Coffee Check-In: Being

So - I'm not a huge fan of Sundays. Blasphemous, I know. How our society structures this day has never felt...right. But I do enjoy lazy days sipping coffee with my husband or, growing up, eating cereal while watching CBS Sunday Morning with my folks (when I wasn't working). I enjoy the calm mornings when it seems like the earth is standing still, and you feel like you're the only one awake.

But I don't enjoy the implicit expectation that because it's Sunday, I need/have to be at a religious gathering. That because it's Sunday, I shouldn't be working. That because it's Sunday, it's the day of the week that I'm supposed to connect with a higher power that someone else tells me I have to believe in to have meaning in my life.

Some Sundays, this bothers me more than others. I'm feeling pretty neutral about it today, so I figured I'd just write about it since it's the first Sunday Coffee Check-In.

Do I believe in a higher power? I answer that with, "How can you look at the earth, sun, planets, entire solar system, and the galaxy and not believe something bigger is going on?!" While plenty is wrong in our world, there are too many amazing things to not be in wonder and awe. I'm not exactly the most trusting person, which definitely extends to religious intentions; however, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate them. I just take them with a very heavy grain of salt.

As much as I can, I prefer to either be out in nature or working on Sundays. I want to continue to be me, enjoying the beauty of the earth and the enjoyment I get from creating things I believe and hope will be positive for our world. I feel more connected to my spirit, soul, and purpose that way. So I continue being me. I am just being. And it feels like on Sundays, there is the continued "doing" that we experience during the week with our jobs and lives, checking off boxes because that's what we do. But the weekend has always felt like "free time" to me, so continuing to have to do something just because "that's the way it's always been done" is not my cup of tea, personally or professionally.

Ohhhh...time is another good topic to address here soon. Especially with the layoff, time is something I am perceiving very differently. And it's been quite fun. But I'm getting low on coffee, so another day!

But yeah, I've honestly have never been able to really describe my feelings about Sundays until recently...now really, and it's because "Being" and "Doing" have been on my mind since I watched this YouTube video on stoicism with hubs a few weeks ago. And wanting to write about how I don't always like Sundays...well, it all started to flow when I started thinking about the things that make me feel "meh" and reminded me of the Being and Doing section of that video from the Daily Stoic.

So here's to being you today! Wherever that leads you, I hope it's awesome!

Another fun mug for y'all! This one came from my mother-in-law, and I love it because Minnie Mouse has been my girl since I was a teeny bambino! This morning I went with another Half-Caff - realized that I'm post-ovulation and pre-period, which is when I'm usually more tired, and even with a good amount of sleep, I will wake up tired and heavy. And since I've got my workout, stretching, and lots on my brain for my projects to work on, I wanted to give myself that little extra! Side note that will definitely be discussed later: hubs and I realized we won't have our Nespresso when we're out in Oregon in a few weeks, and that is sad. We took our Nespresso Machine with us to Cedar Key in December for a little getaway! The coffee is just THE BEST 😅