Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Daily Reminder # 183

This is my neighbor's tree. I just love it. If it's possible to
be infatuated with a tree, this is one that has my heart. I
wish I could capture how pretty it is.

Think I'm just going to go with gratitude tonight. Tired. Also, I think I had something to say but I can't remember what it was nothing new is coming to me.


I know this is not a pretty picture or even that interesting
but I'm so sick of posting variations on the same tree that
I thought I'd go with variety over quality... and a different
kind of tree lace....

Some things I'm grateful for today:


  • music
  • ear phones
  • Angel
  • Tara Grace
  • my camera
  • apples
  • ice cream
  • laughter
  • angels
  • reiki
  • the smell of white sage
  • my reiki bears
  • heat
  • my furnace
  • my nice sheets that someone gave me
  • blankets
  • my fuzzy robe
  • my washing machine (did laundry today)
  • clean clothes
  • indoor plumbing
  • Dr. Jim
  • my lottery winnings
  • a dryer to go with my washer
  • my new camera
  • my flat screen TV
  • my Bose sound system
  • my closed in back porch
  • HEAP
  • My SSD
  • Netflix/movies (watched Avatar and actually liked it)
  • possibilities
  • the ability to read
  • eyes
  • friends
  • the ability to walk
  • electricity
  • water
  • love
  • life



HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Daily Reminder # 183

This is my neighbor's tree. I just love it. If it's possible to
be infatuated with a tree, this is one that has my heart. I
wish I could capture how pretty it is.

Think I'm just going to go with gratitude tonight. Tired. Also, I think I had something to say but I can't remember what it was nothing new is coming to me.


I know this is not a pretty picture or even that interesting
but I'm so sick of posting variations on the same tree that
I thought I'd go with variety over quality... and a different
kind of tree lace....

Some things I'm grateful for today:


  • music
  • ear phones
  • Angel
  • Tara Grace
  • my camera
  • apples
  • ice cream
  • laughter
  • angels
  • reiki
  • the smell of white sage
  • my reiki bears
  • heat
  • my furnace
  • my nice sheets that someone gave me
  • blankets
  • my fuzzy robe
  • my washing machine (did laundry today)
  • clean clothes
  • indoor plumbing
  • Dr. Jim
  • my lottery winnings
  • a dryer to go with my washer
  • my new camera
  • my flat screen TV
  • my Bose sound system
  • my closed in back porch
  • HEAP
  • My SSD
  • Netflix/movies (watched Avatar and actually liked it)
  • possibilities
  • the ability to read
  • eyes
  • friends
  • the ability to walk
  • electricity
  • water
  • love
  • life





HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Monday, November 29, 2010

Daily Reminder # 182


There was a Neale Donald Walsh email the other day that I seem to have misplaced. The gist of it was, though, that you can help manifest things in your life by giving thanks for them before you get them - as a way of letting the Universe know that you trust it. It's not the first time I've read this. I've read it from a half a dozen sources.... and I like the idea, but I really stink at doing it. I do it in some ways. I give thanks for physical things that I don't quite trust are true... and sometimes I remember to give thanks for having more than enough to pay my bills even when I don't. But I'm uncomfortable with it. I know this goes back to the source who is usually responsible form my most self-destructive failures of imagination and hope - my mother. 


I approach things like this as games. It costs me nothing to play and if it works, well... I'll help the Universe help me to help myself. Still... my mother's voice whispers in my ear how selfish and greedy I am. But tonight, I'm going to let her grumble in my ear and post some of the things I want on my gratitude list. I may do them in a different color, which in a way may defeat the game a bit but will make me feel more comfortable. (I have to worry about people thinking... she won Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes? Really? But then again maybe if everyone believes it, that adds energy to my hope.... Anyway. I'm going to play add some magical thinking to tonight's gratitude list.




This reminds me another game I played years back with a friend in Greece. It was called the Abundance Game and as I recall it involved starting with an imaginary $100 on the first day and "shopping" with it. The next day you had $200 and you had to spend the whole thing. Day three $400... and so on for as long as you could manage. It was an interesting exercise because I tended to start having trouble spending money pretty early on. You'd think it would be easy but it's more difficult than it sounds... at least for someone with guilt about having anything.


I don't know if  I'll continue giving thanks for things I haven't manifested yet or if I'll just do it privately, but I do want to experiment with it for a while. Nothing to lose, right?  Guess that's it for now.






Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • Tara's purrs
  • Angels's hugs
  • water
  • laughter
  • music
  • my computer
  • my home
  • angels
  • reiki
  • quilly's punny Monday
  • movies - Netflix
  • cheese
  • the smell of white sage
  • winning the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes
  • my new washer & dryer
  • money to turn my back porch into a mudroom/winter porch
  • a mattress for the guest room
  • new furniture
  • a Bose sound system
  • my new camera
  • my flat screen tv
  • friends
  • beauty
  • clouds
  • tree lace
  • love
  • life



Have a Glorious and Abundant Day!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Daily Reminder # 181



I have to confess to not being in the holiday spirit right now. I don't have money to pay for my bills none-the-less buy gifts for anybody. Decorating isn't that much fun. I have the holiday blahs and the holidays have barely set in.  It was also really cold here today. We even had some snow, though it didn't stick. Hopefully this mood will pass. Don't have any good photos either. Just more tree branches from yesterday's shots. It's time, I think, to cling dust off my "thank you for everything" mantra and remind myself that the best things in life sometimes emerge from shadow.... and that shadow has its own virtues.  So... Thank you for everything. I have no complaints whatsoever. (she said right after complaining). Still, I recommend this mantra. I find it really helps.






Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • my home
  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • music
  • television
  • free game downloads
  • my SSD
  • my furnace
  • a visit from Shannon
  • reiki
  • angels
  • clouds
  • snow that doesn't stick
  • indoor plumbing
  • water in abundance
  • catalogs
  • pie
  • cheese
  • apples
  • legs to carry me
  • sam-e
  • gogi berry juice
  • coconut oil
  • friends
  • mail
  • netflix
  • laughter
  • life


Wishing You a Lovely Day!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Daily Reminder # 180


Calling on Neale Donald Walsh again today. I'm not sure if this is today's message or if it came a couple of days ago. I have another one I want to use, but this is the one I opened tonight and it's something I'm working on, so...


It sounds so simple. I have found it not simple at all.... but still wise advice...



On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know...
...that you can remain in your present idea about yourself,
or you can choose again. I like the idea of choosing again.
Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you
were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
You will not have to think for more than a second to 
know exactly why you just read this...
  

Love, Your Friend....


neale
  



Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • food to eat
  • cheese
  • apple cider
  • my camera
  • clouds
  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • kitty hugs
  • kitty "chat"
  • my furnace
  • my fuzzy robe
  • friends
  • myself
  • clouds
  • water
  • my red chair
  • my cane
  • naps
  • the garbage man
  • my kitchen
  • my microwave
  • taste buds
  • eyesight
  • hearing
  • music
  • Pandora
  • my computer
  • education
  • the ability to read
  • electricity
  • laughter
  • love
  • life


Have a Great Day
Rejoice in Who You Are

Friday, November 26, 2010

Daily Reminder # 179

Terrible photo - but one of the best movies ever

Today's Daily Reminder is going to be short since it's very late.  My pictures are all awful too. Sorry about that. 


I had a nice Thanksgiving. Quiet. A little lonely, but nice... even though I forgot to defrost the Thanksgiving-y stuff for dinner so I ended up having a meal of stuffing perked up with cheese and some other stuff. 


But I feasted on my favorite movie - a film called Babette's Feast - so I dined quite well after all. And I did have some pie for dessert. Talked to friends, messaged and emailed with my sister's kids.  A good day.




Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • email
  • the telephone
  • great movies
  • cheese
  • Chocolate Soy Silk
  • Pecan pie
  • water
  • television
  • the internet
  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • Dennis Puffett
  • a clean litter box
  • my garbage man
  • my fuzzy robe
  • beauty
  • angels
  • tears
  • laughter
  • music
  • life



Have a Wonderful Day!

Wordzzle Announcement


Just a reminder that we are on a brief wordzzle break.  I was going to just take this week off because of Thanksgiving, but I think we'll take a break until January because everyone is busy with holiday planning and shopping and so on.  So.... we'll be back on January 7th... and hopefully our small band of faithful players will remember and return.   Words for the 7th can be found here.

Enjoy the holiday season and the break.  I think that Argent may continue writing Harold episodes even without the words, so do check in. Harold's adventures are getting very exciting.

See you in six weeks.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Daily Reminder # 178

My furry babies make life so much richer and some days
are the reason I get up in the morning. Being loved is really
nice, especially when it comes with hugs and purrs and
naughty behavior that make me laugh. 


