The other day I moved my laptop out of my dining room and into my bedroom.  In the evenings when I want to check email and play on Facebook, I now have to step into my home office to do it.  That’s turned out to be a good thing since I get more work done, what with my In Box and To Do List staring me in the face each time I sit at the desk.   I figured if I was going to spend more time in here, I needed to unclutter.  My place stays fairly clutter free, but I get weekly deliveries of one thing or another, mostly books or supplies, and that creates boxes and bubblewrap trash.  Often I’ll leave a delivery unopened for a week, or put it unopened in the supply closet.  Eventually that catches up with me, and I have to pull everything out and unwrap it and put it all back in.  So my clutter is usually packaging material or stacks of paper I need to go through, and it’s easy enough to do. Continue reading →

My ginger in bloom

I was outside watering yesterday morning and happy to see that just a little bit of water made so many of the yard plants bloom.  A friend planted several pineapples a few years ago and since they are completely under shade, they have only grown a little. They won’t bloom and fruit unless they’re out in the sun.  I found a couple of  yellow allamanda that were barely growing just under the eleagnus, and I thought, “Well, they are existing just fine, safe in the shadow of the eleagnus bushes, but they are not growing much and they won’t bloom under there.”  I thought how it is the same with me.  I can exist fine in a shadow but if I want to grow and bloom, I need to get myself in a little more light and keep myself watered.  And some days I don’t care if I grow or not, and not everything that’s meant to bloom has to.  It’s nice to have choices.

Yesterday I was speaking with a friend and began to tell a story of an email I’d received from someone.  The writer was quoting inaccurate source materials, that is, she was complaining yet talking about something she had no experience of, as she was just repeating what other writers said.  When I mentioned the phrase “the conservative media,” my friend on the phone launched into asking me who I considered the conservative media and that segued into him telling me his thoughts on how the liberal media spreads misinformation.  He stated unequivocially that there’s no evidence anywhere that Fox News ever lied about anything.   He believes the liberal media spreads more mis-info; I believe the conservative media does.  It doesn’t matter who’s right, if we’re on this topic, it isn’t helping us achieve a happy life.

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OK so yesterday I contacted technical support for my bookkeeping program upgrade from MYOB to Acclivity/Account Edge and told them my problem.  My problem was I could see in the Recurring Transactions List an amount in the far right column.  In the old program, an amount there would signal me that there was a balance due.  That’s not what it means in the new program though.  Now it just means that’s the amount of the recurring transaction.  So I didn’t need technical support to tell me how to fix anything, I just needed them to tell me to change my perception and not look at the new info and process it with old beliefs.  Isn’t that the way it always is?  Nothing ever needs to change but my perception.  Good to know.

After meditation this morning, I sat down at the laptop as usual to check Facebook and see what I’d missed overnight.  No Facebook.  Hmmm.  So I went over to Twitter to see if anyone was talking about why Facebook was down and didn’t see anything about it there.  Then I went over to LinkedIn and it was down as well.  I switched from Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox 4 in case it was a browser problem.  Still down.  I went over to Google News and clicked on Space Coast news, and Florida Today was down.  I decided for whatever reason, the Universe doesn’t think I need to be at the computer at 6:00am , so I’m going back to bed.  Maybe it’s just the eclipse.  Maybe it’s the rapture.  Whatever, I’ll be somewhere when I wake up.  And if this is my last day on Earth, it’s been a blast and I’m thrilled I’m the one who got to live my life. Continue reading →

I must remember that what I say is not always what the listener hears, and we may not be having the same experience even though we’re side by side.

The Nuthatch

Yesterday afternoon I had the coolest experience in the garden.  I’d just moved the sprinkler from one section of the garden to another and 3-4 little grey/blue/white wren-like birds began landing on branches in front of me and darting from branch to branch and to the waterpot, over and over.  They took drinks and preened right in font of me, I could have reached and touched them.  I was walking when they began doing it, so I stood still to see how long they would stay.   It was such a cool moment!  I love my NOW.  Even now.  And now, too.  I wonder what the birds were, does anyone know?  They were definitely a blue/grey/white, not brown, and otherwise looked like wrens. My bird book only shows brown wrens. They are thumb sized (including wings and head) and they kind of hover but are not hummingbirds.  On Facebook, Rhonda Gaylord suggested it might be the blue-gray gnatcatcher and they look real silimar but a little bigger.  Galpal Suzanne Richmond suggested a nuthatch and  I see that’s exactly what they are.