Dealing with the winter blues

[BetteTheRed]

I add my welcome, GO3838!

But I have the winter blues for practical reasons. Damn near killed myself dragging garbage, etc. bins to end of driveway today. Still have a flat tire. It is my job to shovel the porch, and there is NOWHERE TO PUT THE SNOW. Watching snow fall currently makes me cry. I spent the day alternating between physical labour in the really fecking cold and anxiously listening to anxiety and chakra meditations. And thank Godde for leftovers and a man who actively likes to eat them. I begin many a table grace with "holy mystery, you have previously blessed much of this food. Please bless it again, the hands that reconstructed it, and us to your willl".

 

[Waterfall]

I add my welcome, GO3838!

But I have the winter blues for practical reasons. Damn near killed myself dragging garbage, etc. bins to end of driveway today. Still have a flat tire. It is my job to shovel the porch, and there is NOWHERE TO PUT THE SNOW. Watching snow fall currently makes me cry. I spent the day alternating between physical labour in the really fecking cold and anxiously listening to anxiety and chakra meditations. And thank Godde for leftovers and a man who actively likes to eat them. I begin many a table grace with "holy mystery, you have previously blessed much of this food. Please bless it again, the hands that reconstructed it, and us to your willl".

I like the prayer.

 

[BetteTheRed]

When my kids were growing up, once we were on our own, we had two books of prayers to choose from for grace. One was fairly traditional, a small book from my very Catholic uncle, the other was titled "short prayers for long days"; kids always grabbed the latter.

 

[JayneWonders]

i am impressed that you say grace, @BetteTheRed

 

[BetteTheRed]

i am impressed that you say grace, @BetteTheRed

It has largely been my position in iife that no matter what one's position on god, it behooves one to be thankful to eat. I have never had to use a food bank, bur I remember a week in my children's lives when I had to declare egg salad sandwiches for lunches all week, to which my son replied rather bitterly, "only if you scrounge up a buck so I can go buy a loaf of white bread"...

 

[Luce NDs]

I add my welcome, GO3838!

But I have the winter blues for practical reasons. Damn near killed myself dragging garbage, etc. bins to end of driveway today. Still have a flat tire. It is my job to shovel the porch, and there is NOWHERE TO PUT THE SNOW. Watching snow fall currently makes me cry. I spent the day alternating between physical labour in the really fecking cold and anxiously listening to anxiety and chakra meditations. And thank Godde for leftovers and a man who actively likes to eat them. I begin many a table grace with "holy mystery, you have previously blessed much of this food. Please bless it again, the hands that reconstructed it, and us to your willl".

Sound repetitive and possibly needs another go-round!