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Living & Loving Life: “This Too Shall Pass”

By Dale Brown, B.S., M.A., C.E.C. healthy lifestyle. Dale, a Bocaire resident, can be reached recent event of police brutality has contributed further to
Dale is a motivational speaker who at dalebrown@lovingmondays.com. people’s anguish, where peaceful protests have led to more
has spent many years as a Certified “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” You violence. The country is exhausted. It’s tired of disunity,
Life Coach and has written numerous may recognize this quote as being the first two lines from tired of political divisiveness, and tired of feeling a loss of
articles and e-books relating to “A Tale of Two Cities,” a novel written by Charles Dickens control. It’s as if the life we once knew is slipping through
self-improvement and ways to build in 1859. The words came to my mind as a parallel to the our fingers and we find ourselves rendered helpless.
a high-performance team. Her current events of our country. Although the setting for the Yet, amidst this chaos and confusion, there is good news
education and years of experience book is much different, it’s the dichotomy between light to be celebrated. America launched SpaceX’s first historic
in physical fitness and training of and dark that we have in common with this poignant book. mission, which came off without a hitch. What made this
elite athletes has enabled her to sharpen her knowledge The worst of times is easy to see, right before our eyes. so remarkable is the fact that it was the first human manned
in many health-related areas. The following is one in a We are in the midst of a global pandemic, the likes of spacecraft to leave U.S. soil since 2011 without the use
series of columns devoted to many topics that deal with which has taken too many lives and left the living trying of Russian space rockets. It may seem futuristic now, but
the mind/body connection and the importance of living a to adjust to wearing masks and social distancing. The most space travel may soon become a much sought-after travel
destination.
If these are not the very best of times now, they may be
forthcoming. When I was growing up my mother was our
Endless indulgence. make me sad or discouraged, she would say, “Don’t worry,
Pollyanna (the forever optimist). If something happened to
something good always comes out of something bad.” Of
course, as a kid you can’t see that far ahead, and breaking
Every day. up with your childhood sweetheart could be devastating at
the time. Yet, you live and learn this, too, shall pass and

there are better times ahead.
I think of her words now as we struggle to deal with
the new “normal.” There will be changes that emerge from
these dire events and modifications in the way we do things.
We might not like the new normal at first but life-altering
incidents bring about change, whether we like it or not. Even
now, through this transition, you can begin to see some good
things happening. Families are spending more time together
and actually sitting down to dinner. A friend told me that
she has taken time to get to know and understand her son
like never before. Without this pause it would never have
happened.
It’s as if the world has stopped. The pulse is still beating
but to a different drum; one that forces us to slow down
and take stock of what matters. Even with the distancing
and stay-at-home orders, people have reached out to family
and friends more often now, albeit virtually. Since we
have nothing but time and nowhere to go, we can tap our
creativity and/or productivity.
A friend is back to her life’s passion of abstract painting,
my husband practices his saxophone daily and is perfecting
his musical ability. I’m organizing my many years of writing
articles into a book. This project has given me purpose
and may hopefully live on after I’m gone. Many folks are
learning to cook for the first time in their adult life. It’s a
great time to try new recipes and find satisfaction in knowing
you can prepare meals that taste good too!
The planet has also found relief from the proliferation
and abuse of human kind. India saw blue skies for the first
time in years, pollution cleared the air in China so people
could breathe, and Venice canals spawned jellyfish which
had long disappeared. It’s as though we’ve all been given
a wake-up call, or, more appropriately from my column’s
tag line, a reality check.
You’ve eased into the dessert phase of life. The saving-the-best-for-now stage of life. If you allow yourself to give into fear and see only the
bad in any situation, it will bring you down and take the wind
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