What a week! So much has occurred as life around me continues to fall into place i.e out of my control. All joking aside I can't make this STUFF up. STUFF defined as "Some Totally Unbelievable Foo Foo." I am not sure what 'Foo Foo' is or how to spell it. Foo Foo is a word a friend of mine uses and I am not sure what it means, but it seems to fit here where I am trying to keep this blog 'family appropriate'. My STUFF this week has been pure serendipity.
First, I want to express gratitude to my readers and second, gratitude to my technology guys. My website had been down for a few days due to some kind of technology challenge. David, my new Computer Guy, and Ed, my long time "Go to Computer Guy," communicated yesterday afternoon and I'm back up and running. "Thank you, David and Ed." And then it was Friday afternoon and I could procrastinate writing this blog no longer. (An aside here - 'monkey mind indulgence' - I have a wonderful great niece, Casey, who shares the "Art of Procrastination" with me and it drives her mother, Karen, crazy! It must be in the genes I tell, Karen.)
So it is Friday afternoon and it is my choice - to blog or not to blog this week. "How often do you blog?" one of my readers asked me. "Good question," I responded. "I don't know." It's about commitment I said to myself. Commitment to whom? Chuckling to myself, I thought - that is one life question you do know the answer to, Mary Ann. There is absolutely only one person in this world you have to answer to - that person in the mirror. So I began to blog Friday afternoon with the intent of posting before midnight on Saturday.
I have a few readers. I do not want to let them down and therein lies my commitment to blogging for a second time in my life. I like to write (and talk, lol) and I am humbled that some friends are taking the time to read and respond. I was thrilled to see that someone left a comment on my blog and "I wonder, who could it be?" And I had other feedback, too. One friend 'shared me' on his Facebook page. Another friend called and told me, "I read all of them (my posts)." "What did you think?" I inquired. "The last three are more personal and they are a bit repetitious," he replied. "You are correct. Point well taken," I respond. And yet one more friend via text messaging, ":-D". There is nothing quite like feedback, be it 'yeah or nay ' to encourage or discourage you. Thank you, Dear Friends, for your time and feedback.
So about STUFF from this past week. I can hardly believe how I am revisiting my past all of a sudden. Five dear friends who have shared life with me are all suddenly connecting with me. It feels so wonderful. The serendipity is quite unbelievable and here is the foo foo. I am blogging Friday afternoon and suddenly the phone rings. I can hardly believe the name on my phone screen. It was yet another friend that I had been thinking and wondering about earlier in the day. It was so great to hear from him and to catch up on our stories. I'm telling you I can't make this STUFF up. Each of these friends are dear to me, each of them in my life for "a reason, a season, or a lifetime". Friendship, what a gift! The serendipity of these connections reminded me of a poem I wrote in September 1995. Thanks, for indulging me. Enjoy this October weekend!
Acorn
Released
At the precise moment, gravity ruling
Crashing, sputtering
Clicking, clattering through the branches and leaves
Touching down in seconds.
Quietly bouncing
On the moist earth
Ricocheting into the stream.
Acorn
Floating
Along the gentle rapids
Sinking to the bottom, intermittently
Resting between cracks and crevices
Formed by the stones and pebbles.
Dawdling, rambling, gushing
Controlled
Now by the
stream.
Knowing not
Where, how or when
It will rest one day
Acorn
At its prime
Embarking
On its solitary
journey
Momentarily
Touched
My soul
Jolting my reverie
Accompanying me
On my solitary
journey.
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