The whole purpose of the universe

"The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you."
Walt Whitman

Concsious Living foundation quotes
and...Whitman is a star!

Cats!

Oh My Gosh!

Have any of you ever lost your cat in the house and begun looking in the washer ( full of dark wet cold clothes) for him?

Well I am new to this cat business, and today, I admit, I did that!

I had gone to the garage to put clothes in the washer.

I went back inside the house,. And he was nowhere to be found. I went to the garage, and called him, looked everywhere, no cat, so I thought, OH My Gosh, could he be in the washer with the clothes?

Panic, me digging through all those cold clothes hoping my cat wasn't in there.
Of course, he wasn't. He had gone under the house through a hole in the garage that leads there.

Wow was I glad my kitty wasn't being washed!

It Begins...the season....Crissmisssss...

Interesting that my mood today is expectant, yesterday morning I awoke dreaming that there was an 85 year old woman giving birth, I was trying to help her birth safely, looking for a hospital. It was one of those dreams that you don't forget. However, I wasn't thinking of it when I set my i mood for today ( next to weather pixie in side bar).

Spiritually, I know nothing is holding me back any longer, I am expectant, and waiting for the time. Going through the moods today I realized I very much sensed a connection with Expectant, then I rememberd the dream.

Christmas is also associated with expectancy, is it not? Yes, a Mother to bear a child, Santa at the least.

Life is but a dream!




Real Red Rose Tree with baby's breathe and hydrangeas, birds and ornaments, ribbon garland

Old fashioned tree with many glass ornaments.

Flocked tree with paper parasols, and other paper ornaments..

All trees are about 3.5 ft tall. These were my trees from last year. I had so much fun doing 3 trees. These trees were just shoved in small decorative pots 6" in size. If you do this, make sure they are really steady, use styrofoam or somethng that hold them tight. I lost almost all these precious glass ornaments on the one tree last year when it fell over. ( Some were Grandma's)

Definition: expectant

Expectant \Ex*pect"ant\, a. [L. expectans, exspectans, p. pr. of
expectare, exspectare: cf. F. expectant.]
Waiting in expectation; looking for; (Med.) waiting for the
efforts of nature, with little active treatment.

Expectant \Ex*pect"ant\, n.
One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope
of receiving some good.

An expectant of future glory. --South.

Those who had employments, or were expectants. --Swift.

expectant
adj 1: marked by eager anticipation; "an expectant hush" [syn: {anticipant},
{anticipative}]
2: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child";
"was great with child" [syn: {big(p)}, {enceinte}, {gravid},
{great(p)}, {large(p)}, {heavy(p)}, {with child(p)}]

Foggy day.. And 1 year of blogging

Come in and sit and we'll chat and have tea!

Today marks one year of blogging. A friend mentioned it to me, and I took a look and recognized in it something I used to do in chat rooms years ago, which was to find an empty one and just go in and begin writing.

Sometimes people came and went just watching, like a fly on the wall, others became collaborators and we would write together. This was back in the 80's.

I thought someone had a good idea here to journal this way, and even though I didn't know a thing about how to post photos, I learned quickly enough.

As time went on, I began learning about some html.

I tend to be a rather intense person, although childlike in many respects, and given to spiritual introspection, which is really in it's finest form, light and airy. Some choice was made to blog on the light side. I have many other blogs I work on to a small degree, photo blogs that allow others a peek at the place I live.

I have some short stories of mine on mmy blog here and a few recipes that are really good ones that I know others enjoy.

My chocolate pie recipe is traced through many search engines. It maybe my largest contribution to the world! My blogs; nimbostratusland, and nimbostratusdwellerer are names I created to describe where I live, and any search of these words will yield only me.

I like including photos for people to enjoy, reading can be time consuming. I find other outlets for writing.

It amazes me the blog content out there, the quality of writing, quality of life, the art work people make, the things they do, places they visit, and share.

I like having a variety of links on my blog to take others who visit to entertaining sites, useful sites and a few blogs that I have found to be really open, honest, genuine, and therefore whole..

Sometimes I don't care to blog much, and I use audioblogger or just take a break Altogether. I think blogging is making the world even smaller, and tho I visit a tiny portion of it, I enjoy what I see.

I am a woman who has learned that a rushed life is a life escaping self, and I spend many hours in solitude and being alone, yet I love people wholeheartedly, and enjoy their companionship as well. I like very much helping people find whatever they need, be it a job, or a home, a new way to accomplish something, or making something they don't kow how to make. It feels very natural for me, it just happens and I am always happy to be of help to anyone, It is a gift that love uses me to accomplish!

My life has held much trauma, as most lives probably have, and in this I see we are certainly all connected.

