It's Me It's Me, A Blogwright

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Thanks everyone for participating in my blogging! smile (sticky post, scroll down for updated postings)

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Where there is a woman there is magic. (A favorite quote)

Written by: Ntozake Shange (1948 - )
U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. From the play: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

This is another favorite quote by W. H. Hudson in the book GREEN MANSIONS, a tropical romance:
"The sense of the beautiful is God's gift to the human soul."

More quotes I love and practice:
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
- Joseph Joubert

Success is not feeling happy; it is feeling happy about who you are.smile
-Thomas Therold



Giveaway of the Day

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MY Seal--*(still a sticky post)*

It is a unicorn, for purity, goodness, love, seen and unseen

An Elm Leaf, for strength in all ways and means, seen and unseen

A dragonfly, for good luck, of all kinds, seen and unseen

The border has yellow flames, because I love the sun and moon and both bring light. The border has purple because I like that color, it reminds me of mysteries and mysteries reminds me of our wonderful Earth! There are blue waves in the border because I love water, rain, lakes and oceans, bodies of water, and we, too, are made up of living water!!!!The border is kind of a Celtic design. I have French Celtic ancestry!

I reject evil in all ways, shapes, and forms, seen and unseen!

SHE AWAITS

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WROTE WHILE INJURED

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How I Feel About My World--Part Two

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Yes,it is so splendid to find sister and brother souls; even if somewhat identical, there are usually myriad shades of diffence which makes getting to really know someone so lovely...

Sometimes there is a special one who is so like oneself. Gosh, people can be so marvelous! Someone who just knows what to say and do perfectly... Getting to know someone such as this is so lovely, too... However, I have found dissimilar people can have this talent, also.

I enjoy all types of people, though, similar and dissimilar in all various degrees. My feelings are that all people deserve respect, running the gamut from all ages, all genders, all lifestyles and cultures. Everyone does have something to say.

Admitting that now, being older, my trust is hard to come by, not so freely given as when I was younger; it is a pleasant and startling event to find that I can get to know people while protecting myself, my trust, my heart, my soul. Is this an occurrence that just happens as one ages or have I just wised up?
To those of you who confused my innocent-trust as unintelligence, well, it is obvious you never truly loved or liked me or have the ability or desire to understand youth. Some young people are just book-learned and unsophisticated as to many things which is surprising to quite a number of people this day and age!

Now, having my wisdom hair and when younger a lot of people told me I had wisdom and that was nice, my feeling is I still have and have grown my common sense, intelligence, foresight, experience, judgment, poise, sophistication, stability, understanding, reason and sanity -- despite my lawyer and college-educated children telling me I am a bit old-fashioned and not as educated as them (which is true, and which is how a confident, adult child should feel before they grow and realize more.)

Feeling my gifts have grown, I thank my loving and powerful Creator for everything and everyone. Even the baddies have helped me to grow and understand! All of you have helped me develop and change. How wonderful not to be stagnant! What a wonderful world we have.


How I Feel About My World--Part One

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It is so splendid to find sister and brother souls; even if somewhat identical, there is always myriad shades of diffence which makes getting to really know someone so lovely. Identically matched in all things is so spectacular, too; someone who totally understand everything and knows always the right thing to say and do. I just adore nice, intelligent, kind and caring people who love me and like me, even those who only like me p

Usually the world is so excellent.

Sometimes certain people in it make me feel that when someone asks me if it is worth it to save this world I would say, "Save my family and loved ones--nuke the whole thing and start over!" Sad to admit this truth...


Well, this is how I feel smile at times.

A Favorite Time of Day

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{I recently visited a Beach Natural Park. This prose describes my adventure. smile }

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Here For a Bit

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Hey, I-Friends! It has been great that some of you are on Facebook so I get to keep apprised of you smile

Well, my computer still is broke. When I got the bucks, I'll fix it; but, fortunately, I can use another once in a while.

I am just so thrilled! My eldest son, Spelios, has just been informed that he passed The Multistate Bar Exam, the State Exam, and all other portions!!!! It is so thrilling to me when I am around my children and realized how much more intelligent they are than I. They learn so much more starting at such young ages, and it keeps up. Love them just so much. (Think I'll do a "Tebow") Thank you, my dearest Creator!!!!!

