Some Sundays end the way they should.
A good meal. Plates pushed back. Folks sitting around a little longer than planned. Nobody watching the clock. The talk wandering from one thing to the next, easy and unimportant in the best way. Somebody pours another cup of coffee or tea. Slices of pumpkin and pecan pies are served. Or maybe a slice of cake. Or two. And no one says much about it.
Those moments matter more than we sometimes realize at the time.
Happy October!
Please don’t get me wrong. I love every month of the year, as each brings forth its unique beauty, events, and gifts. But, without question, October is my most favorite month and time of the year. Because around here, on the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri and on the edge of the Ozarks foothills,
October truly ushers in the beginning of Autumn.
As Summer seems to stretch longer and longer each year with Global Warming, October is when temperatures finally settle back into a more comfortable zone.
It is a time of progression, as October ushers in Autumn, which in turn ushers in the Holiday Season.
Excluding September, which is more and more an extension of summer now, I always look forward to and celebrate the true “ber” months: the months of October, November, and December. Could there be any better time of year?
Oh, October — how do I love thee? Let me count the ways . . . .
Oh, beautiful October. How I have missed you!
I invite you to take a trip with Little Red Bear’s “Autumn Splendors” video. We recommend viewing on full screen with the speakers on! If you watch on YouTube and enjoy, please give a Like to help others find and enjoy it.
What do you love about October, and what would you add to the list? Have you been apple picking yet, or been on a hayride? Planning a visit to the Pumpkin Patch soon? Please tell us all about it in the Comments!
In “Anne of Green Gables,” the author L.M. Montgomery wrote —“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” And I could not agree more!
It is my distinct honor and pleasure to welcome you to my favorite month of the year — October!
And in case you missed it, I invite you to check out my new Monday Morning series about Living A Life of Gratitude leading up to the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Thanks always for visiting with us! Best Wishes & Blessings! — Jim (and Red!) 🤠 🐻 🍂 🍁 🍂 🧡
(Featured image credit — “Ducks In Autumn, Watercolor,” created via Bing Image Creator AI)
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Well, look at that!
Here we are at the end of September already. How did that happen? It many ways, it appeared Summer with its record-setting heat would go on forever this year. And now the month of September is about to close out the books. Wow!
Soon, leaves will change colors and be falling to the ground, the days will be cool and the evenings downright chilly, pumpkin spice will flavor every other thing we pick up, apple pies will bake in the oven, and . . . .
Oh, wait a minute. Those are all good things, aren’t they?!?
Of course they are! Everyone who knows anything about me knows that my favorite time of the year is Autumn, and it has finally arrived. October will open the door to the beautiful season of Autumn and following that the joyous Holiday Season. Oh, yes. My favorite time of the year is here.
Let us rejoice and be glad! 🤠 🐻 🍂 🧡 🍎 🌻 🍁 🎃 🌻 🍏 🍂 🍁
But, returning to the present for just a moment, some folks say that they have “eyes like a hawk.” In my case, that may be true.
The vision of hawks, like all predators, is deficient in discerning fine details. And that’s why zebras have stripes, by the way. If they remain motionless, standing 
still, lions cannot pick them out from the surrounding tall grasses.
But, the vision of predators is astounding in their ability to detect the slightest motion from great distances, and it is that ability which is key to predators detecting and locating their prey.
Now, please don’t get me wrong. Not meaning to imply that I am a ‘predator’ in any way, shape, or form. Think of me more like a lounging deer beneath the shade of a large oak tree while slowly munching on a chocolate bar, than a tiger stalking its prey thru the tall grass. But, I seem to be blessed with vision that can detect and key in on the slightest movement around me.
To the point, simply gazing out my window just now, I spotted a little chipmunk scampering along the top of the curb across the parking lot entrance beneath my third-floor window. He (she?) raced along, darted beneath a large pine tree, and
then into where I suspect a chipmunk nest is among a pile of rocks at the side of my neighbor’s house. I frequently see them around that area.
