Horrific, horrible, unbelievable.
Colorado is in the news again, not for forest fires but a psychic horror, a murder of innocent people at a local movie theater. As a lover of words there are no words to describe this but only to offer my pitiful words of condolence to all those who lost a son, a daughter, a wife, a husband, a child, a friend in the massacre.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Goodbye Martha Stewart
When I moved from California to Colorado, I packed all my Martha Stewart Living Magazines thinking that I could in some small way become Martha Stewart in my new home. I would plant an English garden, become a gourmet cook, everything in my home would be organized including drawers and closets. And I would be the perfect hostess with table decorations to match the season, as well as superb food. And holidays. . .handmade gifts for everyone, a Christmas tree worthy of Rockefeller Center, and of course handmade ornaments which would bring oohs and ahs from all my guests who would notice the special handmade soap in the bathroom and the vintage linen towels there as well.
What a surprise; it never happened and. . .quite a few years later while de-cluttering and painting my office, there were the Martha Stewart magazines neatly stacked in the closed cabinets, all 50 of them! So, feeling environmentally guilty, I arranged to deliver them to a craft store here in Denver. They were so heavy that I had to box them and use a wheeled cart to deliver them.
So Goodbye Martha, I can never be you, but I admire you. You are like the perfect student in class, the one who gets straight A's, the one the teachers adore, the one who gets chosen for those secret sororities we had in high school, and also attractive. . .sigh.
But like those unrealistic dreams we have, dreams they are, so we take the best of those dreams and make a tiny part of them come true. Let's see which part? I know, I'll marry the guy I met at my high school reunion and live happily ever after. Martha did not do that.
What a surprise; it never happened and. . .quite a few years later while de-cluttering and painting my office, there were the Martha Stewart magazines neatly stacked in the closed cabinets, all 50 of them! So, feeling environmentally guilty, I arranged to deliver them to a craft store here in Denver. They were so heavy that I had to box them and use a wheeled cart to deliver them.
So Goodbye Martha, I can never be you, but I admire you. You are like the perfect student in class, the one who gets straight A's, the one the teachers adore, the one who gets chosen for those secret sororities we had in high school, and also attractive. . .sigh.
But like those unrealistic dreams we have, dreams they are, so we take the best of those dreams and make a tiny part of them come true. Let's see which part? I know, I'll marry the guy I met at my high school reunion and live happily ever after. Martha did not do that.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Happy Birthday, America! 236 years old today.
I just had to wish our country a happy birthday today, July 4th, 2012. I included but edited the Declaration of Independence with the lines I like the best.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
I just had to wish our country a happy birthday today, July 4th, 2012. I included but edited the Declaration of Independence with the lines I like the best.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of
America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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