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Show THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Volume VI, Issue VIII Page 11 August 1, 2002 One Voice on the Family Scattering and Sewing—Working and Reaping By Janet Cazier Hoffmann A few days ago as I was talking with a friend, he stated that I was buoyant. Now I knew he was trying to compliment me, however, I can’t just take a compliment without some humor, so I said something about it was all my fat that makes me always come back up again when I begin to sink! Buoyancy or ethereality. To be buoyant in the sense my friend meant, is having elasticity of spirit—cheerfulness. If you go into the thesaurus another word for buoyancy is ethereality, which means light, airy, heavenly, celestial or of the ether or upper regions of space. So ethereal has to do with air instead of water. But it boils down to staying on top of something. My friend was saying that I keep rising above my problems. I think most of us do this, even though sometimes we feel like throwing in the towel. We know that if we do, life will lose its flavor. We can enjoy life or not enjoy it and that’s really the only choices we have, and so I just keep making the best choice I can, and that is to enjoy my life. Life is for learning, and the most important thing to remember is that we reap what we sow. This is how people start to believe that if bad things happen to us, we must be bad people. But even when you plant good seeds, the sun can kill them if there is no rain. So it is with our seeds. Things can happen to kill some of our seeds, but we have to keep planting them or there is no chance of a harvest. When circumstances come up that I think are awful, I start to believe that something is wrong with me, or that if I would do something better things would go better. For instance, I’ve had problems with one of my computer programs Come Join Us at Utah Homemakers Do you enjoy learning new things to better your home life? Are you interested in meeting new friends? Would you like to help in service to the community? Then Utah Homemakers is right for you! Utah Homemakers is a state association of affiliated chapters. Advisors help develop programs (meetings) and activities that are consistent with the purpose of this organization. Our purpose is to: Share educational information Promote stable homes and satisfying family living Provide opportunities for homemakers to gain skills, and develop activities that will contribute to their interest and needs as homemakers Develop leadership Participate in community activities and contribute to the welfare of others Strengthen the bonds between the home and the community. Utah Homemakers meet the second Thursday of every month in Ogden, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. There is a nursery for $1.00 per child. There is a yearly fee of $12. If you are interested, please contact Renee at 745-2468. Participation is fulfilling and fun! and all the work I did for two days was eaten up by my computer. Every time I work with a new program, this happens. I know it’s because I don’t know the program very well, and I do things I probably shouldn’t do while trying to figure it out. So I say to myself. “Janet, this wouldn’t have happened if you would have read the book that came with the program.” Now the book is approximately 350 pages of information I can’t understand any way, so I learn by default instead. I try something. If it doesn’t work, I try something else until it does. I did the hour instructional CD to learn the basics then I ordered the 16 hour videotapes to learn even more. I’ve gone through four hours of them, but I still keep having problems. Even when I do get through all the tapes, I will still not remember it all, so I still end up prac- ticing the trial and error method. This is what my life is like. I don’t hold back. Instead, I work by trial and error. It is a painful way to learn, but if I wait until I understand whatever it is I’m trying to understand and don’t practice, I figure I’ll never learn. For instance, say we have a death in the family. How do you handle that? You can get books and read them, talk to everyone you know, but you forget most of what they said, and you don’t always know how to take all that information you read and apply it to your own life. So you take your best guess on how to do it, and start applying what you have learned. But along the way, your computer crashes and you have to start all over. What can you do but just keep trying and failing until finally you have some success. With reaping what we sow, we for- get how hard the sowing really is because of the challenges we encounter while we are protecting the seeds we plant. The sowing part is easy—scattering all those seeds. It is the constant care of those seeds that takes effort and hard work, so we just can’t reap what we sow, but we do have to sow in order to reap. But remember, we really only reap after the labor of taking care of what we sow. Now there is the challenge. So we reap from our sowing according to the work we put into it. Yes, sometimes we can just throw seeds out and we get a great harvest from it, but most time it takes lots of effort to get the most out of what we sow. And yes, if our seeds get too much water they need to float for awhile until the water subsides. Then they can take root in the soil. Looking for an alternative to high cost and chemically treated produce. Come to the FARMERS MARKET at The Eden General Store 5510 East 2200 North, Eden Utah August 10th 8:00 a.m. to Noon 9:30 Stone Soup Day A must for kids Stone soup revolves around a sweet children’s fable. A pauper arrived in a community and went door to door asking for food. Unsuccessful, he decided to ask people for help in making a community stone soup. He asked each household if they could contribute some carrots or some tomatoes and each was willing. The soup project snowballed. Just by saying “I have a stone” and “I’m contributing” he got the community to pull together to make a pot of soup that fed everyone. At the market the fable is told and kids learn to contribute and make soup. August 24th 8:00 a.m. to Noon Bounty to Bounty Food Drive - Bring canned food More dates and events to be announced. If you would like to sell goods, contact the Market Foundation at (801) 745-2400. The Market Foundation works to preserve the quality and high standard of the market. |