After a conversation with DH this morning, I thought more about this topic. We talk often about our life being the sum total of our decisions. Good, Bad, Right or Wrong....all our cumulative decisions throughout our lifetimes make up the lives we live.
Sometimes we know the turn our lives take with a specific decision. Other times, we may never know the safety that unknowingly befalls us and aren't we grateful for those times . . . Would it be better to know...or to live in blissful ignorance? I choose the ignorance. I live my life without regret and with decisions made with all the knowledge I can muster at the time I made that decision.
I am not referring to anything specific....just reflecting on a comment that lives in our house . . .
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Life and Times
My mother's birthday was yesterday....how I hope I look as good as she does at 63....DH says the same thing!!! We took her for dinner at Red Lobster and drank manhattan's and ate shrimp and crab and laughed and laughed. I sure wish my brother and sister lived as close as I do. It's a blessing.
We spent a very nice evening with our long time friend, Bill Lawton, last Saturday night. He is still just as funny as he ever was. He is working on finishing his bachelor's degree and I am super proud of him. It takes a LOT of guts, determination, time, effort and lots of other things to go back to school. He has a lovely family and I so happy I am still friends with him.
Now that the days are cooling down a little bit (well, if you call 96 degrees down to a high of 90 cooler!), it is nice to get outside and work in the yards again. It is just too hot in the high heat of the summer. I finally finished planting my knock out rose hedge...I ran out of mulch and so I need to finish that up. I am determined to move my hibiscus out of the front door. They are lovely, but really too big to be where they are. aaaa....such drama at the Household!
I started back with this Fall Session of my study group at church. These ladies are just a wealth of wisdom and knowledge. I am the only one with small children and they are all with grandchildren! I love to hear their stories and listen and learn from them. They are easily 20 years older than me and I just love to be with them. The study this fall is on the New Testament. The good Lord knows I need all the help I can get. DH told me one of his students asked him the other day why he believed in God. DH's reply was 'because the alternative is horrific!" Seriously, I think the student was looking for some great insight from the 'professor' and quite simply he said....really, I believe because I choose to believe. It's just that simple.
Life is good....
We spent a very nice evening with our long time friend, Bill Lawton, last Saturday night. He is still just as funny as he ever was. He is working on finishing his bachelor's degree and I am super proud of him. It takes a LOT of guts, determination, time, effort and lots of other things to go back to school. He has a lovely family and I so happy I am still friends with him.
Now that the days are cooling down a little bit (well, if you call 96 degrees down to a high of 90 cooler!), it is nice to get outside and work in the yards again. It is just too hot in the high heat of the summer. I finally finished planting my knock out rose hedge...I ran out of mulch and so I need to finish that up. I am determined to move my hibiscus out of the front door. They are lovely, but really too big to be where they are. aaaa....such drama at the Household!
I started back with this Fall Session of my study group at church. These ladies are just a wealth of wisdom and knowledge. I am the only one with small children and they are all with grandchildren! I love to hear their stories and listen and learn from them. They are easily 20 years older than me and I just love to be with them. The study this fall is on the New Testament. The good Lord knows I need all the help I can get. DH told me one of his students asked him the other day why he believed in God. DH's reply was 'because the alternative is horrific!" Seriously, I think the student was looking for some great insight from the 'professor' and quite simply he said....really, I believe because I choose to believe. It's just that simple.
Life is good....
Monday, September 1, 2008
Sarah Palin
Could we ASK for anyone better than Sarah Palin as VP nominee? She certainly believes everything I believe in. She can even hunt moose and shoot an automatic gun better than most men I have seen in some ridiculous photo-op trying to make them look manly!! This is no prissy little girl! Look, either you can shoot it or you can't. I imagine most people, men or women, wouldn't know how to shoot a weapon like this unless there is specific training or need to know how to shoot one. DH can shoot these...but he has trained for years on how to use these weapons.
She may not be the most 'experienced' out there, but isn't a fresh idea what we want? I was raised to honor a strict value system and if something is wrong, well then you do something about it or punish those involved for said 'wrong'. This is part of her attractiveness as a candidate....She hasn't been around long enough to play the game, and still manages to get a lot done, in a short amount of time. Can you believe it??? She was just city council woman 5 yrs ago and is now on a national ticket? Incredible! What a proud family she must have!!!
How can we NOT vote for her after everything we know about her. Her family, her son in Iraq (no pouting mama there!) raising a special needs baby that she JUST gave birth to and was back at work 3 days later!! She runs her state govt like a business and when there was too much $$, she gave it back to the citizens of AK. No crazy spending, no crazy projects to return favors.....
And, though John McCain wasn't the perfect candidate, he had my vote over the alternative. It took guts to nominate her....or maybe brains. Whatever the motive, and I am sure there were/are many, it was a good move. They have my vote.
Ok - I am tall enough....time to get off my soap-box. Vote for McCain/Palin.
She may not be the most 'experienced' out there, but isn't a fresh idea what we want? I was raised to honor a strict value system and if something is wrong, well then you do something about it or punish those involved for said 'wrong'. This is part of her attractiveness as a candidate....She hasn't been around long enough to play the game, and still manages to get a lot done, in a short amount of time. Can you believe it??? She was just city council woman 5 yrs ago and is now on a national ticket? Incredible! What a proud family she must have!!!
How can we NOT vote for her after everything we know about her. Her family, her son in Iraq (no pouting mama there!) raising a special needs baby that she JUST gave birth to and was back at work 3 days later!! She runs her state govt like a business and when there was too much $$, she gave it back to the citizens of AK. No crazy spending, no crazy projects to return favors.....
And, though John McCain wasn't the perfect candidate, he had my vote over the alternative. It took guts to nominate her....or maybe brains. Whatever the motive, and I am sure there were/are many, it was a good move. They have my vote.
Ok - I am tall enough....time to get off my soap-box. Vote for McCain/Palin.
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