Top picture is a cabinet that I painted (free hand) for a friend’s birthday…rest of the pictures are from various Halloween Gatherings at my house…

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

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cute stars and etiquette of war:  http://www.eonline.com/news/749017/outlander-s-caitriona-balfe-and-sam-heughan-adorably-find-out-who-knows-who-better

and Sam’s Bucket List of Destinations

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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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so we had nothing which we wrangled into something and today in celebration:  ANYTHING goes.

Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy #13 Moonface Martin aid Billy in his quest to win Hope. The musical introduced such songs as “Anything Goes“, “You’re the Top“, and “I Get a Kick Out of You.”  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_Goes

What if ANYTHING goes in your life…what would you do and what would you like…let’s do some wishful thinking about what we would do if we could….or could do if we would….you know forget what your mom told you and your obligations and just live like there’s no tomorrow…like you have no obligations…like you never went to church school–oh wait that’s me–sorry.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
But now, Heaven knows,
Anything goes.

“Anything Goes“

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In 2013 there was the A&K around the world tour by private jet-(Boeing 757 with a well stocked bar)-what else at  $105,000 per person and visited nine countries in 26 days, all in complete luxury. The trip started in Miami and ended in New York (I so hope they didn’t have to fly home in a tacky commercial service).  The itinerary includes the Amazon River, Easter Island, a tropical sojourn in Samoa before heading to the highlands of Papua New Guinea and an audience with the Huli Wigmen in the Sepik River Basin.  (not exactly my idea of fun, but definitely not on your usual round of tourist–even rich ones–hot spots).    http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/the-worlds-most-expensive-tours/story-e6frfqai-1226659411417

BUY YOUR SELF OR YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER ANYTHING THEY WANT NOW the Victoria Secret 2011 Bra is gone…but at the Price it sold at of $2.5 million I’m sure you could arrange for another:  18-karat white and yellow gold bra with 3,400 precious stones including diamonds (142 carats worth), pearls, citrines and aquamarines–course all the stones should be set by hand. (The original bra itself took 500 hours to complete–so you might not get it done by Christmas but with that much money maybe you could get them to change the date).

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It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s de-lovely.

Cole Porter

• 
• 
• EAT ANYTHING—calories, health, and all those mundane anythings have become nothing in our search for the perfect something.
• How about this for lunch:
• Beluga Caviar (large tin)  $3,450
• Aldi’s Wagyu burgers (from cows specially fed and given Sake massages) $288
• A cup of Civet coffee aka Kopi Luwak (these beans have actually been eaten and then pooped out by a South American beastie) $468
• Don’t forget to add some Saffron which at $350/lb. is a real steal on this list
• Don’t forget the Matsasuke, a prized truffle at $2,040
• http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/13/from-beluga-caviar-to-civet-coffee-tuck-in-to-some-of-the-most-expensive-food-in-the-world-5195677/
• Oh but I forget the dessert
• The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate ice cream sundae
• fine blend of 28 cocoas, including 14 of the world’s most expensive
• It’s even decorated with 5 g (0.17 oz) of edible 23-karat gold
• and if that isn’t enough:  is served in a goblet lined with edible gold.
• Wait not done yet—The base of the goblet is an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of white diamonds.
• And they haven’t forgotten anything:  The dessert is eaten with a gold spoon, itself decorated with white and chocolate-colored diamonds, which can also be taken home.
• You can only get this at the Serendipity 3 restaurant, New York (it was offered in 2007 but please don’t be made if it’s not there still as I haven’t had one in–ah–wait–I never have had one)
• Oh and the cost $25,000.

• http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-expensive-dessert

Everything happens for a reason, nothing lasts forever. Welcome to life, where anything goes.