I thank all my friends and acquaintances for the contribution they have made to my life, because each and everyone has, and does. I have no regrets. I am aware that I am a spiritual being, and this awareness has given me knowledge I could never have found on my own. I am glad we are not temporal beings, and that indeed, we are ONE.

"Dionysion splendor." And just when you think there is nothing new...

You get your first cat, and fall into the world of love of soft fur and warm body, a love who is; fragile, yet agile and strong, disposition that is regal yet vulnerable, individualistic, yet cozy.

My mind begins to see what I missed as a child never being around kitties because it wasn't allowed. I wasn't permitted to touch a cat.

Now I revel in this world of fur and warmth, and coziness.

I wonder what it must be like to observe a mother cat with her kittens, them nursing, and kneading her (no pun). The closeness for these lovely creatures as they are entwined in mother, her cleaning them, and loving them so tenderly and closely, so unlike human experiences where we were put on bottles to feed, sometimes the bottle left perched on a blanket instead of in Mothers arms, close to her body, her smell, and warmth.


My kitty came to me this morning and curled up real close, and as I rubbed his neck, he turned on his back for me to rub his tummy, and I felt like a mother cat must feel, and could see my cat as a kitten close to Mother in a world of Dionysion splendor; warm and safe, fed and nurtured.

I love my kitty. Here I am, in my 50's, and I just discovered something all new.
...And check out my mood under the weather pixie, it's Cuddly!

What's next I wonder?

This is good enough for now!

Is this... Many Random Memory number 41?

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Post your Many Random Memories! Join Me!

Lost, Kitty Cat, answers to......?

All day long I looked out both doors for my kitty to return. By 3:00 PM he had been gone 12 hours. I was concerned. I have only had him about 3 weeks. I assume that he has some territorial business to take care of around here, but I expected to see him.

By 6:00 I was really concerned, he didn't eat before he went out in a hurry at 3:00 AM.

I checked the doors every 20 minutes, calling," hereeee... Kitty, kitty, meow, meow!" My neighbors never call their cats. Is mine misbehaving? Am I over protective? Maybe he needs a name!

7, 8, 9:00 passed, still no kitty. I visualized us together again. I brought light into myself, and then using Adam's techniques I just learned, expanded my aura to include my kitty, we sat together on the coach in my visualization. Then, I came in to make a poster to put on telephone poles.

When I finished, I went to the door again, and here he came running inside, all I saw at first in the dark night were his white spats. I was soo happy to see him! I missed his soft coat so much, and watching him play with his toy, lazing around the windows where I had made comfy spots for him to enjoy, and to sleep, watch TV. He is quite the Coach potato.


He ran straight to his dish, and attacked his food for 5 minutes, walked around a bit and attacked his food again. He was all churned up, and hungry. Even after eating, he was still riled, and imagined enemies around the room. He lie on the coach awhile and watched TV, then came to sit with me, just as in my visualization, and I massaged his furry black head, and chin. Still his body jerked, and tail and ears twitched.

He had some adventurous day. Later he played with his toy mouse throwing it up in the air and chasing it in the kitchen, then living room, and finally vanished into a dark bedroom for the night. He finally put in a full day I guess, in the great outdoors. He is, cautious, but wanting to conquer his world. Maybe his name is Atilla!

Claudecf, crow photo

Found this photo of a crow I really like
Many other enjoyable photos here. Many of Paris! Check it out. By Claudecf
My cat would love this crow!

My cat is breaking my heart,

You might notice my mood in my sidebar is set to "abandoned."

My cat is breaking my heart!

He likes Mike better than me!

This is my first cat (see 3 year old child now dragging cat around house on a pillow, brushing him, feeding him, showing him birds through window, carrying him around rubbing his ears constantly)

Mike says cats are like that, they play games, that I need to ignore him. I feel like this is a new relationship I have to work on!
( Hope you can see the humor in this) It is really pretty darn funny. when I pet him, he bites me when he wants me to stop.

I am going to have to play hard to get! He bites the hand that feeds him, and rescued him. he prefers to sleep with Mike.

Mike kind of ignores him, so he follows Mike around.......

A good lesson for me, eh?

laughing...

Well, he has been out since 3AM, hmm, should I go search for him? Or should I wait until he comes to the door meowing for an hour before I let him in?

He got in a scrap last night, so I washed him, brushed him, and you know what?

He just wanted back outside for more!

He could be with me curled up here on this special cushion I have on a wicker chair next to my computer, that I fixed up just for him! He can see the birds from the perch cushion ( I placed just for him) on my window over looking the Sound.
Eagles fly here too.

Noooo!

He prefers being an ole tom cat, (that's been neutered) out carousing all night and day.)

