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When I gave up consuming animal products roughly 12 years ago, I slowly started to view creatures differently and certainly with more respect. One day, a fly came into my flat and persistently buzzed my ear as I tried to concentrate on finding the right words for something unimportant I was writing. Out of nowhere, I suddenly snapped at the fly, "Go away, Bob...you're bugging me." I don't know why I said that, but from that day, I always refer to flies that visit me in my flat as Bob.

In reading your piece today, I suddenly realized how similar flies are to my feelings - similar to how Rumi referred to them in the poem you quoted. Like a fly, feelings sometimes arrive unwanted and with the sole purpose of creating some kind of internal warfare. Naming the feelings...just like naming the fly...helps restore a degree of sanity, and negative emotions seem to vanish like a dissolving fog.

Thanks for your words today.

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Oh I love this! Maybe it will help me be more patient with flies too. :)

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P.S. I love the concept of Bobb the Blob. So I am welcoming Tedd the Dread and his girlfriend Annie Angst today as I go for a medical test. They are going to sit on each side of me in the waiting room and make me smile to myself at how annoying and yet ineffectual they are as companions. I feel a little sorry for them! ;-)

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And of course prayers that the outcome of the tests is the best for your health and well being!

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Sending lots of love Lauren, medical tests are very stressful. I love these names, I may use them too!

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When I facilitate Enneagram workshops on personality types, I open with Oriah's "The Invitation" and "The Guest House" by Rumi. No one captures our idiosyncrasies like Oriah, Rumi and Hafiz. They know the stuff of which we are made.

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That is so true.

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I particularly loved this post!!! As well as the photos, so beautiful. 💟

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Thank you

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Glad you got a “spot” of sunshine 👍☀️. I saw Lezak’s post of the icy fog on rooftops 😳

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My friend saw it at like 4:30 AM and went out driving about to take photos of Christmas lights in the fog. I cuddled myself right up in my nice warm bed, lol.

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Karen, you have done it again. A wonderful connection with nature and your personal journey that in some incredible ways connects with my own. You are a special gift. Thanks for sharing your journeys.

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Thank you Uncle Bill!

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I love the pictures and poem ~ Karen I was doing wonderful with gratitude ~ and then Friday morning I woke up in pain~ my back was throbbing ~ and then UTI~ I called the Dr. Office when they opened~ went in~ the Doctor came in and started talking ~my back was really painful I’ve seen uro gynecologist twice and now two different Doctors ~my primary looked at me and said “ Cathy this isn’t you ~it’s just your body~ nothing you’ve done could have prevented this” I don’t cry easily but broke down so embarrassed for crying~ it’s ok cathy just get it out she said ~ my spouse got me Kleenex and just said it’s ok! I am so tired of trying to stay healthy and yet I am not doing good at the moment. I’ve given blood and urine to be cultured to see if it is my kidneys ~ I am on antibiotics spasms pills and pain pills~ which I am grateful for~ there I said it grateful~ But this is a long list of things happening ~ I just feel so discouraged ~ you have to believe me when I say your picture help me your words help me~ you I am grateful for~ thank you Karen❤️

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Oh Catherine, what you're going through is so hard. I am grateful you have a supportive doctor and Kary and what you are going through is hard and discouraging. Sending you much much love. Your dragon is a tough one.

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This is so rich--thank you! The closing photo, the sun captured in the hoar-edged leaf... just good to look at for a very long moment. Thank you!! I've been putting off actually PAYING for your beautiful offering to the world, because I am misguided enough to think I have a budget. But, as my mother would say (but NEVER about "budget," so I'll grow her a bit and paraphrase): "budget be hanged!" So, I'm going to do that now... my Sunday contribution to "peace."

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Thank you Alison! I truly know how hard it is out here, there are SO MANY to follow. I've been meaning to switch mine to yearly on yours and after your poetry post this morning I knew I wanted to get that done. Thank you so very kindly.

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Each time I read one of your posts, I feel sustained. You truly are spreading Peace, something I am seeking out even more in the coming while. It's so important. And it happens best in the small and internal ways--as you do here. Which is the only real way it can happen on a larger scale. I do believe!

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Thank you so much for sharing the Voyage of Wisdom...yes, "We have the chance to do it right"

Wishing you continued Peace and Contentment

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Thank you Steven

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I love the concept of Bobb. I too have realised that mindset is now a big part of my healing. I need to let go of the physical person I was and accept who I am now. And see value and gifts in that person.

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Yes yes yes. (I think I heard it on a podcast or something to name it and I find it helpful!)

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Oh and I love Rumi and loved your pictures… love you 😍❤️

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Thank you Sharon, I love you too!

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I was thinking it was a Chatty Kathy doll … that’s only one I remember 😂😂😂😂😂

My minister friend always said Acceptance was key….

I back in the day I thought I had seasonal disorder and even contemplated buying a “light box”😳😳😂😂

Then the summer of 100 degree heat and I got so depressed because no matter how much I watered my flowers and grass the heat just sucked the life out of everything I realized that no…. Not seasonal 😂😂😂😂 just not my idea of perfect summer weather…. We have been thankful for rainy cloudy weather this fall here in Texas after our drought filled summer too… feels like we lived in the desert this summer and now it’s monsoon season 👍☔️☔️

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As I think about that doll I really wonder who bought it for me! It was so snarky! Ha - I have a "happy light", I just forgot to get it out. but just now I saw the sun peek through the clouds so yay! (after freezing fog this morning)

Perhaps it's just human to long for things to balance out.

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