Just Me

  One of my favorite quotes is “Don’t let waiting become a habit.” I love this quote because it says a lot about just how much people value your time.   I have always been tapped into things that I need to do RIGHT NOW. Even when I was in school, if I felt I needed to do a particular thing in this point in time, then I did it. I didn’t think, “Gee, maybe I should wait until I am older.” I just did it! There was one time I applied for a correspondence writing course. They turned me down because I was too young (I was 16 at the time). They encouraged me to go out into the world and get some life experience first, then come back to reapply. (Which I did and … didn’t.)   It’s just that if I feel compelled to do something RIGHT NOW, then I do it!   Sometimes, though, there have been people in my life who I NEEDED to do things with, but they weren’t all that decisive about whether they wanted to go through with it – either with me, personally, or at that part...

  It was recently brought to my attention that both Mercury and Venus were in retrograde. One friend commented that, during this time, one thing we are going to need is patience – and lots of it!   At first, I didn’t really understand why she stressed the importance of having patience with others during the retrograde, but as things began to unfold, I understood.   I had to have patience with my youngest, who just wasn’t ready for our Christmas tree to come down after Christmas was over. We usually took our tree down the day after Christmas, or very soon thereafter. But by New Year’s, it was still up. I began to suspect they just wanted to hold on to Christmas, and the happy memories they had from it, for as long as possible. Both my husband and I rolled our eyes and sighed in frustration over seeing that Christmas tree STILL up yet again 10 days into January and two weeks into January. But now, today, it has come down. My youngest told me they were ready. In fa...