Preserve Your Mind

May 9, 2025May 5, 2025 Jennifred Jones

News! World Events! Politics! Wars! Rumors! Gossip! YouTube! Instagram! AI!

I cannot keep up! Who said you’re supposed to?

It’s information overload. Knowledge of everything at our fingertips. So busy keeping up with the world we have no time to keep up with ourselves and our own families and communities.

I don’t think we’re intended to know and see everything. Why do we have to have an opinion on everything. Why do we need to hear everyone else’s opinion on everything and everyone? Our mind can only handle so much before it goes into stress mode. Don’t feel guilty because you aren’t ‘concerned’ about all the wars, death and sickness in other parts of the world. You are not being cold-hearted or uncaring. You are one person. You have your life and family and community. They are first and maybe only! We let go of much stress if we tend to our own immediate affairs and not jump on everyone else’s bandwagons hollering and waving concern.

There are many causes and needs hoping for support…your support. You cannot help everyone and meet all the needs clamoring for you. You need to say ‘no’ more than ‘yes’. Stay in your own lane and tend to your own – first and foremost.

Be at peace within yourself. Go outside and smell the fresh air. Look at all the spring flowers. Get a coffee with a friend. Sweep your own porch. Tidy up your place. Wash your car. Call a relative.

Let the rest of the world twirl on its own, while you stay in peace with your own.

‘I Just Don’t Care’

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 Jennifred Jones

This is why we need others…why we need to be the ‘others’ who call or stop by to check on them.

Every one of us has down times where we feel like giving up. ‘Forget it! Not Interested! Leave me alone! I quit!’

This is where us ‘others’ have to be alert and step in. Call your friend. Speak to the co- worker. Stop by the neighbors. Send flowers to somebody. Just say ‘hi, how’re you doing to a stranger’.

And when we’re at the place where – ‘I just don’t care anymore!’… we can ‘self-medicate’ by forcing ourselves to do something good and helpful for somebody else. Maybe don’t want to interact face to face but get outside. Sweep the walk, clean the garage, wash the window on the door, organize the junk drawer. Turn on some pretty music and light a candle. Make a cup of coffee. Read a good book and find something funny to laugh and laugh and laugh about.

These steps will pull us out of the land of the ‘I don’t cares’ faster than any therapy!

Let’s get moving, there’s work to be done, people to help and encourage and time is wastin’.

Maple Coffee

August 29, 2020August 26, 2020 Jennifred Jones

Off the beaten path .

Made a delicious ice-latte today…brewed up my regular strong organic Joe, filled the glass with ice, added a couple drops maple flavoring, poured in the coffee and topped it off with some whole milk.

Thought I was drinking a maple-iced long-horn doughnut!