What's It All About?


"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

While you’re here, in this time and in this space, you are beautiful and you are perfect.

You are right where you need to be to get to where you want to go, so start asking yourself where you want to go.

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase." MLK

Friday, April 28, 2023

Gifts received in 2023...so far.

Life definitely isn't going how I expected it to. 

I wasn't sure what to do with the spare bedroom after E left. I struggled to decide if I should rent it out again immediately - to someone from craigslist again or make it into studio space and rent it out...or how it was going to work being an underground Salon. 

But as usual, my universe was being worked on by the other, bigger universe. 

I don't know if I've ever mentioned it but I've struggled to find my life's purpose for years and I finally had a feeling it just had to do with making people feel loved. 

I've been wanting to find someone who wanted and needed my love and let me love them wholeheartedly.

Someone I would put ahead of myself and...the universe brought them to me. 

V. An amazing young person. I already love this child with every fiber of my being and would die for them. 

I've got new roommates, thanks to O. 

A wonderfully sweet woman, O (:) ) and her child V, 14. 

They've only been here since Monday...5 days ago and I already love and adore them. 

I didn't really realize that what I've really been looking for is a child for me to care for. 

I had no idea. I know I love my nephews to death but it's not quite the same thing. 

Anyway, that's all I'm going post for now. 

More to come. 

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Noire

Noire
She'll be 2 years in 2 months! Time flies!

Things I'm grateful for everyday....

- My family
- My friends, old and new.
- A roof over my head.
- My computer & internet access
- Being employed (even if I don't always like things about my job)
- The public library and the joy of borrowing books with/on/for my Kindle
- That I can walk on two legs, use 2 arms/hands, have ten fingers/toes, can see and hear, etc. (uh, no offense to anyone who is physically challenged)
- Other people's creativity and efforts
- The love of a good man (he IS good)

Current Favorite Quotes

“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Lao Tzu
"The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are." ~ Joseph Campbell
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~ Charles Dickens
"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." -Carlos Castañeda
"..there’s something lovely about knowing that when it’s right, you really know it’s right because you’ve already been through all the wrong." ~ Sade
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." —Mark Twain

(This bit not so much as a quote but somethings I wrote down that I want to keep and this looks like a good place to do it)

7-25-07

1. Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
2. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
3. Leap and the net will appear.

Facts of Life (per Sonya Friedman)

  • 1. No one can bring your life to you
  • 2. No matter what you do, someone important isn't going to like it
  • 3. Though painful, rejection won't kill you - it may even lead to growth
  • 4. Every choice means giving up something different
  • 5. Some people aren't capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them
  • 6. The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others
  • 7. There are no quick fixes that can permanently change your life
  • 8. Life is on a rheostat, not an on/off switch
  • 9. Some problems cannot be solved - but you can make peace with them