every morning............

the doves call every morning beginning around 5 am

sometimes the robins join in but mostly it's the doves

almost like they are taking roll call........
"hey I'm here, made it thru the night, no bad dreams for me & how are you?"
"who knows where we are meeting for breakfast?"
"I saw the folks down the hill putting out seed......no cats at that house."

& yada yada yada

or in dove speak .......coo coo cooooo coo coo cooooo

saturday afternoons...........

there is something magic about a saturday afternoons......

being home alone with movies to watch.........

or home with your sweetie and getting the stuff done that needs to be done each week....but working together on it

it's the simple things really

birthdays...........

EHEMPQ
birthdays are to remind us of time passing.......our time

we are gifted this life, these friends, our family & once a year we get reminded that they are a part of our world and that they care....

it is a huge gift....this life.....these annual reminders

mine was glorious..........I hope yours is as well

what a wonderful birthday it was 

twirling...

there is a version of yoga from Tibet that involved Twirling as one of the postures

it is wonderful

I twirled today under the full moon.......not too fast & not too many times

it shifts your energy and clears your head..........

try it....you'll see

shush..........

ever have a night when your brain just won't shut-up?

those can be so very long.......and all the noises in the house just rattle thru, amplified by the quiet of the night.

and then if & when you do sleep the dreams are rampant with images & sounds brought in from your un-quiet brain....not sorting & sifting, as dreams are supposed to do, but raging and fighting thru all the stresses that were brought to the front of your mind.

so .............. shush little brain.......... time to go back to bed......... and maybe rest for an hour or 2 before the week starts................

If not.......there is coffee..........really strong coffee.

todays thoughts..............

Gerald Weinberg:
If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

My computer (this is a new computer) has devloped a 'hiccup' in one of the programs that I use most often...so off to the computer hospital for a software evaluation & surgery/repair

danged woodpeckers....ain't technology grand

have you ever just wanted to really get away............... 

some days you feel a little blue......or is it just me? 

hello monday morning........... 

yoga, yoga, yoga....now breathe

so today...

this morning....

nearly an hour & a half doing Yoga

it felt wonderful to stretch but I've spent the rest of the day in this fuzzy comfy

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzone



ok so that's not a bad thing for a sunday.....but it is an odd feeling

my hubby did the gymrat thang with his weights & cardio
he's been perky all day.......

might be a good thing to do the Yoga in the evening...................since it's been tough to get a good nights sleep lately.......might be just the ticket

and then try to get up & go to the gym (well I did say "Try") in the morning
at least take a walk with the furgrrrls up the hill in the mornings.....they need to be a bit less round as well as we do.

fit in 2005 ........

We entered the challange for spring of 2005.

http://www.thechallenge.us/

and had our "Before" pictures taken at the introductory weigh-in

Yikes!!!!!

this is going to be interesting, we've been eating healthy and began going to the gym on a regular basis before the first of the year, but still and all.........
there is a good reasson that this is a 'Challenge'

I'm one of 6 or so folks at work doing this (so there is a lot of comradery there) and we are going to going to the weekly Rah-Rah meetings for info & inspiration & additional support.

it might be a very long 3 months..................but then again........my younger sis did this (or a version there-of) and is Still being held up as an inspiration for those trying to do the same .....and she did this over 2 years ago now

time to be getting fit......no not having a fit.....but getting fit....as in healthy 

seize the day.............. 

night light 

fragile............

have you ever had one of those days wehere you felt fragile?

as if at any moment you were going to break into a million tiny pieces......or fall into tears at the very mention of a bad break, or a compliment............today was one of those days for me.

it is amazing what our perceptions can do to color our emotional state......and visa versa.

maybe it is the wind...........gale force and from every direction (or so it seems) that is messing with my internal wiring.
or perhaps the barometric pressure which is changing as this next big storm comes in..............

or hormones......but that would be too easy

most likely it is the entire mix of all of the above....we are creatures of this world and can feel her shifts & pains

so here is to feeling............fragile, full-of-it or otherwise........feelings remind us of our humanity and our place in the world full of other folks and our responsibilty to protect all of that.

raining....damp & green 

winter dreams...............

of spring & green things...............

altho the winter weather can be huge......as we are seeing all around the glode......storms & flooding & ice & giant waves making us so very aware of how tiny we are on this planet

may all those in the storms of this winter traverse them safely

winter waiting 

learning................

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

there is a reason I moved to the desert (high desert really) and the summer is that exactly.

the summer I feel in my heart.
the blooming, growing, greening of my soul is not burnt by the high hot sun we have summers out here but rather nourished, cleared and refreshed by the warm air & the bright light.

soon it'll be summer in the desert here.....but first we finish winter.

right brained food

so do you have any idea how very right-brained it is to shred meat?

now mind you I'm not terribly left-brained (logic and straight lines) at the best of times but today, while shredding chicken for my noodle soup (yes made from scratch...well not the noodles) I found it incredibly difficult to resist cutting the meat up into tiny little chunks.

nice precise little squares of meat were calling out to me as I tried to shred with 2 forks, the chicken for my soup.

how odd is that...........and how sad that even the tiniest of actions are called upon by our habits to be conforming & 'in the lines'

try it yourself.................go on shred that meat.............see if you can.

welcome

Billie Holiday once said "If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothin"

this is so true..........and for my friends I say 'Welcome to my little space online."
grab a cuppa' joe & prop your feet up.

in life we so often find so little time to ourselves and for our friends, for we are BUSY.....ever so busy doing such mundane things that keep us from keeping up.

so here is my little place to share a little space to keep up with those I care about.

welcome friends