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Navigating life through coffee, volunteering & laughter.

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  • I don’t think I would

    How much would you pay to go to the moon?

    There’s too much happening on our planet to think about going to the moon. If I had the money to go to the moon I’d use it to feed the less fortunate by donating food to a pantry.

    I think that by being obsessed with everything that’s not on planet earth we lose sight of the fact that the rainforests are disappearing & the ice is melting. I know those aren’t fun things to think about but by going to another planet & trashing that too we don’t sustain mankind.

    It’s up to us to save our planet earth not to escape our own manufactured destruction by going to another planet. We have earth & that’s what we should focus on. Period.

  • Why I write

    There’s soo much horrible going on in the world I want to write about the mundane. Because the mundane is just as essential as the out of this world experiences.

    For me I practice gratefulness everyday, like the other day when a girl sneezed & I got her a tissue. She didn’t ask me but she was extremely thankful for my gesture. In this time of turmoil we need more small gestures because they matter.

    If we fill our heads with all the news & turmoil we lose sight of the simple things we may take for granted everyday. Like sharing a cup of coffee with my husband every morning, it’s my favorite part of the day. Or when the dog greets me when I come home from town. All those small things matter to keep us going.

    Yes, I’m not saying that I’m not aware of all that’s happening but I’m focusing on the fact that I’m safe & my family is safe. That I can wake up in a house with a roof over my head every day. That’s what matters. As I’ve written in a prior post, home is where you’re emotionally & physically safe.

  • Challenger disaster

    What major historical events do you remember?

    I can remember it as if it was yesterday. Sitting in my grade school library watching the take off. Then poof, all was lost. I recall the teachers didn’t know how to explain to us what had happened.

    It was the first time I saw someone die live on television. I had a dream of becoming an astronaut that quickly faded that day. As a kid I admired Sally Field the first woman astronaut in the US. I even did a paper on her in grade school.

    The Challenger disaster changed my view of the world, that someone could die within 90 seconds is horrific. To this day my dream of becoming an astronaut was lost that day.

    I can remember walking around shell shocked the whole rest of the day after seeing the devastating events on TV.