Celebrations and This Day!

Nana's Girl

Just knows how to

Celebrate!

Coffee's on,

and

the 4 leggeds' are

"celebrating the morning"

with their run and bark fest

and

the thought of the day

is one of

"CELEBRATE"

That's it, you read it right

it's time for a

celebration of the day!

Somewhere today

someone is getting some great news,

somewhere today

something exciting is getting ready to happen,

someone is celebrating a birthday

or

an event

or

the eve

of

Friday

and that is always a great reason

to put a smile on the faces of many!

Did you get your invitation for the

Royal Wedding?

What are you wearing?

Have you walked into a "windfall" lately?

Heard any good news?

Did you wake up this morning?

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I think I'll sit on the curb and await my

flower delivery cos' surely

someone is going to send me flowers

like those being created for the wedding

over the pond... after all what's 100,000 for a bouquet anyways right?

And poor Ellen Degeneres, she's still thinkin she will be invited by Kate to the wedding!

Guess she just didn't stalk Kate the same way she stalked Oprah to get on the cover of

"O" for long enough for the invite!!!

And

guess I haven't stalked through twitter Ellen or Oprah long enough to get them yet to read

Healing Heartaches or to get on their shows

and oh boy

am I running out of time with Oprah!

and

I still havent figured out what OWN is all about!

Sure do miss my surgery shows though!!!

I hope they both read it here today

cos' we are going to celebrate

YOU

self

the wonderment of life

and those of us

living it!

Yep

today

I challenge you all to get that look

of my Olivia as she was leaping with joy

for what I'm sure was just a spontaneous

moment

of being the "best moment of her life"

and

we could all use that moment!

This my friends

is your day, your moment!

Hold it as a precious gem

YOU are that Gem!

So

for this morning

I'm thinking it's time for us

to be like Olivia and her cousin Natalia

in that picture

if only in our mind!

Jump with joy

off your couch or your bed

be daring, be bold in your thoughts

and in your head

and if you are able bodied

be bold in your steps

and

skip along the sidewalks

or

if you are really daring

do a cartwheel in your yard while the neighbors

are watching! (and if you are in shape to do it)

get out and enjoy the day!

If you are not so able in the body

remember and know that

you can do all of this in your mind

so do not be limited

in your thinking

just cos' you are limited in your movements

or abilities.

This day is a self proclaimed day

of celebration, of getting down right excited

with life

and

the gifts.

Those who were blessed to wake up this morning

shouldn't find that so hard to manage

if you look around you and find that beauty

and the ability to breathe still are there!

STOMP

Now if you really want to get fired up

and do some aerobics with a vengeance

just imagine our country

being run with the likes

of

Donald Trump!

We still have a building sitting in Tampa

that he walked away from

and as we all know

he likes to talk

but sure don't like to listen

as those who try and try to interview him

have found out the hard way!

Now imagine that kind of dictatorship

running the USA...

and if that don't scare ya, sure don't know what will!!!

And we all know money talks and

well, u know the rest,

SO

for today

let's just celebrate

I'm going to call Olivia and ask her to jump off the beds at her house

and again to do a flip or two from the couch.

While at it, I'll call Kamryn and

see if he can stop by

Mom's house

and

do some flips from her furniture

and maybe even throw some football with the nerf in her house!

That is always good for a feeling of celebrations with her and at least 5 or 10 pictures get knocked off walls and tables!!!

wooo hoooo

It's a day to celebrate

LIFE

good things for good people

hell while we're at it,

let's just celebrate into the weekend

and do a kind deed or several

for others we meet along the way

as

we skip through the grocery store

and stop by the

"gas tanks" and try to fill up there.

I see a "social movement" coming along

today

of

CHANGE

and celebrations

across the readership of these thoughts!

yep

good things are in the air,

I can just feel them happening as I write

here

and did ya know,

many read here and never hit that little comment

button below to write their thoughts!

I know you are reading though!!!

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!"Barbara Hoffman

so then:

Oprah, we have a celebration happening here

as you count down your last days on t.v.land and move to OWN

which I still haven't figured out

and where did my brain surgery shows go???

OK

great things are happening my friends,

so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZsppOw2Mxk

Get out there and enjoy all

relax, let go of worries today

CELEBRATE THE WONDER OF YOU

remember

"The more you celebrate, praise, rejoice life

the more there is in life to celebrate!" Oprah

The fire is burning brightly, embers are hot, sage is filling the air, with gratitude and thanks for all who gather here.

