The Music is on

I have Pandora turned up. A lovely song came on called While my Guitar Gently Weeps by The Hot Club of San Francisco. I knew I wanted to share that song with you but it is not on Youtube. I did find some other songs with the same title that I will share but first The Hot Club of San Francisco...

At Sundown

 

The band spend a minute or two talking to the audience before they start playing. I love when I see or hear people encouraging others to follow their dreams or letting them in on theirs. Anyway the song is called All of Me

 

 

And I Love Her

 

So now for the Random Songs that have the title of

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

 

The Beatles:

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps.

Santana

 

The Muppets

 

Maybe the reason why this song inspired so many artists is the original artist George Harrison.

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

 

The truth is this not the first time I have heard a version of this song. In fact it inspired me into writing a poem many years ago. Of course I am going to share it. You know me...

My pen gently weeps
    calling to my hand
    the words that are
    longing to be placed
    on a blank page
My pen yearns to fill
    pages with lyrics
    of the heart and
    the forbidden soul
My pen weeps
    while it sits unused
    waiting for inspiration
    to find it's way home.

I hope your day is filled with love, laughter, and inspiration. Be well my friends.

Lately. . .

Lately I have been super hard on myself. I struggle with my weight and my size. I struggle with everything I am not good at. This harsh look at myself lowers my ability to be totally content with who I am. Do you know the feeling? You know I am not good enough, I am not strong enough, I am not______ enough? This is such a destructive way of thinking and more often than not it spirals out of control. I am guilty of looking outside of myself for the positive thinking I should be doing for myself. No one but me can fill that space. So today I decided to change my outlook. What's that? Oh you've heard me say that before. That is true my friend. I am a work of art in progress. I will continue to try and chose happiness and seek to change my negatives until they become positive. What makes me happy? Well I love dresses and high heels but I do not wear them very often because I am afraid of criticism and odd looks. Standing in my closet I suddenly thought "Why Not?" Out of my bummy (okay, my PJ's which is one of Rob's old T-shirts and batman boxes. No the boxers are not his. I bought them for me.) clothes and into a pretty yellow dress and my nude high heels. Instantly I felt better. I also put a little mascara on and lipstick. I am not going out. In fact I am going to be cleaning. I feel good about myself today.  I want to feel like this more. So why not wear Sunday's clothes everyday. I deserve to feel good. Lean in close my dear friend So do you. You are worth it. Be brave and do something that you have always wanted to do. Wear that thing that you love but you feel a little silly in. Be brave enough to be who you want to be.

I hope your day is filled with love, laughter, and inspiration. Be well my friends.

July's Granny Square

How are you doing on your granny square blanket? Here in South Texas it is crazy hot and that makes crocheting for me a sweaty business. So here is your granny square for the month. I know I sound like a broken record but I will update these posts when I get caught up on each of them. 

 

Here is a shooting star with a rainbow tail to help celebrate the 4 of July here in the USA. I think it is adorable and hope it inspires you to keep going!

 

 

 

I hope your day is filled with inspiration, love, and laughter. Be well my friends.

Sixth Granny Square

I am still behind and it is looking like it will be a little while before I catch up. I do not want to hold you back so here is June's Granny Square. I hope you enjoy it. When I have more time and am able to get back in gear I will update you with my finished square.

I hope your day is filled with inspiration, love and laughter. Be well my friends.

Choose joy

Today I am starting a little project to help my family to find a little peace in their hearts. We are doing the Joy Dare. Finding things to be thankful for and actively trying to be kinder to one another. I do not know if it will help, although I really hope that it does, I do know it can not hurt.

Here is my plan:

Joy Dare
Psalm 69:30
I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving

I am going to have the boys find the day's  gifts to be thankful for.
They will have to say one nice thing about everyone in the house.
What they can do to be nice to at least one person.
And list one thing that another person did that was nice for them.


My goal here is to change our attitudes to a positive outlook.

I hope your day is filled with inspiration, love, and laughter. Be well my friends.

What makes you happy?

That is a question I have been asking myself for a long while. I keep thinking of the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. If you have not seen please go now and watch it but I warn you now that you will cry. At one point in the movie Benjamin Button says:

For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

This has stuck with me, lodged it's way into the deep recesses of my mind. When I feel overwhelmed or discontent it bubbles up and plays like a broken record. I ask myself what it is at the root of my problem. I know that no one else can solve it but me. I can ask for advice and complain about it. The truth is I have the answer inside of me and all I have to do is be brave enough to ask the question. What makes me happy? I close my eyes and just let my mind float until I see the answers. For me my family comes first. I love them. Then I picture writing and my soul hums because even if I turn out to be horrible at it. I love it. I love creating people and lives and stories. So even if it is always just for me, it is mine. Then a cow with dark eyes with a sweet disposition chewing her cud. Colorful chickens pecking at the green grass. Creating whether is sewing, crocheting, painting, or any other thing that comes up. For the record my dogs, and the idea of sheep also make the list. What does not is school. I spend a lot of time stressed about it and most of the time I am left slightly dissatisfied with a class.

So what can I do to help my self? I  switched from an English major working towards a BA to a general AA. I do enjoy learning but I feel like the literature classes online leave the learning up to me. There is very little direction so I spend a lot of time researching topics, how to write a critical paper or what I should be gaining from reading a Shakespeare play. I have been thinking, praying, and discussing this with my husband for months.  About an hour after the decision was made I felt a great relief as if the weight was lifted. I know I made the right choice. So instead of a slow and steady pace for the next 8-10 years I will be finished with my AA next year.

Be brave friends. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. Find what makes you happy and go for it.

I hope that your day is filled with inspiration, love, and laughter. Be well my friends.

Random scattered things.

If you have been with me for any amount of time you know that I am random, often scattered, flighty, and mostly content being all of these things. I have embraced my own crazy. Lately my scattered braininess has been weighing heavily on me. I am almost unable to complete projects, start projects, or even worse yet stay on task. I have decided to try to straighten up a little. That means that I am going to try and focus on managing my time, and energy. I am going to take a short break from my regular scheduled blog posts. I am just not going to put so much pressure on when I post recipes, or poems. Although I love Recipe Tuesday and Poetry Thursday, it just means that maybe I won't be posting every week on those days. On the other hand maybe I will. I am just going to take some pressure off of myself.

Also I need to make a list of projects that I want to do. Most of those projects involve the sewing machine and granny squares. The truth is I need to fit projects in around school, my school, and the boys school. School needs to be a priority.

Right now I am unorganized and all of my random scattered things are affecting everything. So first thing is schedule cleaning up (ok so I need to make a schedule and follow it). The second thing is I need to stay away from Youtube. Third thing I need to stop watching so much TV. Fourth thing Make quiet time project time (this way instead of becoming one with the couch I can say spend an hour a day working on a project). Fifth thing I must schedule exercise! Six thing a load of laundry a day keeps the monsters away. Seventh thing schedule cleaning (assign chores to all members of the household, So that I am not the only one doing the cleaning.) These are my new goals. I am sure that I will become regular on the old blog no later than next month.

 

I hope your day is filled with inspiration, love, and laughter. Be well my friends.