It is as snowy and cold as February today

Think April when the winter's overlong you said.
And greatly wanting to believe,
Yet skeptical
I said, Think hills when one is wearied of the prairie?
Think plenty when the larder boasts a crust?
Think a song when one has excellent excuse to grieve?!
Think faith and trust when one is doubt-ridden and wary...
You smiled - and gaining courage I went on,
Think hope when one has used it all?
Think comraderie and love when one believes the two of them well gone...
You smiled again, and suddenly from up above and all around me -
In paths that were long winter-locked
I felt the April stir!

I've always loved this poem

A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty

Unwillingly Miranda wakes, Feels the sun with terror, One unwilling step she takes, Shuddering to the mirror. Miranda in Miranda's sight Is old and gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. Shining like the morning star, Like the twilight shining, Haunted by a calendar, Miranda is a-pining. Silly girl, silver girl, Draw the mirror toward you; Time who makes the years to whirl Adorned as he adored you. Time is timelessness for you; Calendars for the human; What's a year, or thirty, to Loveliness made woman? Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then-- How old is Spring, Miranda? -Ogden Nash

So True!

You love to read and often allow your over-active imagination to run away with you. You are not afraid of a mysterious adventure, and as a tomboy would rather be apart of the action than sit around gossiping with the girls. You are considered humble and often naive, but you always learn from your grand mistakes. You are loved for your childlike and adventurous spirit.

I took this little quiz on facebook to find out what kind of Jane Austen character I was and this is what the test results said about me. And what's weird to me is that they didn't even ask if I liked reading or if I was a tomboy - just if I liked guys in uniforms better that best girlfriend type guys and if my family was dysfunctional or not. And from that they knew all about me! I like this simplified blurb about me so well I want it on my tombstone or a T-shirt or even better - on a plaque under a huge picture of me in some public building! Who wants to take that upon themselves to do for me? What do you say?

Peaceful

I'm done here in Taber. I'm on my way to my new home. I have no idea what it will be like, but its the journey, not the destination that I love.
On Monday I was saying good-bye to my Chinese friends and I showed them my blog as a way of saying "hey, we will always be together and be friends as long as we can get to a computer!" And Ying loved it so much - she wanted to blog as well. So we set her up and she already has three very cool blogs! You should see them! Her address is Yingjade.blogspot.com. And she wanted to see who my friends are on my blog so I showed her your blog and she loved what you do and I know she would be thrilled if you commented on her blog. (As we all are when someone takes a minute to say - Good job! Nice Work! and You Make My Sun Shine!)
And they really are cool. Reading them you can just imagine how much fun its been to spend almost every Monday night hanging out with them. See you around! Love ya, Julie

Go for it!

If these guys were your buddies - would you be in the picture?

Where?
Would you be the one they were all following?
Are you in the middle?
Or at the back. Way at the back. In fact, maybe not even having your red swim cap on. And by the time you do they would have gotten back, all cold and seaweed covered with slimy unknowns between their toes and sand in their shorts, they would tell you between shivers what a good time you missed. And you would pretend to be regretful and tell them to make sure and let you know when they were doing that again.

- "Oh No! I can't believe I missed out on Run into Cold Lake Day again. Bad Luck! Oh and you guys even dragged me out of bed to come here and bought me a ridiculous red swim cap and everything! Curse this little plastic thing anyway. By the time I figured out how to get it on you guys were back and ...will it never work out?!

- "Hey, but don't forget to include me next time. I love coming out here with you guys in early Spring to catch a chill - not a chill - I mean its so chill hanging out with you reckless water enthusiasts. Don't ever change, you're awesome! No one pulls off a red swim cap as good as you!"

Happy March 12!

"Congratulations! Today is your day!
You are off to great places! You are off and away!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.









You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
You'll look up and down streets.
Look 'em over with care.
And some you will say, "I don't choose to go there." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not so good street.
And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town.
Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you. ...On you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak.
And will you succeed?
Yes indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)"





(Oh, the Places You'll Go!, By Dr. Suess, Random House New York, copyright 1990)