Dear Folks,
Since moving to our new home, 3813 Graham Sherron Road, I have found better ways of applying this Soul Food prescription more consistently and faithfully, with greater regularity.
"Rx: one hour qd, doing something solo that you enjoy" (7th July 2014)
Dr. Williams Prescription for me: "I want to continue to encourage you to find a way to get some time for yourself to feed your soul. That is important for you and also for your family, to see that you are not the indispensable one. I do understand that on a practical level this is difficult. But I do think it is worth pursuing." (Spring 2015)
Gardening: Working in our garden has been most gratifying. Too, I seem to relax more.
Reading: I have been working on getting more time to read articles, visiting Facebook and pulling articles of interest to me. My Facebook Friends are interesting, from all walks of life, and do me the unwitting service of saving me from having to ever surf the Internet to find the best of the best articles in just about every field. I have Statist or Leftist friends, Conservative Friends, Back-to-Nature/Homesteading Friends, High Tech IT Friend, Environmentalist/Energy Conscious Friends, Theological Friends, and Musically Oriented Friends Galore.
Prayer time. I have been working on getting more consistent prayer time, and this has been a deep, rewarding pleasure.
Property Perusal and Planning: Walking around the property has been a source of deep and abiding joy for me. I size up the trees, assess and memorize the boundaries, and decide where I will put what particular buildings and other structures in the future, such as fencing, tree houses (a major planning investment), walkways, benches, large trees, small herb/shade flower gardens, koi pond, Rock Garden, covered Picnic table, berry garden, vegetable garden, badminton and volley ball court, more benches, horseshoe pitts, baseball hitting cage and small zoysia grass field for throwing baseball, juggling and frisbee.
This house is the only home we have ever lived in that every member of the family likes and intends to make a permanent home for our current Long Yang Family. Living in a permanent home makes all the difference in the world when you walk around assessing the property's potential. Planning takes a lot of thought, and I love being involved in this development. It is a rich stewardship pleasure of participation in optimizing the potential of this property.
Joue au Bicyclette: Biking is a deep and abiding pleasure and joy for me.
1. Source of Fears: Try to discover the sources of your wife's fears. I call these (SOFs), and have been listing them over time, as I discover them.
2. Soul Food: Get one hour per day to yourself. If you cannot do one hour, do thirty minutes. (I assume this means something like walking, stretching, or reading, if it is not an assigned text, to do something I enjoy. I assume biking with Ashley does not count, even though we do not talk much while biking . . . not sure.)
7th July 2014 quote "Rx: one hour qd, doing something solo that you enjoy"
Follow-up a year later, Dr. Williams Prescription for me: "I want to continue to encourage you to find a way to get some time for yourself to feed your soul. That is important for you and also for your family, to see that you are not the indispensable one. I do understand that on a practical level this is difficult. But I do think it is worth pursuing."
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