Still Learning

There’s good in being still, learning to trust more, fret less.  I’m settling into the  calm embedded in this slower pace.  All is well until I move too far into the future, then fret turns into frantic. So, I take a deep breath, no small gift, and plop myself back into the present.  Sometimes I have a talk with  myself, might as well, nobody else is around.  I say, “You’re a big girl.  Stop whining.  Trust the only One who really knows the future(plus Dr. Fauci) and make the most of today.”

For me, making the most  of each day includes a lot of reading.  Yesterday, my sister-in-love, Chris, linked me to  Louise Penny’s newsletter, from which I learned a new word.   Try saying “paraprosdokian” while watching the evening news. According to author, Penny, “Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected and is frequently humorous.  Winston Churchill loved them.”

For example from Penny’s newsletter:

1.”Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.”

2.”If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.”

3,”You  do not need a parachute to skydive.  You only need a parachute to skydive twice.”

4.”Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.”

5. “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.”

6.”Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

7.”Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

Or read what they’ve written.

Still learning.

 

 

 

 

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