Ah.Spring!

I love spring.  Life is renewing, everything is green.  The sky has gone from that pale winter blue to a darker blue.  I need to rake and clean up all the messes I left in the fall in preparation for all the newness.  It is my favorite season because it is so much like life.  It is a trick-bag!  One day, it is 60 degrees and sunny, the next day it snows and is barely 40.  It may rain for 5 days, then be nice for 3.  Some days it is so windy, I wear a hat or a ponytail so as not be eating a mouthful of hair when I am out and about.  Ah, spring, a metaphor for life. 

What? Really?!

So my wonderful neighbor came over to use my laptop.  I was glad to help out!  The problem was that my laptop has a mind of it's own and would not work for her. :( Here comes the other part.  When I got the laptop back, all of a sudden, I could post again.  I am sad for my friend, but there might be a lesson here.  When we do something nice for someone, many, if not all of the times, something good bounces back to us!  Bounce with me, ok?!

Batter up!!

If there is one thing I like better than college basketball, it is BASEBALL!  Actually, I love them both about the same, but the change between the two sports is always refreshing.  If you had told me that I would be watching sports continually during the year when I was young, I would have told you that you were CRA CRA!  But here we are!  I watched some of the Cactus League, but it hardly shows me much.  I just find out how many new player's names I have to learn.  It also lets me know that I will spend more time outside, sometimes with my phone tuned in to the game.  It tells me that it is time to switch gears, get out the scrubber and wash off the rust and get fully involved in life again.  The martial arts start in the park and I am ready to kick some ....  Where is your spring taking you?  Take a deep breath, and get out there.  We'll probably see each other.

Ask for what you want

Thoughts are energy.  All thoughts are energy.  This means that the energy goes out into the universe and creates things.  So when I have bad or negative thoughts, I usually reap what I send out.  BOO!  Conversely, when I hold a good thought and ask for an answer to something, I get that too!  This is not to say I get everything I ask for, but I always ask for what I need to be a good person and have a good life.  Sometimes, my patience is tested.  Other times I get something and go "WHAT?"  9 times out of 10, I get exactly what I need in the time I need it.  Do I want more?  Sure.  But if I keep my mind in the right place, it will be here, guaranteed.  I just have to keep the negative stuff at bay and give ALL my energy to the good stuff.  Want to join me?  The good stuff shows up faster if lots of us send THAT energy out!

Your dream may take some time... .

don't give up!  I have been a "writer" all my life.  When I was very young, I wrote very short stories.  They were mostly about my Teddy Bears, because I didn't like dolls.  Then, in school, I started to write poetry.  I wrote poetry in elementary through high school and was even in a poetry club and submitted some of my poetry to magazines.  Then, after that I would journal and sketch.  I stopped doing this for many years, I am not sure why.  People would say "why not write a book?"  I didn't.  Then, in 2013 I started this blog.  I have written 585 blogs since then and I am FINALLY writing a book.  At this point in my life, I have 5 or 6 books I want to write floating around in my head.  The book I am HELPING write now is by C@boy.  It is a story of his life and all the crazy things that have gotten him to the ripe old age of 19.  He even lived with a 100 lb. red wolf who turned out to be his best friend.  Anyway, figure out your dreams, if you are passionate about them, be patient, but also pursue them.  I am happier now than I have been for a while, because that is exactly what I am doing!  I am also learning lessons in patience, I need those! NOW!

PEW!!!!!

Gov. Mike Pence:  How does it feel to be up to your ears in shit??? (Sorry, had to spell the whole word)  I can assure you that there will be few people trying to shovel you out!  I thank you for creating the "tsunami!"  No one will miss what you are trying to do, and nearly everyone is appalled!  SHAME ON YOU!!!

Under the guise

As you probably know, I do not talk about religion.  Today I am making an exception.  What I will say about it is it IMPLIES kindness and concern for all.  So when I started hearing about the "Religious Freedom Act, I thought, great!  Wow! That was a giant mistake!  The reason I seldom if ever talk about religion is in my mind I hear hypocrisy. So many things are done by "religious people."  So many bad things, including this "RFA," are not designed to help people, but to keep people's small minds occupied.  They are to disrupt all the gains we have made in the world with respect to fair treatment of all.  I think I learned when I was young, that a certain someone "loved the little children,  all the children of the world,  red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in HIS sight," ...  Then come the people who discriminate in the name of religion, they kill in the name of religion.  Gee, I wonder why I have such cynicism over all of this. I certainly would rather feel otherwise.