Wednesday, December 16, 2015

The Kindness of "Zero Stress"

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.  Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."
~ Saint Francis de Sales

I recently found out (realized?) that I had agreed to co-organize an event at one of my children's schools.  Between work and a never-ending and involuntary home renovation project, one more thing seemed unmanageable.  Thank goodness, my co-organizer is a take-no-prisoners real doer who took charge of the event, graciously asked my opinion and filled in in all the spots where I could not.  Her motto seems to be "zero stress," so whenever I asked her what I could do or how we could get something done, she would find an easy solution and finish with her "zero stress" mantra.  One of the things I needed to do was to send a baby photo of one of my children, which did not seem doable given that nearly all photos and albums were in boxes.  I finally took a mobile phone photo of a photo in a frame and texted it to her.  She said she would print it out for me and concluded her text with "zero stress."  I replied that I could see her angel wings from my house.

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