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Happy 2017!

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And because I let the Almighty guide me to wherever I need to go and be as I no longer make any New Year’s resolutions.

Woke up this morning, counting my blessings, thanking the Almighty for one more day, month, hour, minute, seconds and yes, year. It has had his rough patches, negatives and positives, met new people, made new friends, challenges of earthquake and tornado proportions but it is His Will and not mine. I am just riding along. I have accepted it. I have surrounded.

I am here, I am alive, I am breathing, I exist and yes, I am cute; sorry, could not help, it is just me. I have my family, friends and angels who I am eternally grateful for – they are tucked away in a special corner of my heart, and anything else is academic, a bowl of potato soup and sorry to say, just a space on my sentences.

I foresee 2016, excuse-me 2017, to be different, exciting, at least I am hopeful, striving for it, with its challenges and all. Yes, the page has got to turn in this book as dreams never die. A new chapter will have to be written with a mile (a semicolon it was in 2016) long of subjects and new protagonists in the midst as I look through the lenses.

Although a day late with my post, to all a Happy New Year. Wishing you the best in the roller coaster of 366 days; correction, back to regularly scheduled program of 365 days, as the leap year is gone and done with it, leaving us with more then we could chew. May 2917 bring you much joy, love, happiness, kindred spirits, prosperity and most of all, great health.

Muah. God bless. Much Love.

The Baby Bottle

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April 13, 2014, Happy Birthday Baby!

I saw this last Saturday at an antique store in Winter Garden, FL and was this close, from purchasing it.

I must confess, as a blogger, curiosity had the best of me. I thought of many reasons the little notes could perhaps, make the ultimate guide to writing beautiful love of parent to child stories, an interesting read but something stopped me at my tracks.

I picked up the jar twice. I turned it around, looked a at it and turned again. I tried to peek through the translucent glass but the notes were so carefully jammed in that not even the Pink Panther would be able to solve the case.
I dragged the jar with me all over the store as I browsed through it. I misplaced it a few times to picking it right back a few seconds later, to finally giving it up for good just as fast as I could sneeze off the dust.

It did not speak to me. I didn’t think it was right. Thought I was violating the person’s trust but one could easily argue, I was not since the jar was up For Sale.

How can parents “love for a child” be up for sale? If indeed the notes were intended for a four years old in 2014, basically two years ago, there must have been a big reason why the jar was discarded and it wasn’t my job to play detective. One could play the devils advocate and assume the notes were intended to be opened when the child was old enough to read but it was there alone, tucked in a corner.

If it was meant for me to have the jar, I would have been Told So. It would speak to me and it didn’t. I would quietly paid for it and walked away with a smile but I didn’t. So, without a tear in my eyes, I laid it back at exactly place where I found it, on the left corner of the second shelf of the bookcase on the last isle.

I could think of a few 100 reasons why I love you, can you?

Parched Leaves

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When the car breaks down, the world caves in from every direction and you are left at the roadside waiting for the train to go by. You want to scream, fly, run but you fail miserably at the breaks. Not strong enough, they say. So, you keep pushing, waiting for the veil to drop.

You look over and the world is sitting still. The drum is still beating. The circle in your eyes, still puffy. The moon and the stars in formation, winking at you. 

You hear the music but Beethoven it isn’t, so you try to switch to another channel but the symphonic notes still playing the same old tunes. You yell at whoever. You are heard, so you think, responses coming in small packages and yet, you are left wondering about a parachute. You try to spin, flip the page, blow it harder but the recipe is written in stone, No Carbon Copies Allowed. Perhaps, the new pastry chef will add a new dish to the menu but it is not about the cookie dough but the wind, blowing.

Death it isn’t, hell it is but the moutain, although steep, still up for the challange; we are climbing it. Looking straight at the screen below, the music man reads the story on today’s newspaper, outloud. It is dark and storming out the weatherman says but sunshine and bright skies tomorrow.