Caravan Day

It has been a busy few days getting the house ready to put on the market and today the Realtors Caravan came and saw the "staged" house with sparkling clean windows, floors, no evidence of pets, and an apple cinnamon aroma wafting - thanks to my own stove top brew. I am hiding out at a friend's house with the dog. Good news - there is a real showing at 5:30pm with prospective buyers. The news today says there has been an uptick in house buying and the $8000 home credit is still going on for first time buyers. So a few prayers and we shall see.

Sunday

Looking for help to find my way home. Going to say my prayers for peace, joy on this earth, and purpose and direction. There is a part of every Mass when the priest asks God to "keep us from all anxiety" and I am just amazed at how much anxiety I can crowd into a day. My latest device for crowding it out is a prayer to the angel St. Raphael who is charged with handing out love and joy. I'm bothering him a lot.

Cool Fall

New Words

Neologism is a noun meaning new word. BenjaminFranklin did create new words. I have been reading a biography written by Walter Isaacson in which he notes several of Franklin's word creations dealing with his work with electricity. The words he coined: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor.

Saturday, YES, Sept 26 and Rain! Rain! Rain!
Waiting and waiting without ANXIETY. Ha! That is not true. When you are waiting to hear if you got the job you applied for there is no waiting without anxiety. It creeps up on you, wakes you up, overtakes your brain when you are driving, pushes out your determined upbeat thoughts and tries to swamp you with negativity. Then somehow you force yourself to get lost in a book so those sneaky anxietous thoughts can't grab your brain.
I know "anxietous" is not a word but Ben Franklin made up some words that later became real words. I will look that up and find out what they were and post them later.