Unknown

And how can you have done anything if you haven’t done it with your friends—PARTY HARDY

Valentine’s Day is over–but if you have this much money you can pay someone to change the date:

This party for you and your true love at $99,300 includes Michelin-starred chef at your home and includes duck eggs and truffles as well as a dish of Wagyu beef touched with silver leaf (I have no idea so don’t ask I’m just writing about anything while I’m a lot closer to nothing) that’s served on a bed of dry ice.  What’s a party with out booze–Each dish (in the 8 courses) comes with an appropriate (heaven knows I thought anything goes) fine wine–like the $27,680 bottle of La Romanee-Conti, Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, 1990.  All this with little extras like duck eggs and truffles in the food prep–oh and I almost forgot a harpist, a poet and doves—and hopefully some one to clean up after them–the dovee, but maybe the harpist and poet if they get into the fine wine?

Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes.

Prince

and you need to get around

How about a car:

1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa  $16,390,000  2011

1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder $10,894,900 2008 2010

1931 Duesenberg Model J Murphy-Bodied Coupe $10,340,000  2011

1931 Bugatti Royale Type 41 Kellner Coupe  $9,800,000 1987

1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster  $9,680,000  2011

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Lamborghini Veneno – $3.9 million

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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Philip Johnson

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Pictures today are just out and about Florida

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett

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I had the Pechuga a la Parilla

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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

James Russell Lowell

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Check out the man behind the Gaelic:  http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/saving-dalriada-gaelic-quest-outlanders-5953363

and the woman behind the costumes:  http://www.outlandertvnews.com/2016/01/new-interview-with-outlanders-terry-dresbach/

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

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YESTERDAY WE DID NOTHING  SO TODAY WE HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR IT WITH SOMETHING

“Something” is a song by the Beatles, written by George Harrison and released on the band’s 1969 album Abbey Road. It was also issued on a double A-sided single with another track from the album, “Come Together“. “Something” was the first Harrison composition to appear as a Beatles A-side, and the only song written by him to top the US charts before the band’s break-up in April 1970. The single was also one of the first Beatles singles to contain tracks already available on an LP album      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_(Beatles_song)

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

I see it this way while NOTHING is the loss of promise the negative of our lives SOMETHING is the promise–if not everything at least one thing: having that to hold on to just might get us through.

But that thing is:   A thing that is unspecified or unknown.  “we stopped for something to eat”

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Albert Schweitzer

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So how’s life treating you all?  Pictures today are Main:  A hawk patrolling my yard for squirrels and the rest from a strange little cemetery in the St. Cloud /Kissimmee area….

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.                        Socrates

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Note the pentagram on the grave

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

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So here we are at another Friday–any big weekend plans–maybe with family given the holiday coming up on Sunday.  The highlight of my weekend is doing my taxes on Sat.  Talk about excitement–if I get some money back then I’ll be excited.  (oh and all my pictures are from the Irish country side.)

The Drew Carey Show:  Mimi Bobeck:                                                                  “Ah, spring. When a young man’s fancy turns my stomach. “

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But there are other means to spring’s madness:  an issue of water from the earth, taking the form, on the surface, of a small stream or standing as a pool or small lake. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/spring  In this present day and age we often have little or no contact with springs—unless you live in Florida (for instance):  “Geologists from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection claim that Florida may have the largest convergence of freshwater springs on the planet, with over 700..”  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_springs_in_Florida

And we must not forget another Spring item which while not peculiar to the same state (Florida, in case you forgot) does have a certain reputation of being, if not the best, at least the most notorious here and which according to Time Magazine started here eons ago when “swimming coach at Colgate University, Sam Ingram, … brought his team down to Fort Lauderdale in 1936 to train at the Casino Pool — the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Florida. In 1938, sensing a marketing opportunity, the city hosted the first College Coaches’ Swim Forum at the Casino Pool; according to one source, by 1938 more than 300 swimmers were competing at the event, and a bacchanal was born.”  And we’ve never enjoyed spring quite as much sense…. http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1888317,00.html

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”–— Ernest Hemingway

Springwort was a magic plant associated (with ancient Greeks and Romans as well as Jews and Arabs) with fire and lightening and could discover secrets, finding treasure and opening locks.  The French credited it with the power to give one superhuman strength, and some felt it gave woodpeckers the ability to pierce oak trees.  The problem is that while all these abilities have been documented the plant itself can no longer be identified .  In fact I’m not sure it was that obvious back in its hay day as one way of identifying it was if “the bird, stopped to rub its beak on a certain plant the plant he rubbed his beak in was, yeah you guessed it, Springwort—so go ask the nearest bird next time you what superhuman strength.

