Snow falls,blanketing my world,
cold and quiet,
hidden things wait to be born, reborn, renewed, revealed.
Adrift in the ponderous silence,
I wait, weigh, wonder
at what will be revealed
once the storm is over,
inside and out.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Adrift.......
Snow falls,blanketing my world,
cold and quiet,
hidden things wait to be born, reborn, renewed, revealed.
Adrift in the ponderous silence,
I wait, weigh, wonder
at what will be revealed
once the storm is over,
inside and out.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Pondering.....
Pondering..........on why things always have to be so complicated, why Life seems to be so unfair, at times, and why it's so hard to do what is the right thing to do for ourselves. Why do there have to be so many variables, so many reasons, so many pros & cons, so many factors to consider. Of course, it's always easiest just to keep the status quo, but if the status quo is working anymore then you have find out why and figure out which is the best new direction for you to move towards and yet, there's all those other factors to be considered, weighted, measured......the only right answer is to do what is best for me and here's hoping that's what I'll be able to do.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
25 Random Things about me........
Some one else started this, but I had an interesting time doing it for myself. I have included all of you for different reasons, but I would love to know more about you. If you think its dumb, ignore.
rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
1. I was born in Wiesbaden Germany and spoke only German until I was three years old...but now I couldn't carry on a conversation in German if my life depended on it.
2. The secret to my amazing cooking skills is that I have the uncanny ability to think of different ingredients and combine them in my mind and know what it will taste like and 99% of the time I am right on.
3. I am insanely fast reader, I will be done with the entire two pages before you finish the second paragraph, wish I could type that fast!
4. One of my secret addictions is antique linens....I am not allowed to search Ebay for antique linens anymore, it's like crack to me.
5. NEVER, EVER let me near a bookstore if you're in a hurry. The only lie I will ever, willingly, utter is to enter a bookstore and say "I'll be right back".....it is cosmically impossible for me to spend less than 30 minutes in a bookstore.
6. I am a great dancer.
7. I am also a secret lipstick/lipgloss addict. One time my girlfriend emptied out my purse and we counted 25 lipsticks, just in my purse! I need help.
8. I am a good writer. I want to write books and someday, soon, will resume that part of my life.
9. I am a witch, and it is the most important part of my life that makes me who I am as a person, and I am proud of that.
10. One my absolute favorite things in life is sleeping on cotton sheets that have been washed in lavender and dried out in the sun all day.
11. I could not live without my sense of smell and hearing. If I had to chose a ability to give up it would be speech. I would have no problem conveying myself, but not to hear my loved ones voices or music or spring peepers in the night or to be able to smell, that would devastate me.
12. As much as I use and enjoy our modern technology, I yearn for a simpler life, except for washing clothes, never want to have to do a whole load of laundry by hand!
13. I am a multitasking Goddess.
14. I am the Picnic Queen. Give me an hour and a half's notice and I will arrive with a fully loaded picnic in tow, complete with every nicety you could imagine.
15. I was a Girl Scout until I was a Junior in high school, which explains #14.
16. I originally wanted to be an interior decorator when I graduated from high school. I am a closet decorator, put me into an empty room and my mind immediately goes into designer mode.
17. I would rather have a Viking or Wolf commercial grade cook stove than a diamond bracelet. Gourmet cookware makes me swoon.
18. If I could chose a celebrity to hang out with for a day it would be Robin Williams. A mind that fast, that creative, that fresh and open to universe is a million times more fascinating than beauty.
19. Ditto for Anthony Bourdain, except you get the looks as an added bonus! and he cooks too!
20. Speaking of Anthony Bourdain, he is the only famous person that could walk across my path and make me forget I was engaged to Jeff.
21. I highly suspect that I am personally responsible for turning most of the pagan community of Northeast Ohio onto Johnson Estate's Red Ipocras....and I think Johnson Estate owes me a few hundred cases as a commission.
22. I cry when I am being reprimanded or critiqued, even at the ripe old age of 46. It's the perfectionist in me, I HATE letting people down.
23. I have an absolutely GORGEOUS tattoo of the Goddess on my back. I had it done for my 45th birthday and the only regret I have is that I have never been able to look at it straight on. I am immensely proud of it.
rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
1. I was born in Wiesbaden Germany and spoke only German until I was three years old...but now I couldn't carry on a conversation in German if my life depended on it.
2. The secret to my amazing cooking skills is that I have the uncanny ability to think of different ingredients and combine them in my mind and know what it will taste like and 99% of the time I am right on.
