Whatever the weather where you are, I’m wishing you a pretty First of May …
Hiding in haiku …
30 Apr 2013 4 Comments
breezes blowing soft
heat to follow on their heels
freezes coming next
I don’t ask for much …
23 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
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"She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cozy bed, and to love and be loved in return." ~Starra Neely Blade
The critic doesn’t count …
18 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
It isn’t the person who doesn’t like me that matters, their voice isn’t what I will listen to. Instead, I hear the whispers of those who love me … “Carry on.”
(from a wonderful shirttail cousin)
Change is what life’s all about …
16 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
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I can feel the mix of emotions experienced by the farm wife who, through the wonder of a time machine, finds herself standing in front of her former home — the one she watched her raw new husband build board by board, then furnished with the bare necessities of life and swept daily with a crude broom in order to keep the dust to a dull roar. I see her sending her stoic farmer for the mid-wife and birthing their babies in the same bed where they were made out of love and awkwardness-turned-to-familiarity. I see her well-tended garden gone to ruin and reclaimed by the elements. Her disbelief. Her chagrin. The ache in her heart. The incomprehensible change that overtook it all once she was out of the picture.
I see the change in my own life, moving from painful to sweet, that has brought me to the man who pulls off the highway, drives down a dirt road, and treks across a wheat field because he spots just the photograph I need for my blog.
I try to open-heartedly embrace change since I learned years ago that it’s what life’s all about. Once you get that far, it all becomes infinitely simpler to deal with.
Life is full of joys …
07 Apr 2013 2 Comments
Oh.My.Gosh. My husband spent time this morning building a killer playlist for my iPhone. Tears and chills … I could never get tired of this music. The closing track is the two of us on keyboard and mandolin, recorded several years ago in his studio. I somehow completely forgot we had it. Such an amazing gift. Bonnie Raitt’s “Feels Like Home,” playing now, says it all. Thank you, love … for everything.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Color
06 Apr 2013 5 Comments
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Color is such an intrinsic part of daily life we almost … almost … take it for granted. These are colorful objects from my desk that add to my happiness every day.
Beautiful day …
15 Mar 2013 Leave a comment
It’s 81 degrees here and so inviting out on the patio. Feels like a Saturday, but no! We still have one coming our way tomorrow … although the high temp is forecast to be only 58 and cloudy. So while it feels like summer, we need some flowers.
Playing for Time 
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