Suzanne has challenged me, us to think about ourselves and examine what it is we like about ourselves. It's a daunting task to peer into a clouded mirror to look for unblemished areas. As a women of maturity, I see mostly flaws and often those are exaggerated beyond recognition. I have for decades seen my nose in comparison to Rembrandt's rosy ballooned snout! Which leads me to the misconceptions of our mind when we look at ourselves through a veil of emotion.
So tonight I choose to focus on my most prized attribute, my spirit and soul.
I have weathered many disappointments, betrayals and sad events but nothing had kept my heart from wanting to continue to love my fellow human. I cling desperately to my right to be happy with what I have, with my lot in life, with my belief that good is among us and I must search it out daily! My spirit soars with a returned smile, a gogerous piece of nature and those daily happy moments we take for granted or ignor altogether. I love being a Pollyanna, I want to remain that way and so I fight to keep my joy wherever I can find it.
It is my unwavering belief that there is goodness to be scooped up in this most tainted world we busy ourselves in...if we're looking for it!
8 comments:
a very nice way to celebrate you, and a very nice celebration. Brava.
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Thanks Gail...I stuggle daily to live up to my convictions or at least fake it, till I build up the strength to continue on!
Love & Peace,
Shara
God I love you. I have tears in my eyes. Tears of absolute joy. You are a remarkable woman and every time I come here I learn something and carefully tuck it in my pocket and take it back to my life. I just think you are one of the most beautiful human beings I have ever known. I love your nose, your face, your heart, your hope, your whole self. I just adore you to death. It breaks my heart you stuggle so, but if you didn't you wouldn't write beautiful words that help everyone else. Honestly, I can't imagine my life without you. I just can't.
And yes honey, I'm going to write that post. You just let the cat out of the bag! But that's perfectly okay. I expect you to arrive with bells on when I finally do.
I LOVE YOU. XO
Dear Shara,
You are a beautiful person....with a beautiful soul and spirit!
Yes, sweetie...there is goodness everywhere..we have to look for it..
Take care
♥ & ((hugs))
bindi
Sweet Sisters Suzanne & bindi,
I don't know what I would do without you two! Maybe I will just have to adopt the two of you to join my sister Angie who is my brother John's wife and my little sis by choice. I feel very blessed to have you both as special friends.
It was a long day at the old art classroom but I'm making progress on getting projects finished and just finished a presentation on the Italy trip. My boss, art director ask me to create a collection of pictures highlighting our adventures there. Well...I did a pretty good job I think and was asked if I would be a host for an art teacher from Italy who's coming to Fort Worth this summer. Of course, I said...Yes! Karma comes back to reward my good deed with a pleasant event...I can't wait to see what's ahead for me.
Hugs & Kisses girls...Love & Peace,
Shara
Dear Shara,
I learn something every time I visit you here, your words always touch my heart. I also believe that there is goodness in this "tainted" world...if we just keep looking for it!
You are a beautiful person, with a warm and generous heart, don't forget that.
Love,
Gig
Thankyou Gig,
I try hard to keep an open heart but it can cost you alot of pain. My daddy use to say, "you don't get what you don't ask for"...so I ask for kindness and here in our little blog world...I get just that.
Thanks dear Gig, thanks,
Shara
Well hello there, Queen, thank you for adding me to your page and for visiting mine! Listen, I love what you've added recently and I especially relate to what you are saying about yourself, your desire to focus on your eternal spirit and soul rather than the self you view unfairly and the lens of distortion called emotion. I am 43 and find myself in perimenopause and refuse to let myself be a conformist. While you are a pollyanna, I am a primadona through and through. I believe our perspective has the ability to shift our view of any situation in a second, its what I work on daily. I have had a lot of SH-- happen lately, but I have to not consider myself the victim. These are just little things in life, thank goodness for those little things that make life crazy, after all the alternative is death...I feel my next blog evolving out of this one. I and an emotional blogger! Anyway, I also love the blown glass photo you placed on your page. Gosh, to have something like that in my town! Today I went to the annual church rummage sale! That's what we have in Vermont! (Actually, I jest, because we have a lot of very talented artisans)...so, ta ta for now...I'll be back!
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