What's Your Favourite ...?

I can sometimes change the mood with music or animals and nature, but the getting motivated seems to be beyond me now.

It was easier when the kids were little because there was always stuff that had to be done.  Now not so much...sigh

This site actually helps me: newp's new babies, for example.  And the gardening & cooking diaries.  It provides just a little bit of sunshine in the daily grind.

Also, historically, I look at the way the populace swings from conservative to liberal to conservative etc. etc.  I think we're at the nadir of the conservative swing & going back to liberal again.

Unfortunately, these swings take decades to really take hold.  So while it's rough for us your kids & grandkids may have an easier time of it than we have had, coming of age in a time when the pendulum swung away from everything we think is good and just.

Hope that helps a tiny bit, Ria.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

This is what helps me........

1.  It helps me to work, like Newp if I keep busy it frees my mind and helps with problem solving. Being creative, I woke up this morning realizing how I was going to repair the stone steps so I know I find solutions in my sleep.

2.  It helps for me to think there is a reason a lesson to get in everything that happens to force the consciousness to a new level.

3.  It helps to realize that it is more painful because I care and I would rather live in this pain than to not care.

4.  It helps to realize the pain is because we get it and are forced to watch the actions of those that don't........ yet.  To watch everyday the insanity of those that don't.

5.  It helps to know your not alone and that firefly is here attracting those that get it.

6.  It helps to realize that humans may not survive the destruction we are doing but the earth will the mother will live on.

7.  It helps me to always stay in solution of the what ifs, learn from those around me as we struggle to find a way to survive. This gives me hope.

8.  It helps me to always look into the future when each blow comes always looking ahead because I can't change what is done.  Learn learn learn and move forward.

9.  It helps when shit happens to allow a moment of grief and then move through it.  Remembering there are people I love that depend on me and there is work to do.

10.  It helps to feel the love around me from my pets to my family and know nothing else matters but the love that is in the world.  It is the only thing that is real to me all else is an illusion.

i am considering cross-posting these to dd...
like- start up this series there but they'd be on a 4 wk delay...
i'd repost our first WYF there first.

what do y'all think?
should i just leave it here & not do that?

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett

Ennui is a good word.

Socializing almost always gets me out of that.  Even kicking back with Laurie and a glass of wine, chit-chatting about this or that, helps a lot.

In terms of motivation, what I try to do on a nightly basis is make a list of what I want to accomplish on the following day... along with a side list of longer term things that I need to accomplish or consider.

I don't always do everything that I put on my little lists when I should, but it helps me to prioritize, which also helps me to get motivated.

And then, of course, there's pot!

:O)

It definitely, for me, at least, has a way of getting the wheels turning.  It turns me into a free-associating chatterbox... which, you have to admit, is much, much better than ahnweeee.

Cheers!

Food Court, The Musical:

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White