Reverb10 Dec. 13

Prompt: Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. What's your next step?

Next steps on my pseudo writing career:
1. Finish the article on multi-generational vacations and submit it
2. Find a printer for Journals for Christa
3. Go to Panda Express and eat something hot, hot, hot for this sinus infection. 
I'm starting with #3. (That's why I'm keeping my day job.)

Reverb10 Dec. 9 Describe the best party of 2010

Anytime we're with family is a party--from exploring anywhere in the world with grandkids to a calm Sunday dinner with Joy and Shane. But, our best party is probably yet to happen. Dec. 20. (I doubt I will blog.) That will be Christmas this year with 3 of our children and their families, my sisters, and my mom.  The house is decorated, most of the gifts wrapped, and meals mostly planned. Now, we just wait. Waiting for lots of laughter and happy faces. Laughter and food makes a party, and the bigger only makes it better.

Reverb10 Dec. 8 Reflect on what makes you different; what makes you different makes you beautiful

People don't have to be different (or beautiful) to have value. What's wrong with being a faceless form among the masses of humanity? For if we are honest, that is where most of us live and who most of us are. And I'm okay with that.

Women over 50 have had to learn to see beyond beauty. And I pity any older woman who hasn't. Some things in life can't be turned back. Age is one. I've also seen enough of fame to be content with a ray of sunshine from a Colorado blue sky, and enough of wealth to look fondly on my house that looks very much like the others on the block.

So, today I praise the ordinary...those who live their lives before a small circle and live them well. Those who find satisfaction in their daily walk--those who live in contentment. And, maybe that's what makes them different after all.

Reverb10 Dec. 7 Where have you found community?

I've always had community at school. And if Geri gets married and moves to Denver, well, there goes half my community. Not really half, but it will seem like it.

Reveb10 What was the last thing you made?

The last thing I made was a crocheted scarf for Helen to keep her warm in the cold German winter as she walks to school each morning. It's soft and purple (her favorite color, the last time I checked.) She will open it on Christmas Day; and I hope she loves it, as I thought of how much I love her with each stitch. Next, there are blankets to make for babies...and I will find time for those too.

Reverb10 Dec. 4 A sense of wonder

Today: Listening to the wind sing through the evergreens on a mountain ridge and noticing how much it reminds me of the sound of ocean waves...steady, rhythmic, peaceful.

Reverb10 Dec. 3 One Word to describe this year and next

This year: change  There have been significant changes in my life this year, some good, some bad.
Next year: changed I'd kind of like to settle in.

Reverb10 Dec. 5 Letting Go

I don't think I let go of anything this year. Maybe I should have, or maybe I've already let go of what I wanted to let go years ago--things like a clean house, being organized, and goal driven. Whether good or bad, I think I want to keep what I have--a good job (frustrating, but good), good family and friends, a good God. What's there to let go?