The Color Red

Driving down a road that I travel at least once a week, I saw something that I've never seen before...something that sent my heart racing.

I looked left for just an instant, and there it was. It called me over, and in a sort of gleeful tizzy, I willingly obliged.

It's kind of metaphoric as to how things have been going for me lately.

Traveling down the same old path, but catching a glimpse of something new...something that has been there all along, just waiting for me to look over and notice it. Something that sets my wheels spinning, so that I no longer feel like I"m just spinning my wheels.

"You don't need to be helped any longer. You've always had the power to go back to Kansas."- Glinda, the Good Witch of the South

There is something magical about the color red.

Emerging

No Magnet Monday today. I really shouldn't be here at all. I promised myself that I would focus on "getting it together", and not come back until it was "together".

Fat chance of that happening. I'm in the thick of it...and it's much thicker than I thought.

Plus, I missed you.

Being unplugged has been good for me though (Pinterest doesn't count :)). Cleaning puts me into some sort of meditative state, and I've been thinking...as much as my house needs cleaned and organized, sometimes I need that too...to purge old thoughts that are broken, or are of no use to me anymore...to shine up the ones that are worth keeping, or clear a space for new ones.

I've been making lists, and dreaming. I tape words to the wall above the sink while I'm doing dishes...words that I want to contemplate and question, and just see how they feel. I've been working on being mindful.

I love this, by Dr. Robert Holden..."The purpose of your life is to discover who you are. It is to meet yourself and to identify what you are made of and what you are made for. To do this, you have to be willing to give yourself some special attention. You have to stop "going" "doing" and "chasing" and start spending more time "being" with yourself. You have to connect consciously with what I call your unconditioned self, the original essence of who you are. Your unconditioned self wants you to know yourself. It wants you to know who you really are."

So, that's what I'm doing...I'm giving myself (and my house) some special attention. Cleaning and being.

What's new with you?

Blur

Where did the day go? How about the month of January? Anyone? Bueller?

I feel like time is passing me by in one big blur. The holiday season has long since past, so why do I still have decorations to put away (from Halloween)?

I thought maybe I should unplug for a while, and get things done, but why should I have to? Can't I do it all...juggle it all?

I think I might have to unplug for a while.

My adversaries, structure and time management, are mocking me. They run around my house piling up laundry and dishes, while I work diligently on turning a blurry photo into a starving artist's masterpiece...not.

We have different goals. They win...for now.

If you don't see me around for a few days, I'll be here scrubbing floors, and working on my game plan...kicking some time management butt.

Hopefully, then, life (and the deer), will be a little bit more in focus.

Silence

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn,

whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” - Helen Keller

Magnet Monday

Celebrating a little creativity from the front of my fridge...

Macy made this in her 4th grade art class. It's definitely something I want to put in a frame!

The teacher gave everyone a cardboard cutout of Charlie Brown. They traced around the outside of it, and then added their own clothes, hair, face, etc...

What would you look like if you Charlie Browned yourself?

“Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.” ― Charles M. Schulz