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Hometown

Minnesota

Places I've been

California, Utah, Wyoming are a few of the favorites

More about me

Nothing too notable here, just your average inhabitant of planet earth, a mere mass of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus in this vast universe we share, (okay, that's more chemistry than I care to know). Along my journey I have had the pleasure to become a mother of four, grandmother of many and hopefully more to come. I have a great sense of humor, if not simply out of spite, but it does help me survive and thrive.

I continue to try to improve and I try to be good to all, myself included. I seek the kind, the good, the spiritual and the magic in this life and there is plenty of all that here if we seek it and take the time to experience it. The path I have traveled has been bumpy and ever changing, but the place I am at now is comfortable. My spirit is alive and well and as always, searching peace within and with those who share my life experience.

I really wish to make a good long run of it as I still have much to look forward to in my journey, ie: a day that a weekly work schedule is not part of the norm, nor necessary for my existence. When that day comes, I hope to fill my time with all that comforts and pleases my spirit, and help fulfill a need somewhere.

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, THIS is to have succeeded."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until then, I hang out here on occasion and chat a bit about this and that.

 

Thanks for stopping in and say hey in the guest book so I know you were here!

Activities

Aside from my family and friends, I enjoy many types of music, gardening, genealogy, writing, crafts, amateur photography, teaching my grandchildren how important imagination is and...SOBWAGOWSCWAF, (sitting out back with a glass of wine sharing conversation with a friend), and just staring quietly into the full moon.

Favorite Charities

St. Jude's, Veteran's "I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." ~Vincent Van Gogh

Favorite Music

Like most all music but really appreciate Classical, classic 40's & 50's. Also blues, rock, vintage rock, alternative rock, Irish music and some country.

Favorite TV Shows

News (believe it or not), Boston Legal, some Law & Order, some History, some food channel :-), baseball, other than this, not much for t.v... "I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." ~Groucho Marx

Favorite Movies

Pirates Of The Caribbean, Ya Ya Sisterhood, Fried Green Tomatoes, Little Women, Hook, Immortal Beloved, Benny & Joon...(most anything Johnny Depp)

Favorite Books

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.” ~Henry David Thoreau Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Lust For Life, I Know This Much Is True, Ya Ya Sisterhood, John Lennon-This Life, Anything, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Wordsworth... really just a few of so many favorites. "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." ~Charles W. Eliot "I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." ~Anna Quindlen The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Favorite Quotes

"Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream" ~K.Gibran "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." ~H. D. Thoreau No human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase. ~Agnes E. Meyer "To love is to learn, to love is to grow, to love is to heal and to love is to know" ~jJ

Favorite People

In no particular order, my mother (passed on), my grandchildren, my children, my dear friends (you know who you are)...and my pal B.J... still crazy after all these years.

Favorite Places

It's all about here, it's all about now. In the middle of nature- "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~Kahlil Gibran "Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." ~Walt Whitman

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