Day: May 11, 2026

Daily Gratitude 5-11-26

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May 11th, 2026

  • I am proud of my self-care because it is an expression of the love I have for myself.
  • I am grateful for all the positive memories I hold in my mind.
  • Thank you to the younger people in my life who have taught me joy, playfulness, and kindness.
  • Thank you to the older people in my life who have taught me patience, resilience, and aging with grace.
  • I am grateful for the journey, not the destination.

My Musical Life 5-11-26

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May 11th, 2026

#26 In the Year 2525 (Zager & Evans) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a thing to chew
Nobody’s gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin’ limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin’ to do
Some machine’s doin’ that for you
In the year 6565
You won’t need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube🪄
In the year 7510
If God’s a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He’ll look around Himself and say
Guess it’s time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He’ll either say I’m pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again🪄
In the year 9595
I’m kinda wonderin’ if man is gonna be alive
He’s taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain’t put back nothing🪄
Now it’s been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it’s only yesterday🪄
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find

My Abundant Life 5-11-26

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May 11th, 2026

The Tao of Homecaring

“Time to dust again. Time to caress my house, to stroke all its surfaces. I want to think of it as a kind of lovemaking…the chance to appreciate by touch what I live with and cherish.”

Gunilla Norris (Author; 1939)

“One of its main themes is unity, based on yielding rather than resisting. (‘Tao is eternal without doing, and yet nothing remains undone.’) When a seeker commits to the Way she sheds her expectations, becoming an empty vessel to be filled to the brim with both the yin and yang, the opposite male and female energies of life…”

“By reflecting on the way in which our life proceeds day in, day out. What works, what doesn’t. As we pause to reflect before doing, come to an awareness of how the nature of all things—even the minutiae of the domestic sphere—contributes to the harmony of the Whole.”

“Naming is the origin of all particular things…mystery and manifestation arise from the same source.”

Lao-Tzu (Chinese Philosopher; 571 B.C.)

“Drudgery can be transformed, through a willing and open heart, into labors of love.”

“…begin to call it ‘homecaring’. Redefining our work casts a subtle but powerful spell over the subconscious mind.”

“…regard the samll as important…to make much of the little.”

Lao-Tzu (Chinese Philosopher; 571 B.C.)

“Homecaring for me is a loving act I have done all my life. It is my love language, just ask my aunties how many times I have reorganized their kitchen spice cabinets.”

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 155 to 157 of 501.

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