Saturday, July 26, 2014
20 seconds of insane courage
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
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20 seconds of courage
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Nobody's Perfect
Nobody is perfect! It always amazes me how people think that they are always right, or their way is always
the best way, or that they can always do the job better than someone else! What makes us think like that? What makes us think that we are smarter, better, more organized, more anything.......than anyone else? Yet we do!
I guarantee you, that I am not smarter, or better at anything..........but nor do I believe you are! I believe that we are all a product of what we create ourselves to be. If you want to be better at something, guess what? You have to practice it, study it, and learn it. And even then, it doesn't mean you will ever be better at it than someone else. If you are, koodos for you, but you had better understand that there are people out there that are better at other things than you are too! So just accept people for who they are, and get over yourself! Pretty much it, right! We are all equals. We are all good at some things and suck at others. That is life, so let's just do our best and get over it! Okay, enough said, I feel better!
My Walk The Creek blog, is a place for me to go to seek out some sanity, and in writing sometimes I come up with answers to the problems. Sometimes I don't find the answers, I just get to vent. I wish I could live where I had a nice little creek that trickled through my back yard. I am sure you would find me there often,
just pondering.
Well, since I can't have the little creek in my back yard, I have created one, sort of. I have a beautiful little spot, that is shaded mostly by my grape vine arch. I have dug a little ditch so that when I turn on the hose, it trickles through most of the small area, and I can hear the water trickling. I
still have some work to do, in fact I want to make a small little pond at the beginning of the "creek", with some rocks, so that I get even more of that trickling and creek effect.
Xander calls it Grandma's River, and he loves to play in it. I love to sit and listen to it. I have even refinished an old garbage can holder, and turned it into a bench that sits just at the edge of my "creek", so I can sit and enjoy it.
This is the old bench that Cyera and I cleaned up and turned into what you saw above. Who would have thought.
Oh how I love my little creek! "Grandma's River". It helps me stay sane in a really selfish, insane world!
My Meandering creek past thyme, valerian, raspberries, yarrow and ferns |
My pondering place |
My Walk The Creek blog, is a place for me to go to seek out some sanity, and in writing sometimes I come up with answers to the problems. Sometimes I don't find the answers, I just get to vent. I wish I could live where I had a nice little creek that trickled through my back yard. I am sure you would find me there often,
Where my creek begins |
Well, since I can't have the little creek in my back yard, I have created one, sort of. I have a beautiful little spot, that is shaded mostly by my grape vine arch. I have dug a little ditch so that when I turn on the hose, it trickles through most of the small area, and I can hear the water trickling. I
It wanders through the flowers and herbs |
Xander calls it Grandma's River, and he loves to play in it. I love to sit and listen to it. I have even refinished an old garbage can holder, and turned it into a bench that sits just at the edge of my "creek", so I can sit and enjoy it.
See the little creek meandering past my yarrow, valerian and ferns |
The old garbage can holder now turned bench |
Oh how I love my little creek! "Grandma's River". It helps me stay sane in a really selfish, insane world!
Monday, July 14, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Camping and Creeks!
I love camping, and I really love camping when there are creeks involved. You know how some people love chocolate, some love old barns, some love puzzles, etc, etc, .... well I love creeks. To me there is just something that is so peaceful and beautiful about a little creek bed, the water moving over the rocks, the trees around it, the sound of the trickling, I don't know for sure, but I love it.
We were not camping by a creek this time, because when I booked the site, I didn't know there were beautiful little creeks so close to other
campgrounds that were not very far away. But....we found them! We went for a drive one day and did some exploring, and here are some of the creeks we found.
I know, I know I am probably weird, but man there is just something about these that just call to my soul. Perhaps when I get back to Heaven some day, I will understand why I have that longing.
I so wanted to spend all day exploring the creeks and just walking up
them, but we just didn't have the time, and I am sure that not everyone with us wanted to do it. I am sure Tal would have gone for the walk with me! Oh well, I know where they are, and they are only an hour from where I live, so guess what? If I disappear for a day, that is just where I might be! Any takers want to go walking in the creek with me?
I promise, it soothes the soul, and makes one forget that the real world is out there in all it's fury, just for a short while.
We were not camping by a creek this time, because when I booked the site, I didn't know there were beautiful little creeks so close to other
campgrounds that were not very far away. But....we found them! We went for a drive one day and did some exploring, and here are some of the creeks we found.
I know, I know I am probably weird, but man there is just something about these that just call to my soul. Perhaps when I get back to Heaven some day, I will understand why I have that longing.
I so wanted to spend all day exploring the creeks and just walking up
them, but we just didn't have the time, and I am sure that not everyone with us wanted to do it. I am sure Tal would have gone for the walk with me! Oh well, I know where they are, and they are only an hour from where I live, so guess what? If I disappear for a day, that is just where I might be! Any takers want to go walking in the creek with me?
I promise, it soothes the soul, and makes one forget that the real world is out there in all it's fury, just for a short while.