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Today is National Stress Awareness Day. I don\u2019t feel under a lot of stress, but that could be attributed to getting older and not caring about many things I used to fret over. Or, it could be that I\u2019ve gotten fairly adept at pushing stressors to the back of my mind, telling them to go away because, really, we have it pretty good here. That doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t a lot to stress about, yet I feel a need to save my energy for more important things\u2014or impending things we\u2019re unaware of. I used to wake up in the middle of the night in a panic, if I could sleep at all. I couldn\u2019t ever put my finger on it, but I kept having this impending feeling of doom. Sometimes I wonder if that wasn\u2019t the dawn of covid. Thankfully, those sleepless nights are more or less gone. It seems I\u2019ve always had a touch of anxiety, which has manifested itself in many ways over the decades\u2014and probably could explain my control freak nature. One thing I\u2019m trying not<\/em> to stress about is the election results in VA (buh-bye, 21st<\/sup> century; hello, 1950s). I try to understand other viewpoints, but I wrestle with the blatant hypocrisy. In order to keep stress at bay, I have to accept what is, but I had thought we learned our lesson from recent political events.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll take my comfort in the arrival soup-making season, and puzzle season\u2026although puzzle season started in April 2020 and never quite went away. After an incredibly difficult one that took me several weeks (blurry image of an old-time map of Bristol, England\u2019s, streets in small pieces), I\u2019m taking on a 500-piece gift from one of Hubby\u2019s brothers and which Hubby doesn\u2019t want to do (puzzle snob). Anyway, it\u2019s time to hunker down, to draw in, to slow things for winter and gather strength for 2022. Tempus fugit.<\/p>\n

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