Issue #15 Patience And Toilet Paper
Patience
Pa-tience
/ˈpāSH(ə)ns/
The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble or suffering without getting upset.
Yes. Well. About that.
I think I used to be very good at patience.
From all accounts, I was a very patient child. In my professional life I have prided myself on my ability to keep a cool head while all others around me were losing theirs. And I would hope my family would think of me as a patient parent and wife.
But something is changing in me.
I don’t know if it’s my age or living in a world with more triggers or something else.
Sometimes it almost feels as though I’ve been infected by a virus. (No, not Covid.) A virus of feeling deserving of a better life than the one I’ve been given, feeling entitled to a sense of continuous outrage, feeling as though things are just “not right” and someone should do something about it.
I don’t think I’m alone.
Pinning down the source of this virus is tricky. I could blame the media, or the social media, or public figures who promote outrage or “random internet”.
Maybe it’s all of those things.
Maybe it’s none of them.
Whatever the cause, I need to get it to stop. In my own life, anyway.
I need to do a better job of taking a breath, taking a step back, and calming down.
I need to do this for myself.
And I need to do it for everyone I love.
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I Spoke Too Soon
Last week I was cheeky about the summer always getting away from us and leaving us with unfinished (or completely unstarted) projects.
Well now I have to eat those words.
In 2011 a big big big storm destroyed a good chunk of our driveway and a bunch of other stuff. (Story for another time). This gave us a “blank slate” sort of opportunity to redo the entire back yard and part of the renovation was a terrific patio designed and built by my very handy and hard-working husband. A few years later he built a pergola behind it and I proposed how nice it would be to extend the patio under the pergola and create a seasonal outdoor kitchen thingy. (Easy for me to say - I wasn’t the one who was going to do all the work.)
This week my hubby tackled “operation patio extension” and it is going to be fantastic. This photo shows the original patio and the progressing work. Stay tuned!
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