I’m in the mood to share tonight. I know, I’m shocked too. Too many other things taking up space in my mind these days. Reading and posting have been relegated to the outer edges of life. Reading has been late at night, mostly, to help me go to sleep. It hasn’t been working very well, I have to say. On top of that, reading half the night doesn’t make for very productive days. And now my sleep rhythm is way out whack and I haven’t figured out how to fix it. Oh well, life still goes on.

The biggest contributor to all of this unrest is the move I made a few months ago. I wanted to make the move but a bigger part of me didn’t want to.

The war still goes on inside me. Not as violently as it did in the beginning so I will count that as progress, but it still raises it’s ugly head more often than I’d like. One of the friendly neighbors in my new place shared a bit of wisdom with me one day. He didn’t know what was gong on in my mind so it was an interesting thing for him to say. I can’t quote it like he did but basically it was this. Moving your stuff from one place to another doesn’t mean you have moved. You haven’t moved until your mind has accepted the new place.

I’m working on it. I’ve gradually stopped fighting it quite as much. Today while grocery shopping I even stocked up on baked goods so I could invite someone over for tea. I will freeze it all just in case my excuses make it take me forever to get to the next step.

Life hasn’t always been this way for me. I’m discovering that without warning life takes different twists and turns now and then. We begin to live through new and deeper challenges wondering what life will look like when we come out the other side. These are big questions for me and I have no answers yet.

In the meantime, I’m trying to live like I want to keep living. It’s working, mostly.

To help this along I’m keeping myself occupied with activities that require my whole attention.

That brings me to the needed change in book genre. I’ve been reading a suspense story that resonates with me and I love what they are doing for victims. The trouble is it stirs up buried memories that make me cry for reasons I don’t understand. I’m ok with that, releasing emotions can be helpful, but I feel the need to lighten up a bit. Today a bunch of sweet romance novels showed up in my feed. Several are authors new to me and after reading a few pages I want to give them a shot.

I’m looking forward to the distraction of these stories.

There are 16 books, this could take awhile!

I know by experience that I am not alone with what I’m going through right now, I’m hoping that what I’ve shared will be encouraging to someone going through their own challenges. I had no plans to go this direction with the post, it just happened. Maybe the someone needing to hear they aren’t alone is you. My thoughts are with you whoever you are.

To the rest, check out these stories. We all could use a little brightness in our life every now and then!

Happy reading!