3. I am insanely fast reader, I will be done with the entire two pages before you finish the second paragraph, wish I could type that fast!
4. One of my secret addictions is antique linens....I am not allowed to search Ebay for antique linens anymore, it's like crack to me.
5. NEVER, EVER let me near a bookstore if you're in a hurry. The only lie I will ever, willingly, utter is to enter a bookstore and say "I'll be right back".....it is cosmically impossible for me to spend less than 30 minutes in a bookstore.
6. I am a great dancer.
7. I am also a secret lipstick/lipgloss addict. One time my girlfriend emptied out my purse and we counted 25 lipsticks, just in my purse! I need help.
8. I am a good writer. I want to write books and someday, soon, will resume that part of my life.
9. I am a witch, and it is the most important part of my life that makes me who I am as a person, and I am proud of that.
10. One my absolute favorite things in life is sleeping on cotton sheets that have been washed in lavender and dried out in the sun all day.
11. I could not live without my sense of smell and hearing. If I had to chose a ability to give up it would be speech. I would have no problem conveying myself, but not to hear my loved ones voices or music or spring peepers in the night or to be able to smell, that would devastate me.
12. As much as I use and enjoy our modern technology, I yearn for a simpler life, except for washing clothes, never want to have to do a whole load of laundry by hand!
13. I am a multitasking Goddess.
14. I am the Picnic Queen. Give me an hour and a half's notice and I will arrive with a fully loaded picnic in tow, complete with every nicety you could imagine.
15. I was a Girl Scout until I was a Junior in high school, which explains #14.
16. I originally wanted to be an interior decorator when I graduated from high school. I am a closet decorator, put me into an empty room and my mind immediately goes into designer mode.
17. I would rather have a Viking or Wolf commercial grade cook stove than a diamond bracelet. Gourmet cookware makes me swoon.
18. If I could chose a celebrity to hang out with for a day it would be Robin Williams. A mind that fast, that creative, that fresh and open to universe is a million times more fascinating than beauty.
19. Ditto for Anthony Bourdain, except you get the looks as an added bonus! and he cooks too!
20. Speaking of Anthony Bourdain, he is the only famous person that could walk across my path and make me forget I was engaged to Jeff.
21. I highly suspect that I am personally responsible for turning most of the pagan community of Northeast Ohio onto Johnson Estate's Red Ipocras....and I think Johnson Estate owes me a few hundred cases as a commission.
22. I cry when I am being reprimanded or critiqued, even at the ripe old age of 46. It's the perfectionist in me, I HATE letting people down.
23. I have an absolutely GORGEOUS tattoo of the Goddess on my back. I had it done for my 45th birthday and the only regret I have is that I have never been able to look at it straight on. I am immensely proud of it.
my tattoo
24. The only part of dying that I am afraid of is leaving unfinished business for my children to clean up and more importantly leaving my children before I've finished teaching them all they need to know. I am afraid of them being out there, alone, without me to turn to...but no worries I hope to live a long time.
25. I believe that: Knowledge brings Truth, Truth brings Wisdom, Wisdom brings Grace. and I hope to get those four words (knowledge, truth, wisdom, grace) tattooed around my right wrist sometime soon, so I can carry my power words with me at all times.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
waves of affirmations.....
As we enter the new year a few thoughts, a few yearnings have been rolling to the forefront of my mind from the back of back cupboard that they have been relegated to.I've wanted, no, make that needed, to find more time to spend in Sacred Space. First, though, I need to find my new Sacred Space.
I love My Honey with all my heart, but all that man energy, all those football/basketball/baseball games blaring in the background makes it extremely hard to get into sacred mind space. We did re-do my sunroom and all my "stuff" is out there, however, at the present it is 18 degrees outside and my beautiful little room has no insulation, so as you can imagine it a tad cold out there. Right now it is my giant 9 x12 freezer, VERY convenient over the holidays, every appetizer, every giant turkey or ham, any left over goes very nicely out there, have to say I LOVE that about my sunroom.....but I digress.....
My second wish on my personal growth list is to also get re-involved in the wonderful Goddess Temple that is near me. I really believe in the vision that the wonderful people who have created have for it and I have felt, for quite some time, that I am meant to be a teacher, a mentor, a keeper of the truths and to make sure that those truths and traditions get passed on to the next generation. Which brings me to my third wave in my wish list....as these thoughts have been rolling around my mind, louder and more persistent with each passing day I came across a blog entry on Friday that presented the very questions I have been pondering out to her readers. "where are our Elders?" the blogger askes her readers, the gist of her piece is that she fears the elderly pagan community has become too arrogant, too full of their own importance to see that there are future generations waiting for compassionate, loving, patient teachers to lead them. As I read her words I knew that this was to be my role, that this is the mantel I need to accept.
