“Will Tuesday be good news day, or another paying dues day? It’s a strange and moody blues day anyway.” From Carole King’s Gotta Get Through Another Day.
Tuesdays have been blues days for me of late. Knowing this is half the battle toward reclaiming yet another day of the week (have already made progress on taking “blue Fridays” back.) Still, with only seven days in a week, having two of those as blue days could be a problem. Good thing we’re riding the gratitude train. First of all, there are still five days that aren’t categorized as blues days. And, even in the midst of the blues I still know that life is good and find many things to be grateful for.
This morning I went out to breakfast with my son and then into a local natural pharmacy to talk with my acupuncturist. She’s the person who’s been helping me find natural remedies to fight depression, including herbs and vitamins, exercise, nutrition, etc. She’s another one of the angels in my life who have been so pivotal in helping me overcome the emotional lows that I struggled so mightily with in the months right after I lost my job. When people say, “Angels are all around us,” they’re usually talking about the winged ones with halos; but we are also surrounded by human beings whose giving hearts and beautiful spirits also keep us encouraged, supported, uplifted. I am definitely grateful for the angels in my life.
Once I got home I sat at my computer for a few hours searching multiple job boards and reading job search articles. Tuesday Bluesday is one of the days I probably spend the most concentrated time on the computer on job search-related activity (the one deviation was the Tuesday I spent hours looking through various health insurance options. If you read my blog on that day you’ll remember how much fun that was!) So part of reclaiming Tuesdays will be about going about the job search process in a different way or being sure to break up the day by walking away from the computer for a little while. Sometimes I can be a little slow in catching on to something–last Tuesday was when I realized that Tuesday=Bluesday. This week it sorta snuck up on me, but now I’m hip to it. I can begin proactively learning a new way of experiencing Tuesdays as I’ve begun doing with Fridays. I’m looking forward to Tuesday as “good news day” sometime soon.
I want to share one more thing that I’m grateful for tonight. I continue to be grateful for the faithful folks who read and respond this blog–either on Facebook or here at the blog site. I am even more gratified that people are thinking more about the things that they’re grateful for and some have gotten out their gratitude journals or are making lists of things they’re grateful for or are even writing their own blogs. I have no idea how long I can sustain a daily public blog, but will keep at it for at least a while longer. But I will sustain a daily spirit and practice of gratitude for the rest of my life. In some ways it’s always been part of my life, but now I am much more intentional about it. Thank you for being part of this journey with me.
Here’ a link to the song, Gotta Get Through Another Day by Carole King. Gotta Get Through Another Day, by Carole King
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