all funky!

so. it'll be midnight soon, but i wanted 2 make a short entry..i think...it's been a beautiful sunny day in the 80s. for the second day in a row i took my dogs for a walk. yesterday i finally took them on the Westside of town to an open field which isn't very open anymore. they've built houses, a school, and paved a road in the middle of it. but hey we found some "space" to walk. i've been wanting like forever to take Boo on some flat land to walk due to her hip displaxia. she can walk but not run. she still struggles even on flat land. this morn she was whining a little for no apparent reason so i was concerned she was hurting. but then again i just cut out her mornin breakfast. she has gain lots of weight over the winter and some needs to come off. plus she hadn't been eating because it's getting warmer. she'll adjust....so anyway, i decided to walk them around the block this morn over here. i didn't get her choker on her but half way and she ran to the door ready to go. IF she was hurtin', she showed no signs of it then. so off we went. she did just fine. so now i know i don't need to over protect her hips too much. dummy me. so now we'll take a walk almost daily. there will be sum days i won't be able to take them, like sundays-i'm at church. but hey, alas they will get their walk. plus i realized this mornin, i need the walk just as much as they do, just for some fresh air. after their walk, then i'll go hiking. but it's been a great change again walking them again. i've missed it. it's been a great way to take my mind off work. i've been easily irritated there lately. class is almost over and that'll help too. Play is around the corner. and i miss shooting photos. i thought of a road trip i could take soon on my bike with camera in tow. i may have to wait til class is finished, but i'm hittin' the highway once it's done. it'll be a day trip but loads of fun. well that 's it for now. definitely time to rest. i'm goin' 2 bed funky from sweatin so much today, but i'm hopin i sweated out some more of this crud. although feelin' better daily, i'm still draggin a bit. i pray by the end of the week, all is well. until another time....

1 Nice Cold One

1 Nice Cold Beer.....sittin watchin my Bosox beat up on the Yankees. a nice chill out evening. couldn't get any better especially after feelin' so cruddy...

a tiny project

so it's saturday and it's an EASY saturday. don't remember the last time the day was laid back and i got some things done. first i had to work a tidbit this morn but it was easy work and only a couple of us at church, not the usual crowd where events are going all day. i noticed the other night when i worked tuesday night, it was so much easier to work because i didnt have people pulling at me all day/night long. everyone was in their classrooms which freed up my time to get the cleaning done in no time. hey i like that. like it so much that i swiched my monday to a tuesday for now. so today was like that at church today. i got interrupted a couple times with people coming and going there, but the tasks were so simple to do today. then i went to my friend Maggie's to pick up a bed frame. yesterday Marsha & I got her daybed out of here. i was keeping it for her until she needed it again. now that's gone, Maggie had a twin bedframe to give me. it was her mother's and i swear is antique. brought it home and put it together. it's holding steady with no sway in it at all..and it's wood. then i had to run to Lowe's to pick up slats to run across to hold the mattresses. hopefully 5 picket fence boards will work. got out the old saw and cut them down to size. boy was that FUN. hadn't done that in a long time. it was nice to be twiddlin' around with it. so keep your fingers crossed these boards work. i'll get a mattress set next week and test drive it. if nothing else i'll go get 2x4s. but really don't want to trim them down to size. more of a test of wills with the saw. so anyways, it's early evening and i feel i have plenty energy left. need to work on our Building & Maintenance Repair Team's list. i've got a meeting on monday night, the first since taking over the team. anyways, it's been a Good day. it's been a beautiful day weather wise too. just plain pleasant today despite my cold....i even got to talk to my landlord about painting my apartment in colors. they're going to let me do it. they must like me because they are really good to me. anyways, so this is a day in the life of me...

a sneak peak

so here's part of my tattoo on my back. this is just the eagle that i recently had worked on. by itself it is huge. the artist figured it was about 10 inches. once the whole tattoo is completed, i'll have another photo taken. anyways, i like this eagle and how she did a great job on it. originally the head was not much of anything so she drew a different and better head on it. she filled in the details too for it was basically an outline. can't wait to finish the whole thing. my goal is to have it completed by september. maybe 2 or 3 more sittings. i can take only so much on my back. next step is to finish the wolves i have on there. then add sum coloring in the middle where it all connects. i may take photos one step at a time, then the whole pic.....in the meantime, i'm feelin' a tidbit better, but it's a slow recovery. think i got that crud after all-YUK! all in time it'll be gone.

on another note, say prayers for my niece Jorje>see photo to the side. she had surgery yesterday only to run into complications. she's in intensive care at the moment but will be fine. scared the hell out of me when i found out this morn. i know and affirm Divine Right action is taking place and she's in good hands. but i ask for as many prayers as she can get for a speedier recovery. she has babies, literally, to take care at home. for now my mother and her mother (my sister) will take care of her. Blessings for all your prayers....Thank you!