(Okay, yes, I learn things continually, too; but they got the Degrees and the smarts and fortunately, we have raised them to be "streetsmart" and "booksmart". Oh, alright already! Yes, you and I know that some people with Degrees don't know anything else, can't talk about anything else, and just think they are soooo much more intelligent than everyone else! My family is not like that. There, answered the comments before you raised 'em, you-know-who. {Not Voldemort, lol})

Oh, I am so bragging today. Ptui, ptui!! smile Forgive me, the proud mom of me is just singing.

My Amanda is doing super-duper in law school, also. She won a Ciclee Award (might have misspelled that) because she had the highest grade of her Property Law Class. She played with the Chicago Bar Symphony Orchestra-they sounded great! Her double-bass playing is so superlative. Then, she won a contest naming the school bookstore, "The Binding Authority". She is going to study in China some time this summer.

Karl is still going to IUNW. He has gotten involved with a club thats purpose is to have public speakers. My son was thrilled that he was elected to an office of this club. Karl also has become quite a bowler.

Hubby is doing fine at his place of employment, too. He wins so many cases for his firm.

The unseasonally warm weather is great here. My lilac tree has turned into a bush. This year it has leaves! Last year they looked bad after a frost so I picked them off and as a result my tree was just branches. I had to chop off the "tree" section since it was dead this year, all the other branches left are so green. Someday I hope flowers will grow (in my lifetime would be nice).


I apologise that I'm not reading all your wonderful, informative, and sweet blogs. One of these days I'll start. My eyes just start rebelling when I am on here too long; and it's not my compy...

Hope to hear from all of you, if not here, then on Facebook! Take care and have a wonderful Summer.

Just found out that my comment section had to be fixed as it had settings on it I did not place! Consequently, if some of you couldn't make comments, you should be able to now. Well, learn a new thing every day.

Bye for now!xxoo Oh, Happy Easter. (We celebrate Orthodox Easter, which is next Sunday.)

Happy Holidays

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Best of everything to you and yours! Happy celebrations! Happiness forever smile


found this penguin on the net.

Wish

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Sometimes I just wish I had a screenwriter so always the correct, helpful, comforting, problem-solving, or correct-preventative statements would come out of my mouth. Watching old sitcoms and movies from the Forties and Fifties, such lovely wisdom and just so pertinent remarks are made so routinely, American-home-spun wisdom. Being raised in Chicago, I wish I had plenty! I do so want to be a wise, loving, and helpful person to my family and dear friends. At times I feel just being silent and then go home and write and edit and rewrite and then crumble up what I shoulda, woulda, coulda said -- is it too late to say? Is it to presumptive of me to say? Does this person really want an opinion or comment or just really wants an agreement or justification from me regarding what is being conversed about?
Am I thinking too much? Should I have said something at the time, rather than just feeling? At times I just feel so much, it gets me tongue-tied!

Life, sometimes I just feel so inadequate...

In the past, I knew someone who really never had a conversation with anyone. He was handsome and witty, however; but all his conversations were actually from movie scripts. With any subject, he had memorized script from every single movie he had ever seen. People would laugh and say, "Oh, that is from such-and-such movie"; or "they said that on such-and-such-tv show last night." He got mad at me because I told him I would really like to have a real conversation from him, with his own words; then, much to my embarrassment, everyone else started picking on him, telling him to actually talk "on his own". He told me, I said that because I couldn't name all the movies or tv shows; well, I couldn't because at that time I really wasn't watching any tv at all--was hanging out at jazz clubs and with the musicians or playing PacMan. Yeah, this dates me, lol. Mad was not my temperament at all! I did find out that some folks considered him kinda mad or kooky! Never saw him after that, wonder what happened to him...

Sooooooo, perhaps it is great that I do not actually have a personal screenwriter after all?

Still, I will keep working on being a better me in all ways, seen and unseen, known and unknown.

Yeah, sometimes I throw in song-lyrics or quotes from things I have read. Not as bad as you-know-who, though, and I did do so totally unaware, completely innocently, not trying to be witty at all... So, sorry if it got some people upset. Well, truthfully, lately I am doing it on purpose because people laugh. Won't do it much! Really...




Autumn

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Autumn




I perceive lands of browns and gold
rain or snow glancing off my skin
winter's power gradually gaining hold
swaying stalks and moaning trees in the wind

Even the sky is gold now at times
roller-coaster sailing masts
moving branches sing nature's chimes
bedroom windows covered with frosts


By: ELiane (photo by my cellphone)