Not on a roll anymore…well, I’m always on roll, not so my team

What do you do when your team is not going for the championship anymore? If you are like me, your ego gets hurt a lot, a whole lot. You feel nauseated, wanting to put your face under the sand, in other words, feel miserable. For a good number of hours. Then, pick yourself up and think about how the team players must feel. Then, there was a shift in my pity party. I started to ask the Lord to give them the strength to face the loss. Just a basketball game you tell yourself. But, it is March Madness and you want your team to go all the way to the championship. Next year. You tell yourself.

Then, you go and get a croissant and a late and stuff your face with it. Notice something different in this post? The absence of my picture is evident. The hair and face are moody, so no good pictures to share today. Losing is not an easy thing.

Enough! There are more important things in life. Really? Yes, have to acknowledge your pain, but enough is just plenty enough. Now back to the drawing board to being my happy, obnoxious beautiful old woman self and continue writing my novel. Have to add plenty romance to compensate for the “loss.”

My dear readers, may you continue to win, ha!, be blessed, beautiful and happy. Always.

Hugs,

I’m on a roll and so is Duke!

We are still playing! The madness continues. Nerves get nervous. Sometimes my heart gets out of whack. I love this time of the year with so much trepidation. It’s ups and downs. Just like life.

I’m posting more than usual, because, oh well, just because. Sometimes we shouldn’t have to explain a thing, or two.

Next week we’ll be bouncing the basketball again. It’s getting more intense. But, I’m enjoying the days in between and wearing the stuff out of my Duke t shirts.

Isn’t life just marvelous when all I have to be concerned is if we win or lose. Winning is fantastic, losing, shoot, is very hard to take. I can only imagine the team players. They are so courageous to leave it all on the floor to give us happy moments…or not.

May next week bring all of you blessings and many joys.

And winnings for Duke!

Be blessed.

Beauty and Poetry in Imperfection

Listening to a talk on Japanese Rules for a peaceful home, I thought everything discussed applied to the interesting process of aging. The sad part of it is that we don’t recognize it as such.

There is beauty even in the process of breathing. Changing abruptly to a kind of related subject matter, recently when I got up and thought about the 10 minutes or so I do stretching exercises, I really didn’t feel like doing them that day. Then the voice from above that rules my life said to me in my own voice, hey, missy, what do you think if your heart or your lungs say one day, “we don’t feel like doing what we are supposed to do today.” What do you think will happen? No more blogs and stuff and no more nothing. Meaning, cremated. Period. Face to face with the Creator of all things. Tough moment.

Well, now going back to the beauty and poetry and imperfection, yeah, it makes me look at things with a new and refreshing perspective. Appreciate people, stuff and things thinking about their patina. Looking at the good stuff in everything. Not easy. But doable.

Today’s input from my Wisdom Central. Today has been a great day. Getting too warm though. But I thought I loved warm. Another thing to ponder on as I continue my road to more exciting happenings in my beautiful, blessed and wonderful life.

May you continue to be blessed, joyful, grateful and happy. Of course!

One more win!

Hello March!!! So elated to be able to see another March. Looking forward to the Madness it brings with it. Stressful too if your team does so so. But the excitement is off the charts. Last night we won. Proud fan.

Now that’s said and done, let’s have our cup of philosophy for a few moments.

This morning I was thinking about how many neurons need to be activated just to get out of bed. Having said that, imagine the rest of your day. Our creator wasn’t playing dice when He created us and the universe. Said Einstein. Modified by me. Hope you get where I’m going with this. It’s all about gratitude. The rest is just gravy. Always think abundance, not lack. It makes life more amazing than what you think it is.

Let’s hope for the best for our teams and let’s pray for a festive and joyful “Road to the Final Four.”

Go DUKE! Obvious…

Everything about love…

To love or not to. There lies the question. On this day, St. Valentine’s, we shower people we “love” with flowers, gifts, food, yes, food is elementary dear Watson. So let me go on, today, as every day, I just had breakfast, my usual, coffee with milk (cafe con leche) and corn flakes. I’m a happy Valentine’s Day gal right now. So, I have an important decision to make, should I wash my car or go for a walk. Decisions, decisions. It’s still a bit chilly to go out right now and wash the car or go for a walk to Mead Botanical Garden. So the decision is standing still.

Let’s go back to the issue of this day. Love, love and love some more. I have always felt loved, in the past by my loving husband, now in residence in Heaven. He was very special to me. He will get me flowers and a present, which I usually will return to the store, but he was ok with it. One day he told me, he just will go out and put some stuff in a box, anything, because he knew I would take it back. Yes, he was very special. You see, I’m a picky person about a lot of things, and he never asked me what I would like to have as a present. He said he liked to surprise me. Eventually he got used to that the “surprise” thing never worked for me. We understood each other very well. He never took offense. So we used to go out on this day, return the item, got something I really liked and then went out to break bread.

