The present is our superpower- 100 percent. We have enough going on without borrowing trouble from what may or may not come to pass.
Focus on the good that is in your life right now, pay attention to what you can do for yourself and your community. Accept the things you cannot control. Save your sanity and well-being.
I read this piece and drew such deep and prideful breaths that I nearly exploded with self-satisfaction, which would have made a big mess on the patio. No one around me, that I know of, needs to be counseled in this dramatic way: some anticipate with, um, joy, and others, trepidation, but none with a sense of impending universal doom (of course, since I cut my own little plot of grass, I don’t know how the guys who maintain my neighbors’ yards feel, not that they would tell me.) Obviously, then, Fort Collins is a vastly different place, with vastly different people, than those in the world around me. It must be my doing, right? I must be the calming, long perspective, deeply breathing force that stills the dread before it starts; a kind of beneficial biodegradable oil on troubled waters that never roil too much, at worst. Our emperors may claim the Mandate of Heaven every quadrennium, but none ever seem to be the kind that we hardly know exist.
The present is our superpower- 100 percent. We have enough going on without borrowing trouble from what may or may not come to pass.
Focus on the good that is in your life right now, pay attention to what you can do for yourself and your community. Accept the things you cannot control. Save your sanity and well-being.
“The present is our superpower” — Yes, Yes and Yes. Onward and Forward
I'm sending this to a friend who is having a hard time with all of it
The world may go mad, but you don’t have to!
Fantastic advice, my friend !
Keeping it real and I loved every word!
Happy to share Heidi
I know this is serious sh*t, but I chuckled all the way through your highly pertinent advice!
😂 I’m not gonna lie, me too
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I needed to read this tonight. Give thanks 🙏🏾
THIS IS SO GOOD
Thank you very much for this.
The image is so close to what i was imagining.
A primer for daily living when the past is filled with regret and the future is threatening. Live now. I’ll try!
So true. Love the gritty gut sock and strong language. Now, get me my coffee!
I read this piece and drew such deep and prideful breaths that I nearly exploded with self-satisfaction, which would have made a big mess on the patio. No one around me, that I know of, needs to be counseled in this dramatic way: some anticipate with, um, joy, and others, trepidation, but none with a sense of impending universal doom (of course, since I cut my own little plot of grass, I don’t know how the guys who maintain my neighbors’ yards feel, not that they would tell me.) Obviously, then, Fort Collins is a vastly different place, with vastly different people, than those in the world around me. It must be my doing, right? I must be the calming, long perspective, deeply breathing force that stills the dread before it starts; a kind of beneficial biodegradable oil on troubled waters that never roil too much, at worst. Our emperors may claim the Mandate of Heaven every quadrennium, but none ever seem to be the kind that we hardly know exist.
Thank you. 🙏🏻
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