I take great joy today in the knowledge that my sister's children (and children's children),  their husbands, wives and husbandishes along with their father and other aunts are all gathered today in Arizona. I wallow in a touch of self pity that I'm not there.... except in spirit. Still, I plan to have a nice day. My neighbors usually bring me something and I have stocked something special to make for myself, so I am richly blessed. I'll probably watch Babette's Feast (one of the best movies ever). That's the plan - and listen to music and find ways to entertain myself. 


This fur-child  is sweet and bossy and emotionally very
complicated. She loves touch and fears it. She is a tease
but as much to herself as to me. She weighs five pounds
moves like a ballerina and talks like a long shoreman. She
converses. We yowl back and forth. And at night, when it
feels safe she sleeps on top of me. As much as toys  are
among Angel's reason for living, crunchies (dry food) are
Tara Grace's deepest passion. She lives for them. She's
very  funny and I wish very much that I could hug her,
but she will have none of it. Maybe one day....


I think I figured out a way not to be cold all winter and still not have a big heat bill. I cranked the heat up to 68 to take my shower today and turned it back down to 50 after I was done. But the house stayed COZY for at least another 6-7 hours. I'm hoping this was not a fluke and I can run the thermostat at normal people temps for an hour each day and be warm for most of the day. That would be a lovely change of pace from the past 4 years when I have shivered through the days in 3-4 layers. I also noticed that 68 feels almost tropical to me now that I have trained myself to live between 50 and 60. I'm very excited about this. Cross your fingers for me that it a) works and b) doesn't increase my heating costs. We will see. Something to explore in any case... and to be thankful for.


Shannon - my neighbor - took this one. We had her
trapped between us. She does not suffer fools gladly.
How she puts up with me is a tribute to her good nature.


Speaking of things to be thankful for....


Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • a warm home
  • Babette's Feast
  • food and shelter
  • running water
  • a lovely warm shower
  • microfiber mats to soak up the flood and make it easier for me to get in and out of the shower
  • my cane
  • my legs
  • the ability to walk
  • my red chair & my cane
  • This is Angel last year, but I really love it.
    She has gained weight. Not sure why, but
    it worries me a bit. She's so darned, cute,
    though, isn't she?
  • eyes
  • ears
  • all the senses
  • friends
  • kind neighbors
  • my sister's children
  • knowledge that  the above "children" are happy
  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • toy mice
  • purrs
  • kitty hugs
  • the smell of white sage
  • apple cider
  • yogurt
  • cheese
  • my SSD
  • my microwave & my kitchen
  • laughter
  • netflix
  • angels
  • reiki
  • dreams
  • Facebook (only once in a while for pictures...)
  • AIM
  • email
  • Raven's Nest
  • Life



and happy small "t" thanksgiving to those
 "across the pond" and elsewhere

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Daily Reminder # 177


Death is.


I watched a wonderful, painful Frontline program called "Facing Death" on PBS  (you can watch the program here) this evening about patients and families dealing with death and dying. It's not something we are very comfortable with in our society and the decision making process has become more complex as our capacity to keep bodies going becomes easier. The doctors on this program were wonderful and kind in working with families and patients, but the truth is there is no easy way to talk about death when it is not just some abstract concept but is quite literally knocking on the door.  There's an interesting article on Huffington Post on the program.




Sarah Palin's so-called Death Panels - one of the things she so objects to (and uses to frighten people) - would offer counselling to the elderly and their families over the course of time, would help them to look at possible decisions while they are still able to and when they are not in the midst of a traumatic situation. I wish there had been that kind of help available to me when my mother was dying. No matter how right (and others may have different views on what's right or wrong) a life and death decision is, it is still just that. At the end of my mother's life - after almost two years in a nursing home, after over a year of being silent and virtually comatose, she developed gangrene in her legs. She was 80. She was barely conscious. She was being fed through tubes. The doctors recommended amputated her legs... or at least forced me to decide whether to do so. I think they were legally obligated to suggest it. Maybe not. In any case, I thought that would be a final affront to her body and spirit and I chose not to do so. She died shortly after. My guess is the surgery would have killed her in any case.