As I let these thoughts process, I went about my day. I got to work and opened my email there only to find two emails, one from DailyOm, titled The Fullfilling Road: Finding your next step in life....,
then my horoscope from the same site was thus: SEARCHING BEYOND YOUR NICHE, then I saw that my friends at the Goddess Temple were have a magickal workings day at the Goddess Blessed store, a day to come and use the store as sacred space and do whatever magickal workings you'd like.
Wave after wave of affirmations......
I will do my best to honor them.
Blessed Be.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Snowy Saturday........
If any of you saw the news today, you saw our poor little corner of the world get pounded by a snow storm....they have been crying "dire" since yesterday morning, predicting a total of approximately 20 inches by this evening.....so we hardy Northeastern Ohioians do what we do best, hurry to the grocery store, stock up, make soup, wear our warmest fleece jammies and snuggle in for the weekend. This is a picture of our backyard in it's snowy beauty....It was a lovely, cuddly, quiet day spent with my Lovely's. The TallOne had to work, but now he's home, warm and toasty and safe. We're watching "Pride and Prejudice" (love that movie)...much to My Honey's dismay, but as I reminded him, he gets to watch football all the time, every Sunday....today is girly-movie day!....he just smiles at me when I tell him that.....
Here's hoping that all of you had a safe, warm, snuggly day........warmest wishes, SunshineGirl
Friday, January 9, 2009
Snuggling in.......
We woke up today to the news of 3-5" of snow today then 8-12" more by 6pm tomorrow night! Welcome to Northeast Ohio!.....going to stock up tonight on the way home from work and just snuggle in for the weekend with my family. I'm seeing this as a great excuse to slow down, rest, reconnect after all the holiday festivities. going to do some baking, some cooking, some playing and a whole lot of relaxing.......
Wishing you and yours a safe, warm, stress-free weekend.
Wishing you and yours a safe, warm, stress-free weekend.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Just call me Oma........
Wow, it has been a long time since I have posted! The holidays were wonderful yet crazy! I promise to try harder to post on a more regular basis. I hope everyone's holidays were wonderful and filled with lots of blessings.
My Honey and I and all our collective children (7, all together) and our families had a lovely time over the holidays. We were extra blessed this past weekend to find out that we are going to be grandparents, again!...The first time for me!!!! Yeah!......our first grandbaby is Anthony, My Honey's oldest dtr's son, now my oldest daughter is pregnan! I am so happy for her and her man! I wish only happiness, health and a FUN pregnancy for her.
I've decided to accept the grandmotherly title of "Oma" (german for "grandma") for myself. My own Oma is deceased and my mother is Omi (german version of "granny" or "nana") so I'm going to carry on the tradition of my family and take Oma as my grandma name.........it is a tribute to my own Oma.....
You will notice the babyticker I placed on the left, now we can all watch my grandbaby as he grows (yes, I said "he", that's what my Oma-witchy-sense is telling me), that's my story and I'm sticking to it, until the baby is born and proves otherwise....lol.
Thank you Kelli Lincoln for posting this babyticker on your own blog, I loved it when I first saw your baby and now I have passed this on to Vanessa and she is so excited!
May everyone's day be filled with laughter and love!
My Honey and I and all our collective children (7, all together) and our families had a lovely time over the holidays. We were extra blessed this past weekend to find out that we are going to be grandparents, again!...The first time for me!!!! Yeah!......our first grandbaby is Anthony, My Honey's oldest dtr's son, now my oldest daughter is pregnan! I am so happy for her and her man! I wish only happiness, health and a FUN pregnancy for her.
I've decided to accept the grandmotherly title of "Oma" (german for "grandma") for myself. My own Oma is deceased and my mother is Omi (german version of "granny" or "nana") so I'm going to carry on the tradition of my family and take Oma as my grandma name.........it is a tribute to my own Oma.....
You will notice the babyticker I placed on the left, now we can all watch my grandbaby as he grows (yes, I said "he", that's what my Oma-witchy-sense is telling me), that's my story and I'm sticking to it, until the baby is born and proves otherwise....lol.
Thank you Kelli Lincoln for posting this babyticker on your own blog, I loved it when I first saw your baby and now I have passed this on to Vanessa and she is so excited!
May everyone's day be filled with laughter and love!
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