In Scotland the Highlanders had a ceremony which involved pounding the ground with a stick until a snake(s) appeared.  “The snake’s behavior gave them a good idea of how much frost was left in the season.”  http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/ostarathespringequinox/a/SnakeFolklore.htm….why snakes and frost are so closely related I failed to find out–I have a trip to the highlands planned for about 2 months from now, so I’ll be sure to be on the look out for people summoning snakes.

and while we’re looking at rites of spring you can’t forget:  Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring Ballet, which is  even in today’s jaded world,  described as Orgasmic. Pagan. Sacrifice, raw and sensual  http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/11/100-year-on-stravinskys-ballet-the-rite-of-spring-is-still-creating-a-stir-3591436/#ixzz43vZsajlO But it was it’s debut (in one of the premier opera houses in Paris) that made even this ballet go down in a toe dancer’s infamy:  on the evening of 29 May 1913 in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring…when The Rite descended into a riot, the story goes.  Various accounts tell of hissing and boos followed by fights, challenges to duels and the like.  http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22691267 something you don’t see allot at ballets before or since this debut performances and which made this particular Rite notorious for all time.  I mean if you can shock Paris this much what can you expect in the rest of the world?

“The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.”–— E.B. White

There are of course songs about spring:  April in Paris (1956) Count Baise, April Love (1957) Pat Bonne And of course there are lyrics like I love Paris in the SPRING TIME (of course they go on to praise the fall as well but we’re not doing fall this time…and beside unlike spring fall has another name:  Autumn—“Autumn,” a Latin word, first appears in English in the late 14th century, and gradually gained on “harvest.” In the 17th century, “fall” came into use, almost certainly as a poetic complement to “spring,” and it competed with the other terms.  http://www.livescience.com/34260-fall-autumn-season-names.html).  Even the King (Elvis) sang of the season:  Spring fever comes to everyone
Spring fever, it’s time for fun
Get up, get out spring is everywhere
: Elvis Presley – Spring Fever Lyrics | MetroLyrics

In 1962 Rachel Carson brought much attention to the possibility of a loss of much we cherished about spring in her book:  SILENT SPRING in which:  The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims unquestioningly.”  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring and while this is mostly common knowledge (though we seem to develop new issues daily) now, was very new to us then.  The book did:   spur… a reversal in national pesticide policy, led to a nationwide ban on DDT for agricultural uses, and inspired an environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.^“

In the Musical (I only saw it at the movies) Camelot there is a great number called THE LUSTY MONTH OF MY

                                      AFTER YOU WATCH THIS I THINK MY GOAL OF EXPLAINING ALL THING SPRING HAS BEEN MET

Do you agree?

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
Jane Fonda

(these last 2 pictures are from Scotland)

Spring is here! Why doesn’t my heart go dancing?
Spring is here! Why isn’t the waltz entrancing?
No desire, no ambition leads me
Maybe it’s because nobody needs me
Spring is here! Why doesn’t the breeze delight me?
Stars appear, why doesn’t the night invite me?
Maybe it’s because nobody loves me
Spring is here I hear

Spring is here! Why doesn’t my heart go dancing?
Spring is here! Why isn’t the waltz entrancing?
No desire, no ambition leads me
Maybe it’s because nobody needs me
Spring is here! Why doesn’t the breeze delight me?
Stars appear, why doesn’t the night invite me?
Maybe it’s because nobody loves me
Spring is here I hear

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the “First Lady of Song”, “Queen of Jazz”, and “Lady Ella”, was an American jazz and song vocalist.

