Is this world as fractured
as we are led to believe?
Politically, ideologically,
or spiritually, fault lines
are obvious.
It is not superficial.
Are all thoughts jumbled
or is that just me?
Can we look ahead? Dare we
glance back? What was there?
Is what we see now all
that is worth knowing?
Can we learn more?
Do we want to?
Do we need to?
© 2020 j.g. lewis
Today is as good as it gets.
Maybe tomorrow will be better?
10/19/2022 j.g.l.
My therapist reminded me, yesterday, of a phrase she had used before and one I had heard a long time ago.
They were wonderful words that I had forgotten, somehow, caught up in all I have been doing, or in things I have been trying to understand or attempting to accomplish.
It is a simple phrase I need to remember more often: We are human beings, not human doings.
Our goal, above all else, should be to simply be without thinking, or overburdening ourselves with all we are trying to be . . . even all we are trying to understand.
Instead, we often get caught up in all we are doing, and most of us try to do so much or are involved in too much.
It becomes too much.
We are all human.
I was reminded later in the day of something I had written to myself a long while back. It is something I need to remind myself of more often: You are only human; so is everybody else.
10/17/2023 j.g.l.
How are you feeling?
How are you dealing with the pain,
or the shame, of all that affects us
globally, locally, or personally?
Can you sympathize?
Will you empathize with what you
are told and all that you know . . .
and all that you don’t?
Have you found the compassionate
voice within? Is it authentic?
10/15/2023 j.g.l.
Deadlines and commitments, especially those self-imposed, are important. They set the pace and prioritize progress every day, any day, but especially today.
What must be done, or completed, will determine how you spend the time as you work towards your goal.
We all need goals.
To accomplish those aspirations, target dates are required.
We all need deadlines to give our intentions are purpose.
Today is that day, for me.
For weeks now (and longer) I’ve been trying to take a project to the next level, and I believe I am there.
Beliefs are as important as deadlines; maybe more so.
Today is the day, I believe, and to delay (as I have before) any further will only hold me back.
Deadlines are important, especially for me, especially today.
10/12/2023 j.g.l.