Please, Forgive Me.
No, not you. I’m not asking for your forgiveness, I’m reminding myself to forgive me.
I struggled with the idea of forgiveness for a very long time. I felt like it let the other person off the hook if I forgave them. I held on tight to the anger and resentment to be sure they didn’t get away with whatever I needed to forgive them for doing or saying. I have worked hard on this and can honestly say that my level of resentment is way lower than it has been in the past. I let go of the idea of “pay back.” The universe will take care of that and as they say,
“Karma is a bitch.”
What about forgiving myself? This was a foreign concept to me. I was aware that people do forgive themselves but had never considered doing the same for myself.
I think it’s time for me to do just that.
Hindsight is 20/20 and we all have thing we wished we had handled differently. I’m realizing that by holding on and not forgiving myself won’t make the things go away. Instead, it keeps them closer and I continue to carry the decisions I wish I had done differently.
So, “Marnie, I forgive you. The past is the past. You are doing great. Keep on trucking. The best is yet to come and the past cant come with you.”
Phew! I feel better. Thanks girl!
XX,
MG
TEA IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
MARKET STATS
Home sales maintained a healthy pace in May even as prices climbed to new record highs and mortgage interest rates edged further upward. Individual consumers and investment companies kept up demand, snapping up properties almost as quickly as they were listed. By the time the final closing of the month was tallied, volume of single-family home sales was down slightly under one percent compared to last year’s record pace. And thanks, in part, to an increase of new listings, housing inventory reached its highest level of 2022. (HAR)
HAPPENING IN HOUSTON
Houston has moved more than 25,000 homeless people directly into apartments and houses. The overwhelming majority of them have remained housed after 2 years.
The number of people deemed homeless in the Houston region has been cut by 63% since 2011. Houston did more than twice as well as the rest of the country at reducing homelessness over the previous decade. (NYT)
FESTIVE FOR THE 4TH I love this idea of freezing raspberries and blueberries in ice cubes for more festive 4th of July drinks! For more patriotic cocktail inspo, check out this list: 17 Red, White and Boozy Cocktails |
CURRENTLY I’M…
… reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens! A #1 NYT best seller, and a perfect, engaging summer read. I heard they are making it into a movie, too!