The last day of the decade | Life on a Colorado Farm

Today is the last day of the whole decade—WOW!

And tomorrow starts another set of ten years. Not just a New Year but the beginning of a whole new decade!

I’ve erased this post several times…it’s so hard to put into words what I am thinking and feeling.

But I decided to go ahead and give it a whirl:

I am going to practice daily until it becomes who I am

To speak words of kindness, to me. I forget to do that sometimes. I seem to be my worst critic.

My mother and her parents, my grandparents, were very kind and generous people. Always helping those who needed a little help.

Help can be as simple as a kind word in the grocery store, unsticking a shopping cart for the person who can’t get them apart, or taking in a shopping cart someone just left in the parking slot, too uncaring to roll it to the cart corral.

If, and when, we go out I want to tip as generously as I can afford. Oftentimes those in the service industry are over-looked as only a necessary commodity for people to have a good time.

Forgetting that service people have feelings, get tired, have to put up with ugly and rude customers.

A decent tip goes a long way to saying—You did a nice job. Thank you.

I want to remember to smile. To smile at everyone. Sometimes a smile is as nice as a hug.
Sometimes hugs are even nicer.

My Daddy always said the quickest way to lose friends is to discuss politics and religion. I believe him.

I will always respect your beliefs, and I will never demand, coerce, or push my politics or religion onto you.

I want my blog and my FaceBook page and myself to show to you that very invisible but strongly felt emotion of unconditional love and acceptance.

But for me that is just trying—there are so many other things I want to do with my time.

The time that is going fast now in my elder years.

Still, I will try. (to dust more 🙂 )

So for this coming year, I want to judge less, to pay forward as much kindness as I possibly can, and enjoy each and every day as the seconds swing by with the pendulum of time.