1) Quote of the Day One: First Timothy 2:1-2: “I beseech you, therefore, first of all to offer to God, petitions, prayers, supplications, and thanksgiving for all men, For kings and for all in authority; that we may life a quiet and peacable life, in purity and Godliness.” [emphasis Mother’s]
2) Quote of the Day Two: “Only by taking charge of your day-to-day can you truly make an impact in what matters most to you.” — Scott Belsky, in the foreword of Manage Your Day-to-Day
3) Now balance those with Gertrude in Hamlet - “O Hamlet, speak no more! Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grainèd spots As will not leave their tinct.” - and Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce: “Veda, I feel like I’m seeing you for the first time, and you’re cheap and horrible!” These are the kinds of dialogues I have with myself.
4) This morning I finally published a column that I’d been working on for awhile - it just didn’t come easily. But within ten minutes I’d gotten a complimentary response from a reader.
4a) That was followed a few hours later by a request to unsubscribe from my mailing list.
5) Grateful today for so many things: for publishing that column, for John Bel Edwards’ victory in the Home State, for actually having an avocado in the house when that’s what I wanted, for discovering quite by chance The Man in Grey with James Mason and Stewart Granger, which I’d read about in passing 30 years ago in Ronald Haver’s book about the 1954 A Star Is Born; for actually going to yoga, even if it kicked my ass.
6) But I fight back shadows, too, every day. I may need to embrace them to conquer them.