Sometimes, we moonlight as fortune tellers
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
RAVE to the person who thoughtfully took the time to mail the Christmas check and card from my mother that I mistakenly left in a library book that was returned. Losing that check was a huge source of concern for both of us, and your kindness is truly appreciated.
RAVE to the person who saw me struggling to clear snow with an ordinary “dirt” shovel a few days ago and — voilà! — kindly left a good used snow shovel leaning on my porch. Somebody was very thoughtful
RAVE to the Ballard post office worker who saw me walk in with my valentines, all but one with postage, and instead of sending me to the back of a long line before work, said, “Hand it over, I’ll take care of it for you.” What a sweetie!
RAVE to the gentleman I met in the parking lot of the Tukwila Costco. He stopped to ask if I needed help loading items into my car and noticed the collection of dog supplies in my back seat. I explained that I volunteer with Seattle Veterinary Outreach and the supplies are for our mobile clinics. The man reached into his wallet and pulled out a very generous financial contribution for the outreach program. Given the hard edges of our polarized society, this man’s unsolicited gift was an unexpected delight and a good reminder that angels walk among us. A second rave to Seattle Veterinary Outreach for their service to pets and pet owners in underresourced communities.
RAVE to the gentleman on Capitol Hill who saw this 86-year-old woman walking alone and asked if he could accompany her a couple of blocks to get her past a person acting strangely. It was much appreciated and I was able to continue my walk with no problem.
RAVE to an employee at the Bothell library. When I mentioned a book I ordered many months ago was in transit for a lengthy time, she looked it up and found the book had just disappeared. She phoned me at home to let me know she had ordered the book through interlibrary loan. What great service!
RAVE to the Husky football players who were selling Girl Scout Cookies at the University Village QFC on Saturday, March 1. A big lineman saw me as a little old grandma who could use some help, accompanied me up the elevator to my car and loaded the heavy groceries into my trunk! Go Dawgs!
RAVE to Puget Sound Energy crews for working around the clock to restore power after the Feb. 27 storm. After every storm for that matter.
Cancel culture” is a phrase that’s getting used a lot lately. What is it, exactly, and how do you think it’s harming us?
Cancel culture is malevolent, it is divisive, but most importantly, it’s ineffective. It’s the little people who actually get canceled. We’re canceling people who really can’t fight back, and we’re not actually reaching the actors who are causing the most harm—those who have been offered a chance to change and have chosen not to.
That is when calling out is a great tool. We want to stop people with power from causing harm, and find people harmed by that power to build community and maybe even produce change with public shame and pressure. But most of the cancelations are not achieving that. We’re silencing people. We’re making young people afraid to speak up for feat that they’ll put something on the Internet that will damage their lives forever. So, they’re walking around on verbal eggshells. People can’t give their honest opinions anymore. Cancel culture is causing far more harm than solving problems. –Loretta J. Ross
Garbage stinks. It’s a fact of life. But here’s a trick to make it a little less smelly — or rather, smelly in a good way. Take a cotton ball, soak it in essential oil, and drop it in your bin (underneath the liner or the bag). It’s an easy and inexpensive odor-fighter that helps keep your trash from getting too pungent. Your nose will thank you.
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
We cannot always rely on fleeting moments of inspiration. Our threshold for creative expression only expands when we show up every day and wrestle with the process.
As you ease into your creative process, choose into morning rhythms that give the most space for you to share God’s breath of life, be formed into yourself and harvest wonder from the world around and in you. And when you do start creating, do it from a place of abundance. Nothing is too petty, too silly, too stupid, or too weird to be included.
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
Real Life of an MSW 