I think a bit too much about death these days. I haven't been feeling all that well. My legs (I'm not always sure this is truth or something in my head) seem less eager to carry me - even in wobbly fashion - from room to room. Other aspects of my being are functioning differently. Some of it is very annoying. Some of it is a little scary.  All of it raises the specter for me of ending up not just alone, but alone in a nursing home, of being a burden on my sister's children. Or of being forgotten by them. I don't want either of those things. My plan, such as it is, is to fall asleep quietly and not be a bother to anybody - and not deal with the shame of helplessness or of madness (dementia) or... Truth is, though, that how it plays out is pretty much in other hands than mine. I don't know if I'm more afraid of turning into my mother or of being a burden or of being alone. I suppose I fear all three. I think I have more fear about how I die than actually dying. But then the closer death gets, the less objective I am about it. Or maybe not.


One thing I do know, is that I don't want to be kept alive as a semi vegetable. My mother had a living will but it was misplaced so it wasn't enforceable.  I did place a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order at the end. If it comes to that, I hope someone will be kind enough to do that for me. I started to make living will but I am a procrastinator of the worst order. I think you need to have a doctor with whom you register it and I haven't seen a doctor in about 6 years and am not likely to do so any time soon no matter how many parts of me fall to ruin. Still, I need to deal with the living will simple to make it easier for anybody who may get stuck dealing with my demise when the time comes. I don't think having a machine breath for you is the same as living. I don't think being tube fed an semi conscious is living. Existing to me isn't the same as life. One of the things this program tonight talked about that everyone has to die, the thing is that most of us want to die "well."  A friend of mine was dying of cancer at about the same time my mother's life came to an end. Both of her parents had gone through extensive treatment and had die in pain. She decided not to fight. This upset many of her friends and her family. We had a conversation towards the very end of her life about whether she was doing it right. I told her that it seemed to me that there was no right or wrong way to die and that her death belonged to her, to go through on her own terms. I think I was right. I hope I can have as much courage when my own time comes. I hope that I can die well and sweetly - or at least discretely. My father - who died three months before my mother - had a pretty good death, I think. He took a day off from visiting my mother at the nursing home where he spent all day every day hovering over her and being rejected. He getting ready to go to a book club at the library. He had chatted with neighbors earlier in the day and was laughing with them. He had the radio on and was making lunch when he had a massive heart attack. I'd rather fall asleep without the heart attack, but I'd take a day like that as my second choice for how to go. Guess that's all I have to say for the moment.



Some things I'm grateful for today:
  • PBS
  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • reiki
  • angels
  • apple cider
  • cheese
  • netflix
  • interesting skies
  • tree lace
  • water
  • breath
  • the ability to walk
  • my cane
  • my red chair
  • my house
  • sam-e
  • Omega-3
  • ideas
  • friends
  • my nieces and my nephew
  • sleeping kitties
  • mail
  • my SSD money
  • laughter
  • life

About 3/4ths of the way through blogger started boycotting photos, so no closing photo this evening. Maybe I'll try to load it in the morning in which case nobody will have seen this, but just in case... Only have weird pictures today anyway, so it's not big loss really..
Have a Great Day!

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Daily Reminder # 176



Just gratitude today... and kitties.


Shannon Dermody (age 13) took this photo of Tara.
I like it because it's a different perspective than I'm
able to get from my chair at the desk. 


Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • my electric toothbrush
  • Listerine
  • my teeth
  • smiles
  • TV
  • apple cider
  • Dr. Jim
  • blankets
  • music
  • aromas
  • my camera
  • indoor plumbing & my "new" bathroom
  • showers
  • my fuzzy robe
  • orange pineapple smoothies
  • beauty
  • my Tibetan Salt lamps
  • my eyes
  • Crocs
  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • cat toys
  • angels
  • reiki
  • laughter
  • life





Have a Purr-fect Day!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Daily Reminder # 175


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


Probably a lot of people won't find the subject matter of today's photos very pretty, but I do. Each season has it's unique charm.  I can't say that I like winter. I don't. At all. Or at least only in tiny doses, but still, part of me finds beauty in these dead or resting pieces of nature, in my collapsing stone wall (which I will probably have to deal with at some point).  Maybe I need to think about looking at my crumbling body with the same compassion I give to crumbling other things. It has it's own things to teach me. It is just doing what bodies do.




Because my mother taught me to be afraid of my body, I didn't give it much love in its other stages. Maybe now is the time to befriend myself. I don't know if I'm capable of it, but I think maybe I will give it a try.

Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • crumbling beauty
  • laughter
  • music
  • movies
  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • possibilities
  • my microwave oven
  • my home
  • heat/my furnace
  • the moon and stars
  • apple cider
  • water
  • cheese
  • imagination
  • netflix
  • light
  • shadows
  • indoor plumbing
  • angels
  • reiki
  • beauty
  • magic
  • life



Have a Great Day!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Daily Reminder # 174



Find the joy in small things.

I woke up REALLY cranky today.  I had to get up earlier than I wanted to and  was tired and I didn't feel well and my coffee tasted awful and in general my mood was dark indeed. I was very tempted to wallow in it. Very. But I decided to put Pandora Radio on and listen to wonderful music and my spirits lifted a bit.

And then sun came out and Shannon came over to visit and Tara Grace posed for me in daylight. Tara is a terrible tease in front of the camera. She's so hard to photograph because she's so gray. And she loves torment me by striking a pose and then just as I get the camera to focus (not always easy with her coloring) and click the picture, she starts grooming herself. Over and over. Despite that, I managed to get a few good shots. And Shannon took a few too, which I'll share on another day.




 So anyway, music, the love of two sweet kitties and a teenager managed to pull me out of the grumpies and my day turned out pretty well, all things considered.

It would have been a good day for the Thank You for Everything mantra.  I forgot to use it, but the universe gave me some nice presents anyway.  I hope you had a good day too.



I know Tara Grace looks kind of misshapen in this picture but I almost
never get a picture of her whole body.  She's very tiny - only 5 pounds
but  somehow her big spirit  must come through in photos
because she looks much bigger than she really is...

Some things I'm grateful for today:
  • Tara Grace posing with sunlight
  • Angel posing too
  • a visit from Shannon
  • beauty in unexpected places
  • my microwave oven
  • my home
  • my red chair
  • my cane
  • that my legs still carry me
  • my camera
  • Schwann's
  • cheese
  • pumpkin pie
  • mail
  • Netflix
  • Pandora
  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • heat and hot water
  • water
  • electricity
  • my computer
  • wordzzles
  • earphones
  • music
  • angels
  • reiki
  • laughter
  • my printer
  • my mattress
  • blankets
  • my kitchen
  • books
  • eyes to see
  • Life
But they SHOULD be toys....
You sure I can't play with them? Please?


May your day offer 
wonderful surprises!



Saturday, November 20, 2010

Daily Reminder # 173


Don't hesitate to crow about yourself.  


I was taught to be ashamed of my gifts or my successes. My mother felt that it was vain and wicked to like yourself and made sure I never felt good about anything I accomplished. My brother resented my successes, though he had more than enough of his own. He made sure I suffered if I succeeded at anything. So I've always had a hard time thinking or saying anything good about myself. That's a real tragedy. We should all be able to love ourselves and rejoice in our gifts - and simply in our existence.  That's my thought for the day. I'd say something nice about myself but.... I still can't do it without feeling frightened.






Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • Angel and Tara Grace
  • cheese
  • pumpkin pie
  • crows
  • birds
  • my Tibetan salt lamps
  • indoor plumbing
  • my camera
  • electricity
  • music
  • water
  • "silverware" (forks, spoons, etc)
  • coconut oil
  • gogi berry juice
  • sam-e
  • dreams
  • angels
  • reiki
  • friends
  • hope
  • possibilities
  • Jon Stewart
  • laughter
  • all the amazing wonders of the world
  • Life



Have a Great Day
Crow a Little

Friday, November 19, 2010

Weekly Wordzzle Challenge # 136


Week 136 of the Weekly (formerly Saturday) Wordzzle Challenge. Just a reminder that because of the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the US, I'm skipping next week. Let me know if you think it would be a good idea to just take a break for the whole holiday season and start up again in January when people are less busy with other things.  Running late again.  Will post my mega and do the others this evening or in the morning, but just realized that I haven't made Mr. Linky available to anyone yet, so.... I wish someone else had come up with this week's words so I could be pissed off at them instead of myself. Sigh.


