Drop Donuts

ruthjimward@gmail.com. Seventy-three family members from nine states were drawn to Holiday Hills resort in central Kentucky for the Thursday to Thursday 65th McRoberts Camp-out Reunion having rented every townhouse, cabin, lake side houses, camper spots, looking forward to hugs, visits and drop donuts. This week’s focus continues…

Treasures of a Unique Wedding

ruthjimward@gmail.com Five minutes into a walk, a neighbor about my age stopped me. “Where have you been? Are you ok? I’ve missed your blogs.”  “We had a wedding at our house this last weekend,” I replied. “How exciting”, she said. “Who got married?” “My granddaughter”.  After I…

Seasoning Seasons

ruthjimward@gmail.com As I anticipated my last hurrah with the 80’s decade, I reminisced the seasons of my life and the importance of each terrifying, exciting, and unique advancements of each.  My reflections carved out six. As I made notes, I was acutely aware that everyone would not…

Understanding Rescue Goliaths

ruthjimward@gmail.com (Email responses to Silencing Goliath basically agreed with the two following emails: Bottom line, pick your battles, be happy. H.   We do have to pick our battles, for certain! In every situation of every day there are conflicts that can develop and turn a day bad. Keep…

Silencing Goliath

ruthjimward@gmail.com Goliath represents big and powerful over small and weaker— loud, quiet or opposite--related or unrelated; physical, emotional, medical, addiction or spiritual.  If you are currently encountering a person or an entity that is threatening your peace, importance, harassing or intimidating, like David, you are indeed facing a…

Parallels of Content and Contentment

ruthjimward@gmail.com Like a picture, “Contentment" is worth a thousand words. Thanks for the great blog! BG. Content has two meanings: con’tent a noun, something that is contained: the contents of a box.   Con.tent’ as an adjective, “a state of satisfaction", not necessarily including the…

Contentment

ruthjmward@gmail.com Contentment: an emotional state of satisfaction that can be seen as a mental state drawn from being at ease in one's situation, body and mind; a state of having accepted one's situation and is a milder and more tentative form of happiness. ”He…

Keep Calm and Carry On

ruthjimward@gmail.com Keep Calm and Carry On—a British understatement—was a motivational poster slogan produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II, but now enjoys general currency as an expression of resilience --calling for persistence in the face of challenge.…