RANT for Single Working Women’s Week, July 31 – August 6, 2022

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Yes, it’s almost time to celebrate the single working women in your life, including you if you’re one. But wait a second.

I need to vent for a minute.

Are you celebrating much these days? Consider this stuff:

Given the above, I want to spend as much time as I can with the people I love. If you saw the movie “Don’t Look Up!” you’ll remember that was the ending. It’s not a great movie, but the conclusion that all we can do is love one another, is a good one. Since we are all going to die one day, sooner or later – even if we manage to reverse course on climate change – we all face the devastating loss of loved ones dying. So having faith in each other and celebrating our loving relationships now seems like the best thing we can do for ourselves and for each other.

Thank heaven we’re still here, single working women and all! So let’s go ahead and celebrate all the relationships we share – with our neighbors, our friends, our SOs, kids and other relatives if we have them. Plan to have fun together as often as you can – in ways that contribute as little as possible to the existing problems. “Be the change you want to see.” ~Ghandi

Thank you for letting me get that out of my system. Thank goodness Congress is today close to enacting a meaningful piece of legislation that addresses many of these pressing issues and is paid for by a significant tightening of tax loopholes for mega-corporations. It’s a small step forward in the long and hard-fought battle that is costing us all too much.

July 31 to August 6, 2022. Happy Single Working Women’s Week!

 

Touching on the spiritual

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A friend, who seems to have been doing some exploring of spirituality, sent me a link today to a survey about what kind spiritual/religious person you are. The questions aren’t simple to answer–on several of them I wanted to choose more than one, but that wasn’t allowed. Turns out I’m a Seeker. Other options are Companion, Thinker, Believer, Maverick, and Lover. Take it here if you’re curious how you’ll come out.

She sent another link with some good moral-of-the-story tidbits. Here’s one I enjoyed:

A monk in his travels once found a precious stone and kept it. One day he
met a traveler, and when the monk opened his bag to share his provisions with
him, the traveler saw the jewel and asked the monk to give it to him. The monk
did so readily. The traveler departed, overjoyed with the unexpected gift of the
precious stone that was enough to give him wealth and security for the rest of
his life. However, a few days later he came back in search of the monk, found
him, gave him back the stone, and entreated him, “Now give me something much
more precious than this stone, valuable as it is. Give me that which enabled you
to give it to me.”–from a story told by Anthony de Mello

Nice to think about during those times we face rough waters in our financial situation. Those who hav faith and trust in a higher power can change their outlook about anything to a more positive spin.