Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day




I hope that the day finds you in love with you.

Why? - Because at day's end you can't get that love cup filled if you haven't been maintaining it. If you haven't found that special someone - work on 'the' special someone - YOU.

Why? - Because a person who practices love will find love in the most unexpected places. I promise.

HUGS!!

What to do if you've lost your bananas.



I guess I really wanted to listen to Audrey Hepburn but one can hardly refuse the genius of muppets. So what if there is that key ingredient missing from your day. What does one do without one's essential bananas? The answer I have found is everything else. Life has so many open doors that there is never a reason to be bored, tired perhaps, but never bored. There are always ways to fill the days and to find one's purpose for the hours or day. My girls are 10 and 12 and they have become old pros at the home school. So professional that I am sometimes at a loss because they are so far ahead. I'll assign work that by it's design should require two hours of their time and they will finish in thirty minutes- sans mistake!
I then question the rigor of the work ......Finding no problems- I am convinced that they are golden!
My three year old is suddenly annoyingly independent! "You go", he says - with authority!

I know- OY.

My bananas are my books- I am having a really hard time - I am blocked- yet I know that there is no block, there is just me. I am lying across the roads and the tributaries of my thoughts and I cannot seem to remove myself. I seem afraid of my own voice, weird and strange (yes both) since I already know the sound of my own voice.
I have to grade a few papers and then get back to talking again- I'm not really 'worried' - I'll Ketchup :-)
HUGS!!