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  How is that turning out for you? Things may not seem like they always turn out for the best. . . but sometimes we don't see very far either.      ~ MGSK   Now and again I wonder why my prayers aren’t answered, why I don’t get what I’ve been hoping for, for so long.   Why, Why, Why, then I remember the ant.   There once was an ant.   He was strong, and capable and worked very, VERY hard.   Day in and out, he did his job, whatever that may be.   Lifting 10x his own weight, climbing a huge wall and facing traps, and enemies and dangers. Still, it seemed like he just never knew what was coming.   There were so many things that he had to look out for.   IF he just had some vantage point that could see further than he could, well, life would be simple!   He could plan better, and react better, and be just al together a better . . . ant.   I happened to see this fellow, he was trudging across the divide...

There Will Always be Something "Out of Place"

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 There Will Always be Something "Out of Place"    This is my living room after my mother died.  No before you go all judgy on me, my mother was SUPER organized.  Things were labeled and filed and in binders.  Her passwords were in a file, her financials were in a book, her trust was done, and her will in place.  Even her funeral spot was paid for as well as the funeral itself.   That said. . . well, you can see the mess.   To be fair, WE made the mess.  In going through boxes and boxes and files up on files, we had to determine what needed to be kept and what could be tossed.  We got it down to about 30 storage boxes, 25 of which are still in storage five years later.  Maybe it is a mess, or maybe it is joyful, s a life is remembered and revisited.  We are like that, no matter if you are a minimalist and have one decorative bowl on your spotless grey table, or a hoarder-t0-be, who can't even part with a tissue bo...