Walk In Beauty

DRSES

http://www.drsherryeshowalter.com/

Just Beautiful

Just watchin

us

That beautiful One

now has babes again in the nest!

Coffee was late as were the thoughts of

this day!

Hearing an Eagle screech

very close here while having coffee

reminds me

of that Eagle at Lake Tarpon!

Did ya know... that

The Eagles were named in 1700's

in the days when

"bald"

really meant "white haired"

and have been the

symbol of our great nation

since 1782.

STOMP

By 1963 the original population of between 25,000 and 75,000 was reduced to a mere

417 pairs of majestic pairs.

It was only then that the prospect of losing our

National treasure loomed large

and faced extinction as a result of abuse.

Folks then really let their voices be heard

and protective legislation meant that by 1995 the

BALD EAGLE

was no longer on the list as endangered!

Now numbers currently stand at around

4,450 nesting pairs representing a ten fold recovery!

And here, on Lake Tarpon we have been blessed to see the pair that watch over us

have three sets of babes!

Folks can have a powerful voice when they stand united

so

I am thinking

they should really be standing strong out there

in MN

to protect those precious few

North American Black Bears

that are collared and brightly ribboned

from the impending danger of

hunt season

making it a law

now.

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."  Eleanor Roosevelt

STOMP

So

wherever you are, whatever you are doing

do it with all you have!

With great purpose and mindfulness

be in it, with all that you are!

Oprah, babe, I'm still waitin on ya here!!! It's startin to look like you are not payin attention now, c'mon O, I sent you the book ...let's see was it three months ago already???

STILL waitin here Oprah...

The fire is burning, its embers are hot

with sage filling the air

sending thoughts to all today

of

hope and healing ways

Walk In Beauty

DRSES

http://www.drsherryshowalter.com/

Goiin Out On A Limb Here...

A guy I had one time cuttin trees

who decided to take a break

Just hanging out!

Out on a Limb he was

and

Likin It!

Morning to ya,

ready for coffee, it is hot and goood...

Boy oh boy,

I got me some fine scratches this morning

from that tree trimming Mitch and I did

over the week-end

but

sure do have some

lovely light

now coming in where those

over grown trees were beginning

to just take some of my sun!

We filled up  gracious amount of the back yard

with these limbs and sticks and such.

Remember the saying

"picking up sticks"?

Well at the time

I thought

"No problem, I'll just pick up sticks and put them in those industrial garbage bags this week for the trash to pick up"

What was I thinking?

These were not just

the

"picking up sticks and putting them in bags"

kind of trimming here.

This was

work your arms, your back and your patience

kinda of picking up

kinda thing!

And oh boy what a back yard of limbs

I ended up with...

I would have been really

"out on a limb"

had it not been for Mitch

letting me borrow his truck yesterday

to then load and drive them

to the local

landfill.

Load #1 drug from the back yard

to the front yard,

loaded on the truck

and tied down!

This load weighed a bit over 300 pounds

and then we had to

UNLOAD it ...

Back home for the second round

after sitting and having some water

and shaking our heads

we were back at it!

It was during the second round of walking

back and forth like mules

dragging these long and cumbersome loads

of limbs

that DLB fell flat out on her face!

Yep,

she now has a goose egg above one eye

that looks as though she was in

one helluva fight

but

we immediately took another break

where I changed from

tree worker to nurse!

Placing a bag of frozen broccoli on her face

and a bag

of frozen hash browns on her knee.

Creativity at its finest

and

yet another opportunity to sit and rest!

20 minutes of ice

and

then we were back at work

for and with load two.

One one trip we have two women walk by with their cutsie dogs in their cutsie outfits

who in a friendly voice

shout out,

"Well hello gals, you all look busy, wanna do our lawns next"!

Of course being hot, sweaty and filled with patience and good cheer,

we promptly informed them

"hell no, and you do not have enough money"

hoping they would just continue on their way before we had to hurt them!!!

Determined to fit all in the truck so that load #2 was really the very last load

I finally resorted to getting

a ladder to crawl up on

and

my cohort in this task would bring me an armful of limbs as I deftly threw them higher and higher up on top of the truck

until

we were done!

AND

then

the tie down.

The break for ice for 20 minutes for that face and bruise and increasing headache along with Tylenol all around for the

ultimate body aches that we knew were just about to begin,

then we were off to our local landfill once again!

This time

weigh in over 350 pounds once more

with the gentleman there most impressed

at two women doing this deed with such mastery and determination!

"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else." Shirley Chisholm

Determined we were; idealistic ... we were that as well, cos' we sure aren't muscle bound although we seem to be finding that when determined enough idealism and ability takes over when you least expect it to!

