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Showing posts with label Markham Heid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Markham Heid. Show all posts

Monday, August 31, 2020

After the rain

The red roof is the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly building across the Swanannoa Valley.

 I found a new hill from which to photograph the clouds hanging around the mountains.


Looking over US 70 and the railroad to see the mountain ridges with the cotton candy clouds as the hot August sun hit their slopes.

Today's quote:
The more people engage in worrying, the less they feel
confident in their ability to solve a problem and the worse
their solutions to that problem tend to be.  If you're going to
be spending six or seven hours a day worrying about the
coronavirus, you're going to be building up and strengthening
the neural connections that support this activity.  Worrying
breeds more worry.
So what can people do to combat the effects of uncertainty?
...focusing on the present can help dispel uncertainty and the
anxiety it foments.  Do things you enjoy.  Get out a book you've
been wanting to read, or watch a movie, or talk with a friend.
Occupy your brain with work, chores, entertainment, [creativity],
or other activities related to the source of uncertainty; something
that gets your brain into the present moment.
Markham Heid
From an article in Medium.com

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Thanks and a fence of sunflowers


 Driving down a nearby road I'd never traveled, these are among the beautiful things I saw...


I add my sincere thanks to all my friends and relations who made my birthday Sunday feel so special for me. I had a great hour plus zoom group meet-up with my three sons' families. I feel so grateful to have such a wonderful family of loving people, even if we live miles apart. And besides my wonderful Facebook friends sending wishes all day long, my blog buddies were also sending wishes early and late! How blessed I am!

Today's quote:
This may also be the perfect time to finally give mindfulness a try.
...embracing [what you are doing in] the moment can distract us
from worry and what may or may not happen. ..."letting go" of
things one has no control over may be the best way to shrink
worry down to a manageable size.  

Markham Heid, From an article in Medium.com