TODAY’S pictures are Dublin—my first (of 2) visits.  Sunny here today and trying to get in the mood to do something, but so far am still dragging–but have been doing.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. – George Herbert

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I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”—Pablo Neruda

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Today we’re looking at spring traditions—not the celebrations like yesterday, but the little things people and cultures do in the spring time that is peculiar to them and a maybe a bit weird to other of us…like usual I’m going for the OMG factor…you know me I forgot how to be normal years ago and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
Bern Williams

In Germany  (Traustein) many of the occupants, dress in traditional dress and ride horses (known as the Georgiritt) as an Easter tradition and for a Easter blessing of both man (woman?) and beast.  The tradition that goes back  to the 18th century includes saber dancing in some areas–hopefully they dismount the horses prior to that part.

The people that hold this tradition are really Sorbs (not Serbs) and are closer to Polish and other Slavic peoples in their origins than the Germans with whom they share the country.  They have survived in the area of Germany near the Polish border for centuries and have been subjected to all manner of prosecution cumulating in Hitler’s closing down their institutions and arresting some of their leading citizen who often ended in concentration camps.  There reportedly were plans during this time to relocate the entire community (I’m not sure where, but given Hitler’s track record I have a good guess), which was not carried out after the defeat at Stalingrad.

To read more about them http://www.economist.com/node/11632788

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette

Followers of the Baha’i faith celebrate Nowruz on the Spring Equinox, the day is similar to the Christian Easter.  One of the ritualistic things done on this day is arranging 7 items which begin with “S” (in Persian, i.e. apples or garlic)

Baha’i faith by the way is a belief (began in the 19th century) that there is only one God and one creator and that all major religions are basically derived from this same source and thus one.  It founder was exiled from his home land by the Ottoman Empire (Muslim) for preaching this.  The religion now has converts around the globe including it native Persia (now Iran) where it’s believers have suffered severe persecution.  It is estimated that there are currently 5 million believers in approximately 200 countries.

To learn more:  http://www.bahai.org/

“And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”
–  Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant 

Wiccas and other pagan people celebrate Beltane (May Day)  by dancing the Maypole,  a tradition that has been around forever it seems.  It is a time of love, romance, fertility.  A time to begin creative endeavors.  But its origins have been lost in time.

The Romans celebrated the holiday with tributes to their household gods with a  3 day holiday with lots of sex, flowers, as well as songs and dances and called it Floralia.  But its earliest roots (as far as actual festivals) goes back to ancient Egypt where is was a festival to assure the fertility of its women.   The word Beltane in fact is Gaelic and means “return of the sun.”  The occasion was a source of ritual for the historical people of Britian including the Celts and Anglo-Saxons as well.

Check out more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grove-harris/may-day-delights_b_855929.html

“Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly–and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.”
–  Omar Khayyam

In many parts of Ireland you might find yourself at a fish funeral on Easter Sunday.  Since meat is not eaten during Lint and since the butcher especially suffered due to this avoidance you often find him (or them) leading a parade, featuring at least one fish corpse,  winding through the town to the church were it is (in some communities this includes wiping the deceased) treated to a varied (again depending on the community) ceremony that marks the end of fish as the solitary protien source.

Lent is in Ireland and many other Christian countries celebrated by Catholics and some non- alike.  On Shrove Tuesday everyone goes to confession at their local church to ask forgiveness for and be absolved of their sins a tradition that goes back over 1,000 years to possibly Anglo Saxon times.  Since meat, butter, eggs and diary consumption is restricted or absolved from completely during the Lent period Shrove Tuesday often involves feasting on these foods still remaining in the home, so they will not be wasted.   From Ash Wednesday to Good Friday the practitioner swear to give up something like alcoholic beverages, or sugar (i.e. candy, pudding etc).  On Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday is the day that the believers receive the sign of the cross, made from ashes, on their foreheads.

For a full look at Irish Easter traditions check here:  http://goireland.about.com/od/easter-and-lent/a/Easter-In-Ireland.htm

“O Day after day we can’t help growing older.
Year after year spring can’t help seeming younger.
Come let’s enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen.”
–  Wang Wei, On Parting with Spring

Elsewhere:

Australia they have Easter Bilby instead of bunnies.  While the Bilby is endangered and this may help their plight I think the biggie is the hatred of bunnies that destroy a great number of crops  in the country yearly.