After observing the little guy for merely a few seconds as he dashed along, I uttered a silent “Thank You!” prayer, feeling blessed to see and enjoy such a sight. Thankful for my eyes to have been gazing in that direction, and for the ability to have detected and zeroed in on the movement. Like a hawk. At precisely the right moment in time. Luck? Coincidence? Blessing?
I consider such little things as that to be a blessing. And if we cultivate a mindset of gratitude and thankfulness, we can discover a whole new world of wonderment, magic, and perhaps even miracles that surround us throughout the day. All day. Every day.
Blessings — A little chipmunk dashing along the curbside. A squirrel sitting on a 
branch just over our head, busily gnawing on an acorn. A chickadee “dee-dee-deeing” its song as we pass by. The beautiful, full-throated song of a Cardinal in springtime. A stranger opening a door for us when loaded down with grocery bags. An unexpected call, message, or visit from a friend on a day when we may be feeling down or under the weather. A compliment from a stranger. And so many more little occurrences in our daily lives. In my mind, they are all little blessings.
A roof over our heads and a warm bed to sleep in. The ability to shop and have a pantry full of food to benefit from regular meals. The safety and health of not only ourselves, but of our family, friends, and loved ones as well. Bigger blessings.
Are you thankful for all the blessings, big and small, in your life? If we think about it, there is always something to be thankful for, no matter how small. I encourage you to live a life of gratitude today.
We are living in stressful times these days, no doubt about it. I won’t even list all the reasons. You know why. We live it every day in the news at night. But did you know that living a life a gratitude can actually help with that?
We are going to be talking about gratitude more in the coming weeks as we approach the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the U.S., but the principles apply to everyone, everywhere. Join us next Monday when we explore the Mental Health Benefits to be derived from living a life of gratitude.
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Today, what are you grateful for? What are your thoughts about living a life of gratitude? Please share and let us know in the Comments.
And please join us every Monday morning leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday as we explore the different aspects of living a life of gratitude, along with seasonal Autumn and Holiday Season features along the way.
Thanks always for visiting with us! Best Wishes & Blessings! — Jim (and Red!)
Continue with the Living A Life Of Gratitude series with Part 2 — “Living A Life Of Gratitude — Mental Health Benefits”
(Featured image credit — Artwork by John Sloane, “I Remember When”)
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Happy Coloring!
Meet Little Red Bear & His Friends — “Once Upon A Time In A Very Special Woods”
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Welcome to my Writing Pages and the first official entry for the new year — 2022!
Wow, where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that the Christmas and Holiday Seasons were just beginning. And now we are already in the second week of January!
Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions? How is it going? Please don’t be shy. Feel
free to share your resolutions and progress in the Comments!
I have read that about 40% of Americans make resolutions for the new year and that roughly 75% of people who actually do make resolutions are still successful in sticking with them after the first week. After that, the sticktoitiveness seems to taper off.
Sadly, only about 8% actually succeed in keeping to their New Year’s Resolutions in the end. But, that is 8% of us who are hopefully all the better for the experience! So you go, all you little resolutors out there! We’re rootin’ for you to follow thru to the end and succeed!
The only resolution that I made for the new year is to get back to writing consistently. That involves sharing more new materials on the Writing Pages and lighting a fire under my story character friend Little Red Bear’s furry butt to get some new stories and at least one more book assembled and published by the end of the year. So far, so good, as evidenced by this new post today. But enough about that.
Getting to the subject then, as the new year was just beginning a week ago someone asked me what quotes most influence me regarding how I live my life, guiding principles, etc. I had to think about that. But not for long, really. The answer was quite obvious once I put my mind to it.
As followers here know, I tend to share a number of relevant quotes at the end of each writing piece. Writing topics thru the year here range in subject matter from Positivity, Kindness, Compassion, Children, Family, Environment, Conservation, Wildlife, Writing Topics, and Holiday Features, to plain old silly and humorous pieces now and then just for fun. And the list of my quote influencers is long, from Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin to the Dalai Lama and Dr. Seuss. So, that is quite a range of accompanying quotes from which to be asked to pick out a few favorites.
