When we tell ourselves what we tell ourselves, is forgiveness ever part of the conversation? This is dialogue only you can hear; shouldn’t you pay more attention? Go easy on yourself.
09/26/2024 j.g.l.
open space
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in my experience
The next chance depends upon your last reason, whatever that was.
We all have a lot of reasons, claims, explanations or affirmations. Excuses are different, both with chances and the latest reasoning. No revelation there; haven’t you known for some time? You have no excuse. You’ve simply waited for something better to take place, or come along, or happen on its own.
Look at you. Still waiting.
What else would you do?
Is hope that much different than chance?
Not in my experience.
Now, I’m not sure of my fitness to offer sound or superior advice, but others — those who seem too frightened to dream — genuinely embrace this dire expectation that we shall all be lulled into complacency.
Sounds like absolute mediocrity to me.
For no other reason than that, I’ll take my chances.
09/24/2024 j.g.l.
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fall into autumn
“I notice that Autumn is more the
season of the soul than of nature.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Autumn: is there more
to think about, or more time
to think about it?
We spend hours and days
considering change,
bewildering change, less based
in time than on feelings.
Neither bleak as winter, nor
sultry like summer, certainly
not as messy as the spring
announcing its arrival mostly
with daily rain washing away
any evidence of
where we have been.
Autumn keeps us waiting;
it keeps us guessing.
It might not feel right
until it does. Unpredictable,
more a sensation than a day,
date, or wait, Autumn will
say hello only when
it feels like it.
09/22/2024 j.g.l.
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demands of the day
It has been such a busy week.
You still have so much to do. The tasks you meant to do Tuesday remain incomplete.
It’s Friday.
You didn’t even get around to what you meant to accomplish yesterday, and it weighs heavily on your psyche. Today’s deadlines and expectations will surely take a toll.
It is more than unbearable pressure. All those appointments only led to disappointment. Your desk is a mess and the back-to-back demands of the day only complicate matters. All those unarticulated strategies and unnecessary activities result only in overwhelming anxieties.
You feel the work week. Your resolve is even weaker in this struggle to maintain some sort of work/life imbalance.
Stop. Breathe.
Just for a moment, right now, stop everything you are doing. Put it all aside for a minute or two and think about what is important to you.
Then, remind yourself not to let everything else get in its way.
It is that important.
09/20/2024 j.g.l.
