Halloween!

Ken and I have completed quality control testing of Reese's Pieces, Twix Bars, Nestle's Crunch, Snickers, Milky Ways, Pretzels and Candy Corn and are ready for the expected 100+ Halloweeners tomorrow!

 

 

 

 

 

But are they are they ready for us?

Happy Halloween!

Stop and See the Now

Work has been busy with newly assigned tasks and responsibilities. I have also been taking a computer class on Saturdays at a local community college AND signed up as a volunteer at an animal shelter as a dog walker/cat socializer. It's been energizing to learn new things, meet new people and practice new skills but as I slid the deck door closed at the end of another day, I realized something was missing. Something simple and jaw-dropping miraculous. All I have to do is put all the activity down and walk outside to get it. It costs nothing but an open door.

 Sometimes you just need to stop what you are doing and be part of it!

What is Loved is Never Lost

While dragging out fleece and flannel for the coming winter, I took one last look at summer and a vacation week spent with some special women. Nine of us rented this house "down the shore" and spent the week laughing, listening and enjoying a special kind of solitude.

 

  

Bridge from the house over the dunes to "our" beach. 

 

We are each a story unto ourselves, and a story when we are together. In one house, for one week, we carried our history of living and learning, losing and finding again. Some lost loved ones. Others lost their own souls for a time.
But we are still here. 

 

There is something about watching the ocean...

   

      

 

I do not know when I laughed so often or so much! You may not know these women by name, but if you are reading this, you are one of us in your heart. 

 

From my humble perspective, there ain't nothin' better than goin' to the beach with 9 women who are all FOODIES.

  

 

We played games.

  

 Hung out on the beach.

  

   

Created STUNNING artwork.

  

We rejoiced in ourselves, in each other, and in this Universe.  

  

 OF COURSE, SOME OF US WENT BIRDING.   

 

     

We left our mark.