EPIPHANY

 The definition of epiphany:  A sudden insight or intuitive understanding.

And that is exactly what happened to me this last week.  I had an event happen unexpectedly and in a very convoluted way that led me to a much calmer and empathetic approach to about everything right now.  I sincerely hope it lasts, and I am sure going to work on it to make it so.  I won't go into what the    event that perpetrated this was but it very strongly effected a change in my thinking.  It's kind of nice!!!

  I must say it reminds me of Maui.  The whole philosophy and feeling in Maui was one of tolerance, understanding and patience.  Makes life a whole lot kinder and less stressful for sure.

I can give an example though!  Lol!!  As I reread what I wrote about the neighbour's house owner in that new more benevolent feeling, it came over me that when the only thing you know about someone is mental illness (mild) and you know nothing about the rest of his psyche, it behooves you to give a big benefit of the doubt and understanding.  Clearly his OCD tendencies are kind of ruling his actions with his house..for whatever reason.   And seeing the garbage I had piled and prepared for my junk guy, he felt that affected the loveliness of his property. As such I have completely changed my thoughts about him and got off my butt and did what I could to clean the back area including getting rid of the mattress.

  I regret how I reacted to that whole scenario.  But my mother's mantra is at play here....'Once you have said something, done something and thought something, you can't unsay it, undo it or unthink it.'  Oh, you can 'fix' it, but something 'fixed' is not as powerful as the original.  And you are what you say, do and think.  And I don't want to be that person in that blog post.

I am going across town this afternoon!!!!  Ange and I never go out.  Part of the reason is sad and the second part we will make happy.

A friend of hers whom I have met, has a daughter in hospital. Her daughter is in her twenties.  Mom wants to go see her and would like Ange to go with her.  But...neither of them drive.  So I shall be chauffeuring them up there later.  I will wait in the car which will give me lots of time to play my game on my phone that I love, without guilt!  Here at home there is so much I am not doing whilst I play that game.  So it's a win win win for all three of us!

After we drop her friend off, I need to go to Walmart for hair product.  Plus I would like to look for a reasonably priced bbq rack specifically for whole fish.  Maybe make a stop at No Frills.  So exciting!!!  Hahaha!!!  I have to keep in mind there will be a little dog at home having a fit so I shan't take too long.

The kids are home!!!!  They had an extremely long tiring and not without a couple hitches trip home.  I must admit I was kind of worried.  I don't think it's a good time to be flying if you don't have to right now given the political climate.

When they were flying home I was worried about them, and I thought...I will put the news on.  If anything huge and nefarious happens, like an air Canada plane going down,  it will be on the news.  So I switched on the news, something I have stopped doing for peace of mind, to a full screen shot of a massive terrible plane crash.  I almost had a heart attack!!!!!  It took a minute or two for them to say it was originated in India.  I hate to admit that the relief I felt was so profound I ended up   feeling guilty about not feeling sorry for the people on that plane that crashed immediately.  

I feel so disconnected from my Arnie.  All those two people do is work work work. They have been super busy getting the resort in Kananaskis ready for the G7.  And that was an amazing story!!! And then they got one busy day at home and then off to Whistler to do a million things to do with wallpaper on a hotel there.  I really miss her and Bradley.  She is even either too busy or too tired to talk on the phone!

My brother is coming for a short visit on Saturday!  It's tax time for those of us that are investors or in business for self and his accountant lives here in Port.  So he is breakfasting at Peskies with him and the accountant's wife then spending the afternoon doing business then coming here for a quick coffee before heading home.  It will be so good to see him.  I love visiting with him.

Well this is turning into a book.  My apologies.  Things are happy in our little house in the boonies today. Gotta bounce though.  Need to eat something and get ready to go out.  TTYL & TFL

quote:  No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.  Frankl