girlfriends Part I

good friends

girl friends

the very best of life are those 2 things

I am blessed with some of the very most wonderful good girl friends:

Jerri
who is a thoughtful, winsome soul

Bbarb
a generous, glorious person

Carol
one of my oldest & dearest friends

Miki
now passed but her presence is still making an impact on my world

Liz
who is a confident, boisterous woman with a rockin' sense of humor

Annie
one of the sweetiest people I've ever met

Crystal
a joy of a person,
she makes you feel wonderful just being in the same world with her

Sharon L
so confident in herself & where she is in the world
that you have to really notice where you are

Kerri, Ava, DebW, Sharon H, Bevvie, Audrey, Nikia, Dena, Tammy, BethAnne, LeeAnne, Carol (OR), Marcia, Janice, Carol (MO), Annette, Sandy

I don't often enough tell these wonderful people how much they mean to me,

how much it has meant to me to have them in my life,

how thankful I am to have met them
& how rich my life is because of them

may we all be so blessed to have good friends and girl friends

lifelines

"Some one ought to do it, but why should I?"
--
"Some one ought to do it, so why not I?"
Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
Annie Besant

so I try

I try to do what ought to be done.........

I try to live my life with purpose and clear intent

it is not easy nor is it clear
& yet I keep trying

the work of few is felt by many

we work

we try

we find a way to be heard

I live in a haiku

or so it seems sometimes

as there is only the echo of my work

in the actions of others

namaste

dreams & goals

there are goals at the end of our dreams

they are the reason we get up and move in the morning

those are often little goals

getting out of bed

or

getting thru the day

or

getting to the weekend

no matter how small,

they still count as goals

the dream we have of life lived well make each of those a reality

then there are the BIG goals

career

family

personal value

they also are a part of a life lived well

enjoy this link:

http://www.thedreammovie.com/

it's all about a goal being a dream with a dealine

live well

our patio to be............now is

we'll be working on our patio today

got the rock yesterday

~3000 lbs of flagstone

to cover ~200 square feet

of this

and here it is.....
all done but for the plantings
we are going to put creeping rosemary between the stones
with sage & lavender & bush rosemary on the perimeter
mayne add a potted bit of peppers and tomatoes
(for home-made salsa)

the lizards are out (& the furgirls)
enjoying the new flagstone

what a wonderful idea.................

"Dare to be average!"

I have been a "flybaby" for a while now and it has made a huge difference in my life.

For those who don't know about the Flylady, here is her webbie:

http://www.flylady.net/

the thought that you can dare to be average is an interesting one

you need not be the very best, if you are having fun.

you need not get "A" grades, if you are learing for enrichment.

you need not be the master artist, if you can feel good when you paint.

you need not make a fortune, if you can enjoy what you do at work.

we will not all be the Bill Gates, Mozart, Richard Feynman, Bach, VanGogh, Stephen Hawking, Mick Jagger, or Sean Connery in our chosen profession..........

what ever profession that might be.

but we can enjoy what we do,

how we live,

and who we are

to the fullest possible extent of our being

family

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family.
Families aren't dying.
They're merging into big conglomerates.

~~~~~~~~~~ Erma Bombeck ~~~~~~~~~~~~

and Erma is right about that,
the merging of families.

Above is just one small section
of the huge conglomerate that is my dad's side of my family.

and there they all are.

Now mind you this is only a portion of my dad's side of my family.

My mom's side is not so numerous,
but has a variety of characters that rivals larger clans.

& then there is my hubby's family
OY VEY!
what a crew they are.

All of my famliy members are wonderful people,
in their own interesting and different ways,
but without variety

how dull would visits be,
how boring conversation,
how dreary our world.

So here's to my vast, glorious, robust & wonderful family!

Love you oodles,
one & all.

pause

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain,
you pause and exclaim, "Ah,"
you are participating in divinity.
Joseph Campbell

floors

floors are the foundations of a room

if the floor covering is icky & ugly & old

then the room becomes an uncomfortable place to be

so I'm re-doing the floor in my spare room

the carpet was gastly nasty

tore that all up

sealed the cracks in the concrete floor

&

now I'm re-surfacing it

the concrete color isn't the most consistant

but that's mostly me since I'm just pouring it into the water for the concrete till it looks ok

the new floor is very tactile

which is kind of nice

and the color is working out mostly ok

we'll see in another coupla' sections

if there is a pattern happening or not

I can always paint it after it's all new

kind of a metaphor for ourselves

we can un-cover & then

re-cover

re-surface

re-seal

re-state

re-paint

re-heal

re-lease

& it's always at our foundation where the work starts