In the Philippines some Catholics parade through town half naked, barefoot and beat themselves with bamboo and sharp blades to cleanse their soul and cure sickness at Easter.

In Haiti where traditions seem to have overlapped the Easter season is a time of music, dance and ritualistic animal sacrifice while in Norway they read or watch murder mysteries (which are planned programing for the period) during the holiday .

“The world’s favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May.”
–  Edwin Way Teale

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“A swarm of bees in May
Is worth a load of hay;
A swarm of bees in June
Is worth a silver spoon;
A swarm of bees in July
Is not worth a fly.”
–  Rhyme from England

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Today’s pictures take aim at my first trip to Edinburgh (all pictures are of or looking down from the Castle)—coming soon my third and you subscribers will be there for all the fun and games of my return to the Scotland of my ancestors.

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~ Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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TODAY I thought we would continue on SPRING with some less formal or at least less known celebrations than we looked at yesterday.  Those little things we do that are a much a part of spring for some of us as the blooming flowers and the nesting birds.

Like a lot of early religious figures George (whose name in Greek translates ploughman) may have non-Christian origins including his spring date of worship, his killing a mythical dragon and his relationship to the plough and cultivated fields again the spring thing.

Awake, thou wintry earth –
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”

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Oh, Spring is surely coming,
Her couriers fill the air;
Each morn are new arrivals,
Each night her ways prepare;
I scent her fragrant garments,
Her foot is on the stair.
~John Burroughs, “A March Glee”

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I wanted to SHOUT OUT about some fantastic art work I saw this Eastern Orthodox weekend….the pictures above and below are from

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Not only are they beautiful and original (the one below is a cat bed)

But they are feather light as they are made from Gourds–which makes them much more durable than glass or pottery as well as being movable and so unusual.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. ——-Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The New Man In Our Lives Roger–another Scottish hottie.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring. —Sara Teasdale

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Since it’s Spring…yeah forget the chilly weather mother nature is never wrong…coming up fast on Easter (early this year it seems)  and all the bunnys carry around those weird colored eggs–well I just thought I’d get us in the mood…so today I’m starting with the rites of springs:

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Oh and all pictures today are from a favorite place of mine Mt. Dora

HAPPY ST. PADDY’S DAY the main picture is  from Winter Park the rest are from another of my dream locations–Key West—Hope you’re luck is great and gets only better and I hope your hang over isn’t too bad on Friday….not a great way to go into the weekend.

GEORGE: Sometimes George smash into tree, and sometimes George fall out of tree house, but not feel stupid. Something good always happen after. George just lucky, I guess. “
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE

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You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you… That’s where I’ll be waiting. Tinkerbell, Peter Pan

The water’s always changing, always flowing But people, I guess, can’t live like that. Pocahontas, Pocahontas

Bruce Wayne/Batman: This may be the only thing I do, that matters. This may be the only thing I do, that matters.

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.

Laverne, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

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“You’re mad, bonkers, off your head! But I’ll tell you a secret: all the best people are.” Alice Kingsley, Alice in Wonder Land

Welcome back–Hope life is treating you well.  I’m still dragging don’t think it’s the time change but rather me trying to do so much junk and then some.  How’s the TIME CHANGE affecting you?  All the pictures are from along the Royal Mile In Edinburgh—a place I have reservations to stay in May.

Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. – Heath Ledger, from 10 Things  I Hate About You.

Oh and this symbol by the way is from the Blood Spring in Glastonbury

The Chalice Well, also known as the Red Spring (or Blood Spring–the first as there is legend that the Chalice is buried in this area and the 2nd two because of the minerals in the water which gives it a red appearance), is a well situated at the foot of Glastonbury Tor in the county of Somerset    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalice_Well

If you got to have a dream,
you may as well dream big.
-Jumper 

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You must not let anyone
define your limits because of where you come from.
Your only limit is your soul.
-Ratatouille 

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Today we look at your journey to your dream….ok you wrote it down….today we’re gonna see if you can access that dream or maybe better yet if you will.  So what is your dream—I’m going with my writing…..today we’re gonna see how you can come to live with and hopefully accomplish it.