How about this one perhaps, from “The Simpsons” TV show —
Of course, despite the fine, emboldening quote, it turns out little Lisa Simpson, dutifully doing her due diligence researching more into the town hero’s background, later discovered that Jebediah
Smith had previously been known as ‘Hans Sprungfeld’, a murderous pirate. The local town hero was, in fact, a fraud.
And that is always the risk in quickly grabbing any “quote to suit occasion” without researching if it is really true and factual, or not. Abraham Lincoln nailed it right on the head. Or did he really say that?!? Random quoting can be a tricky business if one is not careful.
Seriously though, ol’ Jebediah and Abraham Lincoln aside, there is no question about my most favorite quote, the guiding principle which governs and influences everything I do in my life and always has — “The Golden Rule”.
Growing up, The Golden Rule was always prominently displayed on a kitchen plaque on the wall, placed right above the kitchen table where we could not help but see it. This verse was my Mother’s favorite Bible passage and she never wasted an opportunity to apply it in any situation. I grew up with it, and do my very best to live up to it every day.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” — Short and simply stated, but it seems to encompass it all, doesn’t it?
In the same vein and going right along with The Golden Rule is another guiding quote and principle in my daily life and the way I go about things —
Simple kindness and going about treating others as you would like to be treated yourself. They both tend to get a lot of lip service it seems, but the world would be a lot kinder and gentler place for us all if more folks put
those few simple words into true practice, don’t you think?
So, those are the principal guiding quotes in my life, influencing my approach to writing, my Little Red Bear stories, how I conduct myself, my relationships with others and the world around me. Guiding everything I do in my life.
I invite you to visit with some of my writing friends to see the quotes which most influence their lives going into the new year —
Sandra Bennett → “A Few Favourite Quotes to Live by in the New Year”
Rosie Russell’s ‘Books By Rose’ → “Four Special Quotes To Consider For 2022”
Carmela Dutra → “Favorite Quotes to Live By in the New Year”
Rebecca Lyndsey → “A Whole New Year”
Julie Gorges → “Favorite Quotes to Live By in the New Year”
A simple kind word or gesture costs nothing and yet has the power to possibly help turn someone’s challenging day or entire life around. Another of my Mother’s favorite
sayings was —
“You Reap What You Sow”
I choose to sow Kindness. How about you?
Thank you for visiting today! I hope everything is going well for you and yours as we step further into the new year now.
Little Red Bear joins with me in sending along very best wishes for a safe, happy, and healthy year ahead!
‘Til next time — Jim (and Red!) 🤠 🐻
If you enjoyed this piece, you may also like — “I Will Greet This Day With Love In My Heart” and Wishing You Deep Peace, Love, Happiness, and Joy – And A Very Good Day!
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“What lies behind us, and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Lift up your hearts. Each new hour holds new chances for new beginnings.”
– Maya Angelou
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“Here is the secret of happiness: Forget yourself and think of others.” – Paramananda
Perhaps like so many these days, you find yourself suffering from a case of the “Nightly News Blues.” The daily news hasn’t exactly been cheery of late, has it?
Have you read the ‘Harry Potter’ books or seen the movies? Do you recall the ‘Boggart’ scene in Professor Lupin’s class?
For those who may not be familiar with the books or movies, or who simply may have forgotten, please allow me to recap.
The scene takes place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the class, Professor Lupin is instructing the witch and wizard students on the subject of Boggarts.
Traditionally, boggarts appear in English folklore as either household spirits who have 
been wronged and then turn to mischief, causing such things as milk to sour, things to disappear, dishes to break, the family dog or horse to go lame, and so forth. Or, they could be malevolent spirits inhabiting marshes or holes in the ground and responsible for much more evil doings, like missing children, misguided and lost travelers, etc.
In the Harry Potter stories, the boggarts are shapeshifters who hide in wardrobes, closets, and other places, and who feed on negative human emotions, then emerge to take the shape and form to become whatever it is that someone fears most, which is why they are so terrifying – your greatest fear realized and standing 
right in front of you! Think spiders, snakes, your fifth-grade math teacher, and your crazy Aunt Martha. Boggarts would know and feed on someone’s negativity and deepest fears.
