Daily 5 - Day 237

Today's Daily 5:

1. There is artwork hanging on my walls
2. Dinner at The Olive Garden with a new friend
3. The brief moments of quiet snatched here and there
4. The quote about butterflies that I posted earlier tonight
5. words flowing, a little, as I seek to process the challenges life has thrown at me over the last month or so

The Stuff of Butterflies

I came across this quote tonight, on a perpetual flip calendar of quotes that I've had for ages, but only pulled out of a box recently, and rarely remember to actually flip.

"If I have inside me the stuff to make a cocoon, maybe the stuff of butterflies is there, too."  (Trina Paulus)

I know I have the stuff of cocooning inside me, especially these days as I find myself again wandering through some particularly challenging family and life circumstances.  It was some-how hopeful to me tonight to remember that from a cocoon emerges a transformed being, a butterfly, and to pause and consider that maybe even in this crazy stuff of life, there is a transforming power at work, and beauty waiting to emerge.

Trying not to be Crabby

I'm working on not being crabby. 

Not all that successfully.

Totally bad mood.

Frustrated with my job (and stressed as this conference draws closer and things aren't getting done.)

Still not sleeping hardly at all.

And frustrated with my living situation, and the regression it's causing in my health and moods and energy levels.

So, working on not being crabby.

without a lot of success.