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"if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

~ Jodi Picoult

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

~Langston Hughes

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*Mother Nature is playing with my emotions. Seriously. Yesterday, I woke up to birds chirping...the sun was shinning....and the promise of a high of 68 degrees...

Mother Nature did NOT disappoint...

*I love listening to my boys...ahem...YOUNG MEN...joke with each other. In the morning...we ALL grumble, fumble and crash into each other but at night...at night is when we get to relax and talk to each other. Here lately, when we get ready for bed, the boys yell back and forth from their bedrooms. You know...like The Waltons. They joke. They tease. They tell their stories. And then they tell me good night. Its so quiet but its such a warm cuddling feeling.

*I hate it that I'm in an area that is STILL not used to seeing someone walk around with a camera around their neck.

my youngest is a father...

well...he was for the weekend.

he is in a class where he gets to play daddy to a very life-like baby over the weekend

it was interesting to say the least....

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between taking my dog to the vet and having to have a 3 inch steak bone extracted from his mouth...I was very much ready for a quiet day at home yesterday. I logged on line and like many of you, I'm sure, there was a lot of media information about Martin Luther King, Jr.

i'm just going to say this right now....

He was and his legacy, STILL , is AMAZING

This month, I have taken more vacation days then I think I have ever taken in one given month EVER....and it has felt really good. Good for me physically and most definitely mentally.



Have you ever felt like your mind is turning into mud and you are powerless to do anything about it??? That is where I was..and really a part of me still is.




But I feel it starting to clear up a little bit here and there.....





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My biggest owner/pet pet peeve is when someone is walking their pet...toodling along and they come across my front yard. Since my yard belongs to a animal...you can best believe Miyagi has marked his territory all over the place. Most dogs...any dogs...will catch the scent of another dog and go to investigate. I understand. Such is the life of being an animal.

But when you let 'Toto' come up into my yard and do his/her business IN MY YARD...you are allowing that other dog's scent to be all in my dog's territory.

not good.

when he goes out TO HIS OWN FRONT YARD...he tends to freak out because other dogs smell is in his yard

I'm very particular about when I walk Miyagi. I dont allow him to go into other peoples yard simply for this reason. Also...his..markings....can be GIGANTIC so you might not want him to mark his territory in your yard. It could get messy....

i have GOT to stop taking pictures through my car windows...but ya'll...I couldnt help it. I just loved this moment... the feeling I got...pretty amazing stuff. so of course, i had to turn around, get my camera ready, wait for traffic to come through and pulled right back to the same spot...

just for this shot.

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." ~ Mohandas Gandhi

*this photo is from my 365 project*

Happy New Year!!!!

Well it is for me...

I tend to start my 'New Year' on my birthday. Which is today...or yesterday depending on if I can get this posted today on the 27th (issues with my computer and BLOGGER) .

2011...although you started with a bang...you ended as a fllllllllllllliptttttttttttttttttttttt....you know, a burned out, horrible tired mess. I made a resolution several years ago where any resolution I made, would be one that would stay in my psyche for years....it wouldnt just be something for that year but it would turn out to be a way of life for me. One of this years resolution was for me to slow down and take some time for me. Well, that didnt necesarily happen.

The same with Alie Edwards and her OLW project.

I've done this for 3 years and even though I come up with a word for the year, I want that word to keep going from year to year. 2011...2011, your word was !LIVE! and I did good with that. I was more open. I did more things. I enjoyed LIFE. And then my father was diagnosed with cancer. My best friends dad passed away. My ex lost his job. My son started his senior year in high school. My baby boy started acting more adult like...ahhhhhhhhhh you name it and I felt like...well...I just didnt have time to !LIVE! anymore. I didnt have time for that word but really and truthfully, that's all that I WAS doing was living...through the good and the bad. And lets be honest...isnt that what life is all about??

2012, your word is going to be Transformation.

At Christmas time, it was me, my parents and my sister Netta. Everyone else was scattered all over my parents home but we were all sitting at the table eating pumpkin pie (RIGHT OUT OF THE DISH...no plates here...just a fork for each one of us) and I told them about the OLW project. I also explained that I started doing this in regards to scrapbooking but it had become so much more. It became a quest to direct my life for THAT purpose.

Without me telling them too, they all started naming their words... health was my dad's...my mother's words were faith/patience ( she would have to be the difficult one) and my sisters word was happy. When I told them my word they immediately felt like I was setting myself up for disaster.

Transformation is a BIG word. HUGE even. But to me each little step I take for change will lead to a big transformation. In my health. In my fiances. In my relationships. And when you have all these conscious decisions for a small change in ourselves..a transformation has no other choice but to occur.

And that is what I'm banking on.

In other news...I've fallen in love with photography again. At least the meaning of it, to me....which is to document my life, our lives....all lives for everyone around me. I love the idea of stopping time for that moment...THE moment... in someone's life where they can look at that photo and laugh in memory or even....cry. I want to concentrate on this every day so I'll be doing my 365 project not only here but on flickr as well.

In closing, again...this is my New Years Day but I know that your New Years Day is a couple days away so I will say now...have a Happy New Year...enjoy yourself..enjoy your family...and enjoy your life. After all, its the only chance you get to live it.... Muah!