Keep a personal wellness journal on DailyStrength to track your health and communicate with friends. http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:34:56 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://dailystrength.org/images/comprofiler/avatar/131954/1213800092.jpg http://dailystrength.org/people/131954 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1271796   It is a holiday weekend and I wake up early between 5 and 6 before the rest of the world starts it's days labors. I get to dallly in bed and feel the soft sheets  gently slide over my legs. It is still dark outside and for now,at this moment, all is right with the world.The... Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:56:10 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1269265   Something in the sun feels like autumn. As the end of the summer comes ,I feel a sadness .The leaves fall and although there is much beauty it is the end of life that has grown and blossomed so beautifully. I feel this is also happening to a close friend I thought I had developed a friendship... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:38:50 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1265841   The rain washing clean the debis from the large osk trees that are already losing their leaves for autumn. I wonder what luxurious colors will be betoved on each of our spectacle. The cool rain give shelter from the hot dog days we have experienced here in the northern Part of Ga. but along w... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:25:04 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1263287       The sky opens with rain, I wish my tears could match but I feel numb. A friend of mine I needed to be positive and help me lead myself back up to funtioning level instead reminded me of what I was oh so aware of  after I opened up and told them what was ... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:15:29 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1257799   iI WENT BACK TO THE PLACE MY SISTER AND iI LIVED GROWNG UP YESTERDAY AND IT SEEMED SO STRANGE.THIS HOUSE IS ALSO THE SAME HOUSE MY FATHER HAD GROWN UP IN AND HAD BEEN IN MY FAMILY 80 YEARS. iI HAD TO SElL IT WHEN MY FATHER AND MOTHER PASSED AWAY TEN YEARS AGO 6 WEEKS APART. ANYWAY THE HOUSE L... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:08:20 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1236542   The golden late summer sun seems to warm the ground that I am walking uponand it invigirates everywhere it touches on my body and I feel alive. Dark night passed as did my pensive mood and the day has yielded a parade of interesting people to numerous to mention. I feel alive with human conta... Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:45:29 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1235806   I t is quiet this time of night. Most of the world is fast sleep at this time of the eve. As I slide out into the dark night where the clouds have hidden the twinkling of the stars , I feel a cool breeze which seems out of place for this time of August.I notice the cool blue water of the... Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:04:19 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1216666     I am feeling good today despite the fact that my life I have tried so hard to simplify has gotten complicated. I left my fairly large house for a 1 bedroom apartment.I left my antique dining room set for a small table and 2 chairs. I packed only a few clothes and some pictures. I ... Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:31:22 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1184090 Yesterday I visited my past.I delivered my daughter back to my ex-husband and the life I lived for 25 years and it was extremely sureal.The pictures still hung where I put them, the furniture remained how I arranged it and the rose garden still bloomed where I nutured it. My cat met me at my car and... Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:07:26 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1162733 There are many times that I just get to the point that my heart and my head become detached.Reason devoid of feeling,like being on automatic pilot watching as my life is lived and my brain and my heart act like they don't even know each other.How does one live a life that is rich and full when y... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:09:32 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1157663 The clouds are puffy white like cotton balls floating in a blue sky. The sun is shining brilliantly like the master of the universe. I think my life must be like that puffy white cloud on a back ground of blue.Many things have happened that have left me vulnerable lately , but I have discovered that... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:42:43 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1151218 Summer mornings in Atlanta quite a lovely place to live and love.The city itself beats like a heart . There is such a variety of people busying themselves like ants to get to their destinations.And time passes oh so quickly.The Magnolia's aroma smells sweet to the senses. The sunshines w/ it... Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:59:01 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1149420 I got a job today, which is something I was worried about. The support of friends during this hard time has been invaluable.I feel like that movie , "pay it Forwaed". I want to help someone the way others have helped me in the way that only I can.The job is going to require traveling over ... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:54:22 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1146749  I am doing everything I can to survive emotionally and financially and those that are close to me have no idea how hard it is. Everyone wants a piece of me that I can't give, there is nothing left. I am not going to quit trying, but I am just so tired of explaining things and no one l... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:50:49 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1143857    There is a song whose line goes ," people .peolpe who ned peopl e are the luckiest people in the world" but is that always the truth. ?We go aroud saying things like "hi how are " without caring a bit about the answer what has our society turned into.What ever happen... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:10:46 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1132832   Morning comes and brings the blues and I just don't know what to do.I follow all the steps listed to feel better but this sneaks up on me like a thief in the night that has stolen a most precious part of my phsyche.Where it begins and ends I do not know and I have no idea where to go to b... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:39:34 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1110073    In the last year I can honestly say I have been challenged in every aspect of my life.It would be easy to dote on everything, and give a woe is me tale, but instead i am going to change my perspective.    I have always considered myself lucky, in that I have always had a ... Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:41:55 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1103080 Who is the woman behind the iron mask, who knows which way she will pass Full of trouble and of woe, who knows which way she will goWhat will her future life bestow on those she will meet and come to knowIs this life's way of equalling it's gift's by levying sorrow to those he ... Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:33:42 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1078549    As I sit at my breakfast table in the cool of a holiday"s late spring morning, I think hello me but who are you. I'm a mother , friend, lover confidante, a sinner not a saint. Who am I?I dig deep within myself to try to undrestand these complex feelings but nothing yields conte... Mon, 26 May 2008 10:44:44 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/131954/journal/1049069 One of the newer songs lyrics I have heard recently are,"head under water, breathe, easy,they tell me for a while. Breathing is harder even I know that."Sometimes i feel like my head is under water. There is beauty in the unusual marine life swimming by but I cannot survive so I pull ... Tue, 13 May 2008 13:34:34 +0100