It has been almost six moths since I came to the beach, my haven, my inspiration, one my top 10 ways to find peace.
I am publishing this via a WordPress app on my Droid. I am listening to the sound of the ocean waves as the wind rustles thru the palm trees.
While I do hear some construction noise in the background it doesn’t take precedence to this bliss.
What do you do to drown out the noise and find some peace?
This is the first time that I post directly from my Droid phone. I exerted much effort to get things done this past week including the weekend which is supposed to be for relax.
I woke up feeling very tired today with my back hurting and a cramp on my leg. I also stayed up until 1:30AM last night rendering some video files for my brothers site.
It has been cold, my butterfly garden is not flourishing and I haven’t been to the beach nor exercising as much or sat quietly to write. (All these things bring me inner peace)
So this morning I will tune of completely and do something which fills my heart which is writing. Just for a few hours.
I am in need for a restoration. What prompted me to even write this post was that I was doing a system restore on my laptop as I was setting up to write.
I have so much to do..but my body,mind and soul is telling me I must do this. Either way, I probably will catch up in the evening.
I had to pull from the roots and throw out two of my milkweed plants two weeks ago. They were infiltrated with a huge amount of bugs. The leaves were yellow and mucky and a mold was starting to form on the stems. In this past month, I haven’t taken much time to look at my milkweed. Normally I scruff them off with my hand when I see a slight infiltration. You can’t put pesticide on milkweeds because the caterpillars will die.
When I went out to look at them, there was no hope. I had to yank them off from the roots. I cut one of them down to the bottom near the roots. Hopefully, it can come back. If not, a new one can be planted and new growth will occur. (more…)
Today I was sorting out all my real estate files. I thought for a moment: “What a waste.” Meaning, a waste of having all this knowledge and finally putting it to rest. I know real estate deals are closing, but I had made a decision last year to attempt to work with the bank listings. It didn’t work out. So I started thinking of all the mistakes I made. “Why did I put so much effort on a fruitless endeavor?”, I thought to myself again.
But then the thought hit me that in all my efforts of gaining knowledge, my mind stayed active. I didn’t allow the challenges to let me down. Ok, I have had many let downs this year on the surface. But all those let downs made me stronger. For some reason, I lived them. My rational mind says it was a failure. But my gut says, it was part of the process of enduring and gaining so much more beneath the surface. (more…)