Interesting Diversions

 

My  bedroom is now uneven just like me.

Getting to love the freedom of this.

Christmas in August .  My two sided cutting mat.  Red and Orange.

Color and me.  We are happy, you see!!!

Present for his crisis counselor.  She likes cats and her favorite color is green.

Jar openers are Dylan's speciality!!

My new pink mouse lights up.  How cool is that?? !!

So does my new keyboard...And, they change colors....I love you Margaret!!

Boo...our other cat...always in the shadow of his gregarious older brother!!

Our scaredy cat!!

Wisdom from our friend, Fred Rogers

Yesterday's Gift

As I sit, the weeds grow over my feet 

They wedge between my toes and cover my ankles.

I do not care.  I tell myself that I have given up.

I know that if I stand, their ties will break and I might walk free.

I do not stand, I am becoming the weed.  It is now part of me.

When I sleep, the weeds wait outside....ever present.

Waiting.  They are mine.

When I sleep, the cool breeze of the open window comforts me.

The weeds do not climb to the second story room.

I have lost everything.

Everything but Choice, 2021 GDM

Now, with  gratitude to my friend, Rachel...this site, this poetry below and this poetry mood!!

John Roedel

The Wednesday adventures of Grandma O'Quilts

Hello, my name is Grandma O'Quilts...Today there was no school. 

 I took three children for dental check ups this morning. 

 Then had to bring one back for an extraction...all the way to Mint Hill....

Hello there...my name is Dylan and I am five.  I had a tooth pulled today and cannot wait until my very first tooth fairy experience...I am thrilled beyond belief!!

 Hello there...I am Lynsey and I am 6...I am having a scrap sorting experience...

I am learning cool colors, warm colors and neutrals.

So proud I am!!!

This afternoon Dylan and Grandma and Zoe were chillin in the yard welcoming fall...

We were thinking of our dentist,who worked all day in her crowded office on children's teeth.

She is 9 months pregnant and being induced tonight...

Like WOW!!

 Grandma treated herself by finishing 6 pillowcases..

I keep telling myself that it is only September and look what is ready for Christmas.

Last night ordered fabric I did not need from Hancock's of Paducah.

It was because I did not want to go to bed without my man.

From the outside looking in, I know it all... 

But, I am on the inside looking out.
I know nothing.

Obsessive behavior.. may look crazy to others, heck, it looks crazy to me.

Overeating chocolate, over collecting fabric, over worrying about my son,

It somehow keeps the grief at bay,. keeps the focus off the real deal.
It is my Morphine for my pain.
I miss Himself soooo!
I figure that it is my life and whatever works for me now..I will just do!!
And this is the season for atonement..Thinking about it.


RECHARGE
 begin over
start anew
do the things
you want to do

erase trivia
overlook crass
pick yourself up
or you'll fall
on your
EXCUSES

Alice Franzen Clemons Burt