Dear Dotsie

I loved your words Dotsie, how beautiful and gentle...Live a Lotus Life...

'The lotus is a symbol of purity. Its roots are in the mud but the flower remains above dirty water.Live a Lotus life. Be unaffected by life's impurities.'

How beautiful what lives inside, the unseen beauty that builds through life's tribulations and joys, the seeds of love... to unfurl and to burst forth and grace the lives of everyone we encounter...sometimes when we least expect it, despite what lives around us!

With love
Leigha

Leigha, these words are from another online daily devotion I recently subscribed to. This was one of his recent thoughts for the day.

Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University


Today's thought was something like this:

Take pleasure in the small things in life because it is from seeds that flowers grow. I loved it. We never know what will grow from the teeniest words, objects, thoughts, prayers, etc. Everything begins somewhere in the teeniest form!

Strange or maybe not so strange, I was thinking of possibly writing a book for corporate wives. I could interview women who live in the middle of it and try to help the newbies, just entering.

There are some strange corporate rules, such as: my husband was the president of the company so I could call any of the women whose husband's worked under him and invite them to lunch or whatever. Corporate rules say they can't call me and invite me to anything. Geesh.

David always told me to be careful making friends with the wives because it might get ugly and I'd lose a friend if he had to fire any of them. I ignored him and sure enough, it happened. One woman was always so nice to me, overly nice but then, she was just a nice person although I felt she kind of pushed it when we had company events. David had to let her husband go and I saw her in the grocery store and she glared at me, turned her nose up in the air and stormed off. We should be loyal to our spouse though so I understood it completely. Had to get rid of my ego first.

I have a friend who was in the corporate world for years and she mentioned to me that she was thinking of writing now that she's staying home and how did I go about it? (You'll notice when you're published, people will come to you for writing advice a lot!). So, I might contact her about doing a joint venture on a book.

Leigha, you're right. There are no books on the subject. Trust me, I searched for them! Might be a need there.

Dear Dotsie
I've just written down your words Dotsie...what a wonderful help...that message hit me...it contains the seeds of miracles...to think that what we speak, think and pray...can have such a profound effect... and to remember that. That's the key I think...constantly being aware of the effect of how and what we say. I'll keep these words by me daily to remember.

Thank you Dotsie. That was greatly appreciated!


Dear Dianne

That's fabulous! I think you'd do a fantastic job Dianne...not just in helping corporate wives with respect to hierarchy...you could also help them to see who they are and that their lives mean more than just being the wife of a corporate executive...Just follow your heart Dianne...it will help you decide it that is part of your path.

With love
Leigha

Thanks ladies. It's nice to know that others understand. Some would ask me what I was complaining about because of the other benefits. Well, walk in my shoes for a while.

I might start working on an outline during my upcoming trip. Will miss you! (See Travel Thread)

Though I am not a corporate wife, I would be willing to give you any input to being a woman in corporate America if you need it.

Oh trust me...I already had you in mind to interview! If any of you other ladies would like to be interviewed, when the time comes, just let me know.

Dianne, I'm impressed by your complete lack of BS -- either taking or giving it. Brava, woman! The reason you don't understand the snobbery and artifice is that you never bought into that whole deceitful game.

Be thankful that you CAN'T understand it!

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One nice thing about being a full-time crafter is that there's little snobbery. We're all just two bad craft fairs in front of the bill-collectors. The few snobs in this business are angry wannabees.

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I'm reminded of an incident from my childhood. In the late 1950's, my father brought home a co-worker to have dinner with us and later speak to the children and Mom about the civil rights movement. There were no black people in our neighborhood, and my father thought it was important for us to meet someone who had lived through segregation and knew the issues first-hand.

Decades later, after my father died, I was talking to Mom about my father's work. My father was the first Jew to break through the company's glass ceiling, and he still was discriminated against a lot on a daily basis. There were no non-Caucasians working there, except in menial cleaning positions.

It was only then that I realized my father's co-worker -- whom he introduced as "a friend from work" -- must've been a janitor.

I'm glad I was raised with a good value system.

Dear Meredithbead

Sounds like you had a great dad Meredith...strong of heart and noble.

I saw your jewelry on your site and it's dazzling!

With love
Leigha