It may surpise you, perhaps, but I am not strictly opposed to the spectacle of violence and crime. It all depends on the lessons you draw from it. -Dalai Lama

as i was looking for a thought to share today, i found the above in my Dalai Lama book, The Path to Tranquiity. ok this thought from him surprises me but am thankfully of his truth here. i too am not strictly opposed to violence and crime. i accept it as part of life here. i consider it part of the journey here as humans. if we do not do it now, maybe we have done it before in another life. i feel we have lived here before and will do so again. we may not know why some do violence or crime, but i have nothing but compassion for those who do. and the way i see it, sometimes it takes violence to stop violence otherwise we wouldn't have wars. whatever our journey here, know it is all an expression of God being experienced by individualized Gods...

anyway, that's enough of my words of wisdom for the day. i'm at home today with a nasty cold. it hit a couple days ago and only got worse. i feel a tidbit better this morn, but still need to go get that chicken soup which i'll do today. i pray this doesn't last the usual 2 weeks with me. i also need to remember to pick up vitamin C and more orange juice, maybe some more J.D. whiskey which always helps me breath a little better through the congestion. anyhow, today is a day of rest again. i "may" be moving a bed over to Marsha's and i have yet to decide on class tonight. will see how my day unfolds. i like the idea of just lounging around for now. there's plenty on my plate for this weekend including driving to N. San Ysidro to get Jesse's armoire. want to feel much better before doing that. it's colder up north although we've been having beautiful weather here lately. i think our "normal" spring weather has finally arrived being in the 80s with that cool wind. would love to do another bike ride today, but not today. for now i'll just sit and finish homework. only 3 weeks of class left after tonight-Yippee! it's been a great class, but i'm so ready for it to be OVER! well until we meet again....blessings my friends!

a slice of SOM

the following comes from 365 Science of Mind (SOM), a year of daily wisdom from Ernest Holmes. this is the 20th of April's reading. i like it. and it gives a good insight on how we think of God...

I Honor the Presence of God

If I honour myself, my honour is nothing:
it is my Father that honoureth me.-john 8:54

If I honor myself alone, not realizing that I am one with the Divine Presence, then I shall quickly exhaust the small portion of good that I, as a human being, can at anyo one moment contain. But if I honor the Presence of God in me, of God around and through me, of God in and through everything, then I am indeed honoring the Presence of God, for One Spirit is over all, in all and through all, and One Presence is all. There can be no separation from this Presence, no apartness, no division. It is one, complete and total, equally distributed and everywhere available. To feel this Presence in things, in people and in human events, and to sense that it is all-inclusive, is to honor God and to provide in one's own self a place where the Divine can go forth anew into creation.
.... Today I am honoring the Presence of God. I feel God's eauty in the rose-tinted dawn and in the glow of the evening sunset. In the flower I find the loveliness of God's beauty. In the mountains I see God's strength. In the quiet of eveningtime I feel God's Presence. And throughout the night I know that this Presence blankets me; therefore, I sleep in peace and wake in joy and live in a consciouness of good. Seeing God in others, I enter into companionship with the Divine in all people. In the outstretched hand, in the smile of recognition, and in the warm embrace of friends, I feel the One Presence, the One Power, and the One Life. And so I give thanks-with a song in my heart and with a joy unspeakable I give thanks to this Presence. May I evermore embrace and be embraced by the love, the beauty, and the goodness of God.

Have a blessed day my friends!....HUGZ>

busy is my new middle name

so, it's friday night. i'm here at my church trying to read but there's too much activity to do that. so thought i'd drop a note here. i came to church this morn to see the Chief for a few moments. had to wait in line to see her and there still was a line once i got out. goodness, it's crazy around here. don't know how Chief does it for she's non-stop busy with people once she steps in the door. i have to scrage minutes here and there just to talk about business around here. and after talking with a friend over lunch today, and my conversation with the Chief, i've concluded it's just plain crazy here. now whether things will mellow out or not remains to be seen. i thought once our minister was here a few months, people would start settling down around here. it ain't happening. so maybe this has always been the norm. maybe not. but my God, i feel i need a good two weeks vacation from here. maybe this summer. maybe just a week. but goodness i am too busy here. i walk in the door just to drop off something here at the church and i have several people grab me for something. i came in to talk this morn and leave. i walked out of the church on my way to do errands for us. so 2-3hrs laterz, i took lunch and came back. and here's where i've been since. i feel like i've been at work most the day. so anyways, anything for the Chief (our minister). i like her & love her too much not to help her out. besides i just gave her a nickname=Chief Crazy Woman & she liked it. actually she loved it. we both laughed. she even wants me to get a sign made with Chief Crazy Woman on it so we can put it on her door. so i'll get it done. we need some laughter around here. lots of it. i also told her i'd be Lil' Chief Crazy Woman. what the hell....lol and we teach peace, harmony and love here. i'm giggling at this at the moment only because of all that's in the news lately and what i call a bit of madness here at our church. but i do love it here and the people. now i know the world is just as insane as i am. so i feel like i fit right in....lol anyways, only about an hour left tonight. then home and right back here in the morn. i'm thinking my weekends are becoming regular like this. hurry up tuesday, my days off. all in all, LIfe is still good. the sun still rises and sets. the moon and stars come out at night. the birds still sing and i'm still alive. all in a day's work....