But, as it turns out, boggarts are rather easy to get rid of. At Hogwarts, the magic spell to make a boggart go away was to loudly and in a bold voice direct the magical charm word “Ridiculous!” at the boggart, combined with a proper flip of the wand while at the same time imagining the boggart in some way one found amusing. Then burst into unrestrained laughter. Imagine crazy Aunt Martha in a bright purple, polka-dot clown costume with a pink cotton candy hairdo, and then burst into side-splitting laughter!
Laughing at the imagined image was most important, leaving no negative or fearful emotions in your mind for the boggart to feed upon. Stripped of all power then, the
harmless boggart would simply disappear, embarrassed and humiliated in retreat.
Even with non-magical folk like us (i.e. ‘Muggles’ in the stories), it can seem as though we are bothered by Boggarts from time to time in our lives, as well.
Negative feelings and fears come into our minds, increasingly occupying our daily thoughts and nightmares until they become living obsessions; for all intents and purposes our own personal boggart feeding on our greatest negative emotions, anxieties, and fears, making our lives miserable as they grow ever more powerful and in control.
Please don’t let the Coronavirus and news transform into your personal boggart. The 
Daily News, Sheltering-In-Place, and Social-Distancing can be stressful, but do not let it all generate negative emotions and fears to feed a boggart, enabling it to put dark clouds over your days or cause anxiety and sleepless nights. Don’t feed the boggarts with negative thoughts.
Follow the example of the Hogwarts students and send your fears and boggarts packing. Recognize negative emotions and fears as the ridiculously agonizing tormentors they are, and banish them with positive thoughts and laughter.
We all need to stay informed with the news but do we need to hear the same thing repeated six, twelve, or more times a day, the same dire reports and doomsday
predictions over and over and over again drummed into our minds? No, we don’t.
Because that is when it becomes a negative obsession driving our thoughts and emotions, pulling us down, and transforming into a boggart before our very eyes and stripping us of all our happiness.
We may not have a magic wand, but we do each have a remote control with a quite magical “OFF” button. Please, don’t be afraid to use it to preserve your peace of mind and happiness. Twenty-four-hour news access is not necessarily a good thing. Certainly not for happiness and peace of mind. So, switch off. We are much better served enjoying Mickey Mouse and Road Runner cartoons!
The times are trying and challenging enough on their own, without dwelling on 
negativity and imagined fears every moment of the day, adding bothersome boggarts to the mix, pulling us into an ever-darkening misty fog while also diminishing our resistance, hopes, well-being, and immunities. Our thoughts can indeed make us sick.
Whenever uncomfortable thoughts enter your mind, bust out with a resounding – “Ridiculous!” Then laugh out loud at it all. Laugh at yourself and at the pure silliness of you blurting out “Ridiculous!” for all to hear. Laugh about the thought of others hearing you. Then laugh about them laughing. And then laugh some more. Laugh, smile, enjoy it, and feel better.
Laughter, together with a positive attitude, truly is the best medicine!
If we didn’t like a song playing on the radio back in the day, we simply changed the 
channel. Same thing! Simply change your thoughts and switch the channel.
Happiness is always only ever one thought away.
Laugh, Smile, Laugh Again – and you will feel instantly better – 99¾% guaranteed!
For information on How to Protect Yourself & Others from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), simply tap the link.
Our very best wishes and health to you and yours!
Take Care, Stay Well, Laugh, and by all means — Live In The Moment and Be Happy! –- Jim (and Red!)
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“The person who was holding me back from my happiness was me.” – Keanu Reeves
“Pain results from a judgement you have made about a thing. Remove the judgement and the pain disappears.” – Neale Donald Walsch
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“No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” – Sheryl Crow
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“Remember, what you “feel” and what is “real” are often very different.” – Eddie Capparucci
So began the song of the same name by the Eurythmics back in 1983. I always loved that song and still do. There was just something mesmerizing about the voice and style of Annie Lennox that set the song apart at the time.
