If you haven't had a chance to read the paper or turn on the TV news, let me sum it up for you: Gas prices, flooding, droughts, shortages and market imbalances are all leading to one thing. Everything costs more and we're all going to die. (Then we won't be able to afford the funerals.)
So, on a Sunday morning, here's a post that will probably make me late for church but I hope will help us all enjoy our day a little bit more and get life back into perspective. Here are a few things that don't cost more:
- Smiling at a sunny day
- Smiling at a cloudy day
- Hugging your child and telling her you love her
- Hugging your husband/wife and telling him/her you love him/her (and this could lead to something fun and free)
- Reading good books from the library
- Reading good blogs (and bad ones)
- Praying
- Staying in touch with friends
- Not watching bad news on TV or elsewhere
- Taking a walk or run with your dog, who loves you more than anything
- Riding your bike
- Scratching your pet where it itches (was there ever such gratitude?)
- Getting "Keeping Up Appearances" DVDs from the library and laughing your head off because the terrible main character is based on my mother-in-law, only the terrible main character is nicer; laughter is good and helps to keep even wicked mothers-in-law in perspective
Feel free to add your own cheerer-upper.
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