First of all, please accept my apology for writing this blog post a day later than usual. Unfortunately, our TV signal and Internet connection were cut off yesterday due to a fire in some of our provider´s installations, so the southern part of Denmark had to be creative.
For my part, I embarked on my new 5D diamond painting project, a large painting of the Western Zodiac. My husband found a couple of DVD movies, so everything was just fine in the end.
Morning walks and happy hours are basically my life at the current moment in time. My dear friend is 64 years old, but she is of old school and goes to fitness five days a week. So we walk and talk about what truly matters in life. And we plan to walk around our little town when Summer arrives. Of course, we will bring both a blanket and the indispensable coffee to enjoy halfway.
Happy hours, because every time we meet with her and her family and friends, it feels like we have known each other since the beginning of time.
Last week, her husband´s son offered us a free couch. We have spent many meaningful hours with conversations about everything and nothing simultaneously. It was her turn to host our monthly ladies´ luncheon, and we are four very different women, all in our prime.
I´m now back in my preferred manic mood, however controlled by prescription medicine, therapy, and my hard work to stay in this mood for as long as possible. After all, it is from here that I draw my inspiration; here lies my creative drive.
I have truckloads of plans, but I have become so much better at only engaging in those of them where I have a fair chance to accomplish them in reality.
Therefore, today, I will go to my creative den and do a thorough clean-up. I only use the room when I don´t need to turn the heating on. With the soaring energy prices, we need to be even more careful than usual to save money as much as possible.
Now, the weather gods are more than fair, and the room needs a good Spring cleaning. Besides, I decided not to do my Ostara/Spring Equinox ritual this year because I needed to rest instead. So, in return, I will create a beautiful Easter ritual where I will mix it with the best stuff from the Ostara Sabbath.
With a bit of luck, our friend will turn up for a quick cup of coffee, preferably in the garden, if the clouds only would disappear so that the Sun´s rays may warm us.
Morning walks and happy hours, well, I don´t need anything else. We have a wonderful fairytale-like life, my husband and I.
Of course, there are bad days, but I don´t count them at all. My first and foremost priority is to get out of bed happy every early morning at 05.30 a.m. Second, come my beloved family and friends, and thirdly, the everyday chores must be done nevertheless.
Only after that comes any concern toward the world outside.
Today, Monday, a whole new week has begun. I´ll bet it will be just as busy as the previous ones that this strange year has shown up with. But it is fun, mindful, and precisely as it should be.
I look forward to tomorrow morning when my new counselor arrives again. She and I found something already at our first meeting two weeks ago. With every fiber in my body, mind, and soul, I feel that it will become one of those experiences that will leave a lasting impression on us both.
I also have a meeting of the kind that you would rather avoid, but only since a former friend has unacceptably changed behavior. But this time, it will be on my terms, as I won´t accept that her jealousy ruins even a second of my life.
She wants me to herself, but I don´t play that game. I´m a grown-up woman, and I decide fully with whom I choose to engage my time, resources, and heart.
So, the result is that I set the limit to drinking a few cups of coffee together. After that, my life will continue the way I want it to, whatever she might think or say about that.
Listening to my favorite playlist on Youtube, writing this on a Monday morning feels just right. When I write something, music in my ears is a must. I try to follow the rhythm, and from time to time, I have been told that others can feel that there is music in my writing.
My newest Spring project is to bring a small basket to the garden yard with a notebook and pen, my cell phone, something to be creative with, and something from my witch´s den to bring the magick needed for writing a novel trilogy.
And, of course, it is Spring cleaning time. We have finished it upstairs, and now it is time to work miracles on the first floor.
So, life is never dull here; there is always something to do, and these so odd years are, at the same magickal time, the best in my life so far.
Morning walks and happy hours, with only a fair amount of effort, I can live a good life with bipolar disorder and anxiety. I´m more than grateful, so thank you, dear Universe, also for the many challenges that life inevitably brings.
And now, it is time to get in the mood for some serious Spring cleaning in my creative den. See you on Sunday.
May your week be joyful and blessed with freedom, happiness, inner peace, good health, and kindness, dear readers and followers. May world peace find everybody on Mother Earth. And may my current state of mood continue well through Summer into Fall.
As we want it to become, so mote it be.
Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.
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