when words connect with your soul

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it's still me...

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Here's what I really think.

We'll never be younger than we are today.

Profound, aye?  You may quote me.

It's ok that I've lobbed-on some poundage

as I've aged...some I can lose.

It's ok that I have wrinkles where I never expected:

did you know earlobes can wrinkle?

It's ok that I can't read as long as I used to, 

or drink as much as I once drank,

or did marathon dances in school that I

wouldn't care to indulge any longer.  

Some - but not all.

What I am sure of is that whomever we were back when - 

is exactly who we are today.  We are our perfect selves.

Yep, I may help my 'red' hair and I may be a tad rounder,

but I'm still the girl I was at 5, 25, 45 and now...

I'm good with that.

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Two more days and nights...

then it's off to the hospital for back surgery.

Back surgery.  I've heard those words before,

but I never related to them.  It sounded awful.

Now I know - awful is living in 24/7 pain and there are

people that will live in pain for the rest of their lives...

I'm sorry for them.  

Hopefully, when all goes well, I'll have some surgery pain

from which to heal - and then other than the pain from aging

joints, all will be well again.  

Getting out of bed for now is the worst.  That and dropping

something on the floor that you KNOW will hurt really bad

to pick up - but it can't stay down there.

Owwwww.

Gimme back the 'ol me.

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St. Patrick's Day...

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(yes, this is me at 23)*

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*ahhhhh, hahahahahahaha

Nairobi Blue

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Nairobi Blue.

That is the colour Lupita Nyong'o called the dress

she wore to the Oscars this year.  

I told her it was my favorite and that it is rarely duplicated.

Then I started looking for it and it was easy to find somewhere 

between the sky and the ocean. It's all over nature.

Man even tries to copy it to textiles...

...taken, once again, from nature ~ 

of course.

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wakie wakie

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WAKE UP!

Sometimes ideas and messages take time to brew for me.

And...sometimes they come crashing in like a wave hitting shore on purpose
to get the attention of the beach!

Today was the Art message.

Get up.

Go looking.

Your eyes need to filled up with pinks and greens and yellows and blues.

ahhh....my eyeballs are starting to feel better, 

to say nothing of my heart...

Q: more art? more colour?

A.  always!

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