Learning Something New

I drafted a post a few months ago. Tonight I made some edits, added to it and posted it. However, it shows below. Not knowing exactly what to do, I have left it - and am simply going to note it here. One of these days I might figure out how to create a draft and have it pop in at the top.

Happy Thursday!!!!!

The Party Continues ........

"It's never crowded along the extra mile." - Anonymous

This quote jumped out at me. Does this not seem to be true? If in a group of any number, doing anything - how often does it seem that someone is not quite done. Not always because they didn't know how or are simply slow, yet because they folded the letters three ways so the address showed. Not so all the print was inside.



Sometimes when we are alone, it is so easy to not slice the sandwich and eat it whole. After all who cares. Or, not make the bed -- because who will notice.

YOU do MATTER - not because someone will see - someone OTHER than YOU. YOU will know, and again, YOU matter.

Plus -- YOU can make a DIFFERENCE in a life other than your own.

Party -- of One or More

What constitutes a party, anyway? I think a party can exist - yet, if no one is there to share the joy of a party, is it really a party? In my last post I suggested that people share their summers, whether they had one or not; and, made a suggestion to "get the party started."

No takers - hmmm. Not sure how to take that, yet I began blogging literally years ago, when blogging appeared to be simply a blank slate to, simply write. All of a sudden, so it seemed, people began to appear by making comments. What an interesting phenomenon virtual writing became. I almost stopped. Someone appeared to be invading a private, one person party.

A one-person party where I was enjoying myself while I wrote. Unaware that eyes could see, voices would talk, and my thoughts were spreading.

So, I'm taking steps to return to my private party - untether myself from distractions newly discovered. You can join me in whatever capacity you like.

"Squeeze joy from each minute. Time does not return, yet memories do." Silicone bands with that quote are available in green/white and black/white - and I'm going to create either a magnet or bookmark.

Cheers and blessings to all!

Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer -- .......

I'm on the East coast - and, well summer, weather that is, never really got started. There were a couple steamy days, and now fall is beginning.

Oh, I took fresh strawberries and cheese to the Pig Roast which was grand in many ways. Just stopping in to say summer is just about over and I've scheduled my first fall class to take, and looking forward to getting back to the keyboard. Also, since my computer has been fixed. It was a puzzler, yet it took a grand computer mind to figure out that the wireless card was competing with Windows to access the Internet. Neither won - so I was, thus more quit than I might have been. Yet, he negotiated a truce and I'm back on the Internet.

And, admittedly, this past week, I was still in "vacation" mode, and have begun to play on Facebook with Mafia Wars. My daughter and son-in-law play it so thought I would test drive it. Well, I am hooked. I tried a couple other games, yet determined this can be played without constant attention, and a light heart.

Since representatives of many states have commented, I would love to hear how your summer has been, and if you had one. Please share, and let's get this party started again.

New photo coming soon - as soon as the "right" one appears.
Squeeze joy........

A Tidbit -- can be enough

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
~Edward Everett Hale

Good Morning! Hope this finds you all prospering, enjoying, enriching, being enriched, and unburdened. Today, as I continue to move into my newest residential environment, and learn more in my new day job, I saw this quote. I have been rather quiet for the past few months. I felt a need to simply get things done. Moving takes focus, a new job takes focus. Also, I have been reading Christian fiction. A series that totally captured my attention, holding me, a delighted prisoner of words - the author, Jan Karan.

The point to this post? As with most of them - it is what you "hear" in your mind when you read it. It might be nothing........

Cheers - and, summer is not over. Pig Roast today!!!! Next thought is what to take as a dish to pass. And to celebrate SATURDAY!!!!!

Cheers!!!!!!

NOT GONE -- YET.....

I'm moving. Yes, I'm changing my physical space, and that process is taking a lot of my time. Also, my computer is sick - and will be repaired after the move in it's new space.

Taking a moment to wish you all well, joy, grace and peace as we move toward the 4th of July holiday. Independence - what does it mean to you?

Blessings ----

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to all the fathers in the World. You are so very much needed by children everywhere -- not only your own children, yet by those who are friends, neighbors or those you coach or even by children that simply "see" you round and about. If you don't have children of your own - you can still lead by example.

By ACTIONS and words of course -- you have a strength that you might not recognize, acknowledge or be utilizing. Step up, stand tall - today, and every day.

Happy, Happy Father's Day!!!!!