Finding The Good 💫

Chatting with my best friend yesterday, we discovered we both experienced a bad day this week. Sharing said feelings prompted the question of the day: how do we find the good? 🤔

The actual topic we were speaking of was The Daily (podcast) by The New York Times – the episode in question, on Ukrainian leader Zelensky, and his rise to power. What a story! 👀

Podcast aside (highly recommended!), when things are not going our way, how DO we get to the good things?

➡️ That night, my husband shared a timely quote, as we recapped our days:

“Every day something good happens: something works out well, quickly or easily; some pleasant surprise occurs; something interesting happens; a minor victory is achieved. Be sure to share your ‘something good’ [with family, children, each other] to know that life works out nicely…modeling the positive mindset” and helping those around you “to achieve that for themselves.” - Sara Chana Radcliffe

MY pleasant surprise today is about the novel I am reading aloud in class: Judy Blume’s Blubber. 📖 Two grade 5 girls are in trouble and have to rake their neighbor's yard one Saturday. 🍂 Punishment for putting raw eggs in his mailbox on Halloween night because they considered him grumpy and mean! As the hours pass, both girls need to pee but are mortified to ask the man to use his bathroom. Right there, in his yard, hidden by all his trees, they both go pee. 😳 My students were in stitches, laughing hysterically at this. What fun we had! 🥰

Instantly as a group we were bonding, and forgetting about all the baggage we carry with us. 🧳 🎒 All the heaviness in the world. 🌎 We were happy.

Thank you Judy Blume. 🙏🏽

Find the good. Even if it’s a cuddle from your fur baby. 🐾

Whatever it is.

And share it. We all need some good right now. 🌎