I have always been a prayer—not the word thing, a person who prays. I don’t know how else to write it. I was raised Catholic and learned prayers. In stressful moments, praying helped me calm down and know that things would change for the better. I believe praying or whatever meditative ritual you believe in […]
This morning, I got the idea for this post when I was transplanting houseplants. My father had won a table centerpiece with a poinsettia in the middle and several varieties of houseplants around it. My parents don’t have houseplants except for a lemon tree my mother leaves out on the porch in the warmer months, […]
I heard the Minimal Mom on YouTube talk about this idea of “bandwidth.” She said something like at the end of the day, she had no bandwidth left. I never heard that term before (describing the energy we have), but I got what she meant. I’ve always said, “I’m losing my steam,” which means the […]