Christmas Season!

Oh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Christmas decorating, cookies, shopping, wrapping, and cards are all done! Now I'm switching gears to focus on GRADUATE SCHOOL! Classes begin January 11th and before that I must finish paper work, study for the GRE, apply for financial aid, register for classes, buy books and MOVE from our apartment to my mom's house. Things are looking up these days, most definitely. I'm feeling really well and have been off of my pain meds for several weeks now! Before New Year's, I'd love to post on the year in summary--so here's my attempt to hold myself accountable. In the meantime, I'll be buzzing about. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas!

Transitions

In my own time, originally uploaded by dandelion_♥.

me: i called claire and told her we were going to pick her up tonight and she ran and grabbed two stuffed animals and stood by the door then started crying when we weren't there
the poor thing is going through so much
it's difficult to explain all of these transitions to her
well i just can't
me: i wonder if God has the same heartache for us..knowing that we're not aware enough to understand the transitions we go through in life

Good Morning, Morning!

"Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished."

~Michael Strassfeld

A song by "Snow Patrol." Have a beautiful day!

Clifty Creek intimate cascade, originally uploaded by Bernie Kasper.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

~George Eliot

Good Morning, Morning!

Double A trees, originally uploaded by B℮n.

"I think dreams are special destinies that God gives to people. It's like your own little cosmic fortune cookie."

~Chaedria LaBouvier (a friend of mine)

Good Morning, Morning!

102 - Apr 12 - Bunny Slippers, originally uploaded by ladybugrock.

“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.' If I died and found myself in Hell, I could endure the place if I had bunny slippers.”

-Dean Koontz

Good Morning, Morning!

As their world suddenly turned upside down, they were barely able to cling on..., originally uploaded by cmac66.

The world has enough pain, loss and difficulty to keep all of us sad, bitter and hurt for a lifetime.

The world also has enough hope, love and renewal to bring us a full measure of joy, happiness and fulfillment - even in the midst of life's inevitable sorrows and losses.

- Dr. Neil Neimark