Until you start believing in yourself,
you ain’t gonna have a life!
-Rocky Balboa

Let’s look a little closer to that dream—if you have several let’s set down and figure which is more important as that’s the one we want to focus on today.    Ok now hold on to that list….and those of you who only have one can just hang on to that.

Are you still with me or have you wimped out?  Still there, now you have your dream unveiled to acknowledge, you’ve looked at the reality of it’s conception and accepted that as well.  You’ve also decided why this became your goal—you have now define the dream….now we need to know what you plan to do with it.

If you’re me you need to write and you’re taking a month in Cornwall in hopes of facilitating this and  actually carrying out my dream.  But I need to do more than this…I need to look at the bigger picture.  Now don’t get me wrong I think we should take this slowly enough to manage our resources (the amount of time we can give up from the work that feeds us and the kids for instance) but I still think we should have a bigger general plan.  For me in fact the dream must continue until the novel is published—with a real company or an online ego trip for pay is just a couple of those options that while not set in stone needs to be there so that I will have a goal to work for….a vague unfinished dream is only slightly better than a hidden away one.

I don’t want you to deal with negatives–we’ll do that tomorrow–today we’re just assuming that it can be done and our best path for you to do it (remember my path and yours to the same thing could be miles apart for each of us the ways we reach that goal is as different as finger prints—since each of us has such different ways to bring about the idealization of dreams should be).

You can like the life you’re living,
you can live the life you like.
-Chicago

So you’ve got your plan set up.  Where you’re going and what you’re gonna do and oh don’t forget to determine you time lines—if you’re gonna be in the Olympics you may not want to wait till your new baby is of age—there can be time constraints into our lives and dreams.

and when you’re determining your time lines be realistic.  If you’re like me and want to write the time lines aren’t so bad and I have factored in my other life stuff.  One of the ways I’ve started to adapt is to do my Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/lindachase56829/ which has included dealing with the Novel at least 4 days a week.  But don’t be too conservative—try to incorporate something (no matter how small) in your daily activities.  If you can’t get to an archeological dig you can follow one while you still go to work and do mundane things like mowing the yard or feeding the cats.

For instance:  The Artognou stone is an archaeological artefact uncovered in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was discovered in 1998 in securely dated sixth-century contexts among the ruins at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, a secular, high status settlement of sub-Roman Britain. It appears to have originally been a practice dedication stone for some building or other public structure, but it was broken in two and re-used as part of a drain when the original structure was destroyed. Upon its discovery the stone achieved some notoriety due to the suggestion that “Artognou” was connected to the legendary King Arthur, though scholars such as John Koch have criticized the evidence for this connection.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artognou_stone  So there’s an archaeological event that though small appears to have larger implications…things like this are important to those who follow UK archeology or to me who is working on an Arthur book that is a mix of the real and the un….

So work on that–write it down or not but be ready to discuss more tomorrow.

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times
when one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Everybody starts out with a dream of how life will be.                       Diane Ladd Vision and Dreams

My pictures today are from Mt. Dora…not too far from here and where I spend my Sundays volunteering.    It doesn’t have to be far away or big city or crazy to be part of your dreams.  HONEST.

“Freedom is not just a dream.  It’s there, beyond those fences that we build all by ourselves.” -Instinct

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“Every man dies but not every man really lives.” -Mel Gibson in Braveheart

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Today let’s look at what you want to do….what are your dreams—not your goals….You want a house over your head, your kids healthy and happy and many more things that are right and proper to want and to work for….but what is buried down deep, something you’ve pushed away, something that you sacrificed for the hubby, the kids the parents, the in-laws….we could go on and on….the travel which is my great love and the UK with its history and my book about Arthur…someone who hasn’t gotten a clean telling yet….https://www.pinterest.com/lindachase56829/dragon-lair-divas-novels-of-arthur/

OK you can do this:  Get a quiet place (go the bathroom and close the door if all else fails.–in fact lock it)

Block out everything….the kids yelling, the hubby snoring, the overdue bills setting by your computer (we won’t take that long honest and you can get back to work/life)  and think about your earliest memories of your life plans and dream–Like I told you yesterday I can still remember when my mum pronounced my dreams of writing a risky business and moved me along to become a nurse.  And while nursing is a rewarding (if not very well paid though I did OK) undertaking I have managed to write and scribble, but there has always been that fear of me failing at it and so not pushing on.  Come on you can do it…what did you do and give up or what did you so want to do?

