Sometimes we must clean houses and minds
Hi,
"It's May, it's May, the lusty month of May." Or, as I see it, the dusty month of May and time for our annual cleaning. Every spring, we make a detailed list of repairs and deep cleaning chores. Delightful activities like washing windows, cleaning mold from outside walls, oiling kitchen cabinets, and super cleaning every room.
This usually coincides with a family gathering we host the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend (US). Except for this year, there will be no party.
We can't let down our guard. The unknowns of Covid-19 force us to protect our family, many with underlying conditions susceptible to the virus.
We cleaned anyway because, well, it's May. Life doesn't stop, but I must still clean the cobwebs in our home and in my mind.
I started thinking about how we renew ourselves. How do we clean out our mental cobwebs?
Inspiration to share . . .
This week I grappled with gratitude and how we keep going when life's garden gets overgrown with weeds.
I've been reading Mary Pipher's book, Writing to Change the World. She writes about the transformative power of music and poetry. Hundreds of songs began swirling in my head, but one spoke loudly for our current times, "Let It Be."
Speaking of music and gardens, Maria Popova (Brainpickings) wrote about the healing power of gardens and shared insights from neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. His experience has taught him this truth:
"In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.” Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales,
Inspiring words . . .
" We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be and become #yourbest today and every day.
With gratitude,
Kathryn
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