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2013 – Blessings and Sorrows

IMG_2190Its New Year’s Eve, 2013. A time for reflection, for taking inventory of the gifts that have been bestowed in the past year and the prices and sufferings paid. No matter the person, no matter how good or unfortunate the life, the bag is always mixed. There is no doubt that for me, the most amazing thing that happened was to buy my own home. This was something that I considered so inconceivable that it wasn’t even a dream. Was just one of those things that I never saw myself doing. Wanting to do. Yet, it seems fate had other plans and I went out and looked and found something I liked in a place I could see myself living out the rest of my life in happiness. So, I packed up and moved to my little island (no boats required) and have a little piece of earth that I can plant my gardens, eagles flying past my windows and Oh! So many stars at night. Is it worth 2 1/2 hours of commuting every day? Absolutely!!! 401509_2433390372520_988810036_nThe year was full of many other changes, some minor, some not. Saying goodbye to my furry friend in February. My Lancelot had been my friend and house pest for 18 years. My daughter’s cat that she drug home from a pet store one day crying that they were going to put him down because no one would want him with his strange paws (polydactyl). When she moved into adulthood, he stayed with me. I was home and where he felt safe. I took her to him when I moved to Washington, but he came back to me a few months later and there he remained. We grew very close in those last years and he was my shadow from the moment I came home. My Bu! I shall miss him forever. He was without a doubt a one of a kind. More dog than cat. Big, clumsy, loud and adorable! IMG_1724Then into my life came Cassie! She is just about as opposite from any cat I ever thought to own. Pretty, prissy, fluffy, gentle and charming. She could teach charm! I had actually gone down looking to bring home a less desirable cat, like the one eyed black girl they had. I sat in the room waiting for one of the many blacks in the room to pay attention to me. All seemed too intent on their grooming, sun bathing and thinking about the order of the universe. Then this tiny floof crawled into my lap and I began to absently pet her. When I failed to gain the attention of any of the blacks, I made to get up and leave the room and the little one tipped her head up to gaze at my face and then placed her paw on my heart. Well hell! I guess that settled that one! Of course, I thought I had been “chosen”. How was I to know that was a maneuver to win people’s hearts? Ah, maybe I was still chosen. But, she is a charmer. So, I have a new friend to share my home with and keep me company on the long winter’s nights. Even though she does think the stove is her personal warming device. A friend came and went in a matter of months. The reality that “my paradise” is not so much for everyone. Friends with health problems, personal problems, accomplishing wonderful things and disappointing. I guess like any year, it is equally monumental and inconsequential depending on how and when you gaze upon it. Now that I am pretty much settled in, I think my goals to attempt for the year are to write more, be it blogging or stories or . . . . . . Work on a novel, draw more and take lots of pictures! I know I often fall short of any resolutions I ever make. So, I won’t waste the time of doing such a thing to myself. I will however begin to make note of each time I do one of those things that means something to me and hope that inspires me to take on the next thing even quicker. I shan’t be going out to dance and make merry. I generally don’t. Never been a crowd person. Don’t like sharing roads with drunks. So, I shall do as I generally do and spend it quietly at home. Maybe watch a movie or two. Break out the pencils or paints and create something. Seems a fitting thing to do on the eve to the new year. Create.

And I think that is my wish for the new year. That we remember to create. IMG_2118-2 SephiPiderWitch 12/31/2013

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