"Crowded for Illustration Friday"


Flowers that I got at the Farmer’s Market on Vashon and put in a vase at my B&B.
“Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes… we must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
We are all such tender beings. So much fear, hurt, excitement, love, joy, and myriad other feelings run through us on any given day. I was talking to a friend yesterday and expressing how very safe I feel with him. As I talked about the beauty of this, I began to cry. With concern, he…
I was just chatting with my friend, Mike, who ROCKS! He made yet another CD for me of my favorite songs. The last one has laser burns from being over played. I’m a sucker for a good groove which is why I highly recommend the song, “At Night” by Shakedown. Check it out. I think…
Sitting here holding my baby on my shoulder after just having a wonderful chat with a sexy man online. Thinking of how I used to have a life outside of diapers and nursing and how much I would love to go be intimate with someone RIGHT NOW. Yum.
We have all heard sappy stories about things people did for others that “made a difference” in their lives. While I don’t mean to sound cynical and I am very much a believer in treating others with kindness and respect, it is also true that our culture can train us to believe that “doing for…