Talk is cheap....listening is priceless!

There are lessons to be learned every minute of every day. I think GOD must be trying to alert me to all of the millions of people who don't feel that anyone understands them or even cares enough to listen to them.................

FLASH!



The rest of this blog has been edited, simply because, while it's truly the way I feel, I truly don't want anyone to read it. Ah....the beauty of on-line blogging spots! One can continue to hide if one so chooses.

All is quiet on New Year's Day......

Only cried 3 times today...the year is off to a great start! :)

Happy 2014, world!

The sounds of silence:

I ran across this little "proclomation" on FaceBook today and just had to share it myself on my own page, and now here. It hit home for me.........HARD! One of the worst times of my life began with lots of lies, gossip and backstabbing. The part that hurt, however, was NOT what was said and who said it and to whom. It was the fact  that, to my knowledge, none of my friends took a stand against the perpetrators. (Hoping I am wrong about this, but, again....to my knowledge I was alone.)  To add insult to injury, a short time later, MySpace became "the thing" and a good many of my friends "friended" the liars who were behind the whole sordid story.  It was like being stabbed in the heart AGAIN!  I have done the right thing and "forgiven" everyone involved.. But forgiving is not forgetting, and because I can't forget.....my trust in people is pretty much a thing of the past. Sadly, we can't "unlearn" the hurts we recieve, no matter how much we would like to. (I suppose this is a good defense mechanism that we are born with, but it would be nice to turn it off at times!) 

So....I guess what it all boils down to is: we ALL need to remember to stand up for the truth and our friends when they are in the right. It's not as hard to do as you might think, and good karma as well.  :)  Unless, of course, you don't care one whit about your friends.....then, by all means, keep silent.

It was HOW MANY years ago today?????

Groovin' up slowly........

Happy 44th birthday, ABBEY ROAD!  You give me life.

Tender is the night............

Zelda S Fitzgerald, in a letter to her husband, Scott, wrote:

".....Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead."

The loss of those things CAN be challenging, I have to admit.

Sigh.

Fly on, little wing

My little heart, Geddy, is flying with the angels now..........


Maybe there will be a 'keet disco ball in heaven...........


Bye, bye, birdie. I love you!   (Sept 19, 2013)

 

 

 

 

 

 

My hero..........

Photographer and artist Lisa Law, who created the film, FLASHING ON THE 60s,  described Wavy Gravy as the only person she knew who hears no ego, sees no ego, speaks no ego.

 

I'd like to think that one day someone will feel this way about ME!!!!

 

...and we shall all understand...

I have loved this quote for many, many years, and was prompted to search for it again after a few more descents into hell today. I need to remind myself of this on a daily basis!

"It is difficult to hold on sometimes----but someday beyond out tears and all the world's wrongs; beyond the clouds and all we can see and touch....

there will be love and compassion and justice; and we shall all understand."

~~Flavia Weedn

Addictions

We all have our addictions.......ALL of us, but I hope and pray that I never, EVER again have to live with a food addict.  I've known many substance abusers before, and few try to force their addictions on others. Food addicts, however, are a different story. Thier obsession is YOUR obsession....at least in thier eyes. As for me personally....I get no enjoyment from food and eat only to live, so living with constant talk about food.......not to mention eating too much too early is driving me crazy. Literally. I feel like I am losing my mind. I pray....a LOT, but my prayers don't seem to be going anywhere but into the wild blue yonder. Hanging on by a thread, folks.  Count your blessings........

Anger

A study in living color entitled: ANGER. End of story. Or not.

Beautiful hell....

Pollen count in Atlanta today: 2095. I've had the worst sinus headache I've had in years for the past week or so. Of course, unlike most people, I'm not allowed to be under the weather. My slavedom must continue as always. My pain in non-existent. I really do feel like I live in hell sometimes. But, one thing I *can* say....Atlanta in the spring is a beautiful hell.

Acceptance

I am actually hoping that one day I can get to the point that I can truly accept the fact that I am who I am physically and will never be beautiful and probably never again be thin.  I *should* be happy with the person I  am on the inside and not care one whit about the outside. I hope I can learn to make peace with the fact that even a makeover wouldn't do any good. I'm not there yet.

and i said to myself...what a wonderful world!

