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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Liebster Award…
This blog has been nominated for a Liebster Award, which i am grateful for and delighted to accept. Thank you, Kathy Mays (www.psycheservices.net) !!
The Liebster award is given by bloggers to other up-and-coming bloggers to highlight their work and encourage them to continue. Liebster, from German, means dearest, beloved, favorite.
I’ve looked at several versions of the guidelines for receiving and perpetuating the award; here is the set i am using:
1. Thank the blogger that has given you the award and include the Liebster logo.
2. Answer the questions that blogger set for you.
3. List five bloggers you nominate for the award.
4. Create questions for them to answer.
5. Go to their pages and notify them.
Here are the questions posed to me and my answers…
1. If you had to describe your faults as a personality disorder, what would it be?
Easy Chair Attachment Disorder.
August haiku…
In April i wrote about how my spring seemed delayed this year. With summer came, finally, a return to rhythm, a settling in to ordinariness after a crisis. At such times the mundane is very welcome.
Arriving at the other side of a crisis — whether a medical one, relational, financial or otherwise — means discovering how much of it will stay with you, and how much of it you can truly move beyond. The damage is done — the healing is not. I’ve decided that the scars i bring along into the future do not need to define me. They are significant, but they are not the most significant thing about me.
You know how when you’re looking for a song video, some of them have the lyrics superimposed over the images? I like to think of the cancer recovery as text i choose to scroll behind the trees and flowers and friends.
Thinking about that foreground of life moving forward, i thought i’d try my hand at a haiku. I realize this poetic form does not need a title, but mine has one anyway.
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Eliot’s April
Cruel month it was
Dangling taste of sunny days
Summer came and went
Quiet September
No ceasing seasons’ passing
Gladder spring next year
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Wherever you are in facing life’s challenges, i wish you hope.
Smart phones…
“These days you can do so many things with your smart phone – but not everything… Are you getting too little sleep? There’s a nap for that.”
(KH)
Forgiveness continued…
I came across this meme this week which ties in quite well with my earlier post about forgiveness in Charleston…
A Hansen Chronicle 