Words for this week's 10-word challenge were:  career, incense, prosperity, chloroform, cane, electrical outlet, preponderance, salivate, chopped liver, pillows  and for the mini: thank, teacher, movies, unleash, lamp shade


My mega:

Jeremy Teacher awakened on a massive and ornately carved bed, groggy and hungry.  Nothing in his long career as a low-level accountant had prepared him for such opulence or for the mysterious circumstances which had brought him here. Of that - his memory was vague indeed - walking down the street.... footsteps behind him, then an arm across his chest and a cloth with what must have been chloroform over his face. Then he had woken up here. If this was an abduction, he thought, he rather wished he had been abducted sooner. Leaning back against a massive collection of plush pillows he found himself salivating over a plate of chopped liver of all things, which was accompanied by a what looked like a massive salad, a bottle of wine and something that looked like pumpkin pie with whipped cream on top. This was all laid out on a massive silver tray set onto a rolling cart. Looking around him, Jeremy was awed by what he saw. Everything about the room bespoke incredible prosperity. He wasn't an expert but he was pretty sure the lamp shades on the two exquisite lamps were Tiffany. The room was like something from the movies. Even the electrical outlets were elegant, somehow. The preponderance of the furnishings were heavy, dark wood - even his small dinner cart - and were clearly the best of the best. There was what appeared to be a truly mangificent oriental carpet on the floor and next to his bed was the most exquisite cane he had ever seen. He wondered who he had to thank for all this - and then in the same thought wondered if one thanked an abductor. At that very moment the door opened and the most beautiful woman he had ever seen entered and smiled at him. Ok.... now I know this is a dream the thought and awoke to find himself at home in his own bed. Oddly, thought the rich smell of lavender incense remained in his nostrils along with a lingering sense of contentment.



My mini: 



Thank your teacher, mother said
And take that lamp shade off your head
Then tell me why the dog's unleashed
And why your sister's hair is bleached
I'm made some movies to show your Dad
And I guarantee he'll be darned mad
So go upstairs and clean your room
And when you're done go fetch the broom
You'll sweep the porch and weed the garden
And maybe then I'll grant you pardon
And try to cool your father's wrath
About that C you got in math
On top of all this other stuff.
Hear me now. I've had enough
I love you dearly - yes I do
But as of now - and overdue -
This crime spree life is in your past
Grow up, you brat  and grow up fast


And my 10-word:

Prosperity Cane thought that the preponderance of evidence in the case pointed to the defendant being guilty. Being a juror was very exciting, like being part of a Perry Mason story on TV. This case had everything. First, there was a handsome defendant named Barton, who was (according to the prosecution) a career gigolo. Barton had the bluest eyes she had ever seen (looking at him made her salivate with lust until she thought about what he had done to his girlfriend). He had supposedly put poison in the chopped liver. You would think that would have been enough, but  then he had (they said) chloroformed her, using incense to cover the smell and later electrocuted her as well.  For that part of the trial, they had shown video of a cute little dog on a pillow who barked at an electrical outlet. Seemed kind of like overkill, she thought to herself... and then - much to her embarrassment, started giggling in the jury box. A stern look from the judge quickly cured that. Right now she couldn't see how Barton could not be found guilty, but tomorrow the defense would, they said, show how all these things could be explained away. And then the jury would gather and hopefully it wouldn't be like TV juries but quick and civilized and she would return back to the real world... but maybe get to do a few interviews with news people before moving back into the total obscurity of her dull life.  It was all very exciting and exhausting both.


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Words for the next challenge:  celebrate, doctor, shipping, choice, stake, time flies when you're having fun, secrets, disaster, back down, clouds

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Daily Reminder # 172


Taking the lazy road yet again and letting Neale Donald Walsh share his message from God for today:


On this day of your life, dear friend, 
I believe God wants you to know...
...that perfection is not required of you
-- only perfect_
effort.

Not to even try because you don't think you can would
be terribly sad. You'll be amazed at what you can do if
you simply step into it.

Life awaits you on the other side of Risk. What can you
lose? Face? Dignity? Who cares about those when
greatness is possible? Who cares about those when
fairy tales are at hand?




Some things I'm grateful for today:

  • pumpkin pie
  • TV
  • my camera
  • Margaret
  • my home
  • my home vacuumed and mopped
  • groceries
  • yogurt
  • coffee
  • my niece Cindy
  • my niece Diana
  • my nephew Matthew
  • their children & significant others
  • that they are happy
  • my red chair
  • my cane
  • my legs
  • sam-e
  • omega-3
  • root beer
  • indoor plumbing (it's World Toilet Day)
  • friends
  • angels
  • reiki
  • laughter
  • tears
  • beauty
  • life

Have a Great Day
Be Kind to Yourself
and
Be Glad You Can Flush