I enjoy simple pleasures… the smell of fresh cut grass, leaves in fall, the way the air smells right before a thunderstorm; the taste of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, hot fresh bread with sweet cream butter, a first kiss, the feel of soft fabrics on my skin, spooning with someone I care about, cool grass on bare feet on a hot summer day, floating on cool water looking up at the clouds, hugs, my cat purring.
I try to learn from those I encounter in life and continue to grow as a person. I am continuously defining and re-defining what is important to me through that process and it is ever changing. But still… there are some constants… helping others is in my nature, connecting with and understanding others’ point of view, trying to do no harm.
I spent the first half of my life married and raising children. For most of that time it was good but after several years of things being really imbalanced I realized that nothing was going to change for the better without doing something. So I made the most difficult and most painful decision of my life and I left my husband of 22 years. My kids were grown and almost on their own. Although it was really tough to make that step out of my comfort zone, I immediately felt a huge sense of relief and I have never regretted the change.
I am pretty much an open book. And now that I'm alone for the first time in my life, I'm realizing that I still have a lot of blank pages in that book...pages I made a title for at one point or another in my life and then never made the time or had the opportunity to write anything on them. Expressing my creative side is on many of those pages, in many different ways and that's part of what this blog is for. ~ Enjoy!
