maybe we are all just a little homeless

hello my friends!! here we are again!! fall is upon us...i do love the change in seasons, if only it didn't lead into winter!! ugh!!! so i will make the most of what is left of the good weather and enjoy the beautiful foliage to come! i am definately an outdoors girl...always looking for a babbling brook with a soft waterfall or just the right two trees to walk between.
so it was appropriate that i spent the weekend in the pocanos (did i spell that right? LOL) anyway it was great! lots of fun, we went for a friend's wedding, one of my sister's and my mom went as well. and during the wedding ceremony, in walks a homeless woman, carrying what i presume to be all of her megar belongings. she walked right past the priest, the bride and groom, right in front of the whole congregation and sat herself down in a pew. stunned, everyone stared in silence. then a few people snickered-which made me mad. i always think to myself "there, but for the grace of god, go i." she was older, with a weathered face, that i found so beautiful. she crossed herself, and she bowed her head and she prayed. there was nothing pretentious about her. she had come for god's blessing, and then she looked up, hopeful, and participated in the rest of the mass.
people tend to judge homeless people. truth is, we don't know why they are homeless, or what circumstance brought them to where they are. it's a short road for alot of people. i don't look at them with pity, i pray that they find courage and strength to get up everyday and face their burdens...just like the rest of us.

erasmus wrote:
what else is a whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the statge.

let us consider that we are all insane. it will explain us to eachother. it will unriddle many riddles. mark twain

until next time...safe journey.

in death do us part...

hello my friends!!ok..where the hell did summer go?? 90 degrees one day 60 the next! NY is like a fickle old lady! gotta love her! not so much!
lets talk about something we all hate to talk about. we don't even like to think about it. death. a beautiful young women died yesturday...and i mean young. no matter what your beliefs are i think its safe to say that some people stay on this earth waaaaayyy too long, and some are taken way too early. it's not so much the death part-although obviously that really sucks, but its all the suffering that goes with it. and not everyone is lucky enough to have someone like my BFF kelly to be there holding your hand, or my mother who made sure my father left this earth with as much dignity as possible. and as much as we prepare for death, and then after we walk around saying, "its for the best, they are in a better place." (that is true of course) but they are just words. you still feel the loss. that person is gone, and you still have the pain, and the emptiness inside of knowing that you wont ever hear them laugh again, or be able to touch them. it just takes time, so keep your pictures and your memories, that once, she locked you in a port-a-potty at inner harbor and almost knocked it over!

behind everybody we love lies the invitability of their loss. but that knowledge doesn't make it any easier when they are gone. and you are left with trying to come to terms with what's lost. (author unknown)