Heading to Oklahoma!

Gypsy is looking at the suitcase...

She has her eye on the "walkin out the door"

I'm thinking!

I think after coffee I might need to have some

snacks for the babies in my hand

before I walk out the door!

It's time to hit the friendly skies again

this time

to Oklahoma City, Tulsa and then Ft Worth TX.

I'm hoping to meet some more wonderful

professional caregivers who will attend

andR

at the end of the day

will walk with a bit more pep in their step

as

they remember and/or find

tools to enhance their resiliency

for the important and difficult work they do.

There is an old saying,

"you can't please everyone all the time"

and

that is not an exception when speaking to people of other places, thoughts, professions.

Some find that my "humor" and engagement of those present is not what it should be...

HUMOR is essential in all of lifes work and play.

But

it seems more that folks that aren't engaged in the exchange are the ones who tend to comment on it.

Could it be that they wish they were engaging?

Or

could it be that they wish it was them that I was engaging with?

OR

have they just lost their humor secondary to compassion fatigue?

It's hard to know what others think or how they really feel unless they choose to engage you

or talk with you ~

Every day is indeed a

GIFT

and I would hope that we all enjoy all the many

freedoms and rights that we have while unwrapping our days.

I'm hoping for blue skies

and friendly TSA folks

who will greet me with a smile

and

not feel the need to get personal

in the same way

Ft Worth and Kansas City TSA now know me!

><

Yet another experience indeed ~

So as this day gets going

with

Gypsy watching the suitcase and eyeing me with displeasure as she knows a trip is happening

along with Jeepers who is staying on my lap

*as if that will help him*

and

then there is Patches

who is hanging in the bedroom

just snoozing away!

I wish you all enough today

as the sun is shining

and the heat is on here in Florida.

I look forward to seeing Oklahoma

and all those who will join me.

Ah, time to travel, to meet and to see

and then it will be time to get back home...

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."  Maya Angelou

For all those warriors here, I sure hope you are having some wonderful days of this summer

along with messages of hope in healing

along your path.

Walk in Beauty,

DSES

author of

Healing Heartaches, Stories of Loss and Life

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