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Shine and the World Shines With You

 


I SHOULDN'T FEEL THAT WAY. I mean the way expressed in the headline for this post.

At least that's what people tell me who know a thing or two about the trials and challenges I have faced. 

But what's the good of coming out the other side of really bad experiences if you're going to live like you did not actually come out the other side?

Shining is not about being an idealist in the negative sense that the word is usually applied. 

Having high, clear, reasonable, productive ideals is not the same as being unrealistic. Having faith and hope is not the same as being starry-eyed or silly. 


Balancing intact


Some of the most pragmatic folk I know still believe there is good in the world; even though they do not blind themselves to the bad therein. 

Besides, if the world really is all sturm und drang, what's the sense in letting that force you into following a path you know damages, not just good people, but everybody? There's something to be said for walking in balance. It keeps us together inside.

Bad things happen and, yes, we get down. We are human, after all. But we also get up. And that's human, too.

Shining in life does not have to be grand or easy for the masses to point at and applaud. Really, shining is many a time the simple, dogged act of just getting up.

Perhaps my headline should more accurately read:

💭Get up and pick up a piece of the world with you.

How ya like me now?

Shine on


Happy New Year 2021!


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Working Past Worrying

"What, Me Worry?"


We worry, yet we walk in the world sometimes so unaware. Is that a weakness? 
Or is that a strange sort of strength?

AS A TEEN of the eighties, and a HUGE fan of MAD magazine, I got quite familiar with the above-quoted catchphrase of then American president, Ronald Reagan, which is the mindset I'm reaching for as I write this post on this blog after such a long, long time of nada much.
       This isn't even a post I prepared; simply a toe in the water to try to remind myself that before I can "Just keep swimming," as Finding Nemo's Dory rallies us all to do, I need to get in the blessed water and move.
       I feel full of rocks. In my head. In my belly. In my soul. Anything full of rocks should steer clear of water, no? Anything full of rocks is hard to move.
       But, hey, "What, me worry?"
      See, as we say in Trinispeak, "Ah trying a ting." Which is to say you're making an effort, though unsure of the end, though intrepid about the doing. It's being brave, really.
       Give me a second to bite my lip and shake my head, look out the window and blink, blink, blink moisture away and struggle to  remind myself in the words of the bard,"I am indomitable summer." As are we all.
       Though we're lazy, too. Or effed up. And. 
       How could we not be messed up when we try to make things happen? There's so much to climb OVER!!!
       It's like the first line at the beginning of SoUL's novel, Deep Love: "Everything in life leads up to your orgasm. Or prevents it." The same sum total of experiences that pushes you up also, paradoxically, pushes you down.
       Kanye intones, "Everything I am makes me everything I'm not." Obviously the reverse is also true. So we are the whole of ALL we are ... and too much life may kill.
       Forgive me for seeming to wax over-esoteric, but this is the work we do when we try to sort ourselves out TO DO THE WORK!
       What work? Why, the business of life, my friend. Life that is nothing without purpose and productivity.
       
Trinis always insist Carnival rids us of
all our worries. This front page story came
on the heels of Trinbago Carnival 2017. 
Makes you wonder if all that fear
was really absent  during the festival
Thanks for indulging me this little ramble today. I promise you it is preamble to bigger, deeper, stronger, more hopeful things.
       I've got that toe in the water because one does not test the depth of the river with both feet. I'm testing the water because I truly intend to get in. 
       I'm working to adopt a new watchword for the rest of my life: PROPERLY. The only way anything worth doing should be done.
       Remember, kiddos, why worry when we can pray and work.
       Shine on. 

        
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