Don't forget to have a good time...

They say it takes more muscles to frown then it does to smile (http://www.snopes.com/science/smile.asp) and there for awhile I couldn't seem to find my smile... I think it's back. :-)

Vitamin D

My friend Olivia says "My Freckles live in Florida." I seriously think she needs to turn this into a T-shirt cause it's true. I think this needs to be a mass print and not just the airbrushed kind she had made at that festival that said "I heart Mike Webb" although that shirt was cool on so many other levels.  Sighs... I type this as it pours down rain in Nashville and the weather widget on my mac informs me it's sunny and 81 there and I bet Sprinkles still has that Lime sorbet... How is it that I walked/ran 3 miles everyday there and here I can barely make it to the mailbox and back... I taste that key lime butter grouper, hear sting chanting on the lawn,  and I am still laughing about the pink kayak and wonder how a person is suppose to get back into that thing once you fall out...or maybe that's it you just can't fall out? Maybe there is no reset button. Well I know one thing for sure my reset button and my freckles both live in florida. Thanks Liv!

They can't all be happy endings.

My friend Hilary has had 22 surgery's in the past 2 years.  She is currently stuck in a wheelchair while she recovers. However this blog is not about her amazing story (she will need to be the one to tell that) I just want to tell you about a movie she picked out for us to watch "the diving bell and the butterfly...the "true" story of jean do bauby.  so after seeing the movie I order the book for two reasons 1. I figure if a man can blink his book out one letter at a time I can find time to read his book. 2. let's hear the real story. Movies always make changes to what they think "we" as and audience will want to see. How messed up is that. Take Nicholas Sparks books for example when they take his books and turn them into movies they change the endings... I've stopped watching...Life isn't always a happy ending.

plays well with others

Recently watched "Into the Wild" the story of Chris McCandless's life journey. In the movie he writes the words happiness isn't real unless it is shared. Those words have stayed with me... When we are young we are taught to share yet as we grow older we tend to become selfish at a time when we have more to share? I think we all need to go back to preschool days when the report cards reminded us reminded us to play well with others and share. 

forgive sounds good...forget I don't like I should..

Ever have someone do something to you that you didn't think you could ever get over...

maybe they muttered ill will toward you, or lied, broke a promise... I was talking to my buddy Luke Lowes and he told me about his pastors most recent service Pastor says write down each person you have not fogiven onto a potato now carry that bag of potatoes around with you wherever you go and by the end of the day you will not want the burden of carrrying around that bag so you will forgive...in that moment I realized that sometimes in life people are going to have there own fears and you can't change that so why carry around all that weight? Today I learn to forgive...weight lifted.

Pooh, Poo or just plain Sh*!

"Well" Said Pooh, "what I like best..." and then he had to top and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but didn't know what it was called. - Winnie The Pooh

It hit me when I was picking up my dog's poo... Happiness. 

Why then why? Simple... I was at the start of walking my dog and walking my dog makes him very happy and him being happy is a basic abc to my happiness. 

There are moments in life right before you get the sweet stuff that we should learn to enjoy...even if that means putting up with some Sh*!

motherless child

It was raining when I found out she had passed... 

I wanted to cry but I couldn't.

I was going to be strong for you because I knew what life without a mother was like.

I knew the challenges...I was going to be strong. Then I saw you.

We held hands and we laughed, We held hands and we cried. 

To young to not have mothers, two sisters gone to cancer. 

Two woman left behind to pick up the pieces and carry on.

You with your husband and your sweet baby girl and me with a life I can never explain...

So much more then just a mothers child.