words of wisdom?

Over the last week I've been getting these kinds of words of wisdom, the first one, one I did not post came from my supervisor, a couple from e mailing friends and this one came today from my partner in volunteering. Am I sending out signals of discontent or something?  Anyway it's worth a read, or click out if you've already read this. It was apparently written my a 90year old woman. My mother will be 91 in January, and I'm quite sure she hasn't learned too many of these lessons. She would have written something, but when she had the skills to do so, she chose to sew a dress for someone, we are each blessed in a different way...

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29 What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now..

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time.. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come...

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

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the art of letter writing...

I've always felt that my handwriting is really bad. Not sure why? But now that I've had a chance to go through yet another bundle of my mothers things, I see it's inherited. (see what happens when I'm sick ) I can also see that it deteriorates as you do it less. I, for myself have been doing my letter writing to my boys on the computer, just so they can read it, and yet I'm really enjoying the written words my aunts and my mother have exchanged. I can almost put them in chronological order by their writing, or rather how it deteriorated, with their rheumatism and sight issues. It brings to mind the Oedupus riddle, As a child man crawls on his hands and knees as a man walks on 2 feet when he has matured, will have to walk with a cane for the rest of his life because of his blindness,... Not really much to do with writing, don't know why this popped into my mind.

So don't be afraid to write, someone, someday may take pleasure in it.

Happy Postcard Friendship Friday, hosted by Beth at The Best Hearts are Crunchy. Postcard gifted from Nancy at all pulped out.

A-Z Wednesday, the letter V

Welcome to A-Z Wednesday!!
To join, here's all you have to do: Go to your stack of books and find one whose title starts with the letter of the week.

Post:
1~ a photo of the book
2~ title and synopsis
3~ link(amazon, barnes and noble etc.)
4~ Come back here and leave your link in the comments.
If you've already reviewed this book you can add it also.
Be sure to visit other participants to see what book they have posted and leave them a comment.
(We all love comments, don't we?)
Who knows? You may find your next "favorite" book.

THIS WEEKS LETTER IS: "V"

The Vogue Sewing Book is my installment of this week's A-Z Wednesday. I haven't played for a few weeks, just too busy organizing life and trying to get a handle on the WEEDS. However, this is a book that isn't getting downsized at the moment. Very few of my sewing and knitting/"thread" type books get tossed. I just feel like I would be abandoning my profession if I no longer needed them. There is always something in them I need to refer to. I know, I know, after all this time sewing I should know everything, but I don't always use everything. Take for example I made a dress and jacket for my mom for my nieces wedding, she kept helping me, everytime I would leave the room she made the neckline bigger, or the armhole bigger, I was at my wits end. I replaced the front of the dress, then I replaced the back of the dress, and then she got hold of the jacket. I ran our to fabric, so I went to my trusty book and made a Japanese frog closure, which I didn't quite remember how to do, so out came my Knots book, and then the Vogue Sewing Book, and VIOLA (I do know this is spelled incorrectly) She looked marvelous. So keep some old books you never know when they will come in handy.

photo of book I own.

A-Z Wednesday is hosted by Vicki of Reading At The Beach

The Friday 56

1. Grab the book nearest you right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).
5. Post a link with your post to Storytime with Tonya and Friends.
The closest book to me at the moment is:


The Primary and most important temple in which each of us must worship and find God is the temple of our own body. It is in that temple, and no other, that we must ultimately seek and find Him.

After my "Lenten" reading and some workshops within our faith community, my interests were peaked with "essential oils". My dear nieces friend often comes and gives my mom a massage, and I know she feels wonderful after this, Ilda uses these wonderful blends, and then leaves them for me to use with my mom. I can honestly say she DOES calm down, and that is good for me. I thought this was some new fangled idea, only to learn it's a very old new idea. So... that's my teaser.

Welcome to Holland

As most of you know, if you are a regular reader of my blog, I have a mom in a long term care facility. When I arrived to visit yesterday, Friday, the rec staff was just hustling her off to travelogue. Travelogue is a little virtual visit to a country of choice. Yesterday's country was Holland. The staff, get little pieces of memorabilia and crafts as well as, some sweet treat that is typical of the country of choice. Then there is a little movie to welcome the tourists to Holland. For most of the presentation my mother didn't realize it was me talking to her in polish, and all she wanted was the treat and then out. Well of course I didn't comply, I made her stay for the whole thing. I'm not sure what she is rushing off to, Oh yes I am, she's claimed a spot in the common room that is "hers" and no one is allowed to be there except her, so she sits there day in and day out watchfully guarding it. Well she lost her spot, because she was really in Holland. What a lovely presentation, and such a tasty treat, a great diversion from life in front of a T.V. which is not always on. Our next "trip" is Italy.

I must say that the whole while we were visiting Holland, I couldn't help thinking of the poem :

WELCOME TO HOLLAND

by
Emily Perl Kingsley.

And while my mother doesn't have a disability, she is disabled, and having taken this trip before, I know it to be an enjoyable trip that I am so glad I've been on, and if I never get to Italy that's o.k. with me, I only wish that my traveling companion was a little more co-operative.

Wow, I know I'm never at a loss for words.

I know I'm never at a loss for words, sometimes perhaps the right words, but never speechless. Yesterday I did my 300th post. I don't believe that I have had that much significant stuff to say. Thank you all for reading and mostly for commenting. So onto today's happening. I spent the late morning and early afternoon with my mom and my lovely niece and her sweet little boy. I say little boy, because even though he is only four months old, he looks like a little boy, not like a baby of no specific gender, he's a boy. Anyway we enjoyed our "kopitka" for lunch and Squash Soup. I shall post the soup recipe on my "Irene's Kitchen Blog" tomorrow. I'm too tired to think of the appropriate words to describe my process. And I need to pack for tomorrow's adventure in painting. Bon wee.

O.K. Artsy friends, this is my canvas, my charming niece did take a picture. So you can see in the lower corner where there should have been sentiment I just got smudges. I understand that I could have used geso, and what else could I do to keep my sentiment from sliding. Geso seems too messy to use after a transfer medium.