Coming Together

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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.” – Gandhi

This weekend my kids and I went to a wedding. As we were going through the receiving line, the bride squatted down so that she could be closer to my 2-year-old son’s level. And when she squatted, he squatted.

As I laughed, I thought about how we mirror the people around us. Neuroscientist David Eagleman, says that who were are is shaped by the five people that we spend the most time with.

But lately the grown-up people I’m spending time with seem to mostly be feeling a general sense of despair about the US and the world. I feel like I’ve hit my saturation point of not being able to take in more bad news.

Then I stumbled on this paragraph from poet Mark Nepo, “I realize that, when things fall apart, they make a lot of noise. When things come together, they do so quietly and slowly. And so, we often miss them. Our culture is obsessed with how things fall apart. The news reports only the noise of things breaking down. The weather is even called Storm Watch. Yet things are constantly coming together, though we have forgotten how to hear them.”

That is when I turn to the WordPress community because unlike the news, I find people writing stories of things coming together all the time. Here are 5 posts that recently gave me joy and delight.

A touching story of kindness from Stuart Perkins of the Storyshucker blog: A Nugget of Kindness | Storyshucker

A researcher joke from the Candid Cerebrations blog: I stole this… – Candid Cerebrations

A beautiful walk through a garden with Rebecca from the Fake Flamenco blog: 5 Local July Flowers ‹ Fake Flamenco

A photographic trip to Venice from Natalie on The Hot Goddess blog – Silent Saturday Solo Sojourn – The Hot Goddess

Camping and Canada Fireworks from the view of a child from Ab and the My Life with T blog – Ignite the Night and Let It Shine – My Life With T

And those are just a few of all the wonderful and creative posts that make me laugh and inspire me.

Thank goodness for all you amazing bloggers that are writing posts about how life comes together. This is what I want to mirror and reflect.

What’s inspiring you this week?

25 thoughts on “Coming Together”

  6. Thank you for the shoutout, Wynne. It is most appreciated.

    And I absolutely agree with you. The news and media only report the sad news because as a society that is what sells papers and what generates clicks. We, myself included, can’t look away from the trainwrecks.

    But it’s so nice and reassuring to remember there are so much good happening in the world that don’t get written about and that’s why the blogging community is so wonderful.

    Thanks for helping spread the light!

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    1. You are so right – it’s hard to look away from train wrecks! But there are so many great, uplifting stories in the blogosphere and it’s so refreshing! Hope you enjoy a wonderful weekend!

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  7. Aw thanks Wynne! It’s an honor to make it on your list. I’m really glad you liked that terrible pun of a joke because it really is one of my favorites. There is really so much out there to despair about but I love that you want to mirror and reflect how life comes together despite all that. Which you totally do and I have often found comfort, inspiration and food for thought in your posts.

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  10. What a beautiful reminder in this post! A line from an old song popped into my head: ‘Somewhere the sun is shine, so honey don’t you cry, we’ll see a silver lining, the clouds will soon roll by.’ Thanks for sharing. I’ve noted those lines by Mark Nepo.

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