Vacation Musings

PNW:
American pelicans on the Columbia at east end of Gorge!
Precious friends together, laughing, sharing
Cool sweatshirt weather, feels good!
Shopped 'til we dropped
No sales tax
Fresh smell of rain
Cool, moist air,
Soft water on my skin
Luxurious, colorful plant growth
Old neighborhood sadly hit by bad economy
Eagles soaring
Waterfalls flowing far
Mist
Fingerling salmon in creek

Ocean:
Sun dappling the waves green
Waves outlined in white froth
Blue-gray of clouds, rain, sun
Roar of waves
Healing ions of fresh air breezes
Familiar smells, deep breaths
Small beach treasures of nature to pick up
Sea gulls scream and swoop
Sun rays peeking through clouds
Sun washed, shiny beach pebbles
Cormorants sail low over the sea
Cool, wet sand between my toes
Black oystercatcher(?)
Purple starfish, anenomes, orange starfish!
Tiny crabs skittering
Fingerling fish swim in tidepools
Snails, barnacles, sea weed
Walking, renewing,
Small golden agates
Walking, renewing

New Experiences:
Enter casino; uncertainty!
Girl friend laughs at me
Tickets to concert
Billy Ray Cyrus!
Fun
Just enough rock/country
Small venue
Crowd, mostly my age :+}

Musings about moving Again.

Yep. I'm moving. Away from the PNW and my grandson....to be close to my Dad? I am going crazy, I think. It's just that old 'responsibility'...do what's right, not what makes you happy...thing that gets to me. My sister would say that's an "old tape" playing in your head. Get rid of it!

Now my new job sounds much better than the one here. Perhaps one that I can better handle as I'm getting older. I've been through the furnace here. I'm truly not refined gold after the experience, but I've learned a lot. (Hey, I've faced it, I'll never be 'refined.')

I've finally become accustomed to WW and have begun to make friends here. Now I have to start all over again. And my flower gardens really look nice this summer after all my hard work. >Big Sigh<

I still don't have a place to live there and I'll have to use my poor little 12 year old car to travel in my work around the county. So I'll need a newer car sometime soon. Finances? Yikes. I'm one of the worst stewards around. I don't want any of my family/friends to follow my example. Don't get me wrong. I've never declared bandruptcy or anything, but I do have no retirement. Not that I haven't tried for the retirement thing. It's me, it's "the economy".

Maybe I have a deep, dark fault in my personality in which I cannot sustain anything forever....what does that say about my spiritual state?

On and on, round and round. Where I'll stop, only God knows.