Bloom Where You are Planted, etc

 This election, pastors are asked to go to the voting sites to help keep the peace..

Dear me!!

My friend asked me to make her a shawl for the occasion.

Bringing together different cultures, this shawl is made from African fabric.  It is embellished with a Celtic cross.

I hope she likes it.

The giving tree:  Or plant...etc.

This time last year, I passed on to my neighbors, a Poinsettia plant that had been gifted to me.

It was small and lovely, but I do not keep plants anymore...simplifying my life.

They planted it in their garden.  Voila:  It came back in its loveliness to cheer us on.

As I have aged, I have worried about ways I could perish.  My vivid imagination never ever dreamed that it would be painful arthritis that would do me in.  Eight years ago, I had four joint replacements....two knees, a shoulder and a hip.

Now the other hip is killing me and I can barely walk.; the other shoulder hurts  and...This morning I awoke with it in my elbow...Jeeze Louize

Working now on resigning myself to my painful lot.  Seeing a surgeon on Thursday, taking meds that do not work.

If this is going to be how it is from now on.  I will try to "Bloom where I am Planted" and figure out what I can do. (instead of focusing on what I cannot do!!)

Continuing kindness is my first goal.  "Small things with great love", said Mother Teresa....

I am trying to have more realistic expectations of myself.

And, I am sewing small items to gift to folks...xoxo