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A blizzard comes in with such furry and covers our streets causing accident and more, with our Ohio weather we can have 3 seasons in one day and your life can change in an instant. Then the sun comes out and melts all that snow away and we are left to remember the mess it caused but with no confirmation.
Isn't that how things happen in your life, those horrific, life changing things. Its like life...

  Spending the weekend with my mother I observed and wrote...   
 
She's with you but she could be alone
she's thinking but there's nobody home
she notices but she doesn't really see
and I can't help but wonder what she will be.
 
She's quiet until the anger roars out
with confusion causing her more doubt
like the memories are just falling out
from that faucet with a leaky spout
 
She...

There are days I get so frustrated with life...
so many ups and downs in these stress filled days! While at lunch with Debbie the other day I could feel myself becoming unglued as I tried to deal with an issue with our rental property. What I was dealing with, while it needs to be righted, was put into perspective when I looked up at Deb and realized that what I was dealing with was an issue and not...

April
List the things you want to make
art journalsa bookscrapbookspeople happyphotographsbrain injury journalsnew friendsnew recipesHere is a link to follow along if you too would like to participate in the 52 weeks of grateful

Everyday I try and fit time in for everyone and everything needed in my life. Whether I am helping others or helping myself, it is a constant shuffle of finding balance. Feeling depleted from the days activities reminds me that things need balance.
Why does it seem as we make lists and cross things off there is always more to do? Or those things that get stuck in our heads, just keep spinning like...

Two steps back...
Done with radiation... a huge step, yes, yet its been a few weeks and we haven't seen much improvement in anything else. In fact we are in a two steps back phase.
This week we've attended several support groups, a place where Deb can learn from others in a similar situation and where we, as her support, can learn how to best help her through each stage.
Sometimes I don't think...

Growing up I never thought it possible, the world couldn't possibly continue without him? And yet it did...
From the moment I walked out of that hospital room where he lay in Parma, I noticed the television playing loudly in a waiting room, people buzzing about and cars on the way to their intended destinations. My world had just crumbled and yet the world outside continued on as if nothing had...

March
List the things that feel like home
a cup of coffee and warm blanketfireplacea safe zonea dog and cat nearbydinner cookingcountry furnaturestacks of books all aroundhemlock treesporch swingbirds singinglakereading on the deckjournals to get lost ina bottle of redcozy robemarkers, pens, paints, papermy camera to capture the mood  

Heard this poem at a support group meeting and I'm sure it can apply to many peoples lives...
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, 
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, 
When the funds are low and the debts are high, 
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, 
When care is pressing you down a bit, 
Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its...

Can you make a difference in twelve weeks?  I'm about to find out...
Starting today I have 12 weeks until I turn 50, and while I'm not as concerned about the number, I do want to challenge myself to do some things to improve myself, like push ups, increasing my running in both speed and distance, find some muscles and then say, yes... this is 50!
Kind of like a second chance at those New Years resolutions.
Besides...