Category Archives: emotions

Aug10

feelin’ moody.

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guess what’s back?

or maybe never left.

fashion fad of the 70s

a mood ring

popped up on my screen

when scrolling through amazon

 had one in high school

loved it

all my friends had one

we were constantly

comparing them

trying to get ours to change

to match the desired color/mood

slowly over time

our rings

broke, got lost, were given away

we returned to

just talking about

how we were feeling

not needing the rings anymore

but for a while

they were really something.

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(in case you’re wondering, i’d be in the blue range right now, relaxed and calm)

(what color would you be on the mood meter?)

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“i don’t need a moon ring, i have a face.”

-author unknown

 

 

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image credit: amazon.com

Dec26

still standing.

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The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other. They stand for hours together watching the lights in Melbourne. Photographer Tobias Baumgaertner captured this image of two widowed fairy penguins looking over the Melbourne skyline. It has won an award in Oceanographic magazine’s Ocean Photography Awards 2020.

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“at the end of the day, the ones who really matter

will be the ones standing next to you watching the sun set

and assuring you that it will rise again in the morning.”

-ash sweeney

 

 

 

 

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story credit: natureblowsmymind

Apr20

falling.

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forsythia bright in my quarantine kitchen

 blossoms have begun to fall

everything is temporary.

 

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“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” – pema chodron

Dec15

who’s the boss?

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I find it simply impossible

to sit through

one single episode of

‘undercover boss’

without tears rolling down my face

or to watch 

one rerun of

‘the office’

without laughing out loud. 

my daughters have said

that most of my own stories

end with me

either crying or laughing.

apparently 

my heart is the real boss of me. 

 

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“Sometimes you have to take a break from being the kind of boss

that’s always trying to teach people things.

Sometimes you just have to be the boss of dancing.”

(Season 2, Episode 11) The Office – Michael Scott (Steve Carrell)

 

 

 

 

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image credit: nbc tv/comedy central – the office