Farewell

I will be gone for two weeks starting tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully this trip will be peaceful and fun and rejuvenating. Or, actually, I will make it so.
I'll talk to you all when I get back.

Just now I was suddenly seized by the strong impetus to delete this blog.
Hmm.

Honesty is the best policy. Honesty and trust above all: the vital foundation for any good relationship.
Good advice is not to lie to yourself. Feel what you feel; it's okay. Tell the truth to yourself and to others. Sure, it makes you vulnerable, you may feel stupid, but in the end, it is of absolute importance.

To be honest, I'm almost to that point. I finally stopped lying to myself, finally accepted what I was feeling. And now I can eventually get over it. Being honest with others is much harder, and that's where I meet my wall.
But these are all interesting issues and observations I've discovered/noticed and am trying to deal with.
The psychology is, in truth, extremly fascinating.

Anyone else dealt with something like this? Share, share. *laugh*

Run, sunset, prayer

So tonight I, slightly fed up with a predicament and feeling guilty for not running this morning, ignored the 103 degree weather (or however bloody hot it was), and went for a run at the nearby track. And I worked on my mental strength- stuff like, "Okay well I can walk if I make it around this lap...oh hey look I made it, why don't I just keep going?" So I went a few laps, then sat in the grass and stretched, burning up in the intense heat. As I stared at the track while the sun was shining, I decided to go a few more laps, then guess what I did?? I ran through several sprinklers until I was soaking wet, then sat on some bleachers, watched the sky as the sun set, and prayed. It was beautiful...and wet.

Okay that was it. And seeing as I need to wake up at 7:30am tomorrow morning, and it's 10:45pm right now, I should probably go to bed. Good night.

Happy Fourth of July

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776


The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.



"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the family, friends, food, fireworks, ....and our freedom.