Crystal Blue Persuasion...

 This is a Crystal Blue Lily...I don't know that they grow here in Roswell.  I just woke up with that song rolling around in my head.
"A new day is coming..."
 It has been beautiful here the last two days with the snow just glistening.  I am fortunate that I did not have to get out in it.  I could watch from my couch as the snow fell all day long.  This evening I watched the moon rise over the Country Club golf course.  The largest Moon of the year (so they say) shown so brightly on the snow that I swear I saw sparkles!  Magic is a foot~~

Nature is a wonder, the beauty that surrounds us...even here in ole Roswell.

Happy Birthday to all my Aquarian Friends

I have so many dear friends born around this time ..near and far and I would like to post this poem from  Rilke to them and to all of my wonderful friends out there!!

The Grownup

All this stood upon her and was the world

and stood upon her with all its fear and grace
as trees stand, growing straight up, imageless
yet wholly image, like the Ark of God,
and solemn, as if imposed upon a race.

And she endured it all: bore up under
the swift-as-flight, the fleeting, the far-gone,
the inconceivably vast, the still-to-learn,
serenely as a woman carrying water
moves with a full jug.  Till in the midst of play,
transfiguring and preparing for the future,
the first white veil descended, gliding softly

over her opened face, almost opaque there,
never to be lifted off again, and somehow
giving to all her questions just one answer:
In you, who were a child once---in you.

Trend: The general direction in which something tends to moves.

I have been thinking lately about trends. We hear it all the time.
What is the trend in the Market?
The current trends in fashion.
Am I being too trendy???
We all want to be on the cutting edge. To know what is "in" and what is "out". The lines are always shifting and pulling us into the future.
Even if the trend is "Retro" it still forces us to look at the past and realize the distance we have traveled. Even if you feel that you have not changed much in the last decade or so you have.
Gravity takes it's toll.

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Little we see in nature that is ours."

These words were written long ago and mean more to me each passing day.


I was chatting with my cousin and he is in his eighties. He was talking about shrinking in height, around 2 inches, just by getting older. Maybe the weight of the world does take it's toll on us. We wake up and we have shrunk. Nothing to do but watch.
In mid life we have this fantasy that we have things under control. Life is strolling along and it is just everyday things. Then all of a sudden...Bam...something happens to jolt us into the realization that all is not as it seems.
Some event either external or internal changes our perception. Sometimes, knocking us to the ground. We have been struck with how different life is than what we thought it would be.
Time and again I hear people who are older talk in amazement that they feel like the same person they were when they were young and shocked to look in the mirror and have changed so much.
There is something internally that never changes ..some constant that is always there...and yet..and yet.. I have seen disease snatch a soul. The person who was there is gone.
Trauma, disease, yes, it can change a person into something that they never dreamed of being. Even then, I feel compassion. I realize that whatever it was, damaged the personality but never the soul. The soul is there, hidden like a seed in the ground. It is best not to disturb it.

So, as we start this new decade ..what trend are you following? Where are you looking for guidance in this crazy world?
A trend to me is like a well worn path..Will you go out and make a path of your own..create a new "trend" in your own life?
I hope wherever you tend to go...It leads you to greater love & understanding of your unique role of the trends that are forming before us.

Out with the old..in with the New..Sonic!!!

The newest thing happening in good ole Roswell is the New Sonic. It is almost ready to open it's doors. The old Sonic on Main Street is now closed. With it goes many fun memories of hanging out on summer nights in my younger days! Loved going for a Cherry Lime and Chili Cheese dog..Yum! Seeing friends..seeing who is with who..yes,a long long time ago~What fun, though. Now the Roswell teens will have a new drag~~New Happy Memories.
I am a collector of memories. When I was a kid walking to Furr's Grocery store which was practically in my backyard growing up on Pennsylvania, I would make a point to look up in the sky and say to myself, "I am going to remember this moment!"
I had usually gone to pick up some little something mom didn't have in the fridge or cabinet. That was the bad thing about growing up behind a grocery store..seemed like every evening I had to go to the store for something..or maybe it was the good thing! Sweet memories of more simple times for me..

So, as we say good-bye to the "old" Sonic let's look around at all the newness of life and say to ourselves.."I am going to remember this moment!"
Those precious moments are there.
You just have to fish for them sometimes!

New Horizons

Vast New Horizons are before us all.
New Opportunities.
Land to cross.
New adventures and new friends.
We stand together looking out at this great expanse.
It will never be as it has been before.
The air is crisp and full of potential.
We must march on in our journey. Tether ourselves to our fellow travelers.
Have plenty of supplies on hand.
When it gets dark out we will all gather together by the fire and sing songs to make the darkness seem not so fearful.
At daybreak, we again move forward knowing that we have a band of friends, a compass and terrain to cross.
Adventure that is what I see on the Horizon.
Pray for strength and fortitude to take the next step.