BIRD WING - I love birds! I think it is yet another thing that I inherited as my Grandmother Mundy (Mama Sib) loved them so much she had bird houses and a ceramic collection of birds on a shelf in her house. My house is surrounded by lots of "woods" and so the birds just love to flock here and I enjoy looking out my window to see them.
WEST WING - My 20ish year old children love the West Wing. I've seen sporatic episodes and enjoy them as I've seen them. Blake also turned me onto Six Feet Under and I enjoy it the same. The West Wing and it's politics are interesting fodder.
RIGHT WING - UGH! It makes me nausiated to just hear the word. I grew up in church but once the "church" attached itself to the "conservatives" and the "right", I got more and more turned off by the whole thing.
I think wings are for birds and that where they really belong but please enjoy this video which is the perfect storm of West Wing meets Right Wings. I couldn't have said it better. Wings are for birds... Let it go righties!!!
Monday, June 16, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Yard Therapy Interrupted
My blog title of Yard Therapy was born out of my belief that working in the yard and loving it is part of my genetic assemblage and I need it to make me whole. Doing the happy dance while mowing or singing to the hum of the mower just seems natural. For me, I think it's either the vibration of the mower handle or for sure it's looking over the landscape after the mowing is done and seeing how good things look.
The anti-Christ of yard therapy is POISON IVY! And yes, that beast has yet again found itself too close to me. So while I'm suffering from some unknown brush with that 3 leafed monster - please enjoy the two videos below while I (try not to) scratch.
Remember LEAVES OF THREE - LET IT BE!
The first, how it happens - what a nasty green beast:
The second, how it consumes you (kind of sorta) or a way to pass the time waiting for the rash from hades to clear up:
Is that me? Come on, geez - I dance much worse!!!
The anti-Christ of yard therapy is POISON IVY! And yes, that beast has yet again found itself too close to me. So while I'm suffering from some unknown brush with that 3 leafed monster - please enjoy the two videos below while I (try not to) scratch.
Remember LEAVES OF THREE - LET IT BE!
The first, how it happens - what a nasty green beast:
The second, how it consumes you (kind of sorta) or a way to pass the time waiting for the rash from hades to clear up:
Is that me? Come on, geez - I dance much worse!!!
Monday, June 9, 2008
Traveling Light
I can't believe I haven't written anything since January! Life goes on whether your watching, worrying or just hanging in there....
I've rediscovered a book that the pastor at Sugarloaf UMC did a series of sermons on some time back. Maybe 8-9 years ago, it's been a while. The book is titled "Traveling Light" by writer Max Lucado. If you are familiar with Max Lucado don't let that turn you off. He writes some deeply spiritual, flowery stuff that I just can't follow. This is not like that at all. Funny, how many years I've been been going to church and I still view myself as a spiritual babe who's still teething on the vanilla wafer's of God's kingdom and not as a saintly mature lion ripping the meat off the bone of Spiritualness. It doesn't bother me, I just acknowledge it. Thus, I digress, per usual - back to "Traveling Light".
The book is a line by line breakdown of the 23rd Psalm. You know the one that begins "The Lord is my Shepard I shall not want." It takes each sentence and dissects it into a burden God never intended for us to carry therefore we can lay those things down or take them out of our suitcase and "travel lightly" without them thru this life.
Well, the book has just been awesome to get back into again. And this trip thru, I seem to be picking up things I never noticed before. One particular meaningful chapter to me is "Doubt".
My friends and my children say I like to be in control. I think I've mentioned that before. It's a quite subtle need for control. I do a good job of masking it as concern or involvement. Some call it hovering. Some call it being overbearing. I call it what I do.
Hmmmm....Well.
There's been this cloud of undefined uncertainty that has been hanging over me and in my mind for some time so when I was flipping thru "Traveling Light", I thought gee I wonder if there's a chapter on uncertainty, well "Doubt" was the closest chapter I found to it so I began reading.
"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life." is the basis of the "Doubt" chapter.
Not "surely uncertainty will follow me" but goodness and mercy.
Certainly goodness and mercy.
Certainty. Not uncertainty.
Goodness and Mercy.
Well, I read it and read it until one morning I said "UNCERTAINTY get out of the backseat of my car! There's no room for you back there because GOODNESS and MERCY are already there! GO AWAY!!!"
It's actually worked. I truly believe it.
I don't have to haul uncertainty around being weighted down by it like carrying an extra 200 pounds around in my car. Every time I get in the car there's goodness and mercy already there. This spiritual babe needed that and hey learning this and applying it might just have put some mane on the teething lion cub.
"Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of life"....
Of this... I AM CERTAIN! NO DOUBT!
I listen to this song in the car almost every morning. It does me wonders!!! Please consider this post as me whispering into your ear.
I've rediscovered a book that the pastor at Sugarloaf UMC did a series of sermons on some time back. Maybe 8-9 years ago, it's been a while. The book is titled "Traveling Light" by writer Max Lucado. If you are familiar with Max Lucado don't let that turn you off. He writes some deeply spiritual, flowery stuff that I just can't follow. This is not like that at all. Funny, how many years I've been been going to church and I still view myself as a spiritual babe who's still teething on the vanilla wafer's of God's kingdom and not as a saintly mature lion ripping the meat off the bone of Spiritualness. It doesn't bother me, I just acknowledge it. Thus, I digress, per usual - back to "Traveling Light".
The book is a line by line breakdown of the 23rd Psalm. You know the one that begins "The Lord is my Shepard I shall not want." It takes each sentence and dissects it into a burden God never intended for us to carry therefore we can lay those things down or take them out of our suitcase and "travel lightly" without them thru this life.
Well, the book has just been awesome to get back into again. And this trip thru, I seem to be picking up things I never noticed before. One particular meaningful chapter to me is "Doubt".
My friends and my children say I like to be in control. I think I've mentioned that before. It's a quite subtle need for control. I do a good job of masking it as concern or involvement. Some call it hovering. Some call it being overbearing. I call it what I do.
Hmmmm....Well.
There's been this cloud of undefined uncertainty that has been hanging over me and in my mind for some time so when I was flipping thru "Traveling Light", I thought gee I wonder if there's a chapter on uncertainty, well "Doubt" was the closest chapter I found to it so I began reading.
"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life." is the basis of the "Doubt" chapter.
Not "surely uncertainty will follow me" but goodness and mercy.
Certainly goodness and mercy.
Certainty. Not uncertainty.
Goodness and Mercy.
Well, I read it and read it until one morning I said "UNCERTAINTY get out of the backseat of my car! There's no room for you back there because GOODNESS and MERCY are already there! GO AWAY!!!"
It's actually worked. I truly believe it.
I don't have to haul uncertainty around being weighted down by it like carrying an extra 200 pounds around in my car. Every time I get in the car there's goodness and mercy already there. This spiritual babe needed that and hey learning this and applying it might just have put some mane on the teething lion cub.
"Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of life"....
Of this... I AM CERTAIN! NO DOUBT!
I listen to this song in the car almost every morning. It does me wonders!!! Please consider this post as me whispering into your ear.
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