Christmas in the Tropics
December 12, 2008 and it is warm here. First Christmas in a tropical climate and I keep playing Christmas music to feel the spirit. It is working. Yesterday we had secret santa at the college tutoring lab and I received a desk calendar with a different picture of a dog for every day of 2009. I love it!!!
I took my Level I Healing Touch class last weekend and Madison helped. I will be volunteering at the Hospital and Madison will be going to the Long Term Care facility there one weekend morning each week as a volunteer therapy dog.
I finished the NaNoWriMo and if you want to see a synopsis of the children's stories you can by going to my author page. Choose the novel information tab. I have time now to edit and revise and add content and then publish it again through Lulu.com There is no upfront cost and since it is print on demand, I can go at my own pace with this process.
Tonight, I go to Talk Story for a book signing and that is a great joy for me to have come this far in life. I am happy to make small steps and remain ordinary and one of the bunch.
Now, for the job part of the ordinary life! I have been applying for jobs for the past 4 years and sometimes I succeed and sometimes I fail, but I rally and this time I applied for three positions at Wilcox Hospital in Lihue. I am quite hopeful about this as I will be volunteering there soon.
The only difficult part of job hunting these days is that one does not always hear back ANYTHING from the organization that you apply to. Sometimes, yes, most times, no. So the rallying part takes a little longer, but it comes and then you try again and again at the places you really want to be a part of and voila. One day, you are working and happy, and writing in your spare time, or drawing or going to the beach or visiting a botannic garden, and then before you know it, you have a friend to invite over for dinner or go to a concert with and then life is on a roll in a new place and happiness is an everyday experience that greets you as soon as you open your eyes in the morning. Right?
Yes. Right. As many of our neighbors and friends will be going through this, we must remember to help them rally, keep the smile on their faces, bring in cheer and hope until they can hold it for themselves. In this way, the recession will recede and we will be one of the bunch, ordinary people living full and meaningful lives.
May the peace of the season rest in your hearts now and always!
I took my Level I Healing Touch class last weekend and Madison helped. I will be volunteering at the Hospital and Madison will be going to the Long Term Care facility there one weekend morning each week as a volunteer therapy dog. I finished the NaNoWriMo and if you want to see a synopsis of the children's stories you can by going to my author page. Choose the novel information tab. I have time now to edit and revise and add content and then publish it again through Lulu.com There is no upfront cost and since it is print on demand, I can go at my own pace with this process.
Tonight, I go to Talk Story for a book signing and that is a great joy for me to have come this far in life. I am happy to make small steps and remain ordinary and one of the bunch.
Now, for the job part of the ordinary life! I have been applying for jobs for the past 4 years and sometimes I succeed and sometimes I fail, but I rally and this time I applied for three positions at Wilcox Hospital in Lihue. I am quite hopeful about this as I will be volunteering there soon.
The only difficult part of job hunting these days is that one does not always hear back ANYTHING from the organization that you apply to. Sometimes, yes, most times, no. So the rallying part takes a little longer, but it comes and then you try again and again at the places you really want to be a part of and voila. One day, you are working and happy, and writing in your spare time, or drawing or going to the beach or visiting a botannic garden, and then before you know it, you have a friend to invite over for dinner or go to a concert with and then life is on a roll in a new place and happiness is an everyday experience that greets you as soon as you open your eyes in the morning. Right?
Yes. Right. As many of our neighbors and friends will be going through this, we must remember to help them rally, keep the smile on their faces, bring in cheer and hope until they can hold it for themselves. In this way, the recession will recede and we will be one of the bunch, ordinary people living full and meaningful lives.
May the peace of the season rest in your hearts now and always!
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