peaceful reflections of townRight now life has been full of family stuff... time taken up over the past weeks with aunts and uncles who have been over visiting. Somehow it always sends my head into a spin, it fills up until it's about to burst, I stop being able to think logically and because you can't please everyone I end up pleasing noone.
Somehow it's all too easy to fall short of the expectations other people have of you, aswell as keeping up with the important bits in our lives - the kids and R and all the related activities and evening classes.
Seems that even when we're too tired or the brain is too full to think, there is still a capacity to feel and life has been full of feelings...
childhood feelings and adult feelings, and hundreds of different feelings, all mixed up together... till it's hard to say how you feel, because you just feel.... and to untangle them all sometimes seems almost pointless, because they change so often, and maybe just to go with the flow... focus on what can be done, and hope they untangle on their own, is all we can do...
So often food and meals have helped... even the good old cup of tea comes to the rescue.... an answer to many things... offerings of food and drink, time and company, are healing I guess....
so I'm off to shop and cook in anticipation of family visitors tomorrow...
and to search out peace in the every day...
4 comments:
family is complicated....there's absolutely no way of getting around it. I think perhaps it is because our feelings do get stirred up and bounced around together.....the feelings from childhood and adulthood and every thing in between......the roles we play and the expectations and perceptions we have of one another.
I am always exhausted after familial gatherings.
may you find that elusive peace, Katie....... :)
Thanks Dana, have had a similar coversation with a friend tonight...it just is exhausting and trying... there should be some let up by the weekend I hope...:)
Beautiful reflective photo Katie. Family can be beautiful and full of feelings at the same time. Wishing you peace.
Thanks Jayne
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