@shoelady60,

Good day in the ‘burgh and may this day find you doing well. 😎🎈💕Miss ya.

Sending Fall to you and Jake. 🎈🎈

@taci,

Good day in S. California we are still raining here in OZ. 😎🎈Welcome to October. 💕

Enjoy the day. 🎈😎

Sometimes we become so good at repairing things for everyone else that we forget to look up and notice our own roof is leaking.

We patch their troubles.
We carry their worries.
We stitch together what has come undone and help them find their way back to the path.

Meanwhile, the rain keeps falling in our own house.

There is kindness in helping others, but there is wisdom in knowing when it’s time to put down their needle and pick up our own.

Patty reminds us that self-care isn’t abandoning the people we love. It’s remembering that we are someone worth caring for, too.

You cannot spend your whole life repairing everyone else’s roof while standing beneath your own with a bucket.

Sometimes the person who needs your tender hands most…

is you.

There were years when it felt like something was always broken—a car, a plan, a dream, or simply my peace of mind.

But life taught me that you don’t quit just because things stop working the way you hoped they would. You pause, you pray, you figure out what you can, and then you try again.

Looking back now, I realize I wasn’t just learning how to survive difficult seasons. I was learning how to keep going.

Maybe that’s what resilience really is—not having an easy life, but refusing to give up on it.

❤️

Books have always reminded me that none of us are walking this journey alone.

Long before social media, I found comfort in the words of strangers who unknowingly helped me understand my own life. Their stories taught me empathy. Their honesty taught me courage.

That is one reason I treasure both reading and writing.

We all carry chapters that others cannot see. Some are filled with joy. Some are marked by grief. Some are simply seasons of becoming.

If a book, a journal, a poem, or a quiet thought has ever helped you feel understood, then you already know the gift words can give.

Perhaps that is why I continue to write.

Because somewhere, someone else’s story once helped me carry my own. ❤️

For everyone who has fought or is fighting this battle. For those who have survived and those who have not. This is for you. 💗

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