It has always been a wee bit challenging for me to call a spade a spade. Unless, of course if the spade wants to be a spade…then I am totally on board. But, if the spade wants to be a heart or a diamond or a club…I can completely go there.
There are several factors that have contributed to this little mind set of mine. One stems from the way I was raised. Yep, blame it on childhood!!! I lived in a home where a spade was NOT a spade but something else completely. And ya better not point out that it was really a spade cuz then you would be in deep doo-doo!
Another factor is that I am such an optimist/magical thinker/naive babe-a-roo. I have always been this way. If someone tells me that it is not a spade but a heart…I believe em. Not always….but often enough! I just figure they know what they know and I am probably miss informed. Or that maybe it is a spade and they see it as a heart and we can agree to disagree! (more…)