Serenity Now

I don't know about you guys, but I am afraid to watch the news these days. I try to keep up on what is happening in the markets and the big bail out etc. Oil prices. Hurricanes. The campaign for president... and I walked into the house last night from my event in Enumclaw feeling totally deflated. I was listening to talk radio on my 45 minute drive home. I heard the partisan parties blaming the other for the problems we are having on Wall Street. I heard one guy honestly put out the idea that if the Democratic candidate was a white man, then there wouldn't be a close race. That idea sounded ridiculous but who knows what the rest of the nation may think... I think he called it the "Bubba vote" . I thought... "we are in the hands of idiots... where people are still thinking like "Bubba" and the smart people on Wall Street aren't so smart; only greedy." All I could think of was that I was glad that I believed in God because if not for believing in God... I didn't think there was much to hope in. So, what do you do besides pray? How does a person not think about these things? Dave said maybe we should be ignorant and be in bliss. That didn't sound like a good idea. Sounds nice but a responsible person can't just ignore what is happening... since that is how we get into these things to begin with. I feel powerless. Most of us are just a spectator even though what has happened will affect our lives for a very long time. And I am not sure we have seen the worse of it yet.

So let me tell you a little about our weekend. Number one, it was raining hard on Saturday and it has been cool. Our first stop was to have dinner so we stopped in our at one of our favorite places in North Bend before going to the B&B.



Below is the fireplace in the North Bend Bar and Grill that we sat next to while having our dinner. It looks not only Northwestern put like Autumn so I thought I would include it in my post today.



We stayed at the Roaring River Bed and Breakfast. On the property there is a fishing cabin that they have fixed up and decorated with a fisherman theme. Unfortunately, my camera isn't working well but these were the best photos that I could come up with to show you. Below is a picture of the front door. When you step into the cabin there is a kitchen which you see here and a small living room with a pot belly stove. There is also a bathroom, a small bedroom, and a loft. Six people can stay there; 2 in the bedroom, 2 in the sofa bed, and two in the loft.

Below is a corner of the little bedroom. The lighting wasn't good... my camera isn't good. But you can see that they decorated with a country cabin theme.
I know that I sounded pretty depressed with the thoughts at the opening of this post. What we are going through is real and we should be feeling something; anger, confusion, depression etc. I also know that we "live between the lines"... the small moments that happen while we are living out our day. We can create, we can dream, we can laugh, we can have tea, we can pray, look at sunrises and sunset, we can "smell the roses", and we can visit each other. Have a day where you stop and realize those moments. HUGS