burning bridges

hello my friends!!! anyone else have cabin fever besides me?? LOL so i was helping my mom do her laps around the hospital hallways yesturday-one of the rare occaisions i got to go there, thank god for my sister's who have been able to pick up my slack-and i asked her for some wisdom. i mean i know things change, but when i was growing up the neighbors stopped in daily for coffee, we went camping together on every summer holiday until i graduated from highschool, there were block parties, and poker nights...we don't have any of that now. hell i barely know my neighbors. the only way i even know if the old man next door is alive is if he puts his garbage out on thursdays!! LOL!! so my mom pointed out to me that back then not only did they not have the technology we have today, i.e. cell phones and internet, but most of the women didn't work, so they could stay home and socialize during the day as they took care of the home and the kids. they formed bonds. we don't really have that luxery anymore, most of us anyway-and believe me, i feel it. oh i have friends...good friends. dear friends, that i love. but we aren't connected like they were because they didn't have texting and email. they had coffee, they did the shopping together, and camping trips...and bake sales...lord, remember those??

we cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us. with nothing to show for our progress, except the memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. (tom stoppard)

until next time....safe journey.

its the little things

hello my friends!! did you miss me?? LOL..ok don't answer that!! we look at EMT's, paramdeics, and doctors and we envy them because they get to save lives on a daily basis. in the true sense i mean. but what the world has forgotten is that we can do the same in a figurative sense...i hope i am saying that right lmao. ok if i am wrong just let me know. but here is what i mean. remember the little things we used to do for eachother?? bring eachother coffee, or you brought someone flowers just to cheer them up?? how about when we just used to listen to eacahother?? lol i am not saying that we don't do that at all, but lets face it, our lives are busy, so we text or email more often then not. times are tough, i see alot of saddness. maybe a shoulder is just enough to save a life...right?? its the little things we did...or do for eacahother that mean the most. maybe its time to get back to that. out of all the things i got for christmas this past year, my favorite candybar from my 9 yr old made me the happiest. now thats what i'm talking about...

it is rare to get the chance to actually save someone's life. for most of us our days are filled with a sense of small gestures. like a place to lay your head, or a beer for a thirsty friend. then there are times when life calls for a bigger gift. whether you give yourself a fresh start or a second chance to someone else. but at the end of the day perhaps it is our small gestures that will add up to something big to a life saved or at least a life bettered. because sometimes the grandest gesture can be the smallest one of all. (grey's anatomy)

until next time...safe journey.

or not knowing the future

hello my friends!!! i'm kinda loving this mild weather how about you?? so this is part 2 of yesturdays blog..or at least another part i should say..there may be more associated blogs on this subject i am sure LOL. ah the future...what will it bring. well knowing isn't really all that great. not for everything anyway. not all the time. and you have read this in my previous blogs just the very knowledge of the future can change it because you looked at it....so for those of you who can't see the future (consider yourself lucky for one thing LOL), i know you have the urge to plot and plan and prepare. even i do that, and i don't even need to. but its in our nature to try to predict things, and lay out exactly what we want to happen. BORING!! but things change so often and so quickly that again what we need to do is just enjoy the present. live for the day! i can't say this enough...ENJOY THE NOW!! before its gone!! this is it!! all your lists, and plans and preparations aren't going to matter because life is going to happen the way it wants to!! i know i have said this quote before!! stop worrying!! you'll find out soon enough!! becasue the future can only be the future for so long and THEN...it becomes the present.

we spend our whole lives worrying about the future. planning for the future. trying to predict the future. as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. but the future is always changing. the future is the home of out deepest fears and out wildest hopes. but one thing is certain, when it finally reveals itself...the future is never the way we imagined it. (grey's anatomy)

until next time...safe journey.

knowing the future

hello my friends!! i am again sorry for my lack of blogging....aside from being crazy busy with school and parenting as usual, not that long ago i made a new friend and it seems around that time i ran into blogger's block LOL!! ugh!!! anyway...today's blog will be a two parter about the future. i have spoken about the future before. there are people who know what will happen in the future and there are people who don't. and i think its safe to say that there are parts of our future that all of us know are going to happen. and although we all seem to want to know the future i think it can be unfortunate. if you are always looking ahead, or you know what's going to happen, how can you enjoy the now?? how can you live in the present and just enjoy one day at a time?? we all want to know whats going to happen to us, but once you do you have nothing to look forward to. and it makes it easy to overlook the good stuff...the veiw of the pond from your kitchen window when you're doing dishes, the red bellied woodpecker at the birdfeeder, the smell of spring in the air. for those of us who know the future...enjoy the now. and those of us who don't...give the psychic hotline a break every now and then!!

knowing the future changes everything. then we start making decsions on what WILL happen not what COULD happen. it makes us do things we wouldn't ordinarily do. you'd think that knowing the future would make us less concerned about it. but the opposite happens. the future is what all of us are living for now. its what we are living by. (flash forward)

until next time...safe journey.

thats just life suck it up donna

hello my friends!! i am having a bit of a hard day today!! i kinda feel like a kid on a playground trying to avoid the bully!! i think we all know that people can be mean..especially woman!! and no matter how hard you try you just can't please everyone, and no matter how nice you are not everyone is going to want to be your friend. and thats just life. i know that. but when someone gives me a hard time it still doesn't feel good. i know i am a good person-and the people who REALLY know me-and even some who have just met me, who can see inside-know that i am a good person. i don't consider myself higher, or better then anyone else. but i am going to school right now, and while i am there my primary concern is me, and to learn, to do my best and participate in class, and apparently that is rubbing some of my classmates or at least one that i know of the wrong way and they are making me feel bad. it's rediculous grade school BS i know. but thats life...no matter what age you are. i thought i was done with highschool!! LOL the point is im sure we all know someone like this...in the neighborhood, or at work, or wherever. blow them off with a big smile. don't let them take one iota (is that actually a word?) of your posative energy-like i did today. they aren't worth it. just enjoy yourself, and your life before the best parts are wasted on people who don't matter.


people talk too much. people think too much. we are all just village idiots enamoured with our shadows. oblivious to the setting sun. (in plain site)

until next time...safe journey.

a little peace goes a long way

hello my friends!! i have to say i am really glad february is gone!! LOL!! things seem to be winding down a bit with everyone now that the month of "love" is over LOL!! whew!! the rest of us can relax and get on with whatever it is we do! i have noticed that we all seem to be a little more peaceful..at least for the momemt. and thats good enough!! lets just enjoy the moment!! the now!! spring is right around the corner...and with that comes cabin fever-and OH BOY!! we all know what kind of chaos comes with that!! i don't know about you but all i want to do is get out and party party party!!! so i think i'll enjoy the calm before the storm!! and i suggest you do the same!! because as soon as spring hits we'll being trying to put a name on that chaos like they do all those tropical storms that hit florida!!!

peace isn't a permanent state, it exists in moments. fleeting. gone before we even knew it was there. we can experience it at any time. in a strangers act of kindness, a task that requires complete focus, or simply the comnfort of an old routine. everyday we all experience these moments of peace. the trick is to know when they're happenning so that we can embrace them...and finally let them go-so thers can enjoy them. (grey's anatomy)