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SoCS: Learning from Mistakes, a Smokey Cloud, and Turquoise Waves

I’ve had a little square of this on my bulletin board for many years, that says:

View your life with KINDSIGHT.

STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP ABOUT THINGS FROM YOUR PAST.

Instead of slapping your forehead and asking: “What was I thinking?”

Breathe and ask yourself the kinder question:

What was I learning?”

Here’s what I was learning when I made the mistake I’m still forgiving is:

That anyone who is vulnerable and wounded can fall into an unhealthy relationship.

If your self esteem is low, it’s hard to get out of an unhealthy relationship.

It’s better to be alone than to be with someone who does not respect you or stresses you out a lot.

You are never really alone. (Guardian angels and spirit guides may be shaking their heads, but they are there ready to help along with God, The Great Spirit, and the Universe.)

The constants of your life, the things and people you’ve always loved, that have always been there for you, will see you through this if you let them. (For me this was family, dogs, nature, water, music, art, and God.)

I learned what I DON”T want in a relationship: Stress, drama, and alcoholism, just to name a few.

Then, I clarified what I did and do want in a relationship: Comfort, peace, respect, common values, spirituality, a love of a animals and nature, consistency, honesty, and someone who can listen as much as talk. These things are important to me for any close relationship, not just romantic ones.

I am thankful to have found a partner, well, he found me – with God’s help, who has these qualities. Not perfection, but a solid, nurturing partnership.

Every mistake contains learnings. Wisdom comes from experience. We are human. We can learn from our mistakes as well as our successes.

Thursday evening, we went to the beach. There was a thick cloud of smoke from a wildfire in the next county. The fire started as a “controlled burn” site in dry conditions by state officials but got out of control. I hope those responsible learned from that mistake. David, a retired firefighter, thinks there’s something fishy going on. They don’t seem to be using all their resources to fight this fire. The air here still smells smokey. I’ve been praying for rain to put out the wildfires near and in Canada.

Anyway, the waves were the most beautiful turquoise color. In the last photo, it looks like there’s a horse coming out of the waves on the left and maybe a dog or two on the right. Click on each photo to see more.

Smoke from distant fire
Smoke moving out to sea
Dave in the Waves
Dave and Dancing Waves
Green Turquoise Swell
Rescued Finger Puppet
A Water Horse and Two Water Dogs

On the left, I see a white water horse’s head coming out of the water (though it might look like a camel head) and a dog swimming next to the horse. The foam on the right also looks like a curly dog lying down. Do you see any of these or maybe something else?

Happy Father’s Day to all Fathers and Dads

including Dog Dads, Cat Dads, Horse Dads…

…all dads everywhere!

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Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday was: “sight/site.” Use one, use them both, use them any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use them both. Have fun!

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For more streams and SoCS rules,

visit Linda Hill who is “out a sight!”

by clicking HERE.


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Opposites Attract, But Similarities Sustain

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Opposites do attract. We’re often drawn to partners or friends who have qualities we lack. This can be a good thing, up to a point. If there are too may opposites, there’s going to be trouble.

When we were dating (for the second time) my husband confessed, “I’m allergic to fun.” I thought he was kidding. He works hard and is hard on himself. I can understand this, but my desire for myself is to have more fun. We had lots of fun when we dated, getting to know each other again; the butterflies and excitement of falling in love tends to make us giddy and overlook things.

Fortunately, we also asked a lot of questions to find out if there were any deal breakers. To find out if there was  enough common ground.

But back to the opposites. He says he is not artistic. And he’s not when it comes to free flowing things, improvisation, dance, playful art. I am more artistic. He is more precise. I tend to be scattered. He is more focused. (I’ve come to believe that’s mostly a guy thing.) He is great with numbers, me not so much.

I love to sing. My husband stopped singing in his late teens after being ridiculed. When we found each other again, he didn’t sing at all. But he’s been working on this for a couple years, and now sings in our church choir with me. He knows how I love to sing and wants to be with me enough to overcome his fear of singing. He’s also overcoming his fear of swimming in deep water due to a close call a long time ago.  I love to swim. He was a fire fighter and pilot, so he’s not at all afraid of heights like I am. I get motion sickness at the drop of a hat. But when he gets a chance to fly a plane again, I’ll be there with him, right after I take my Dramamine.

I used to be addicted to TV and movies. My husband doesn’t watch TV and rarely goes to movies. But he did like Interstellar which we saw together. It’s a good thing I took my daughter with me to see Wild. And there’s no way he’ll want to go see Into the Woods. But that’s okay.

Even though opposites attract, similarities are necessary for a happy, long lasting relationship.

My husband and I both love dogs. We  like to grow things in dirt and eat healthy. While we both partied plenty in our younger days, we’re now conservative in our lifestyles, though not our beliefs. We are responsible, frugal and conscientious. We believe in giving back to the community. We search for meaning in spirituality. We’re both Christians, but we’re open minded enough to respect the beliefs of others. We respect each others differences. We listen to each other. We both like garlic.

These are important similarities. Without them, it wouldn’t work.

And it’s working quite well.

 

This week’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday Post was the word: “opposite.” If you’d like to join in the fun, visit:

http://lindaghill.com/2015/01/09/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-january-1015/

Here are the rules:

1. Your post must be stream of consciousness writing, meaning no editing, (typos can be fixed) and minimal planning on what you’re going to write.

2. Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be. One sentence – one thousand words. Fact, fiction, poetry – it doesn’t matter. Just let the words carry you along until you’re ready to stop.

3. There will be a prompt every week. I will post the prompt here on my blog on Friday, along with a reminder for you to join in. The prompt will be one random thing, but it will not be a subject. For instance, I will not say “Write about dogs”; the prompt will be more like, “Make your first sentence a question,” or “Begin with the word ‘The’.”

4. Ping back! It’s important, so that I and other people can come and read your post! For example, in your post you can write “This post is part of SoCS:” and then copy and paste the URL found in your address bar at the top of this post into yours.  Your link will show up in my comments, for everyone to see. The most recent pingbacks will be found at the top.

5. Read at least one other person’s blog who has linked back their post. Even better, read everyone’s! If you’re the first person to link back, you can check back later, or go to the previous week, by following my category, “Stream of Consciousness Saturday,” which you’ll find right below the “Like” button on my post.

6. Copy and paste the rules (if you’d like to) in your post. The more people who join in, the more new bloggers you’ll meet and the bigger your community will get!

7. Have fun!