Saturday, November 26, 2011

Good Morning Star-shine!

A rise
We drove further out in
 the desert to watch the sun rise....
Where
no roof tops could be seen.
No dogs barking
No engines rumbling,
only
wind shimmering...
birds tweeting
in the
true sense.
Quail make entertaining listening as:
 (we've heard it said )
"They discuss arrangements for the day."

i love Quail.
 
My Hero

I LOVE THIS MAN!

We hiked up a well traveled trail that led to some awesome views
Near and far.
 A bush ray!

i enjoyed feeling like a mountain goat for the first time in years.
Too many.
(Perhaps a Big-horn sheep;)


And we have the
 word
 of the prophets made more certain,
and you will do well
 to pay attention
to it,
as to a light
shining in a dark place,
until the day dawns and
the Morning star
rises in your
hearts.

2nd Peter 1: 19

Saturday, November 19, 2011

A few of my favorite things

The wonderful local library had an outdoor book sale today to bring in funds and Share the joy of books. i was Sooo excited to be able to go and peruse the pages and pick up some interesting reads. i am a 'Bookworm' at heart. Some people brought little carts with them in order to fill their own personal libraries. There were old hardcover classics, new paperbacks, encyclopedia editions and huge arthouse volumes. i had to tear myself away with This nice stack bursting out of the baggy i was given to make it easier to hoard more than i intended. There was really only one book i was hoping to find. Find it i did. YAY!
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
by Sarah Ban Breathnach

The others somehow caught my interest and at .25 cents a piece ... how could i resist?
As i recover here in this blue sky desert oasis, i am craving not just knowledge again but Wisdom. 
Hubby and i seek Wisdom in The Word every morning.. Starting the day out right. We started in Genesis at the beginning of the year and are now in the Book of Mark.
i suppose the Internet may qualify for knowledge of a sort... i am a fiend at searching out resources and odd bits of this and that.
Yet i have been in need of 'Restocking' the old Memory banks with good old fashioned Book reading.
i am So very fond of old hardbound works. They are artistry in hand...from the ink embossed paper to the careful stitches holding them together. For some reason it just gives the Authors words a bit more heft in my mind.
But... i picked up a paperback of essays by George Orwell
My country Right or Left
1940-43 
and a Pictorial edition of
Yosemite National Park: Natures Masterpiece in Stone.
Pat O'Hara: Photographer, text by David Robertson.

It was fun to find a Hardcover of a book my brother Johnny gave me...
 ... Oh ... some 40 years ago.
Kinship with all life by J. Allen Boone
He's going to think i'm Nutz because i haven't sent him anything but  e-mails in years.
Merry Christmas Johnny!
...just in case you don't have your own.
Thank You, for One of my favorite things...
 i still have after all these years.

Also packed home
a 1947 book of Essays: The Portable James Joyce
and lastly but certainly not the least; in size anyway
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
1941 2nd edition.
i Beelieve i have enough reading material for ...
..... 
...the rest of this year.
Perhaps.
;>

Oh, the depth of the riches
of the wisdom and
knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his
 judgements,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
Psalms 11:33

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Gremlins

Looks innocent doesn't he?

 All squished up in order to fit onto the tiny ledge
next to me as i attempt to put words together
on this contraption he would describe as a DIS-traction!
Thank God He is mostly innocent... No malice aforethought.. truly.
No
he's not the problem...
and YES...
there IS
a
problem.
It's these computer
Gremlins
Those crazy things that occur in compu-land when we are
NO-Where Near our keyboards.

SOMEwhere in the past
 somefunnybunny
told me that these instruments ...
 these tools of sociability and commerce are
LOGICAL.
That they only record or function at the behest of the operator.
How IS IT then
that
When i turn my back ...
turn the 'Velocitraptor'
OFF
overnight
that important functions i have set up just the way

 I WANT THEM
get
RE-
Configured,

completely

 C
H
A
N
G
E
D
 ! <
i'm so greatful for this Sweet little furry friend
who rests so lovingly beside me
purring softly in answere to my
disgruntled mutterings
 muddling through the process of figuring out
 what & how
things have been scrambled like cold day old  eggs
 waiting to be scraped off a plate.

CocoMo: Life Coach

A man of many companions may

come to ruin,
but there is a
friend
who sticks closer than a brother

Proverbs 18:24

Friday, September 23, 2011

Do You Dance?


The story of Noah & the Dove
A Fellow blogger asked:

"Do You Dance?"

i attempted to leave a comment.
Blogger wouldn't let me
...So...
i will answere her here.

   
 Big sister teaches little sister their stories through Dance


Life IS Dance!

This is my favorite Dancer Natasha Oda....
Miss Aloha Hula 2001

when i grow up
i want to be like her :)


i can picture You; my friend;
 in your yellow dance shoes and lovely "pea-green" dress.

i hope You Dance.
<3
(if this works i Will be dancing;)

Saturday, September 17, 2011

49er


So What does a pair of fuzzy sockies
have to do with 49er ?

What is a 49er ?

Actually it's not a What but a Who?
and in  all truth here, the Sockies are Not fuzzy
the cell phone photo IS
FUZZY...
We still have not decided on the camera we need.... plus ... we are still looking to move.... SOoo... we're saving some of that green paper stuff in order to invest in our home-stead.
So here, You get to look at my latest wall ornament from my sister who lives in a colder climate and remembers how "little sis" loves a pair of sockies.
Since moving here to this 'dry and weary land' my circulation has improved exponentially to the point where my feet are SO Hot i am always on the lookout for a cool puddle to slosh around in.
Winter Will cool down enough for the wearing of these cuties
but right now i run about mostly barefoot...like i did when i was a kid.
This makes me happy.
The card on the socks says
"Wild Thing"!
Yeah...that just about describes me alright! Haha!
Wild cat

So .... (i've been So-ing allot lately ;)
SO
Along about July,
 this certain person crossed over the desert and while searching to make a move to a high-desert valley
She realized she had become a
49er.

