Learning about unconditional love and acceptance
Safely arrived to see what the future has in store for us.
Minnesota greeted us with warm 70’s weather.
For two days.
Followed today by weather in the 30’s with snow flurries.
Well now.
This Northeastern & Southern transplant is quite fond of her flip flops.
I’m not giving them up that easy,
Not only that, the convertible is supposed to be here in two days.
Don’t ya know. 🙂
Does anyone else ever wonder why some people follow their blogs?
I don’t think I’m that witty.
Well, okay, I can be sometimes.
I’m random. I’m a sporadic writer, at best at the present.
I think I do a pretty good job picking out those who just “like” a post or “follow” me for the sole purpose to build up their audience base.
But then there are those people who make me go hmmm.
What did I say that peaked their interest? They don’t seem to comment. So, hmm, I wonder.
Perhaps I am a character for an upcoming writing project.
I wonder if I’m the main character or just a walk on?
I better get busy providing more material, I mean I could be the main character!
Oh, the pressure of the thought! Ha!
Reality check time Denise….don’t you think you have enough on your plate now?
Time to do some more sorting and packing.
Denise – exit stage left.
I’m a character alright.
Yesterday while getting dressed, I thought I had a particularly brilliant moment in the “writing” compartment of my brain.
Yes, I just said it.
The words just started forming in my head and I stopped what I was doing and ran to get paper before I forgot what I was thinking.
Well, that does happen to me. The forgetting what I’m thinking when I go to write.
It’s either that or I get stuck on something and can’t get it out of my head.
So today I stood there with great anticipation.
I got nothing. Or as I said in my head “nuthin”
I must have sprained my brain yesterday.
Two years. I can’t believe it has been that long.
Two years since I’ve started blogging.
There is a sort of comfort about writing and releasing it out “into the unknown”. Most recently I’ve “unplugged” the link to my Facebook page when I publish a post. I may go back now and then and decide to post one there, however, for the most part they won’t go there.
This seems to go against all the blogging advice for a “better audience”. I’ve been thinking however, that mostly any family and friends that are interested in what I’m writing already visit this site…and well the other friends I have on Facebook are either not interested or very busy, so why should I continue to clog up their newsfeeds?
My blog has been more personal than my Facebook page. There is a sort of comfort about writing and releasing it out “into the unknown”. In some ways that makes no sense, and in another way that makes perfect sense. Well, at least it does to me.
So, I’ve made the change.
Got some other changes to talk about.
Bear with me on the timing.
I admire the discipline that some of my fellow bloggers have to post daily. Their apparent ease or willpower to pen a post on a daily basis is something that I have not yet acquired.
This morning I was thinking that daily consistency to a blog is like the dentist reminding me to floss daily. I want to do it, I know I should do it, but sometimes it just doesn’t get done. Now, just so you don’t think I’m running around with ‘hunks of food’ stuck in my teeth, or that I don’t floss at all (which I do)…I’m just making a comparison.
I mean when the dentist asks me if I floss daily. I fess up. I floss, just not every day. And, if you follow me here at all, you know I post, (duh), just not every day. I’d like to post daily, it’s just I don’t do it.
They say it takes, what, three weeks to develop a new habit?
Both flossing daily, and blogging daily are good habits to adopt.
So I’m challenging myself. I’ve done both today.
Any other flossers/bloggers out there who want to join me in this challenge? 🙂
A while back I posted about the topic of Community. I wrote about the community of friends that we have met while feeding the homeless in Finlay Park. This community has touched our lives just as much as we have hoped to help them. It is a community that continues to exist, some members entering and exiting based upon what season they are in their lives, not shrinking though, ever growing. What a blessing to be a part of!
There is another community that continues to grow around me that I’ve been blessed with. That is my blogging community, one that continually surprises me by the depth of writing, the humor, splendid photography, encouragement, words of wisdom and just plain fun!
I am still trying to find time have a regular schedule of posting at least twice a week. Somehow, either my journal pages don’t make it to the “publish” button or I’m off doing something else. Still trying. I can get distracted. (I blame it on the meds, or menopause, or both.)
Where was I going with this…..
Oh, now I remember…….
So, I was surprised the other day when Sue over at Letters to Rosa nominated me for the Sisterhood Award! What a treat!
However, it reminded me that I had neglected to properly thank and follow the “necessary protocol” for the Versatile Blogger award that Patrecia (a.k.a) Miss Whiplash awarded me. What a ninny I have been for being so lax!
Now, as I have mentioned before I can be “a little” OCD about things. When I can’t complete a “necessary checklist” to the “proper specifications” I can have the tendency to procrastinate sort of let it go if not careful.
I like to think I am getting wiser as I get older, (at least that is what I tell anyone who will listen to me) – so I am not looking for the “necessary checklist” for the Versatile Blogger award and am just using the one for the Sisterhood Award, thus making the following changes:
Tell 7 things about yourself, nominate/recommend 7 bloggers.
Here are 7 bloggers to check out:
1. I’m nominating Miss Whiplash for the Sisterhood Award. Her blog title says it all “I’ve Been Thinking About“. I like that so much that it is hard not to “borrow” it as a post title on a regular basis! What a treat to read her posts! She was one of the first bloggers that I really started following, and I’ve never been disappointed.
2 & 3. I’m nominating Sue for the Versatile Blogger Award. I’ve just recently started following her blogs. She has two! Check them both out, particularly if you like tails from Vermont and stories from family history. You can find her at SueBahr.com and Letters to Rosa.
4. Want to travel to far off places? Have visual treats of color presented to you? Stop by A Word in Your Ear and see what the Skinnywench has to show you!
5. Need more? Visit Patrick Latter Photographer at Canadian Hiking Photography for more gorgeous shots.
6. A new blog I’ve started following is Being Fifty-Something. If Sheryl didn’t have me at the title, she sure had me hooked at her “Why?” page. But, I mean “Being Fifty-Something?”, is that not appropriate for me? (snort). I’m nominating her for the Versatile Blogger Award.
7. For some new bloggers on the scene I’m nominating Carmen and Grace for the Sisterhood Award. They blog about sweet things…cupcakes, cookies, cakes, and books! They are teaching the community that reading can be sweet. You can find them at Reading & Sweeting.
If you want to check out more blogs, you can always check out my page; Bloggers I Follow. I try to add to them as I add people that I follow. There is no order of preference, just generally the order I started following them.
Now, for the 7 things about myself, in case you were wondering about all that…..
1. I had Amish neighbors growing up. When I was a child there was a sweet Amish lady named Lydia that help my Mom and even went with us on some of our family trips to Maine.
2. My Great Grandmother taught me to play the piano when I was 5 on her upright piano. I still remember the last song she taught me before she died.
3. I have the piano stool from that upright piano. My butt sits on it almost everyday at my vanity table.
4. I almost drowned in our family pool pretending to be a mermaid.
5. My favorite flowers are tulips, followed closely by lily of the valley. Guess what my favorite Season is?
6. My Mother wanted to call me Wendy, but my Dad thought I could get the nickname “Windy” for talking too much. They chose Denise instead. My school report cards had “talks too much” on them. Apparently, the name selection didn’t effect the behavior.
7. I like your comments. I do, I really do. I really appreciate all of you stopping by and reading and commenting on my blog! Thanks for the encouragement! I’ll try to answer questions left in comments in future posts or reply to your comments. Thanks again!
Just As I Am 