11.09.2012 The other day I was driving home from work. I came to a stop at a red light, and settled back into my seat to wait.
Glancing out the side window and up at the sky...robin's egg blue; no clouds. Just BLUE sky. Nothing but blue sky for miles and miles and ...whoa! a DRAGON! There's a DRAGON in the sky! An Honest to Goodness Drago.... oh
it wasn't a Dragon at all. It was just a small silver plane, destined to land in a few minutes at the Greenwood Airport. It was tilted, and looked NOTHING like a small silver plane, but EVERYTHING like a small silver dragon.
And for just that brief second, I truly BELIEVED it was a dragon. I saw it, my mind identified it and shouted "Dragon!" :) And I've got to tell you, for that one moment I believed...I felt AMAZING.
I think the World could use a good sized population of Dragons. Not the fire breathing ones of course; intelligent herbivores who love nothing better than to entertain commuters as they sit in their cars, waiting for the light to change. You've seen flocks of birds swoop in their intricate patterns...can you imagine a herd of dragons doing the same?
Friday, November 9, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
11.03.2012 Thoughts at 7:09 AM
11.03.2012 Careening Thoughts
While on FB this morning, my thoughts started on a careening tangent. So I thought I'd copy and paste them into my blog. Kind of silly, because I think most people who read my blog are the ones who are my Facebook Friends and therefore, will probably have already read my list. Oh well!
Thoughts at 7:09 am
1. Am I doomed to forever wake up 2 minutes before my weekday alarm (5:50 AM) WOULD have gone off?
2. Mmmmmm Hot Irish Breakfast Tea
3. Wish I had a fresh scone to go with my IBT
4. Do I want to bake scones at 7:09 in the morning?
5. Long's Donuts has scones
6 Wonder if people stagger into Long's in their pajamas?
7. Sure is dark outside
8. Fall back tonight with the clocks
9. I'm glad i bought that Flea market clock that looks like the one my Grannie had
10. I miss my Grannie
11. I sure do like a good Flea Market
12. Johnson County has one today
13. Should I be alarmed that I find articles on Cracked.com so funny?
14. More tea, more tea
15. iBT in a Jury's Inn cup that Mom and I 'liberated' when in Ireland has gotta be better than when in a normal cup
16. Ireland with Mom and my Aunties. That was a great trip.
17. Glad I went to Alaska with Mom
18. Puffins. Wish I'd gotten a better picture of those puffins I saw in the ocean
19. More tea
20. Does everyone's mind flip from subject to subject like mine does? Or is it just me?
While on FB this morning, my thoughts started on a careening tangent. So I thought I'd copy and paste them into my blog. Kind of silly, because I think most people who read my blog are the ones who are my Facebook Friends and therefore, will probably have already read my list. Oh well!
Thoughts at 7:09 am
1. Am I doomed to forever wake up 2 minutes before my weekday alarm (5:50 AM) WOULD have gone off?
2. Mmmmmm Hot Irish Breakfast Tea
3. Wish I had a fresh scone to go with my IBT
4. Do I want to bake scones at 7:09 in the morning?
5. Long's Donuts has scones
6 Wonder if people stagger into Long's in their pajamas?
7. Sure is dark outside
8. Fall back tonight with the clocks
9. I'm glad i bought that Flea market clock that looks like the one my Grannie had
10. I miss my Grannie
11. I sure do like a good Flea Market
12. Johnson County has one today
13. Should I be alarmed that I find articles on Cracked.com so funny?
14. More tea, more tea
15. iBT in a Jury's Inn cup that Mom and I 'liberated' when in Ireland has gotta be better than when in a normal cup
16. Ireland with Mom and my Aunties. That was a great trip.
17. Glad I went to Alaska with Mom
18. Puffins. Wish I'd gotten a better picture of those puffins I saw in the ocean
19. More tea
20. Does everyone's mind flip from subject to subject like mine does? Or is it just me?
Thursday, November 1, 2012
10.31.2012 All the Last Times
10.31.2012
In perusing blogs, I came across this one. http://3x3x365.blogspot.com .
Three friends from three different parts of the country (Asheville NC, South Bend IN, and Richmond VA) post to this blog each day, sharing their lives with each other and people like me who have become interested in their photos and their written thoughts.
This post by Richmond VA really hit home. http://3x3x365.blogspot.com/2012/10/102912.html
Here's an excerpt...
Read the whole post.
If you're a Mom with grown up children, you might have a tear or two.
All the FIRST Times are really important and those are the things that really stand out in your memory when you have babies - the FIRST time you know that baby looked at you and KNEW you, The FIRST word, the FIRST step, the FIRST day of school.
But the LAST TIMES are hard to remember, because the LAST TIME just doesn't have the impact, because you just don't KNOW it's the last time until, as she mentioned in her post, you're standing somewhere and you think..Huh. When WAS that last time?? And then devastation hits, because you just don't have a distinct memory. Like...
~~the last time I pulled a tshirt over a big ol' baby head because he couldn't escape from it
~~the last time the boys argued about who would be my Couch Pal for the evening
~~the last time each boy came to ME for a hug when they were hurting, instead of to a girlfiend
I think that's why I like to take pictures. If nothing else, I've got that Last Time I was with Someone in a jpg. But I think if I'd known the last Couch Pal argument WAS the final one, I'd have insisted everyone sit with me in a Big Pile.
:)
In perusing blogs, I came across this one. http://3x3x365.blogspot.com .
Three friends from three different parts of the country (Asheville NC, South Bend IN, and Richmond VA) post to this blog each day, sharing their lives with each other and people like me who have become interested in their photos and their written thoughts.
This post by Richmond VA really hit home. http://3x3x365.blogspot.com/2012/10/102912.html
Here's an excerpt...
"I tore a page out of Reader’s Digest once.
It was a short essay entitled All the Last Times.
For years I had a copy of it on my refrigerator,
and have shared it with every new mom I know.
Today I am sharing it with "old" moms who,
like me, are shocked by the fact that kids grow up."
Read the whole post.
If you're a Mom with grown up children, you might have a tear or two.
All the FIRST Times are really important and those are the things that really stand out in your memory when you have babies - the FIRST time you know that baby looked at you and KNEW you, The FIRST word, the FIRST step, the FIRST day of school.
But the LAST TIMES are hard to remember, because the LAST TIME just doesn't have the impact, because you just don't KNOW it's the last time until, as she mentioned in her post, you're standing somewhere and you think..Huh. When WAS that last time?? And then devastation hits, because you just don't have a distinct memory. Like...
~~the last time I pulled a tshirt over a big ol' baby head because he couldn't escape from it
~~the last time the boys argued about who would be my Couch Pal for the evening
~~the last time each boy came to ME for a hug when they were hurting, instead of to a girlfiend
I think that's why I like to take pictures. If nothing else, I've got that Last Time I was with Someone in a jpg. But I think if I'd known the last Couch Pal argument WAS the final one, I'd have insisted everyone sit with me in a Big Pile.
:)
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