Winter is coming .....

 I just remembered that I bought a pair of snowpants at the end of last winter season and never used them. 

I was bummed about not being able to wear my sun dresses anymore .... but now I am getting excited for winter!

Nightclub covid style

I sent my gfs a meme of a girl grocery shopping in a dress. 

I told them that we can meet up and dress up to go grocery shopping, it will be our outing. 

A gf of mine responded and agreed. 

I said, "I got my health centre ID, skip the line ups! Woo woo! Partay in the produce section!"

.... She thinks I am joking. I got some pretty comfy pumps I got in Cali last summer, they can't go to waste!

 

feeling much..

"People will forget what you said, 

people will forget what you did, 

But people will not forget how you made them feel. "

Maya Angelou

At a time when stress is high, and higher for those that have to go in to work... love and understanding is all that is needed, it is amazing to feel an unsaid understanding, love and acceptance of family, I hope I make them feel the same as well....

I've been handling it all pretty well at the moment, the whole acceptance thing is something I knew needed to be done early on, especially when hearing my patients say "I can't wait until this is over", like its just going to happen like a light switch. That's going to be hard when they realize it won't happen that way. 

But I do truly and utterly.... hate this. 

Things happen for a reason I guess. And many turn overs and realizations and eye openers and epiphanies - about life itself and people. Not easy. 

So much around that I will just drop this here  and this here.

And also this made me chuckle. 

Happy Thanksgiving..

 So  lets talk about Thanksgiving .....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

- A national holiday celebrated on different dates, in different countries around the world. 

- A day giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.

- Its roots are in religious and cultural traditions but has long been celebrated as a secular holiday. 

I remember even hearing of Korea's Harvest moon festival in October/ Nov - Chuseok. 

Isn't this wonderful? All around the world different cultures and nations celebrate what the land has given us? I feel like this should coincide with Earth day even. Thank you land and thank you planet!

I realize this is depicted in many countries very differently and I think it is evolving in different ways. 

Either way, like any gathering, I feel like we all tend to celebrate and give thanks for many things in our lives : friends, family and even the earth and what it gives us and whom we feel looks over us all. 

So much to be thankful for, even if this Thanksgiving is a bit more difficult than before. 

Sending out LOVE, hope you feel it!

I'm feeling worn out. And a bit Lost.  

Like so many things are coming at me at once from so many angles and at the same time I feel restricted in how much I used to connect with others and the rest of the world. 

For the most part I think I have been handling this pandemic alright. I'm pretty much an introvert and not one to get antsy in the quietness. There is always lots to do or even lots of welcome chill time. 

Nature is a beauty. And I am so thankful for all of it this summer.... what's that term... "Grounding". So nice and so needed. 

But I also get cold very easily. Like, literally, I have a heater on in my office throughout the year, except when the A/C breaks down at work when its 30C outside.  (I know, who even goes to work these days?! *raises hand*)  What do they say... cold hands, warm heart? ha ... Or so I hope. 

Anyhow, getting cold easily makes for a not so welcome fall and winter. Even though I really do enjoy those winter activities and the days that it snows so much that everything seems insulatingly silent, snow reflectively bright and the crunchiness of the snow beneath your boots..... 

But the cold is even more so not welcome this Pandemic winter....

During a staff meeting this week I caught the tail end of a conversation with our CEO about covid burn out. I heard it before but really didn't think much of it pertained to me. Until now, when he mentioned it. I guess it is good to name it. 

You can read about it here: that lil' bugger.

So if others are feeling it too, just know it is normal and recognize it. Just gotta get through it and continue to pick myself up. Sending out love to all in this world and universe! Even to those that don't want it or recognize it, and to the lil' shits that piss me off in this world every now and then... ha. Sending them love too. 

George Okeefe

 "I've already settled it for myself. 

So Flattery 

and Criticism go down the same drain, 

And I am quite free."