Hello.
Here are five things this week...
1. This Cat.
2. This Machine.
3. This Storm.
4. This House.
Life at a "Swell's" pace
Hello.
Here are five things this week...
1. This Cat.
2. This Machine.
3. This Storm.
4. This House.
Hello.
Here are five things this week.
1. This Photoshop.
Did you catch Antares near Venus this week (16), or the Full Hunter's Moon (19), or even the Orionids Meteor Shower (20)?
This quote is such a huge statement of why it's okay to feel what you feel. I grew up in a house where expressing certain emotions that I was feeling at the time was "wrong." I experienced so much emotional suppression that now as an adult it has taken me a long time to process those feelings and to make sure that I am feeling them correctly. Therapy has helped me navigate through that a lot and now I, not only express how I am truly feeling, I also am not afraid of saying "No," or cutting people out without feeling bad about it. Most of the people I cut out are people that no longer serve a positive purpose in my life. I do feel a bit sorry for them because they haven't figured out how to navigate through their own healing yet, but at this point in my life, I am no longer their doormat for that. But, expressing your thoughts, especially when you are hurt or upset is healthy and definitely something we all should get better at doing. As adults that were raised to not express emotion, or to stop crying, or to not be able to be mad when we are mad, it's hard to know when we should express those feelings correctly and at the right time. Kids should be encouraged to feel their feelings. If something is big to you, or hurts you, regardless of how others perceive it, feel your feelings, too. And, additionally, if you hurt someone, it is not your place to say whether you did or not. Let the person you hurt tell you how you hurt them and actually listen to them. Bitterness and betrayal can be avoided by actually listening to how you hurt them, saying you're sorry, and letting it go.
After watching the Stayton Ghost Tour and Historic Walk yesterday, we decided to take a hike around Silver Creek Falls to finish out the day. The leaves were changing for the season and the smell of autumn was all around us. The falls looks its best this time of year and it's one of my favorite places to hike in Oregon. Of course, with the pandemic there wasn't a lot of people out and about and it made the hiking that much more enjoyable for us.
This past Saturday, October 16, 2021, we participated in the Fourth Annual Stayton Ghost Tour and Historic Walk through the city at the historic Star Cinema in Stayton, Oregon. This ghost tour helps bring in money to support the Brown House in Stayton and the RDS-Revitalize Downtown Stayton.
Although, we were expecting a ghostly tour of the city, we got much more than that. The film was presented through the eyes of citizens that would have lived during that time period. Each character was based off an actual person that lived and thrived in the city of Stayton and all of the good, and sometimes the bad they brought to the area.
It was a great film and I definitely recommend it. This was the Fourth Annual Ghost Tour and Historic Walk, and the the first time we have attended, but we are definitely going to be returning for the next showing.