I can choose!

Things have been so hard for such a long time...

Becoming aware that I am the one that allows it all to seem so very hard ... I am the one who

CHOOSES :

... chooses to let things (situations, people, etc) "decide" how I respond to things (situations, people, etc)

... chooses to be defeatist when things are hard and the solution isn't easy

... chooses to be unhappy

... chooses to "dwell" on all that "hasn't worked out/gone wrong/" instead of acknowledging that something/someone was the wrong choice and move on with a lesson learned hopefully

... chooses to live in the dark and not the light

... and on and on and on

contemplating on this today...

hopefully taking a bit of action to ...

CHOOSE otherwise

no cobbler but a weekend night walk

The mulberry cobbler did not get made over the weekend but we did take a wonderful nighttime walk around the beautiful campus grounds of Central College here in our little town. This is a favorite walk of mine as the campus is so pretty in all seasons and so peaceful ... even when in full session. The last picture is of Jordan Hall and every time I pass it I long to go back to school and sit in one of it's classrooms.

Wildflowers

Wildflowers from our neighborhood :)

We also picked some mulberries which I'll use to make a cobbler this weekend.

black and white and grey and success and failure

"... yet i've realized i view my days as either "succcess" or "failure". black or white. there's kindness in grey."

sarah over at habit posted this quote along with her beautiful picture.

There is a lifetime of wisdom in those words.

Wisdom that I would do well to "think on" today and each and every day.

the dark of night

I hate nighttime...

the darkness seeps into everything....

The summer of ... and better late than never

Every summer we seem to have a marathon watching of a tv show. In the past we have had the Summer of:

Northern Exposure
Gilmore Girls
Monk

This summer it is the Summer of Mad Men.

Yes we are late to the party but as my mom always said, "Better late than never!"

Happy Birthday Mom!

Even after all these years the hurt of missing you is sometimes more than I can bear.

Hope you're having a big blowout up there in heaven and smiling and looking down and watching over all of us.