Toss It!

They say if you

throw away old things

you make room

for new things.

Or maybe it's

if you want something new

throw away the old.







Either way the saying goes,

it has become my mission lately.

I'm trying to clean things out,

make room for new.

Or maybe it's more that I'm

cleaning things out so my kids

won't have to ..... later.  lol

So a photo shoot with old things that are being tossed!

Hands

The theme of the day was "Hand(s)" -
to make a photo using hands in a
creative way.














The Beatles' sang:
'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.'
First single.
Fucking brilliant.
Perhaps the most fucking
brilliant song ever written.
Because they nailed it.
That's what everyone wants.
Not 24/7 hot wet sex.
Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years.
Not a Porsche...
or a million-dollar crib.
No.
They wanna hold your hand.
 -David Levithan,
        Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist



In the end, I think that's what we all want,
that special someone who is there,
just to hold our hand.
Now that is Love.

Stronger

“My past has not 

defined me, 

destroyed me, 

deterred me, or 

defeated me; 

it has only strengthened me.” 

― Steve Maraboli

Strong words, full of conviction

and most days i believe them.

i have such a checkered past

Nothing like breaking laws

or doing illegals things! 

and while i'm being honest

i should probably say that for

a while, my past DID define me.

being raised by religious parents

and midwest old fashioned values

one expectation was to marry well,

marry once and have it last forever.

But when it didn't last forever, 

it also didn't destroy me, 

and in spite of the mistakes i may

have made in my life,

i regret none of them.

For they brought me to the place

i am at right now.  Stronger.

We are all who we are because

of where we've been, and the 

people who have crossed our paths.

Mirrors

“Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. 

It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. 

Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. 

Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? 

I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.” 

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

i bought this mirror for myself

for my birthday.

i hung it on the wall

and had forgotten to use it as a prop!

As for the quote, if you've never read

any Murakami, you should! 

My favorite is Kafka on the Shore;

he also has a book of short stories

called "After the Quake", along with 

several other titles.

Headwear

Hello!

I may have mentioned a time or two

that I use a daily "topic" for photo ops,

and the "One Word Tuesday" was

headwear.   (Is that a real word? hehe)

One of my ... collections, yes, that works,

is hats.  I have many!  They hang on the

walls in my bedroom, lined up as if they

are a border.

So here's a rear-view look of some

Headwear :)




things have been hectic lately.
Work has been taking a toll
with added responsibilities --
ones that I was doing willingly
a year ago, and they took them
away (which was cool with me!)
but now.... no one else was doing
them, so they asked me to take
them back.  They are also nudging
(to me it feels like pushing!!)   me
into more supervisory roles.  While
I am more than capable (I raised
six kids.... you can't get more
supervisory than that!!  lol)
but being "bossy" isn't a role I enjoy
in any way.  But.   Work is work,
I'm not a boss, but I'm not a "friend"
and there are things to be done.
My way.
lol