Oh yes, I almost forgot, I have always felt I’m loved, now and always, by my dear God. He has in the past, from the moment I was born, then throughout my wanderings in life in my youth, and now in this very interesting stage. Very interesting indeed. His love never has failed me and never will. That’s the only thing in my life I am 100% certain of. He always has his arms open to love all of us.

I hope y’all have a beautiful, lovely, full of good surprises kind of a day.

Happy Friendship, Valentine’s Day!

This new version of Me…

A letter to my old self:

Dear Me, thank you for holding me through the difficulties in my life. Thank you for your resilience at those times. But now it’s time to let you go and trust God will be my sustaining force. For both my mind and my body. That old version of me is in the past. Enough with just getting by emotionally and physically. I’m moving on to being that version of me God had in mind when He created me. Self-respect and looking up to my God is now all I need.

No more waiting for applause or approval of other humans that are themselves struggling in figuring themselves out. I have taken all of those people down from the pedestal I had placed them on. It was always them before me. Not any more. Only God before me.

I’m looking forward to this new part of my journey. While I realize that many parts of the old me need to die, I also realize that needs to happen to continue with the birth of this new me.

Grateful to my God for this moment of evolvement in my journey.

May the best part of my earthly journey be ahead of me yet.

Amen.

2026! Now What!?

Here we are…Again. We’ve been through this process every January 1st since I can remember.

We think there’s a magical wand to scratch the old and wand in the new. The problem is that we don’t have the foggiest idea of the little package of the “new” means. Oh yes, we make lists and lists of things we are going to start doing differently or just begin a new page in the book of our lives. Ha! One thing is what the ridder of the donkey is thinking, and another things is what the donkey is thinking.

I’m doing good and very grateful that I just reconnected with an old friend. Hi Lucy! Really, our spirits are the ones that connect or reconnect, because we are these beautiful spiritual beings that we fail to recognize most of the time.

Had a revelation this morning while making my bed, that a miracle becomes a miracle the moment we believe in that miracle happening. Not one second before or one second later. This has totally changed my thinking about praying for miracles. Miracles live in our minds and the acceptance that we are one with our God. He’s and has always been with us 24/7.

Well, let’s continue to be blessed, healthy and believe that miracles are happening every minute and every second in our lives. Thank you God.

Amen!

Merry Christmas!!

It is that beautiful time of the year. We sing happy Christmasy tunes, feel elated and joyful just because. Any good warm, fussy-because will do. So go ahead and chime your favorite song. All I want for Christmas is a good start.


I was reading this sentence in a book. “We are not here to just endure some meaningless crap and then die. Wow! What a provocative statement. Then, my so smart mind and brain came up with the following.

We are here to be joyful , accomplish what brings us satisfaction and joy. God created us to be an expression of his intelligence, resourcefulness, beauty and contentment. He is always willing and ready to assist us in our good nature endeavors. He’s never stopping us or putting limits unto us. Only we do and most of the time we just do that.

No limits and no sorrows. Only happiness and joy come from our loving God.

Merry, Merry Christmas.

Hugs and much love always.

Howdy! It has been a happy while…

Well, well, and another well. Laughing to myself. Hope all you 5 people who read my humble blog are doing well, feel blessed and are grateful for all your blessings.

Here in the Florida Peninsula, since last time I touched base with you five, I have moved twice. Sold a condo, rented a condo, and bought another condo. When you are at this stage in life, 76 going on 77, you don’t owe explanations to anyone. Oops, forgot. Yes there is someone I explain everything all the time during the day. God. I wouldn’t take another breath without saying thank you to Him.

My novel writing is like, let me see how I can express it. It has been and it is a work in process. I enjoy thinking about it, writing some while I watch this Turkish soap opera, and sometimes get up from bed after midnight to write down any idea that interrupts my sleep. Yes, I do that. Not easy, but I know if I don’t get up and write down the idea, it’ll go into a black hole in the universe to never return.

Also, I welcome and deal with the cup of crapola that life brews for me on a daily basis. No escape from that one. I read in a good book that problems are like questions that need an answer. I ask my wonderful Heavenly Father all the time to give me a light to find the answer to my so called questions.

Well, my quota of typing words is coming to an end.

May you continue to be blessed, healthy and so very happy.

Many hugs,

Back from the past…2011


Hola! A few months, yes it has been a while since I write something for my own entertainment. As long as I type it and then re-read it, it’s good enough for me. At this stage of my life, my concerns float just around myself. Except when I’m visiting my two precious grandchildren. Then, it’s all about them. They’re so smart. Brilliant.

Now to the business of this moment. Was reading one of my postings from 2011. I was a good damn writer! I was surprised to read such a treat I had created myself. Big ego, you may think. You’re mistaken, I do have a humongous ego. It’s good for the soul. Now go with your thinking and figure that one out. I’m cracking up. It’s so wonderful when you so much enjoy your own sense of humor. Trust me, it’s a good thing.

Where I’m going with this? Don’t have the foggiest idea. I just thought I had to type something to bring this blog into 2025. Kidding, 2024.
Much happiness and blessings to whoever reads these lines. Blessings are so very good. Trust me. Talking from experience.

Hugs,