Sunday, July 30, 2006
It's 1:00am
My loving spouse is sleeping, offering me his chest as my pillow as he was mumbling off to sleep. My mother can be heard down the hall in the arms of Morpheus...look it up. The dog has jumped onto her favorite piece of living room furniture and her legs are kicking and eyes are rapidly moving...but me I'm on the computer.
It just happened, it sneaked up - or is it snuck up - then bam. I drank a cup, one, uno, une, at 9:30pm at a local eatery and now I can't sleep. I lay there and my mind just races. I used to drink a pot of coffee and - nothing.
As my best friend says, "It must be some communist plot!" When did coffee suddenly get an edge? How did that luscious, steamy, goodness
become the enemy to my dreams? Perhaps and this is the part that is really frightening...I will have to switch to decaf at night, in the early evening? Oh like the inability to sleep wasn't enough. Now nightmares of impending middle age!OK this getting older thing is officially not funny.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Art depicts life
In the interesting way that art can vividly depict life, there was a song that I heard this weekend by Jodi Messina ...
One day you get what you want, but it's not what you think, then you get what you need... Well, oh that's the way it goes. You gotta role with the punches. That's the way it goes, you gotta bend when the wind blows. You live you learn you crash and burn, you hit or miss, that's the way it is...
that spoke to a recent decision I had to make. I thought I knew the answer that would make me happy,
One day you get what you want, but it's not what you think, then you get what you need... Well, oh that's the way it goes. You gotta role with the punches. That's the way it goes, you gotta bend when the wind blows. You live you learn you crash and burn, you hit or miss, that's the way it is...
that spoke to a recent decision I had to make. I thought I knew the answer that would make me happy,
but it only made me confused. Then I understood (thanks to what I can only attribute to a great deal of prayer by supportive and loving people), that what I thought I wanted, wasn't really what I wanted at all. 
I thought knowing what I wanted was something I had learned a long time ago, turns out I still have a lot to learn about what I have to learn. And I think that's not all bad.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Some where in the Smokey Mountain Range
Name that song and artist...
After an exploration of the Smokey Mountains this past weekend, Jeff and I didn't get any exotic fauna pictures, like we were hoping - salamander or bears, but probably for the best though that we - O.K. I - didn't come face to face with a bear or a salamander, just say'n.
For those who don't know, I am a waterfall junkie. I will hike - well the furthest so far is 5 miles round trip. But for me that's the equivalent of ...well forever in the woods.
We do have some other lovely picts, and I actually am figuring out the manual setting on the camera. Here's a sad factoid, only 25% of the visitors to the park ever get out of their cars and go exploring...what a missed opportunity. Here's some of what we encountered 3 mile hike and all!
After an exploration of the Smokey Mountains this past weekend, Jeff and I didn't get any exotic fauna pictures, like we were hoping - salamander or bears, but probably for the best though that we - O.K. I - didn't come face to face with a bear or a salamander, just say'n.
For those who don't know, I am a waterfall junkie. I will hike - well the furthest so far is 5 miles round trip. But for me that's the equivalent of ...well forever in the woods.
We do have some other lovely picts, and I actually am figuring out the manual setting on the camera. Here's a sad factoid, only 25% of the visitors to the park ever get out of their cars and go exploring...what a missed opportunity. Here's some of what we encountered 3 mile hike and all!
Indian Creek Falls
This gave me a whole new appreciation for the uses of snorkeling gear.
(We are currently experiencing uploading challenges, more selected picts in the coming days...)
But before we left, I actually was able to capture the foxes in digital! Yeah! I present to you..
The Country Fox
and his cousin
The City Fox.