. My only hope is I'm wrong, but the authoritarian playbook that has been used for a very long time is playing out here. There were men carrying flags with swastikas marching on a sidewalk in Columbus, Ohio. This has become acceptable.

Sandra said...

It's hard work, Rita. It's not my basic nature.

e said...

Immigration is still possible for those with able bodies and skilled jobs.

Boud said...

I think there's more going on behind the scenes to protect us. Mitch already denied him his recess appointments, gop say he doesn't have the votes for AG, and they Speaker will have a ONE seat majority. There are gop starting to talk back. Meanwhile I'm doing my bit, as you are. Tending to your own daily well-being is important.