My WORD for 2026.
I know quite a few bloggers, well and 'normal' people who don't lay their lives out on pages online, who pick a word to concentrate on for the coming year.
Since I have never make resolutions or for that matter given up anything up for Lent, I've always thought such 'business' is really no one-elses' 'BusYness' and shouldn't need to be shared.
After this year I am definitely angst-ing for some actual ENDURANCE.
I think there might be a few others out there 'Up to their eyeballs' in wishing for Endurance.
Yes, Endurance... a loaded historical word for sure.
WWII Phillipines, Borneo or New Guinea?? Dad couldn't remember.
Defintion: AI overview- Endurance is the ability to withstand hardship, stress, or fatique and continue a difficult activity or situation over a long period essentially meaning the power to last or keep going despite challenges.
Challenges, enduring personal challenges yes, but THIS?
Now, since I'm not a runner, distance walker, or even exerciser, I'm simply a doer. I DO my own chores: cut grass, trim bushes, garden, shop for groceries, plant, paint, scrape, shovel, reuse, recycle, shop in thrift stores, run a little business and more, etc. When you do all those things you don't need to exercise. \
I even clean my own house, do my own windows (inside anyway)-we popped for exterior washers this year for the first time, because of ladders. And, this year we are going to paint the inside of our home.
So I don't really have to worry about physical endurance, I just take on everything carefully.
So endurance for or from what: Yep, what we don't talk about in blogging world. Enduring the big fricking Elephant disrupting the planet. Yes, our country disrupting ourselves and the entire planet.
And, I'm not talking about global warming...crap maybe I should, it's going to be in the 70-80's this week for half the country---and it's January?????Yes, global warming IS REAL. Endure it!
How about our current Global Standing...?
Lokken Denmark pre-1920.
My Norwegian and Danish relatives are laughing at us, daily. They certainly have been given enough material every single day.
How about the source? It's our dysfunctional Democracy...? If we can still call this a Democracy?
And the victims, what about all our marginalized citizens scrambling to figure out how they are going to afford health care, food, and housing?
Never in my almost 79 years have I ever lived in a country totally falling apart...and no one doing nothing to stop it.
My gosh, I lived through the Vietnam war protests of the 60's..., the oil crunches in the 70's, later with inflation twice, three or more times the cost of living.
(My hubby was a teacher with 29 credits toward his Masters's and our kids were eligible for free lunches in 1977-1978.) Talk about enduring...but never was it as stressful as it is today.
We all have heard, "This too shall pass"... I just don't think I will live long enough for the current damage to really pass or resolve itself.
Princely Youth and Dervish, by Riza Abbasi; Isfahan, Iran, Safavid period.
The 'Shall pass' phrase has historical origins in medieval Persian Sufi Poetry.
Also as a recurring theme in Jewish folklore, and the stories of King Solomon. Even, Second Corinthians 4:17-18 Paul rumbles on about this too shall pass...promising the suffering-- everlasting life, if they endure.
Even Abraham Lincoln used 'it shall pass' in a lengthy speech when he lost an early political race.
Personally, since I 'm such a history nut, such phrases, teachings, as well as scriptures were designed to convince those on the bottom of the 'food chains'...that their was hope for their pitiful futures. Giving them 'blessings' and even 'more promises' that to endure their misery long enough they would either survive or die and be better off then.
So here we are, collectively enduring? Normally I like to do things with a modicum of Grace...but enduring with one's teeth clenched shut is really the worst, and kinda gives you a miserable outlook on life, also not too good for one's health or State of Mind.
Not only that, everyday there is a NEW
SOMETHING to ENDURE.
So teeth clamped shut, hissing, choking on it, ...I will try and practice ENDURANCE!
We could all hope it ENDS sooner than later.
Maybe my second word should be
HOPE!
Thanks for visiting, all conversation and comments are welcomed. If we don't solve this together soon where will we be...?
I think the world, the planet......is up to their eyeballs with that vacuous void of stupidity who holds the highest office in the land! Was it only a year ago he took over the kingdom and sat on that tacky, fake gold, throne of his and started to dish out all manner of evil upon his subjects??!! It does seem eons ago. Endurance....a great deal will be called upon, I fear. As for hope, I look at the obituaries regularly, ever hopeful.....well, he is venerable and has lost quite a few marbles. Deary, deary me, look what I have become. I will now return to my mostly gracious self. =) Take care, Sandi. The world is pulling for all you sensible Americans.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on loosing my 'grace', but never in my long life have I had such awful feelings toward another human being. Hugs, and thanks for your viewpoint, Sandi
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