My Friends, I think that we need some hope. The world has been beating us up pretty much. If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is trying to keep us on edge, he has succeeded. The COVID pandemic has reached closer and closer, near our families. And life is not holding still so that we can get a good grip on it. So where do I find hope?
A person does not have to know sports. Just watching those young men in tight pants is a joy. The change to baggy basketball shorts did us a serious disservice! But I don’t have to even watch the game. I always pick a team, regardless of whether I’m very familiar.
The Superbowl would not be a bad place to start. That way I have a 50-50 chance of winning and being quite happy without any effort. The Chiefs are my home team, and they have 6:04 minutes to pull it out right now. The Bengals are three points over us for the very first time. 50-50. And we lost. So I look at the smiles on the Bengals’ faces.
If that isn’t your cup of tea, I watch little and big people walking in my neighborhood from my office window. And that gives me hope. And motivation to follow suit. Not enough to get me there, but um, closer.
My doctor/friend has five little girls, kindergarten and younger. His online pictures of them never fail to cheer me up. I call them the Five Little Peppers, an old, old series of children’s books. I always laugh as they discover the panty contains candy or the lost baby was contentedly resting in a bottom drawer where the twins put her. One of them is “reading” Days to a Less Defiant Child.
Finding hope can be a treasure hunt. Sometimes I find it in a perfect cup of tea always in a cup of Fiesta Ware as my Grandma Christie had. I like to bake. It’s soothing. And the smell brings back happy days. Sometimes a special book will do it for me.
And sometimes, this is new, I look for something, anything to do that is patriotic. Yes, I write for a liberal political publication, and that was enough. Until it wasn’t. I need just one little thing to do, and it’s easy to find motivated groups online.
My readers are good, very good. If you like, share some of the places you find hope.
Peace, wellness, and much hope. And now — let’s laugh!
Gloria
Thanks to my friend, Lisa Hanock-Jasie.
Thanks to my friend Lisa Hanock-Jasie.
Thanks to my friend Conover Kennard.
Another thanks to Lisa!
Three White Lions podcast, Gloria Christie reads a chapter from her book of the same title. She also writes for the liberal online newspaper The Bipartisan Report. Gloria Christie Report her newsletter for people on the go. Written in her own unique style with a twist of humor in a briefer version of Bipartisan Report. Christie’s Mueller Report Adventures In Bite-Sizes a real-life compelling spy mystery (in process). Find her here on Facebook.