So...as i awaken each day; this time a couple of months passed;
i find i Am much like a Prospector in my 49th year on this earth.
Hubbee and i are prospectin'
for a Homestead
and getting close to paydirt.

It
may
take
 a year
or a day.
 Each day we awake and ask
 and
pray.
"Lord,
Is this
the
way?
Is This
the Way?"

Whether you turn to the right or to the left,
 your ears will hear a voice behind you,
saying,
 "This is the way; walk in it."
Isaiah 30:21

Thanks for letting me share this tiny tale in the Big scheme of things.
Life is a blast... isn't it?
(49ers use blasting caps don't they?)

Yup!
Life is a
Wild Thing.

Thanks to my sister Rita for bee-ing my solid gold nugget of sweetness and light.
For sending me sockies to keep my once frozen feet warm.
Now it is my heart that is warmed.
not blue anymore


<3



Sunday, September 4, 2011

testing123


kareful where U put my face
Not to get 2 x-citer-pated ...
buuut ...
we thinks perhaps MayBee 1's of us may have foggured out how to Send a picture from our little dingy cell phone camera!!!
 MayBee's !!
:]

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

i'm Beeing followed

Well If i ever lose my....
 mind...
Abby will clean up after me!
She's a Very Good Helper!
Good Moon-shadow-doggy:))

Ah ha ha ha ha!!!
Smarty pants me...thought: If i "Follow" myself ... i could Some-how be able to reply to my friends  who make Comments here!
(??)
No - Such - Duck!!

SO!
Here i am, replying to You Christine aka: Mama-bug...
 Cause i want you to know your care Matters.
The inspiration for putting up one of my old pictures of the lovely old house... Came from You!
i Luv, luv, luv, the Old house pictures You have blessed us all with and since i have a small archive of my own from the days i aspired to Bee a Photographer .... i will eventually share some of those shots... if i can figure out how to upload them here.
Right now i have not got the sustained brain power to remember what i read .... when i study
 "How to Do's"
Much less figure out how to upload my mere pittance of photographic effort.
Getting anything onto this Blogger page is in itself a HUGE thing for me.
Sooooo,
if only Moon-doggy could help stuff my mind back into my head!))
it's that white rag looking thing she's carrying...(he, he)

Hey...  my 'House Therapy' is coming along .... slow but ....
 s-l-o-www.
No danger of hurting myself at This pace.
The danger is for those who attempt to come into this place right now... including Poor Hubbub when he comes home from work... He just never knows what he's gonna walk Into.
But... as long as it's a Big kiss* from me and a paw # pawed from Abby he seems
"None the worse for wear."
(what does That mean anyway?)

God IS faithful my Friend....s.
i know he has us in his hands and that we just need to
~Bee still~
i need to Bee still....and know that He is God.
i just get so Antsy when it seems a door has been opened... and like the crazy red ants i cannot evict from my back yard... it's hard for me to let go of a prospect ....
a Hope
 that this door will be THE one that leads to that place we can settle....
The gypsy life was fine,
for a time...
Letting go of every home we lived in...
It's good to let go...
But i don't know how to
connect anymore.

maybe i never did?

It's not just the moving around either.
Since becoming Hypersensitive to chemicals and learning i have to avoid so many things including people and the toxic clouds that surrounds them/us...
 it's been allot of letting go.
i went to a counselor eons ago .... because i had trouble being around people...
she used to ask me why i held my breath...
i didn't know.
i was 11 years old.
what does a kid know?
Of course at that time they thought it was all in my head...
that the panic attacks and frustration were all due to some psychological disorder.
i guess i should give the 'experts' a little credit,
at least they were close.
it IS in my head....some of it anyway...
when i get exposed to some-thing my body cannot tolerate
breathing, eating or drinking it...
when it wafts into my eyes or onto my skin... and burns like i've been misted with stinging drops of acid...
When my ears start ringing and my throat closes and i have to run away gasping for air, feeling like a rabid dog...
it Does mess with my head.
It took me forever to figure out the fact that i am not only physically affected by toxins but that
Yes,
 it also affects my head... it Does make me feel like i'm losing my mind.
it's been hard for me to wrap my head around this.
Hard to figure out how to share this with people.
So i find myself retreating further away
not trying to keep connections
despite a deep desire to keep lovely people in my life.
i've let go of people who mean so much to me... because it's So hard to just think for myself, to just be... much less try to get the words out so others will understand.  
So often 
My thoughts and words are convoluted.
 i say things in ways people don't understand
then i end up not being able to go back and explain
because i can't remember what i meant or said in the first place.
i've gotten into arguments with people when i actually agreed with them but my words came out backwards and out of sink (?)

It's good to know that God not only leads,
 but also follows with the offer of Grace and New creation. 
He's ready willing and more than able to help us re-modle our lives.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; The old has gone, the new has come!
2nd Corinthians 5:17

 My goal in life is:
 Not to follow myself around but to follow the one who created this life.
To bee greatful for each day not in spite of the pains but because of them.
To bee Thankful for these oppertunities to reach out and participate in life with people.

Thank You for sticking with me even when there seems to be nothing to stick to!

You're all such sweet Honey Beez

Honey's sticky
...

Abbys sticky too!

Thats why we tell her to go get
her "wipe-y"

GOOD MOON DOG!!