Fall Fashion Tips.....

Have you been seeing it in people's faces? Have you been reading about it in people's blogs? People are on edge. Tolerence is low and ranting is high. People are on edge. It is like the entire world is waiting for the other shoe to drop. People are tired. We watch the tv and we cry. We read about how our fellow bloggers have been effected by things and we cry or we worry. Things that have not irritated me before irritate me now. Stupid things.

Some of those kind of things have been going on over at Lorna's. I am ashamed to admit that I was pissed off by something that a commenter left on her blog. Someone that does know even know her. I was even madder about how it was done and why it was done. It was not done to patiently teach someone the way...it was done to poke at someone. Then Lorna responded in such a gracious wonderful way that I was stopped in my tracks. That made me stop and think. I can only speak for myself, but I write on my blog to record certain thoughts that I have, things that happen and how I sometimes see the world. I have really tried to avoid the politics and a lot of my personal life. However, I am working on some things that will touch on that. But my blog is written primarily for myself. Who ever jumps on the wagon and reads my stuff is appreciated and welcome. However, I do not blog to entertain the masses.....only myself. But I have come to realize that we, as bloggers who have readers, do have alot of responsibility to the people in ours lives. That includes the people in our lives that have skin on that we can touch daily with our fingers, as well as, people we touch daily with our words. People on the net tend to forget that written words can kill just like spoken ones. Also, just because a word is written in a pretty manner....does not make it true.

Lorna turned the other cheek. She did not once but many times. She did so with a smile. She reminded me today of what a Lady is and how she acts. I think she reminded alot of us that today. Any arguements would have been totally appropiate but would not have have changed anything...or any small mind. So Lorna took the high road.

The reminder was also put to good use today. After Rach received a phone call from a woman that has called before, she came stomping into my office. Her words were, *Damn that Lorna!! Because of her I was nice on the phone to that lady!* Rach had every right to be rude to that woman...she is a pain in the butt has has demonstrated that talent of hers more than once. But Rach took the high road.

Teacher here at the office does the same thing. I told her this morning that she is my Jiminy Cricket. I will be totally worked up about something and get ready to put on my kick ass boots and go take care of business. I am stomping around about something that I am totally in the right over and Teacher will says something along the lines of *Some people are just not raised like we were and will not learn unless we teach them.* SWOOSH is the noise of the winds leaving my sails when I know she is absolutely correct. We have a *Take the pebble from my hand grasshopper* kinda relationship. I am grateful that she is in my life and is willing to teach me by her words and her actions. Teacher takes the high road.

Gracious words and turning the other cheek are the new kick ass boots. I wonder if they will fit me?