I have had a "Huh?! Whatdya know" moment today. On Money Sense Magazine's Best Places to Live List Regina is ranked 5th!! Out of 190 Canadian Cities. And my hometown of Estevan was 24th - out of 190!! Estevan has the lowest unemployment rate in Canada. Huh. Many Western Canadian cities have moved up on the list (I must point out that Regina was ranked #1 of the w. can. cities :) ). I found it pretty interesting. You can click on the link to see their methodology. Although I don't think I saw "weather" taken into consideration or given a ranking! I will try to appreciate my city more. On that note - we took in the "I love Regina" day festivities last weekend and soon I hope to put up some pictures of that. My nephew Zack won something for his chalk drawing competition at Victoria Park. He's so good at that stuff. It was pretty cool. I'll get a pic of that up as well.
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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