Not one of my better days. Got an email this morning that hit a nerve and I have struggled to recover. At least I know why I am in the muck pond. I will relax, take a mud bath and walk out when I am finished feeling all the feels.
I did four loads of laundry and got it all put away. Put clean sheets on my bed and deep cleaned my bathroom. The day wasn’t a total loss.
I realized today I don’t have a succession plan for Love in Action. I need to find someone that would take it over for me in case something would happen to me. I have a couple of people in mind but haven’t approached anyone yet. Maybe it can be broken into pieces and different people would take care of different parts of it. I can think of some who would be good at managing the Facebook page, some who would be good at building a relationship with the staff at the Center and some that would be good handling the occasional transfer. So far, not sure who I would ask to do all of it though. I will give it some more thought and see what I can come up. I don’t anticipate having to step away but successful nonprofits always have a back-up plan just in case.
The Center let me know they need more stamps. I have given them 720 stamps in the last two weeks. Found out the person that handles the program put stamps on all the new cards that were sent and she doesn’t have any leftover to put on the envelopes so the Detainees can become a Pen Pal. Dang it anyways. I will go buy some more stamps tomorrow and take them up to her. I wish they would stamp the cards when they are ready to be mailed and not in advance. I worry that lots of stamps get wasted this way but I don’t know that for sure. Some things I have no control over and I have to learn to be grateful for what I get.
One of the Detainees reached out and asked if they could have tacos for celebration of the World Cup finals on July 19. I can’t make that happen unfortunately. Maybe I can get them popsicles or something like that instead. We are so limited as to what we can do.
No plans for the rest of the week. I hope to get some more housecleaning done. The clean bathroom reminded me I really do enjoy a clean house and I have not had the motivation for a long time to deep clean. Thank heavens this house is small and it really doesn’t take that long to deep clean each room. The big country house would take hours and hours of cleaning to get it clean.
Sitting in a weird head space today. I will take it as progress that I have been talking myself out of where I am at today and when the talk became negative, I would correct myself. Not sure I am aware of having done that before.
Grateful for the laundry all put away, grateful for a clean bathroom, and grateful for the mud bath I took today in the muck pond.