Reflections On The Enevidible Changes In Life....

It is enevidible......

One day you wake up and you do not recognise yourself at all......

But...when you look real closely at your eyes in the mirror you will see a glimpse of what you used to be...




Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus
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When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale
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~There is one thing I have noticed during this last year with Misty away in college and that is the absense of "anything normal" in our lives. "Normal" as in the way it was for almost 20-years of devoting our lives almost solely to raising her and making sure she was happy, healthy and, most importantly, loved.

~Now she is the person in charge of most of those things...even though she still calls us daily with a question or to tell us of something wonderful that has happened.

~For me, it has been quite a struggle at times trying to find another "purpose" to take over the time that was once spent almost entirely on her.
Not to say that having more time to myself doesn't have it's 'perks' but I feel that I could be doing something more productive, more inspiring, and satisfying than the usual day to day stuff.

~I know I will find that "something" eventually! I seem to get pretty lucky in that area and it will more than likely just 'appear' one day and I will be thrown into it with all the enthusiasm of a Mother teaching her child her first words or a Brownie Leader taking her troop on a hike in the woods!
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~Henry David Thoreau