2020 Finally Delivered!!
Who had chocolate snow for pandemic bingo?
Chocolate snowed down upon Olten, Switzerland covering the town industry a layer of chocolate due to a malfunction with the venting system at a chocolate factory.
That is my kind of malfunction!!!
@lovendures Thank you for this link. I read the article and copied it to my desktop. So many helpful points, including this one:
Picture the recipient before you begin writing. Instead of thinking about yourself and what to say, envision the other person. What do you like about them? Why are you grateful to have them in your life? Have you ever learned anything meaningful from them? -- Jamie Friedlander
It reminds me of something I ask myself when I am scared for someone. I ask, what are their strengths? Or, what am I grateful for about that person? I realize now that the answer I receive is what they also need to remember about themselves to help them through.
@lovendures I absolutely adore this idea!!!! I have always loved reading.. and when I was a little girl.. I used to write my Grandmother ( who was a Guiding Light and Beacon who got me through my very difficult childhood) and when times were tough I would hold them close and "pet them" as I read them in the dark of room under the covers to assure myself I was indeed loved by someone on Earth. I also, in later years, treasured letters from pen pals around the world and of friends that went to Vietnam that counted on those letters from home.
I had actually begun to think of writing various friends that I no longer have physical access to. Thank you for the nudge I needed to think it wasn't silly and old fashioned. I DO have all those stamps I bought to support the USPS :-)
I wasn't sure where to post this. So much is going on these days, it's overwhelming.
I woke up sad and irritable. I turned on the tube and as I drank my mocha java, actually watched a 1/2 hour infomercial of Time Life's Best of the 60's cd/dvd compilation. I was mesmerized, yearning to go back there. I wanted a do-over.
I logged onto my computer and searched Time Life. Instead, the attached video caught my eye.
Watch the first video first. The second explains the purpose behind it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw5KQMXDiM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oPq1KV8524
Remain hopeful, everyone. Love and peace to all of you. ?
Your post grabbed my heart. The image of you under your covers in the dark reading letters of love fro your grandmother-wow. I am sure your grandmother knew you needed those letters. It is a tribute to her that she in fact wrote them.
Yes, you did by those stamps! Time to use them I guess!
Maybe it is time to send Christmas or New Year cards again.
Maybe instead Thanksgiving cards thanking people.
I am so thankful you posted those videos today.
I had seen the first one not long after it was created in the spring. Loved it then and loved watching it again these months later.
Because of your post, I was inspired to see what more recent things have been created by the film maker and discovered this one. It is so appropriate for what our country (and world) is facing, not simply the virus but this election, the environmental crisis and human rights, ...all those things all the things we believe in and hold dear. How the fear of what is now and what might be later is affecting us today.
The video is a light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GImHBBbH5E4
@lovendures She did... and.. her love for me and mine for her...was the beacon of Light shining between us and I had my first OBE's traveling to her at night when things were very bad at home.