I live in Asheville and thanks to Helene, have a brand new, in my face, gratitude for clean, running water. When I think about how much water I use in a day and have to get the 5 gallon jugs, tote them to a distribution spot, stand in line, fill them up and tote them back to my car, suddenly I am intensely grateful that I did not grow up like my mother did, carrying water from the well as one of 15 children every day, multiple times a day.
How grateful I am that we had so much help to rebuild the road to our water treatment plants, muck them out, and get us back going again.
Thank you, Rebecca for reminding me that we can shift our focus and work with what we have.
My busy weeks just lead to a backlog that may never be done. I guess my failsafe system is trying to be okay with doing the most essential things and failing strategically on the rest. Also, practicing sincere gratitude for running water. I think about wells and hauling water in buckets nearly every time I run the tap. Our life is full of miracles like these. That helps. 🙂
I live in Asheville and thanks to Helene, have a brand new, in my face, gratitude for clean, running water. When I think about how much water I use in a day and have to get the 5 gallon jugs, tote them to a distribution spot, stand in line, fill them up and tote them back to my car, suddenly I am intensely grateful that I did not grow up like my mother did, carrying water from the well as one of 15 children every day, multiple times a day.
How grateful I am that we had so much help to rebuild the road to our water treatment plants, muck them out, and get us back going again.
Thank you, Rebecca for reminding me that we can shift our focus and work with what we have.
My busy weeks just lead to a backlog that may never be done. I guess my failsafe system is trying to be okay with doing the most essential things and failing strategically on the rest. Also, practicing sincere gratitude for running water. I think about wells and hauling water in buckets nearly every time I run the tap. Our life is full of miracles like these. That helps. 🙂
One side effect of appliances though is that standards change. Before washing machines, the expectation was for one clean shirt a week. Afterwards? 7.