Happy Birthday!

🌷 Happy Birthday to you, Happy Blessed, Beautiful Birthday to you, Mary Ellen! 

Since way back when, here now and into the future, Here's to all of it, life, La Vida Loco, precious and fleeting, fast, furious, funky, fun, fantastic, fragile, simple, sweet, mysterious, bountiful, vulnerable, resilient life! It is quite a ride that has included stalling out, overheating, running on empty, the slow drive, switched gears and grind into overdrive. The steep up hills and downs level out eventually as wrong turns, detours and road blocks backfired into heartache which rolled into healing with minor and major tune-ups and overhauls that resulted in positive seeds sowed and good trouble incited. To live and age in the name of what is good, healthy and happy with the intention of driving onto smooth paths and gracious horizons is to create a safe and sound journey and one that I do not feel completely alone on. 🚘

Or Is It Just Me

The world seems to be moving at warp speed, you get on with the trials and tribulations, the mundane and the magical moments, then one day you look-up and months and years have gone by, or is it just me. The cares and concerns, that took up so much of your life at one time are not even given more than a fleeting thought now, or is it just me. 

The challenges sometimes one after the other, once thought to be overwhelming and unsurmountable have been met with courage and the will to proceed accordingly and we feel satisfied knowing we did what it took to get something done, or is it just me. 

We can't get enough of some people sometimes all we want is to be alone nice and quiet in our own private space, or is it just me. Sometimes we crave the sound of melody, rhythm and a good story in a song, when  music is the only antidote and sometimes at the end of the day we cannot bear one note of a tune, it is time to refrain from listening to what we take so much comfort in at other times. It is simply time to take a break turn-off the music and tune-in to the spaciousness of silence, or is it just me.