Writing, dancing, traveling, some woman want to be mothers yet because of physical or other issue they never moved that direction in their lives.  Now admittedly there are limitations—If you can’t walk, walking is probably not an option, but there scientific items that may help with this and besides what use is a dream if it does not move beyond our limitations both physical, mental or even reality.

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices. – Professor Dumbledore, Harry Potter

If you are lucky you may have more than one—I am big on traveling–I have managed to keep that going most of my life, and despite a limited budget:  that’s another thing—working around your budget  since you’re out of the bedroom and putting in the monthly bill to be paid—maybe you can’t do Paris—but New Orleans has a French accent and can be a starting place.  Or there’s all manner of travel book, videos, movies etc. that can take you there and at least give you a bit of insight into the place on your mind for so long.  Then you can look into tours and other opportunities that might allow you to get away to your dream location.

Always wanted to sing and perform—the Boy Band raises it’s not so ugly head—first I guess we have to  establish if you can sing–try Karoke they’ll let you know soon enough.  You can take lessons…join the church choir.  A friend of mine sings in a large chorus of ladies and they put on shows in the area, meet once a week and even join competitions around the US and even internationally and in fact have won awards.   And to me that just might trump(sorry) that Boy Band thing.

Want to dance, most towns and cities abound in all manner of opportunities from classes, to ballroom get togethers for those of us that already know how and would like to associate with like manner persons.  Or drag you hubby to a club, pub or fancy restaurant that offers some music like you use to enjoy—he might find that once he gets use to it he enjoys it too—if you’re the hubby once you persuade the little woman to leave the kids with a sitter, you might find that you’re not the only one to have a dream.

“Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don’t have our dreams, we have nothing.” -The Astronaut Farmer

That last quote pretty much sums up my thoughts—when we loose our dreams we loose something essential, something that we are encouraged to abandon–maybe because when we loose them like the quotes says “we have nothing” and by having nothing we become much less of a person than we could have been and by being less we are easily manipulated and placed in the over-all order of things that seems to somehow suit some perverse part of the universe.   By singing we may not become rich and famous—but we fulfil a part of ourselves that with out the song leaves an empty hole in our lives that somehow makes our lives so much less fulfilling than they could have been—some how more lonely, even though surrounded by our friends and family.

I want to write…I’ve started before how I’ve got bogged down in life and my life is a non-stop affair of selling on line (both for myself and others), doing boards on Pinterest,  doing face book (for my graduating class, for small businesses at a reasonable cost and for myself), Doing meet up groups (one of which I host a group monthly myself), reviewing for Trip Advisor and all the other activities of living and yet that desire to write stays deeply embedded in my mind and soul and I have found myself drifting back to my book and characters and so this year in addition to 2 weeks with a friend to England I’m gonna be in Cornwall living without the selling (though I’ll probably do the couple of Facebooks—but not my own) or the Met Ups just this blog to keep tract as I wander the ancient lands and try to write their disclosures for you on this blog and to see if the insight helps me continue the story of Arthur as I feel it should be presented.

After you do that little bit of soul, heart searching (in the bath or on the commute home or whatever) when you get a chance to think back on your dreams,  your assignment is to write down what your dream(s?) is (are?).  Just be brief…some dreams like my travel has been ongoing and I will list it as such (and so should you as one of your dreams) but most of us have that deep down need which we have buried because we are too mature or too busy, or too poor to carry it out.  So  write of these down and put a check by the ones you’ve really fulfilled and for 90% of you I expect at least one non-checked deep need Boy Band item that is totally impractical but it is deep in your bones and something you need to look at further.  Then we’ll talk more tomorrow.

“What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Gladiator

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