friends...

Friend

Pronunciation:\ˈfrend\

Function: noun

1 : one attached to another by affection or esteem

2 a: one that is not hostile b: one that is of the same nation, party, or group

3: one that favors or promotes something (as a charity)

4: a favored companion

Thank you for my friend coming to visit today. Thank you for friends to call and visit and go to the movies with this weekend. Thank you.

thank you

thank you for my family.

for my mama.

for my brothers.

for my nephews.

for my sisters-in-law.

for my dad.

for my grandparents.

for my aunt and uncle.

for my cousins and their children.

for my friends that are like family.

i say lately that i have a small tribe.

it's kind of true.

but only in that they're not all with me in florida.

i really have a big tribe.

thank you.

thank you for my home.

for the small cozy size of it.

for the sweet colors and texture and warmth of it.

that it shelters me and georgia blue.

for the flowers and plants i love to tend.

that it's close to my mama's home.

thank you.

thank you for friends to share moments with.

for friends to visit - and who visit me.

for friends to send baby gifts to.

for friends to laugh with and reconnect with.

for friends yet discovered.

thank you.

thank you for fun.

for beautiful music.

for movies.

for books to read.

for games to play.

for leisure time.

thank you.

(what a luxury.)

thank you for dreams.

for visions and hopes and anticipation.

for planned trips and experiences.

for a wedding at goodwood plantation.

for babies to be born.

for living the reason you were born to be alive.

thank you.

thank you for material and financial blessing.

i am so blessed.

i have more than enough.

always have.

always will.

thank you.

thank you for you.

for your love.

for your goodness.

for your being.

for your breathing life into me every day.

for deciding i still get to do this dance of life.

for being my companion - all the time.

for holding me and whispering good things to me.

thank you, my sweet God, Creator, Lover...

thank you.

My cup runneth over...

So happy and full and amazed and delighted and affirmed and hopeful and blessed and inspired and encouraged...

Marinating in the goodness of a sweet and other-worldly time away from home. The Celtic Thunder concert made my heart happy - and my fingers and toes and eyelashes and hair and lips and feet and hands - All of ME! It was so incredibly wonderful...in ways I can't even articulate. I'm grateful for ears to hear it and eyes to see it and a heart that swells and swims in champagne when experiencing such awe-inspiring goodness on this earth!

La dolce vita! Oh, this sweet and smashingly beautiful, abundant life!

I'm captured...

photo by susannah conway

...by this lovely word:





Essence \e-sən(t)s\noun

1 a: the permanent as contrasted with the accidental element of being b: the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing especially as opposed to its existence c: the properties or attributes by means of which something can be placed in its proper class or identified as being what it is 2: something that exists 3: the most significant element, quality, or aspect of a thing or person 4: the most central and material part.




aspect. attribute. backbone. base. basis. be-all and end-all. being.bottom line. caliber. character. core. crux. element. essentia. essentiality. fiber. fundamentals. grain. kernel. lifeblood. marrow. meaning. meat. nature. nitty-gritty. nub. nucleus. pith. point. principle. quality. quiddity. quintessence. reality. root. soul. spirit. structure. substance. texture

Delicious

Really looking forward to this beautiful movie...seems so maddenly romantic and lovely...

Right. Up. My. Alley.

Tonight

Vulnerable...that is the word to describe me tonight. I'm not even sure all the reasons, but I just feel vulnerable...open and able to be hurt...

So, I come to my home and exhale and revel in the embrace of my little cottage. Just breathe and go slow and let everything get set back to "good".

(p.s. countdown still continues - 48 hours until CT)

The Countown Has Begun...

Five days until I see these unique (and delicious) men in concert! Anybody going to the Atlanta show this Saturday? If so, I may see you there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjoTe7F-1n8

Happy Food

I love this place. It's cozy and bustling and familiar - no matter where in the USA you find yourself, the Cracker Barrell's are pretty reliably similar.

I've eaten at CB's in New Hampshire, Idaho, Texas, Florida, and everywhere in between.

I heart Cracker Barrell.

True Marriage

I found this today - and it intrigues me a bit...on this journey of mine...

"Ladies and gentlemen, why do we marry? In a word, it is so that we may resemble God's image. As One Entity who exists with dual characteristics, God is a unified being in which opposites dwell in union. Because men and women are projections of God's divine characteristics, their destiny is to form a union as one body, become as one seed, and return to oneness with God's original character.

Let us give highest praise to the sanctity of marriage. Married life is the way for a man and a woman to love. Whom do we resemble when we become one through married life? Our goal is to resemble God. It is only when a man and a woman become one that they truly resemble God, who created them in His image. It is then, and only then, that God resides in them. A man symbolizes heaven and a woman symbolizes earth. So it is necessary for a man and woman to come together in harmony to bring about peace. The phrase, "the union of virtue in heaven and earth," refers to a state in which a husband and wife have accomplished perfect unity centering on Heaven's true love." (http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon04/SM040821.htm)

Emphasis added by True Girl.

Then view this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wzFfhgMLw

I am agreeing with and for True Marriage on this earth. I stand as a link in the chain...