Month: October 2020

“It escapes me how I can start so many things and finish so few___how I can begin with all zeal and give out before I have made the first dent.” Know this feeling? “And yet, I know something whispers to me that time is forever and eventually I will catch up___While I listen to that… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine!___All those other things?___

“Maybe the reason we never get anywhere is because we’ve never figured out anywhere to go. We wait for time and chance to blow us in the direction we take and having a goal is the farthest thing from our thoughts.” “Goals are set by desire. We must want something enough to reach towards it.… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Find your direction, make goals.

Today’s bog thoughts are from Joyce Hifler’s book titled Pathways. “Creative people from the beginning of time have found a need for solitude__creative artist, yes, but also creative people who are trying for a more rewarding way of life___looking within themselves for answers to problems___listening and visioning without the clamor and interruption that scatters their… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! Creative people rock!

From: Pathways by Joyce Hifler. “In whatever time___at any age we have so much to learn___We learn that we can be lonely in a crowd___ that life is something in which we must continue to grow__that true friends are very precious___that peace is dear and hope is a necessity.” “We must learn to be temperate___to… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! In What Ever Time____

The rivers edge where a dark pool begins to soften___ Not deep water, so it will give up its mysteries in time. Light of day__a glance will tell me when and where. Translucence will reveal settled things, uneven rocks__ These setting below the water, with sharp glinting edges, Casting shadows, waiting undisturbed. River grass catches… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! The River, by Pejj Nunes

Chapter 6, Joyce Hifler, To Everything There Is A Season. “Life is sometimes interrupted in the way that a room is when wind thrusts open the shutters and fills it with fresh air and a bit of new living happens. Some outside force must push its way into our lives or we might go on… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! “A time to mourn, a time to dance___”

Life does go on after we lose someone. All of a sudden it is “poof!” And there we are! Sometimes with a degree of warning, like Thomas, it had been many months as for him, I waited for harder times with his health trying to prepare myself for what it meant for him. It was… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine!___No room for deep sadness today! Part 2.

“Have you never laughed to save face, to cover an embarrassing moment, to ease someone else’s self-consciousness?” “Someone very great once wrote that next to love a sense of humor was our greatest gift.” I know this is so! With my Thomas, this is what we had, lots of love and humor! “Our ability to… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine___Laughter makes life rich!

I say, “Ah! Well!” Because I opened up to the following Chapter in Joyce Hifler’s book “To every Thing There Is A Season”___. Chapter 5. “A time to weep, and a time to laugh___. This describes me at this time of mourning my Thomas. The beginning reads as follows: “The best of life to you,… Continue reading Good Morning Sunshine! AH! Well!____.