2013 note: So.....for all the re-blogging I planned on doing tonight: I saved the BEST for last!  I love and miss you, my brother.

and i said to myself...what a wonderful world!

Current mood:ecstatic

 

i have a love/hate relationship with computers. i often think that we as a society are too attached to these machines, and on some levels this generation is losing the art of human interaction because we spend all our time looking at a little square screen.

having said that, tho....i gotta say: GOD BLESS THE INTERNET!! what a wonderful thing it is.....an invention that gives you the opportunity to not only MEET one of your life-long idols, but to actually get the opportunity to become friends with them as well!

chuck and moni!!! i love you guys more than you know. thanks for dinner, and well, for just being YOU!!!!!!!! smoochers!!

out of the mouths of babes

2013 note:  I need to re-read this EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!

out of the mouths of babes

Current mood:sleepy

 

today one of my girls at church said to me:

"you are the coolest person EVER!"

do you have *any* idea how badly i needed that???

a fine line...........

2013 note:  Again: my life. Daily.

a fine line......

Current mood:cranky

 

sometimes i wish things could be black and white and not anywhere near a shade of gray. there are times when there *is* a fine line between doing what seems to be the right thing to do for ME and what feels like the right thing to do as far as other people are concerned. i don't like feeling like i'm being a bitch, but at the same time, i always try to "do unto others." is it too much to ask that "others" do unto me as well?? apparently so. it makes me sad.

these days

2013 note:  I have to note that while Jackson Browne wrote this song, it's the Gregg Allman version that I am in love with!!

these days

Current mood:discontent

 

Well Ive been out walking
I dont do that much talking these days
These days--
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
For you
And all the times I had the chance to

And I had a lover
Its so hard to risk another these days
These days--
Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life I have made in song
Well its just that Ive been losing so long

Ill keep on moving
Things are bound to be improving these days
These days--
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend
Dont confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them

this song suits me today. it's an amazing song and the only song by jackson browne that i actually like.

time.....

2013 note: Perfect truth!!

time....

Current mood:excited

 

"time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not give a crap."
-from the novel "split second" by david baldacci

i'm looking forward to the "not giving a crap" part........

potholes

2013 note:  From the tone of the last few blogs I chose to repost, it's apparent that I am still and always was searching for some peace.

potholes

Current mood:cold

 

"There are potholes on the road less traveled. Some deep, some not so deep, some you dig yourself. Most are filled with mud. Many contain rocks. Once in awhile, however, you'll be walking along and step in one a bit more accomodating.....shabby, green, and pulsing with life.
It will tickle your feet, like clover."

-Ray Blackston "Flabbergasted"

speaking from the perspective of a pothole queen and funk sister.....i *really* needed this! thanks mr blackston.

unexpected

2013  note:  Be thankful for what ya got!

unexpected

Current mood:contemplative

I asked the Lord
for a bunch of fresh flowers
but instead he gave me an ugly cactus
with many thorns.
I asked the Lord
for some beautiful butterflies
but instead he gave me
many ugly and dreadful worms.
I was threatened.
I was disappointed.
I mourned.
But after many days,
suddenly,
I saw the cactus bloom
with many beautiful flowers
and those worms became
beautiful butterflies
flying in the wind.
God's way is the best way.
-Chung-Ming Kao

sometimes you find just what you need to hear in the most unexpected places.

hmmmmm.......

2013 note:  I think I'm just gonna leave this one alone.....and let our thoughts be our thoughts.

hmmmmm.......

Current mood:contemplative

 

"Remember now," the man told Levi, "different sorts of music touches different parts of a body's soul." ...... "Never limit yourself to just one sort of music, son. You might die without discovering important pieces of yourself."
"But sometimes wantin' is a lot easier than getting'. And it seems most folks always wantin' what they can't have. Easier to deal with the wantin' than the havin', I's guess. Longin' for is safer than dealin' with when it comes to matters of the heart."

wow. from the novel "the diamond doorknob" by marijo moore.