NanoWrimo Unedited day 1 writing start Mindful life be happy and chill

I am currently doing the NanoWrimo from time to time this November my blog post will be unedited sections of my ramblings. I do this to be creative and while children run screaming around me. I will be back to my normal weight and child focus writing in December. Enjoy!

Day 1:

Today is the start of something amazing. Shouldn’t every day be amazing?

I wake up in this space that I created. I have the ability to be positive and creative and make today my day, my world needs me and needs more than anything for me to love myself and be kind to all. I wake up and look at the ceiling and it’s a blank slate.  A place for my mind to imaging all of the wonderful things I am going to do today. I can walk to the coffee maker and put on a pot of my favorite coffee, I can let the dog out in the backyard, I can go out and get the newspaper that has been waiting for me for hours just to pick it up. I can also walk to my couch and do some writing or lay in bed with my wife and relax a little longer in a comfortable bed and be warm.

When we wake up in the morning we should be happy, when we wake up in the morning we should be free of the restraints of anything. This day we can be who we want to be. If there is something we don’t like we will take positive actions to change it for the better.

When we practice self love we can then give more to the world and to other. Self love is not something pornographic or sexual it is simply loving yourself. If you don’t know what this means think about slowing down, taking personal time away from everything including technology, relaxing and giving your mind and body a break and time to regenerate.

One way we can do this is to spend the time we need in life to get past things that upset us.

I was recently at a funeral for my last grandmother. She lived a great life and was 90 when she died. I took the time to mourn. Although this was not as sad of a funeral as some that I have experienced. Grandma grew up very poor and in a farm family. They seldom wore or could afford shoes and they would walk miles and miles on weekend to fish in the creek. They would then bring home and eat any fish they caught. Not a picky bone in grandma when it came to eating fish or wild game.

She lived as much at peace in life as you can be. She had a lot of challenges, most she overcame in her 90 years of life. One of the things she always pushed was prayer and love for family. She did not embrace wasting a lot of time on technology. She spent time at church or at home and that is where you would find here. You could call on the phone and she would almost always pick up on the other end of the line with her wired old style phone.

In the last years of her life I made sure to visit as often as I could. I really did and I feel grateful for this. I learned a long time ago that you don’t want to feel regret in life because once you feel it seldom can you change anything.

When I heard grandma passed I cried and then prayed her home to heaven. A week later  was the funeral. Grandma was a Catholic and wanted a traditional funeral. Wake with prayer service was filled with family. Mass at church. I said I could help.  I read a couple of things. One was the time prayer. A time for this and a time for that. Today I take time for me. I was also a Eucharistic minister and a pall bearer. The bible passage was the same one I read at my other grandfathers funeral. I think its funny that there is a time for everything in life but most people don’t take time to mourn or time for themselves as they race through life.