My Thoughts: when the mood strikes.

Memorial Day 2017

         Happy Memorial Day!  I trust you are spending it with family and/or friends.  I plan to attend a church picnic, which begins at 12:20 p.m.  Later this evening, I will attend an Al-Anon Speaker Meeting where a lady I know fairly well will be the featured speaker.

         I spoke with my mother yesterday.  I am resolved to call my parents once a week to say hello, touch base----Lord willing.  They're aging and could well-use a kind word regularly----though I also have 4 sisters. 

         What I once considered gossip, I now know is just my mother airing her thoughts and worries about my siblings and/or my father to any listening ear.  I purpose to let those words flow without response while keeping my personal affairs private... thus keeping myself "out of the limelight."  There is a strain of jealousy and competition that meanders among my siblings; thus, my mother's "sharings" often precipitate, stir-up unkindness and invalid judgments----my reason for keeping my parents at arms length for the most part.  Today, I move beyond that.

         It's a good day!