To do lists stack up in my head. I use them like a cruel jockey with a narrow riding crop on my stubborn mare motivation. Needless to say, there is a lot of bucking ( Read more... )

Sometimes opportunities come along to remind you that you don't HAVE to take them ( Read more... )

Today's Experiences:

Never before have I been able to use the term " heady" to describe the smell of flowers.  Towering magnolias, cereal bowl roses, and vaulting honey suckles.  Promptly followed by the cat urine smell of junipers.

Being able to relate to "5 miles uphill... both ways"

The smells of thousands of cooking suppers pouring from thousands ( Read more... )

rough/rəf/

Verb: Work or shape (something) in a rough, preliminary fashion: "flat surfaces are roughed down".Noun: A disreputable and violent person.

day/dā/

Noun: A period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time, reckoned from one midnight to the next, corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis.Adjective: Carried out during the day as ( Read more... )

Report card day sucked as a kid ( Read more... )

Love yourself - accept yourself - forgive yourself - and be good to yourself because, without you, the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things ( Read more... )

 End of the day...  should be going to bed... bla bla bla.  You know the drill ( Read more... )

 I worry.   I do!  I feel I need to be able to justify, to whomever inquires, what I did with my time and why ( Read more... )

 Here's to us one more toast and then we'll pay the bill
Deep inside both of us can feel the autumn chill
Birds of passage, you and me
We fly instinctively
When the summer's over and the dark clouds hide the sun
Neither you nor I'm to blame when all is said and done

It's been there in my dreams the scene i see unfold
Who at last flesh and blood to cherish ( Read more... )

 This week's goal, as I sit here at 3:00am on new Years Day?   Get More Sleep.  Make my Bed in the Morning.  That's it.