This week is one of a kind concerning positive human behavior. Wednesday, I had the fantastic privilege and honor of meeting one of the fiery souls. They help handicapped people cope in the everyday.
I also met a woman with less than ten percent of her eyesight left due to complications with diabetes. We agreed to meet again next Wednesday, each with some of their creative projects.
The idea is that I will become her eyes while her hands will work together with mine. And we will create something beautiful.
I have asked to get acquainted with the expectations of a peer-to-peer social worker.
And the plan is to travel the county and meet with people where they actually are physically, mentally, and spiritually.
When I returned from my first session, two hours had passed without the feeling of time whatsoever. A sad and troubled fellow citizen shape-shifted into a happy, smiling, and waving new person.
That feeling that hit me is almost indescribable as I’m still contemplating the utter sense of happiness and true meaning.
The fiery soul happens to be the new leader of all the drop-in centers of the county.
The feeling of deep inner peace has stuck with me throughout the week after a beautiful and educative life lesson in treating people the way I want to be treated myself.
I have been extremely tired, too. That I ascribe to all the new impressions and subtle moments this week has brought me.
Deep inner peace and community work is worth every second of the experience. I have always wanted to try something like this, and I’m happy and proud that others think I can do it well.
Now, my life experiences and everything I have learned genuinely come into their own.
This week brought a wonderful gathering of friends, too. Yesterday, we shared a BBQ dinner with good friends in their new home.
It felt like had Summer asked Spring to hurry, for it was sunny and cozy in their greenhouse with an old vine climbing all over the place.
It takes about fifteen to twenty minutes each way to get to our friends. But I love to walk, and I already walk at least half an hour in the early morning, just to clear my mind and try to get a little more fit for my general health.
My emergency box for Ukrainians is growing day by day. Now, I’m halfway through and the next goal is to gather bandages, diapers, canned food, and hygiene products. The plan so far is to ship it for free with the Danish postal service in the middle of June.
They offer to bring packets of a maximum of 25 kg for free to their Ukrainian counterpart, who will then pass it to those in dire need of help.
I know that my work is only a tiny drop in the ocean, but this way, I feel that I at least have tried doing something to make this hideous war just a little less wrong.
Tuesday, my husband and I shared a witchcraft ritual, slightly behind schedule, the Sabbath of Beltane.
Today’s picture shows my altar set up. It was shorter than usual; however still beautiful, soothing, and mindful.
Deep inner peace and community work, well, who can wish for more? I may have some physical and mental challenges to overcome. Still, I feel in the depth of my heart and deep within my body, mind, and soul that I better late than never have reached the best part of my life so far.
At my interview last week, I was asked why I wanted to live this dream out. I answered directly, honestly, and promptly: to make other people happy.
To reach somebody where they actually are in the present moment, to help change tears into smiles, and to learn to love me as well as other people; these goals I have already reached, so what comes hereafter is my reward for being me, not to toot my own horn, but to assist others in acknowledging their very own strengths despite severe challenges in their everyday.
Today’s tasks are to write in my digital version of a Book of Shadows, bask in the sun with my husband and the little wise, old dog, and call my eighty-four-year-old father tonight.
Today’s writing music is the good old stuff, the protest songs, old school rock’n’roll, and, all things considered, anything where you can’t help yourself toe-tapping the rhythm.
And today’s feelings are happiness, inner peace, good health, and kindness.
Soon, it’s time to go out in my husband’s beautiful, blooming Spring garden with the little wise, old dog. He loves to lie on the sunbed and sniffle happily in the air.
But first, I need to meditate on life’s twists and turns. This recent year has been strange, yet so enlivening, so full of joy, and so life-affirming. We left a toxic relationship for something so much better.
We have found the rarest kind of friends you want to keep in your life forever. We like to help each other, we want to meet often, and we quickly pick up on yesterday’s conversation.
This week, I also had the great pleasure of talking with my bonus little sister, the daughter of the eldest friends of my parents. We spoke for more than an hour and a half, and her plan is to visit us this Summer with her husband and two daughters.
This tells me that something wonderful and great is coming, a Summer party in the garden with dear friends.
May your week be filled with inner peace and positive experiences, dear readers and followers. May many more people learn to work together instead of fighting for no reason whatsoever. And may my current mood remain strong throughout Summer well into Fall.
If we care enough to pray for this, it might happen to us all.
So mote it be.
Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.
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