The Sky is Blue

Fall is officially here Mamma's! Though here in SoCal, the 100+ temps make it difficult to start thinking of crisp apple cider, and turning leaves.....ahhhh, that makes me SO HOME SICK! I have lived in Southern California for 10 years now, and every Fall, I experience a yearning to be back East. Fall festivals, sweatshirts, cool brisk air, real football weather, I do so miss it.  But alas, it passes. The remainder of the year I am very content with my gorgeous SoCal weather. This is a new season for us.  My oldest has started college. He is still at home attending the local community college, so it is a weird hybrid state of adulthood.  "Mother, I am an adult....", "Mom, can you pick me up school supplies", "Mother, I can manage my own life?" "Hey Mom, whats for dinner??" It is strange, but I am grateful for the time with him.  I wasn't ready for him to leave yet.  I would have been a woman about it, had that been the outcome, but I am ...

To some this quote might sound like a call to perfectionism. I don't see a call to perfectionism, because I know that perfectionism is a futile quest.  I focus on the words "your good, your better, your best." Your good, better, best  is tempered with the boundaries you have put in place for yourself. It is sweetened with acceptance of yourself of others. It is made perfect, by operating under the peace that you will always   strive to make your good, better, and your better, best.   That is enough. That is just right actually.