Next rainy day, I think I will just put him put him outside for the day! lol!

You know what they say, " you always get the relationships you need!" Hmm!

Many Random Memories, part 2

31. Almost buying a colbalt blue toilet! (But they were fresh out)

32. Buying my Mum (Mummy) hydrangeas every Easter from the time I was 11 until she died at age 47 in 1978. Me and Mum when I was about 18.


33. Having my portrait done for $1.00 at Wallace Studios when I was 13, 14, and 15.

34. Going to the local beauty college and watching them cut hair, and doing my Mums friends hair when I was 11 for money.

35. Babysitting from age 11 to 16, (50 cents an hour) saving my money, buying my clothes. Another Sherry and I, bought matching dresses in 7th grade that looked like daffodils! Having a new little brother when I was 11. Here we are together. He died when he was 17. I miss him a lot.

36. Rodney bringing a watermelon to my house on the bus so I would say I would go steady with him, but, I didn't!

37. Going horseback riding with all my neighborhood friends in the hot summer sun of Texas when I was a teen ager, and younger. Sweaty, laughter, and lots of dust.

38. Spending my summers at the pool from age 8 until age 14 with transistor radios, eating peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and getting a coke from a drop down cup drink machine... for a nickel.

39. K i s s i n g for the first time! Bobby, and he promised to give all his funny books, ( collection) but never did. He walked me home from school in 5th grade.

40. Being embaressed when I was 11 because the boys noticed hair growing under my arms while we were playing Army, I shaved that very day for the first time, but I had never thought of it myself. I remember wearing a yellow sleeveless blouse. They snickered and pointed. I must have turned 10 shades of red.

Many random memories, Part 1

1.My first memory, being in Mexico the first time when I was 4 years old, thirsty and tired, and a maid standing before me with a platter with a carnival glass pitcher of water with beads of perspiration all over the outside of it. A drink so welcome to a small child in a new land.


2. Driving to take my kids to camp in the hill country in my 69 VW bus with kathy. It was soo hot, as we drove back home, we were miserable, and I drove up to the first water hole and without saying a word, we both bailed out of the van and jumped into the water fully dressed. Ahh!

3. Arriving in Northern Honshu on an early morning train in the fall , the air was cool, crisp, after deboarding, the first place I went was to 7 - 11.


4. The luxury of the Japanese bath, the sensuality of Japan.

5. Being handed my college diploma, and wearing a bathing suit under my cap and gown.

6. Wishing my husband well at court the day we divorced.

7. Taking my heart broken friend, Kim, by the hand to meet my neighbor who told me he would train her as a graphic artist. Watching her career unfold, and finding her expression.

8. Taking Jeremy on a train ride to Arkansas last year.

9. Taking Daphne to see Orphan Annie when she was a little girl.



10. Hearing Daisy say, "Thank you Mom, this is the best time I ever had!" While we were in the lift in the dark going skiing the first time in Washington together, the snow falling all over us. I still melt when I remember her words.



12. Decorating easter eggs with Kim and Diane, Daphne and Daisy in Arlington at Easter.

13. The complete thrill of sending Kim a styrofoam head wearing an old antique red rubber bathing cap with divers all over it when she moved to San Francisco to cheer her up. Anything, to make her laugh!

14. Buying John his Marshall stack this summer when he was here and it was his birthday, after taking he and karen to Alaska on the Alaska ferry.

15. My first trip to Mexico ( Matzatlan) with Michael, the fun watching him discover Mexico for the first time.

16. Daisy and all her girlfriends at the farm who would clean her room every Saturday morning so she could go play!.

17. Buying maternity clothes with my husband in Charleston when I was pregnant with Daphne.

18. Taking Sally to the Charleston zoo to see the 3 legged bear when she was little. And her learning to eat an ice cream cone.

19. Daphne learning to crawl in the bathtub in Charleston. Crawling after the yellow sponge.

20. Holding hands and walking with a man I loved. (Love the one you're with)

21. The red notebook.

22. Daisy and I driving all over the country after the divorce, running logs on Whidbey Island together.


23. Any dinner Diane cooked, but I remember one here especially when she visited and brought quail from Texas. Yum!

24. Hiking Mt Baker the first time with a new friend, a very pleasant surprise ending to a day.

25. My early love of flowers, especially peonies in PA where I was born.

26. Running naked in the grass at a golf course sprinklers in the 70's.

27. Remembering Doris greeting me every time saying, " Oh Sherry," with a big smile, and so appreciative.

28. Ceramics & Sculpting class in college, making friends, and art. Kim, Jennifer, Marylou, Martha...

29. The New Art Gallery!

30. The day I awakened. The year was 1974.