Psalm 42:11

Photo by Min An on Pexels.com Life changed for everyone the beginning of March 2020. COVID hit and hit hard. Jobs were lost, self-employed people lost opportunity to work, volunteers lost opportunities to serve, children became isolated as they had to school from home. We became isolated from our lives as we knew them before the beginning of March. The general public gained an insight to what a person suffering from a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder feels. Life Happened I also experienced “life”. And my husband lost work. So, we went home after his art shows were cancelled. It wasn’t a totally bad thing. We hadn’t been home for quite some time, and we had work to do. The yard needed tending, the house needed a new roof and a new paint job. We had neglected so much of this in past springs & summers due to his work schedule. For grins and giggles We set to work on the house repairs and for grins and giggles, we put “for sale by owners” signs up on the property, as the neighboring house was for sale and people drove by ours in order to see their’s. We had been talking about selling our home and going full-time in our RV, but our house hadn’t sold in all the times we had it listed. This time would be different. Three couples looked at our house as a result of those signs. Life Happened Again Yet, we did it. Life happened. Items were sold, fruit trees picked, the house painted, the roof repaired, the storage room filled and the motor home packed. At times, my stress level, as well as my husband’s, reached maximum capacity. The effects of my mTBI and his post-concussion syndrome kicked in. It was clash of the titans once again (https://www.pamdepuydt.com/brain-injury-101-clash-of-the-titans/.) Voices were raised, feelings hurt, tears shed, confessions made, and forgiveness granted. The stress of life “happening”.…

Photo by Min An on Pexels.com Life changed for everyone the beginning of March 2020. COVID hit and hit hard. Jobs were lost, self-employed people lost opportunity to work, volunteers lost opportunities to serve, children became isolated as they had to school from home. We became isolated from our lives as we knew them before the beginning of March. The general public gained an insight to what a person suffering from a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder feels. Life Happened I also experienced “life”. And my husband lost work. So, we went home after his art shows were cancelled. It wasn’t a totally bad thing. We hadn’t been home for quite some time, and we had work to do. The yard needed tending, the house needed a new roof and a new paint job. We had neglected so much of this in past springs & summers due to his work schedule. For grins and giggles We set to work on the house repairs and for grins and giggles, we put “for sale by owners” signs up on the property, as the neighboring house was for sale and people drove by ours in order to see their’s. We had been talking about selling our home and going full-time in our RV, but our house hadn’t sold in all the times we had it listed. This time would be different. Three couples looked at our house as a result of those signs. Life Happened Again Yet, we did it. Life happened. Items were sold, fruit trees picked, the house painted, the roof repaired, the storage room filled and the motor home packed. At times, my stress level, as well as my husband’s, reached maximum capacity. The effects of my mTBI and his post-concussion syndrome kicked in. It was clash of the titans once again (https://www.pamdepuydt.com/brain-injury-101-clash-of-the-titans/.) Voices were raised, feelings hurt, tears shed, confessions made, and forgiveness granted. The stress of life “happening”.…

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