I found this article recently, and it sounded so much like me, at least the "old" me. I think, at age 56, I'm finally the real me. What took me so long? Maybe it has helped that I found my soulmate, someone who accepts me as I am, and loves me with all my idiosyncracies, even thinks they are funny. Go figure! But it's great to be "real."
"Ten years ago I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing. A real tragedy? That's the loss of the heart and soul themselves. If you've abandoned yourself in the effort to keep anyone or anything else, unlearn that pattern. Live your truth, losses be damned. Just like that, your heart and soul will return home." Martha Beck
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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
—Dorothea Lange
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything is worthy of praise, dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
—Dorothea Lange
My Reading List
- Antiques Roadkill
- anything by Jane Austen
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
My Photography Sites
My Favorite Things
- Family and friends, my honey, tea parties and Pollyanna (or lately Mama Mia and Grease) with Kylah, my new twin grandbabies Taryn & Leyton, hugs, wildflowers (especially bluebonnets), wind, a good book, wandering to my heart's content with my camera, neighborhood children, my two awesome lab-mix babies... Shadow and Moon, and of course my two paints, Scout & Star. And do we mention food? Sees candy, chili rellenos, my Mother's mushroom-bacon quiche, curry chicken salad with grapes and almonds,sweet tea
Favorite Music
- My new favorite group (and it's country... ohmygosh...) Sugarland, Third Day, Mercy Me, U2, Coldplay, Crosby Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell, Phil Collins, Sting, Simon and Garfunkel, Peter Paul & Mary
Favorite Movies
- To Kill A Mockingbird, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Pollyanna, Dances With Wolves, Pride & Prejudice (all productions), Emma, The Sound Of Music
My Blog List
About Me
- Eileen
- Mom, Grandma and California girl enjoying this new chapter of my life in Texas.
3 comments:
Love that Eileen!
Love you!
And I've always known and loved the "real" you =).
I like that quote, and it's exactly what I've been learning. Relationships ebb and flow and losses are part of that process.
beautiful quote
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