Friendships are the ‘ebb and flow’ of daily life. Friendships also go through changes as people’s lives experience many adjustments along the way. Bending that licorice of life and going with the flow is needed to sustain beautiful friendships and families.
During a gorgeous hot summer night, I was out walking with a couple of girlfriends. While walking the girls started to vent! To vent means to get the steam out. To discuss everything that is causing psychological, emotional, or physical distress. In some cases, venting may cause your arms to swing, feet to stomp, voices to yell, and hair to be pulled. Actually, it may look like a visual display of madness.
As a writer, I tend to make up a lot of words. I also use the words that I make up. “Simblissity” is one of those words. It means to enjoy the simple pleasures of life in a blissful way.
In the community where I live, we have 3 main types of bins. The blue bin is for recycling items such as paper and plastics. We have a light brown bin for composting organic materials and we have a brown bin for actual garbage.
My question is…What will be our next community bin? I have some (wink, wink) suggestions!
I ask myself this question, how does this person finish our…sandwiches?
It’s nothing you can try to understand; it just is. Where did we meet? How did I know this person before? How does s/he understand what I’m about to say? Why is there so much connection without any connectivity? Is this a soul I’ve known before? It’s got to be more than what it is. But….there’s no known history.
My student Roberta Terry took two courses with me. She took Writing for Children 1 and Creative Writing 1.
I loved having her in my class. She is a very creative and beautiful person who is also a truly unique soul.
Hairdressing is in my blood. My maternal great-grandmother and great-aunts were all hairdressers. For some strange reason I love to cut hair, plants, almost anything. Are we born to be who we are and what we do or is the path altered along the way?
Have you ever spent a day without a watch on? Ask yourself this question: Does time control you or do you control your time? For me, I control my time, but I lose myself in it always – which makes me late, all the time!
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