What brought it to mind is that we are expected to receive a good bit of rain over the next few days, three to four inches in our neck of the woods they are saying. That can be a lot all at one time here in the Midwest. The last time it rained on a Saturday night a few weeks ago we had a two-and-a-half-hour power outage that started before the rain even arrived. I think the power lines grew overly anxious just hearing about it, somewhat highly strung as they are.
Supposedly, the baseline for converting inches of rain to snow is that one inch of rain equals about ten inches of snow, subject to vary with the amount of moisture, temperature, etc.
Simply using the general baseline as our guide though, that means that if it were cold enough to support snow, it being early January after all, that we could receive up to forty inches of snow instead. Yikes! That would certainly shut things down for a while. Personally, with apologies to the snow bunnies in the crowd, I will take the rain at this point.
Back in the day and maybe before many readers were born, Karen Carpenter sang about how “Rainy days and Mondays always get me down!” A beautiful song, as so many were by The Carpenters.
B. J. Thomas sang a different, more upbeat tune than the others. Butch Cassidy fans please feel free to sing along —
“Raindrops keep falling on my head,
But that doesn’t mean my eyes will soon be turning red,
Crying’s not for me,
‘Cause, I’m never gonna stop the rain by complaining,
Because I’m free,
Nothing’s worrying me.”
So then, how do you feel about rainy days? Love ’em? Or not so much, perhaps? Please take a moment to share your thoughts about rainy days!
Here in the backwoods with my story friend Little Red Bear, we always try to look for the good to be found in any situation, rainy days notwithstanding. Excluding torrential downpours, floods, and hurricanes, of
course, of which I have seen my share over the years. We are merely talking about your run-of-the-mill, overcast, grey skies, rainy days here today.
You know the sort. The cozy by the fireplace, pull-up-a-blanket and take a nap on the couch kind of days.
For me, everything just seems to go at a more relaxed pace when the clouds darken and heaven’s sprinkler is turned on for gentle and refreshing rains. The pit-pat-pit on the windowsill. The “splack” sound of raindrops falling on dry autumn leaves still lingering on the ground. (Little Red Bear is a master with a fishing pole in his paws, but just try to get him to stand still long enough to put a leaf rake into them.) A cup of tea or hot cocoa and a good book. Conversations with friends and family. Many folks seem to be more at ease and open on a rainy day, like the rain sort of smooths out the wrinkles and sharp edges. Have you noticed that, too?
On a particularly good day, maybe even a batch of cookies or brownies baking in the oven. I can almost smell the chocolate chips now, just thinking about it!
For those who would enjoy a nostalgic break while munching on a cookie at this point, or for those maybe new to Annie Lennox and the song mentioned above, here ya go. Newbies can have a cookie, too. We’re all-inclusive here.
A rainy day inspired this fun little piece whilst reading about Harry Potter and his friends a few years ago . . . .
Walking home I encountered a Muggle.
The wee Muggle seemed stuck in a Puddle.
Working quickly I soon had him outed.
Then running on he turned back and shouted-
“Thanks, mate, for the break but I am rather late.
So sorry for the bother and trouble!”
“No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.”
Having nothing to do with rainy days directly, but still sort of in a “Saving For A Rainy Day” kind of way, this wonderful quote has been variously attributed to Abraham Lincoln, James Dobson, Danny Thomas, and others. My feeling is that if any of them did not actually
say it, each certainly could have.
Such a lovely sentiment and meaning, applying not only to children but also the spirit of bending over and lending a helping hand to anyone struggling or in need. Stuck in one of life’s puddles, perhaps.
And isn’t that what we are all truly here for, to help each other?
“Let each of you look not only to his own interests but also to the interests of others.” — Philippians 2:4
Thank you always for visiting and spending part of your day with us here! What can you do today to reach out and help ease another’s burden?
Lend an umbrella, perhaps? — Jim (and Red!) 🤠 🐻
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“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” – John Holmes
“The only thing I shall want for a rainy day will be my umbrella.” – Agatha Christie
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“Into each life, some rain must fall. The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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