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Apr 02, 2011 15:55

The Fabulous Friday 5 (or Satisfied Saturday 6) is about taking the time to focus on the good things. Post 5 or 6 things that made you smile during the week. It doesn't matter if it happened to you, to someone else, if you saw it in the news or when you were walking through the store. Just put aside the negative for a moment and share pleasure, big ( Read more... )

writing, fff/sss, nature, gratitude

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path124 April 3 2011, 01:45:36 UTC
I'm happy you found it a bit easier to do a SSS this week :)

I'm also happy to see you are writing more poetry/compositions. I can see in your writing about it that it is making you very happy, so I hope the writing bug stays around.

Two months with no sport must have been a killer. Hope your team does well this baseball season.

YAY for catching up with locker room friends. It's wonderful how in the morning rush to get organised and get to work that people stop and talk to one another. And it certainly does sound like you have found some lovely friendships there.

Keep on keeping on!

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mcgook April 3 2011, 10:16:30 UTC
If I were into baskeball or hockey, I wouldn't have spent 2 months without sport, but I just can't get overenthused about them. And figure skating actually bored me this winter. LOL!

Oh yes, I am definitely happy about writing again... but don't call my Muse a "bug!" LOL - after your experience with the Huntsman's Spider, I'm a little more leery of bugs than I was when I first woke up!

Funny you should point out the making time amidst the morning rush - yesterday that's what we girls were talking about in the locker room! People who are always in a rush, and unable to see anything good in the mornings (again, me being a grouchy pants in the mornings, usually, but getting credit for still talking pleasantly to people - or at least mumbling in a friendly way). These ladies (and a few gents) really have been lovely gifts to start my days.

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path124 April 4 2011, 02:29:25 UTC
Basketball would be one of my favourite sports.....probably because it's not heard about as much over here than Aussie Rules Football and Cricket - LOL!

Having said that, if I lived in the USA I think I would be a fan of Basketball, Gridiron and Baseball. I would love to see one of those games live one day.....the atmosphere must be electric with such big crowds.

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jacq22 April 3 2011, 08:57:40 UTC
Happy and bubbly, that's how you appear now, and Spring; and writing; and friendship; is all coming at once...I am wishing I was there too, to sit in the sun, and feel the wind, and look forward to Summer.xxxxx Just have to enjoy the pleasures you describe second hand. Sorry about the lack of sleep, but look what you still enjoyed in spite of it? how your soul opened like a flower? see mind over matter.

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mcgook April 3 2011, 10:20:31 UTC
Oh Jacqui, you are always here with me! Do you think that when I open my "artist eye" and look at the sky and trees and beauty that I am not thinking of you, and all the wonderful artists I know and wonder what you could paint from it? Don't you know that when my creative juices get going, or I dance wildly around my living room, I imagine myself surrounded by all of you, sharing all that joy? You are never out of my heart.

Yep, the good stuff is making itself felt again for me. I'm sure it was always there, but now it's FORCING me to notice and feel it. I forget the line I used... but I recently wrote something about the dusty curtains being swept away from my eyes. Kinda feels like that.

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mcgook April 3 2011, 10:24:09 UTC
LMAO! I am not a big bastketball fan, so I don't go out of my way to watch it. Once in a while I'll tune in - but there aren't that many amazing players like when I was a kid. A few, but not out of this world, like, how does he make his body DO that? kind of players. I just wrote to Path that if I were, I would not have been without sports for 2 months. The last couple of months, March in particular, are all about college hoops and totaly mania about it around the country. There are some sports I find harder to watch on TV, and better to wach live. So since I can't go watch live anymore, I don't bother on TV.

And yes, Basketball is ALWAYS on! LOL!

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den_lace April 3 2011, 10:27:15 UTC
I do see the change Terry, more like how you were a long time ago. I agree with Jac on the "opening up like a flower".

I think that maybe when you take the expectations away, good things happen to you. You "go girl" .. hugs xx

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mcgook April 3 2011, 10:54:01 UTC
Thank you - it feels good to be getting back to a genuine me. I wonder what you mean by "a long time ago..." The first thing that pops to mind is when I was unemployed - after I recovered from the job from hell and started getting back into things that mattered to me and had time (!) to really let it sink in. I didn't even really realise how much of that I lost again in the last year, but I knew I had closed up -obviously, since I wasn't WRITING! It's not called a "block" for nothing. LOL!

I don't know how not to expect things - often too much. But I guess "expecting" doesn't have to mean expecting them all at once. I really am continuing to work on patience. You guys just keep pointing out to me that it all eventually works out, and I'll keep improving. I'd be nowhere without you.

So sweet gardener, your American flower is finally re-blooming? :) Now that the days are getting longer, I will be better able to make time to let things sink into my spirit again.

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den_lace April 4 2011, 05:31:59 UTC
Yes it was around the time you stopped writing that I felt your spirit was a little lost, not actually lost but perhaps misplaced. That doesn't mean you have to write, that will come but just to enjoy life more and your love of soul things. Big
hugs to you, sweet girl xo

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