This has been another stay-at-home day. I had trouble finding sleep last night so slept in this morning. Not sure I got more than six hours of sleep divided into about six segments but some is better than none.
I went to the Grand for lunch. I love their chicken strips. Lexi had her dog with her today helping her wait tables. Fun to see!
The gas company came and put down a temporary gas line. He came in and lit the furnace and stove. The gas company is going to send me a bill for $500 to replace the line and once they get payment they will come back and put in the permanent line.
On October 18 the 50501 group is calling for protests again. I struggle going to the protests as they feel to me like they are bringing negative energy. I want to demonstrate for what I believe in – not what I am against.
The world energy this week feels heavy and it is easy to miss all the good things that happen around us. I want to do an action that focuses on the good things and help us all think of ways we can become Love in Action.
To that end, I am going to host a Love in Action Day. We will meet at 2:00 and have a brief meditation and then scatter out throughout the community and practice random act of kindness. After 30 minutes we will gather back and report and have a conversation about ways we can be Love in Action in our daily life.
Some of the ideas I suggested we could do include: bring a dozen roses and go through the community and pass them out, bring a trash bag and take a walk and pick up trash, go to the local nursing home and visit with a resident, write out Christmas cards for the detainees, sit and have a conversation with someone that holds a different opinion than you do, bring a bag of flower bulbs and plant them in someone’s yard. I welcome additional suggestions.
Can you imagine the impact if every community would do this on October 18. There is so much goodness that happens on a daily basis that we overlook. Maybe with some intention on spreading love, the energy could shift. It certainly can’t do harm. Join us if you can and if not, do the same thing wherever you are that day.
What I like most about this event is that both sides of the division in this country can participate. We aren’t choosing sides and pointing fingers at each other. We are coming together and spreading love!
Didn’t get much done today. Have felt a bit off today and needed some time to think and process my emotions from this hard week. I feel better now that I came up with something actionable to do. An old habit of mine is doing not being. Sometimes when my back is up against the wall it helps to step into doing to deal with my emotions. I love the idea I came up with and trust it will be a success – even if it is just Kathy and I doing it.
A lady from the KU Memory Clinic called today. She is a social worker and she scheduled a Zoom meeting with Kathy, myself and her for next week. Not sure who covers the cost of this but we will ask next week. She wants to find out what our immediate needs are to see if it is something she might help with. It will be good for both of us to get plugged in to some sort of support system now so when we begin to need them, we will have them.
I broke down and turned the A/C back on last night. It was too warm to sleep comfortably. I am grateful I had it on today as it warmed up again today.
No plans for the weekend. Have lots more cleaning to do and still have a few random piles of stuff that needs to find a temporary home. I should have done the living room last as my reward for taking care of the other piles in other rooms. Now when I sit in the living room I can forget about the other piles and they don’t bother me all day.
Finally feeling like I am back above neutral this afternoon. I fell into the rabbit hole and it was a hard climb to get out. It helped to limit my Facebook browsing today and limit my news reading. It hurts my heart when I read posts that are meant to divide us. Somehow, some way, we have got to come together and mend the divide.
I watched a short video of a lady that said a lot of the problem is that most of us get our news from social media. Social media is set up to give us more of what we read. We forget that others read different view points and we don’t see what they read and they don’t see what we read. We put others down because we think they know what we know and have chosen a different response. In reality, they don’t know what we know and we don’t know what they know. That put a different perspective on news for me and makes so much sense.
Grateful for Love in Action, grateful for the gas company and their help with this construction project, and grateful each of us get to choose to make a difference in the world.