So without thinking I was giving this ole' upper body a work-out and that is a good thing!

So today,

the light will be brighter than ever since the work on those trees is done, the yard now once again free from the after mess

and

we are on to the projects at hand of

fertilizing those beloved hibiscus

and setting them with care once again

around the clean lanai,

I'm sure the body will ache for a bit

from the loading and hauling

and

unloading and laughing!

Traveling and being on the road so much

this time

I will at least know

things here have been attended to

and will have been able to say

I can still get myself

dirty, scratched up

and

play in the dirt

and

do the dirty work with pride

laughter

and grand times!

"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always." ~ Oprah Winfrey

Hyacinth

Beauty is all around us,

the butterflies are just dancing and preening here in the back yard

as

my flowers are now popping

and this working like a mule

and

even with the

newly acquired goose egg

of DLB

and what will be one

tremendously slow and painful

friend today,

we have no regrets of the labors of yesterday!

Seeing that and many other flowers

and now knowing

that those limbs will only

allow the sun to shine

on more

make it all worthwhile!

Scratches and soreness will go away at some point,

but the work was worth it all

as we watched as the swallowtail

and friends danced for us

around the butterfly bushes

as evening fell!

This morning

the cardinal came to visit

and

I swear I heard the Eagle screech

it's morning announcement

that it is here close by!

Maybe that was a hint

that i is wanting me to blow off this day of work

and

get to Lake Tarpon out on the boat...

Ah,

but remembering that

Nothing Works unless YOU DO

guess I will be holding off on that

til' Sunday

and then

ohhh boy, I'm off to see those Eagles

and hit that Lake with a noodle!

As for today?

What's up for you friends...

Is there an adventure waiting around the corner?

Maybe a care package will show up at your door, like at my door yesterday

in the midst of all this work, I received a great care package from Mom/COB!

And lo and behold

the greatest thing ever...

I know am sporting my first ever

pair of "high-tops"

and not just any kind mind you!

I have

Michael Jordons ~

Yep, that little godson finally outgrew his

"tight" MJ's and sent them to his

Godmother!!!

Oh boy do I look "fresh"n them too.

I just had a ball, a care package with all sorts

of wonderful goodies

I mean off the hook great things!

Thanks Mom, you are wonderfully!!!

What a great surprise.

Thanks Little Kamryn for the MJ's

I wore them out to dinner last night

and I sure did look "fresh"

but boy did you wear out those laces!

Off to get some new ones today I am...

•"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

Michael Jordon

The fire is burning brightly, the sage is in the air, holding up those here and in the prayer bowl with thoughts and prayers always.

May humor and smiles surround you today and always as you move into your day.

STOMP

Walk In Beauty,

DRSES

http://www.drsherryeshowalter.com/

Words

Baby Gator

of

Lake Tarpon

Mornin Monday

Sure is good to see the sun

after the Thunder Beings

and

cleansing rains of last evening!

Just a thought:

Sometimes even the most powerful of words

seem lost in the pictures and

actions of others don't they?

I think of some of the great photos I've been able to capture and enjoy sharing here

and

of the sights AND people watching that I so enjoy...

AND

it reminds me that even as much as I love words

their power

and intention behind them

often

it is so true

"a picture is worth a thousand words"

and

I can't help but be reminded

that sometimes

our daily movements

are misinterpreted by others

as we move into our days

depending on what we have on our minds

at the time.

Those movements

can be seen as

"flighty", "angry", "giddy", sassy"

or just plain out

"silly"

but oh for the love of words

even if at times they may

wound

they may be found to be

powerful and sharp like a knife

or harsh

they also can carry profound healing

and messages of love and wonderment

just a photograph

that takes your breath away

or

makes you think

"oh my"

like that baby

gator,

just knowing

if there is a baby gator

just laying there

in the canal's edge

there must be a big ole Mama Gator

somewhere nearby!

OH MY GOODNESS!

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning." Maya Angelou

So then,beauty

is all around us

whether the swimming ones, the winged ones

the four leggeds

and

two leggeds

and

if we approach it and all in the circle with

great respect, tenderness and

admiration

we can all just get along real fine!

The music is there for you

but

you must find your own steps

for the dance

and be willing

to risk the steps involved

and

with that said

this day

enough said!

Enjoy this day,

embrace it

dance on friends

and notice

that words are powerful

as are actions

as

are the photos of your minds' eye

Enjoy!

Walk In Beauty,

DRSES

www.drsherryeshowalter.com