Hmmm, I wonder what's going on...

You know without my camera I do seem lost on my blog. I've always thought that it's the pictures that can tell a story when I can't. I love to mainly just picture watch on my blog and others and sometimes I really skip over the words. Then, something will catch my eye, a word, a phrase and then I'll scroll back up and read the words. Sometimes, for me at least, the words aren't near as inspiring as the photo's. It's probably because I'm a very visual person. You could explain something all day long to me and I'd nod and act like I was listening to you, but show me pictures...well, it just makes sense to me then.

Okay, are you wondering why I'm rambling. Well, I still don't have a camera, but after reading several blogs and realizing what I'm actually "reading" has been in my head now for a couple of weeks and the thought of maybe boring you with my thoughts have caused me not to want to write about them. Lots of things go on in my mind, it continues way into the night. I'm a very visual dreamer as well. I'm actually there, I mean really there, in my dreams. I awake thinking wasn't I just in another place? For the most part, I remember my dreams, and I always want to know the meaning behind them.

I know with the New Year comes an urge to purge as I call it. I want to go through my collections, my things, my junk and get rid of it all. Well here lately I have been actually boxing up things and they will be ready to take to the local Resale shop soon. I'm giving them away, not going to try and sell them, just donate them and let someone else enjoy them. After reading Mindy's blog, Deb's blog, Pam's blog, and a new one I just discovered Erin's blog they've inspired me to write what I've actually been thinking for a few weeks now.

There are lot of things in my life I really need to purge. Not just physical things, emotional things, mind sets, etc., you get the picture. At times there are weights that hold us down. Yes, it could be physical, but most of the time (at least with me) it's more than that. Life is short! You wake up one day and realize how time has flown, my boys are grown (weren't they just playing in the back yard, running and laughing, and now they have their own lives). I've worked in my job for over 25 years (it will be 26 years next month), and wonder where the time has flown. Like most of us I don't like to make resolutions because I know I won't stick to them, but I always think it's good to want to change. To strive to be a better person than the year before. I hope that I've learned a lesson or two from things/situations/life that has happened in the past. I'm constantly wanting to learn something new. I'm never satisfied with where I am. No it's not that I'm not thankful for my life and what I have, I just know there is so much more to explore in this world. This year I do feel a change coming on in my personal life. Where it will lead me I don't know. I just know that I'm not content where I am in life. Then again, this time next year I may just be sitting right here in the same place, but I hope along the way I've learned a lesson or two, that I'm a better person (not perfect, just have been open to more things that maybe I was once closed minded about), and I've learned something new.

Oh and yes, I couldn't leave you without including a picture.



(This photo was taken last Spring at Festival Hill in Warrenton Tx). It's a very peaceful and serene place--Thanks to Linda and Ludmil for introducing this place to me.

Here's to the next 12 months!!