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December 1, 2019 Maureen

Crossing Muddy Waters

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SOUL SEARCHING: Apparently, from the definitions I’ve read, this involves some sort of deep, going-inward search for self-knowledge, values clarification, or answers to complex or moral problems. Been there, done that for most of my 64 years. Not sure that it gained me all that much. And, of late, I’ve decided to be done with it in favor of simply observing what is in my immediate environment. This new way may sound like shallow living. Maybe it is. But to this day I remember the delightful hours I spent by Maryland’s Choptank River watching the schools of little silver fish flash by. Not a lot of thinking, just swimming in the sunny shallows. #taleswithfriends #soulselfie2019 @shalaghhogan

KINDNESS: Day 2 of Soul Selfie 2019. I was surprised to find a plethora of distinctions between Nice and Kind on the web. I am not always Nice. And while I don’t think that being Nice is always as bad as the quote (above) suggests, I have experienced, many times, False Niceness. And, if I am honest, I have, myself, been falsely nice to maintain social accord. But these days, I strive to be Kind. Kindness proceeds from deeply held convictions and can often look like meanness. Tough Love is often based in Kindness while Niceness is often a form of Co-Dependency. Shalagh wrote today of being Kind to herself. I am going through a very difficult time with myself right now. Clarifying my values (Kindness being values-based) and treating myself thusly would be me being kind to myself. Being Kind is not easy. Rats. This reminds me of the maxim about asking yourself three things before speaking: Is it True? Is it Kind? Is it Necessary? So many of our words -to others and to ourselves- do not stand the test of these three questions. Remember this, Maureen. Especially about how you speak to yourself.⁣ ⁣#taleswithfriends #soulselfie2019 @shalaghhogan

Let's play "Find the Becca Boo!" #taleswithfriends

REMEMBER: May 23, 2015. We sat up in that balcony at Wolf Trap Park for the Performing Arts just outside of Washington, DC , my husband, brother, s-i-l, and I. We had come to see Garrison Keillor and his long-running live radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. A lifetime fan, I had never thought I would see a live performance of the show until brother bought us tickets as my birthday present. My brother, Rudy, was 72 at the time. I remember every detail of that evening -the long, winding walk to the venue, the mild spring evening, the way Garrison walked through the aisles and led a hymn-sing at half time, the Navy Band playing “Anchors Aweigh.” But most of all, I remember Sara Watkins, Sarah Jerosz, and Aoife O’Donovan sing a song called “Crossing Muddy Waters.” To this day, listening to that song brings the entire evening rushing back. But it’s more than that. Crossing Muddy Waters is a haunting, harmonious, melancholy banjo and fiddle tune about loss. My brother is seventy-seven now. I am sixty-four and my husband will soon be sixty-eight. I think to myself: When they are gone, if I am still here, perhaps I will be able to remember that sad, but mostly wonderful evening. ⁣ ⁣#soulselfie2019 #taleswithfriends @shalaghhogan

My favorite day of the whole year. Just peaceful and pleasant and quiet. May you all have the same today no matter where you are. #taleswithfriends #americanthanksgiving

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