September!!

Can summer really be coming to an end?   I'm happy to see autumn right around the corner, September and October are two of my favorite months in the mountains.  Soon comes the holiday season.  Time is going so quickly and it's been an amazing year.  Many awakenings, many new art techniques tried, happiness and sadness, many new, lifelong friends made and some friends lost. I suppose that's a normal year for all of us.  Life is full of ups and downs every day.  Surprises and disappointments.  Ying and Yang.    Friendship has been heavy on my heart and mind the past couple of weeks and it remains heavy.  When I say heavy it doesn't mean all bad...just heavy.  Most of you know that I'm losing a life long friend, the sister I never had, my confidant, someone that made me laugh, someone that would tell me if I was wrong and give me tons of  kudos when they were deserved or needed, someone that I knew loved me.  And I was the same kind of friend right back.  I feel that today will be the day her suffering ends, I might be wrong but that isn't what my heart tells me.   Losing Jo has made me think a lot about people that I love and also of people that love me.  People that love me in spite of all of my many, many flaws...people that accept me, don't judge me, don't beat me up over every mistake I've made my entire life!!   I've been blessed to have several friends like that but most have taken that final journey way too young and way too soon.  I know that Jo will have a wonderful journey and will make heaven a happier place.  Sometimes the circle of life is just too short!!   XOXOX to Jo...I'll see you on the other side!  Happy Trails to YOU....  
I had to come back and post something else that's very important..at least to me it is.   But losing Jo and thinking about my friends and some of the wonderful friendships that I have now has made me so grateful.  I'm so thankful for the people that do love me, for the people that  do want to spend time with me, and do forgive me my many flaws, errors in judgement and just plain old screw ups!  And I've made plenty, yes, I sure have.  I'm thankful for my good health and for every beautiful day I have to enjoy. And  I'm sure happy that I have Bob and Daisy in my life.  As I've said before this year, in so many ways, has been a year of retrospection.   Life is a paradox, isn't it!!  On one hand I'm so sad but on the other I'm so thankful.  Thankful for all that I have, thankful for all that I have had in my lifetime and thankful for all of the wonderful people that have passed through my life...and the other people that have passed through..you know, those not so nice ones...PFFFFT to you!    


Make a Happy Day, A Happy Month and most of all A Happy Life.  That's my wish for all of you.   XOXOXO