How are you dealing with the current unique struggle and how are your reserves of resilience and humor?
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May 15, 2020 | Uncategorized | 3 comments
My name is Linda Bedinger and welcome to Ink and Ingenuity. I'm excited to share my love of Stampin' Up! with you!
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What we have missed most is church and interaction with our friends. As a volunteer at our local food pantry, I miss the opportunity to encourage other less fortunate members of our community. We serve 600 families every week now it is 800. I am incredibly blessed with a wonderful husband so the time spent at home has been pleasant. We try to watch something funny each week. A good laugh always helps.
I hope you and your family are well and safe
Having community has felt so so so important. Sometimes, though I feel like I’m spending too much time in front of Zoom! Moving my body in some fashion everyday, recommitting to healthy eating and connecting with people – that’s been my structure. Gratitude for structure!
So many thanks for asking – you are a joy!
Having been home bound for nearly the past two years, I had already been through the sadness, anger, frustration, and ultimately the acceptance that such emotions demand. Therefore the isolation that arrived with Covid-19 was not a new experience. But still there are things I miss terribly.
I was just learning to drive again and I can’t tell you how much joy that brought especially when I was able to drive myself to my weekly visits with my Hospice patients. I was also excited to begin driving to a monthly educational organization meeting and that I didn’t have to rely on my husband to drive me there.
There are many more things I miss but growing up in the family I did, we weren’t allowed to dwell much on negativity and that also stood me well in raising my family of three football-playing boys and a basketball-devoted daughter, all the while working full time in the newspapers my husband and I purchased. Resilience? Yes, if you wanted to survive. Sense of humor? If one dared to take one’s self too seriously… survival would also be in doubt.
So, you see I’ve always been blessed. No matter what the Good Lord throws your way, there is always someone who has more things and someone who is hurting more. My mother used to say, “You had might as well make up your mind to be happy. If you don’t, you just might find out what it’s like to be really unhappy.”
And it’s a lot more fun, too!