remember that it is all temporary

is if I have lived in Montana for over a year am I now a Montanan or will I always be a Texan? Legally I guess my residence is Montana unless I live 6 months both places.

who have lost everything and have to start again from scratch. I have fallen into that trap looking at others who have never lost a thing…then someone comes into your life to remind you none of this is permanent.

Last weekend a woman came into the antique shop and commented on how beautiful the pieces were. She went on to tell me that her family is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Her mother and father lost everything in Hurricane Camille just to rebuild…then all of her family lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. She is not or cannot replace what she lost so she browses antique malls just to look. The tears were welling up in her eyes.

We all heard about the evacuees from New Orleans. I was in North Texas where they were relocated but little is said about the struggle of the families in Mississippi and Alabama trying to start again…even now, years later.

Mom and I always went grocery shopping on Sundays at Publix. For months after her death I couldn’t go. I changed stores. I changed days. Today I went. It made me a little sad. It struck me how different my life in now than when she was alive. In some ways it is better, in some ways worse. Overall it is just very different. But this particular state I find myself in is also temporary. I wonder what’s next?

I think I am now very well aware that everything is definately nothing other than temporary.

There comes a point in your life when you realize

who matters,

who never did,

who won’t anymore…

and who always will.

So, don’t worry about people from your past,

there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.

Give this heart to everyone you don’t want to lose in 2008,

including me, if you care.

Try to collect 12; it’s not easy!

“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”

and we were talking about how quiet my life is in the wilderness. He said he gets bored and doesn’t let things get too quiet…he likes to play…then we got into what we would like to do…he wants to be a high end builder(right now he is a CAD designer) so that doesn’t seem to far away from what he is doing…

I told him I wanted to have my production company and children’s cooking studio/art cafe…he asked what was stopping me?

Except money I couldn’t think of a thing.

“This came in my e-mail this morning:”

Recently, someone said to me “Yeah but I’m too old.” It saddens me to hear such comments especially in light of some of the facts below:

- Verdi composed his “Ave Maria” at age 85.
- Martha Graham performed until she was 75 and choreographed her 180th work at age 95.
- Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini Pieta six days before he died at 89.
- Marion Hart, sportswoman and author, learned to fly at age 54 and made seven nonstop solo flights across the Atlantic, the last time in 1975 at age 83.
- Grandma Moses had her first one-woman show when she was 80.

If you think you are too old to do something you’ve always wanted to do, you may want to reconsider and just go for it! Complete the following exercise:

What is the one thing you have always wanted to do but have been putting off?
Ask yourself: “If not now, when?”
What is your cut-off date for doing it __.

A woman once walked up to Wally (Famous) Amos after a talk he had given and remarked, “I’m fifty one now. If I go to law school I will be fifty five, in four years when I graduate.” Amos replied, “How old will you be in four years if you don’t go?”

_{Excerpt from Handbook To A Happier Life- A Simple Guide To Creating The Life You’ve Always Wanted, by Jim Donovan (New World Library}

of how perilous our health is happened night before last. I woke up in the middle of the night with a burning pain in my chest and a fever. My first thought was I was having another pulmonary episode…then remembered one of the guys at the shop has been in sick the past few days.

I stayed home sleeping all day yesterday losing a whole day’s wages…but I’m feeling a little better today. All I could think of while at home yesterday was the months I spent in bed recuperating from my illnesses a few years ago.

I certainly don’t want to go there again…so I’m back on the healthy bandwagon. :)

My Dad died. I was just 7 and I still miss him. How is it that life itself is temporary but loss is so permanent?

It’s been my experience that when people accuse you of being a liar they are accustomed to telling lies themselves…usually big ones.