Candles
Being "restricted" as we have been in so many ways has given me time to be much more alert and aware. Our 35 year-old women's group calls it, in good Sufi fashion: "I Invoke the Presence of my Presence into the Present." (Is it E.J. Gold who said that?) Anyway, full awareness in the moment is a good way to be close to what people call "God", or the Creator, or the "Love-Principle" in the Universe, or...put YOUR term here!
So, I couldn't help noticing how we are slowly being boiled like unsuspecting frogs, as they say, from cold water to warm, and hotter..., e.g. as concerns Inflation. Have you noticed? My husband and I can only laugh about it. Do they think we are stupid? Every time we go shopping, the bags we HAVE to buy (NONE of your own, infected-ones, please!) are less strong for the same or more money, are thinner and rip faster, and now, they even have no more handles for all our money. Oh, Dear!
Anyway, I thought there was something wrong with me when my good, long-burning candles that I have bought for DECADES suddenly burned down in a day! See me in the video comparing! Ha!
Silver-lining: We DO notice when they trick us, and I guess, they are all hurting, so another Silver-lining is that we get more empathic with the merchants' struggle....I guess.
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So, I couldn't help noticing how we are slowly being boiled like unsuspecting frogs, as they say, from cold water to warm, and hotter..., e.g. as concerns Inflation. Have you noticed? My husband and I can only laugh about it. Do they think we are stupid? Every time we go shopping, the bags we HAVE to buy (NONE of your own, infected-ones, please!) are less strong for the same or more money, are thinner and rip faster, and now, they even have no more handles for all our money. Oh, Dear!
Anyway, I thought there was something wrong with me when my good, long-burning candles that I have bought for DECADES suddenly burned down in a day! See me in the video comparing! Ha!
Silver-lining: We DO notice when they trick us, and I guess, they are all hurting, so another Silver-lining is that we get more empathic with the merchants' struggle....I guess.
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