My journey on the Path less traveled. Introverted survivor of childhood abuse using writing to “Bring on the thriving!” A little lopsided sometimes, stubborn, but smart enough to know it’s time to truly heal! 🙏🏻❤️
So blessed and excited to be a part of this poetry anthology coming out this month!
Please join the creator, award winning poet, Gabriela Marie Milton and publisher Ingrid Wilson, Experiments in Fiction, tomorrow for a lively discussion about this new project.
This will be Saturday, June 4th, 9-10 CT, 10am ET. It is on Twitter space, but you don’t need a Twitter account to listen in, just click on the link below.
Thanks again everyone for all your support on this writing journey of mine. It’s been such a blessing in so many ways. Please feel free to message me if you have any questions.
I’m in absolute shock and so sad this morning. A few dear childhood friend of mine just passed away suddenly last night. Her family just suffered the loss of her husband six months prior after a surgery complication also.
We’re the same age, grew up together, were childhood Sunday school buddies. She was an absolutely beautiful soul inside and out in so many ways. Her smile was the most contagious, gorgeous one I’ve ever known.
The last time we talked about getting together, there was an issue about house renovations and the kitchen being completely torn apart. We laughed about it and made a horrible assumption that the next time I was in town we’d get together.
That will never come now.
Again, life is teaching me a very valuable lesson. Don’t ever let the messy house stop you from visiting with a good friend, no matter how messy it is.
Love and prayers to our sweet Mary and her entire beautiful family. We’ve lost her but Heaven has definitely received one amazing spirit. Until we meet again my friend.🙏🏻😢
Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got while you still can. 💜✨ Thank you so much for stopping by. I truly appreciate and value you all here.
Ok, I’ve written a few times here about how I’m not a trend follower. In fact, my favorites seem to be the more simplistic, but still beautiful, things in life.
While driving down the road this weekend, in the gorgeous spring weather, I couldn’t help but notice all the vibrant glowing yellow dandelions popping up in the fields.
That’s it!!I’ve forgotten how much I love the dandelions wildly growing in the velvety green meadows/fields/and yes – yards! Too bad they get weeded out of most yards.
This flower represents so much that is good to me. Remembering my horticulturist mother saying how every part of the plant is edible. Reading how they grow in areas where their nutrients are actually needed. And of course, the one we all know, go ahead and pull it out but it’ll grow back twice as strong.
Maybe I’m relating to this weed (FLOWER) more than I realized before for many, many reasons. Again, going my own path here, dandelions bring back beautiful childhood memories.
And I’m going to hold on to those ones!
Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got while you still can! 💜✨ Thanks so much for stopping by. I truly appreciate and value you all here.
I’m not sure what got me thinking about this topic last week, it might have been the ongoing complaints about gas and food prices,…(all while knowing what life horrors our brothers and sisters in Ukraine are going through).
So I sat down and let it really sink in. Why isn’t this current US crisis bothering me like it is a lot of others?
Well, it hit me. After growing up with the mentality of stretching things, making it last, only getting one, no exceptions; I’ve learned so many valuable life lessons that I haven’t really acknowledged before.
Examples
• Appreciating everything
• Ability to stretch supplies (food, gas, clothes, etc)
• Knowing a want vs. a need
• Valuing everything I do have
• Less complaining about “life bumps” and more thankful for what I do have
• Easily finding alternatives, life flexibility
• Enjoying the simple things, free activities even!
• Knowing that relationships are more important than any ”thing”
• Very easily amused, very creative, resilient, empathic,…
• Looking for the best in every version of what I have
• Knowing that “Stuff” is low on the priority life list
• Ability to sacrifice without even blinking
Today, I’m extremely thankful for what I once thought was a bad thing. Yes, I was made fun of by peers for some ratty/uncool clothes. Yes, I had feelings of not fitting in.
But wow, I really can’t complain!!
Now that I’m reconnecting with my true healthy personality, I’m able to see how those life events shaped me in so many good ways.
Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got while you still can! 💜✨ Thank you so much for stopping by. I truly appreciate and value you all here.
I’ve been swept away creatively with the amazing Writing Community on Twitter the past few months. The writing prompts offer such a nice creative start to the day.
I’d love to cross over and share some poems here on my blog too. Yes, I’m having way too much fun with all of this!
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