Shells

I was walking along picking up my usual detritus of sea glass and broken shells when I began to wonder about my fascination with shells;  It is not as if I can  identify many of them by name  or that I even search for a perfect shell.  I simply look for ones that are broken so that I can see the inside of the shell so I can see the absolute perfection and intricacies involved, the wonderful colors that you miss by just looking at the perfect outer shell and such.  It was at that point that I realized that shells just remind me of the people I meet in my life,  from the casual contact to the momentary friend, to the life long forever type which is so rare.  If we just look at what we see then we miss the most exciting part of meeting people, the endless vortexes of human nature, the inner beauty that is in all of us; some people just need to be broken in order to find it. Those people tend to find me and my life is richer because of them.  In my house I have pieces of shells that look like certain types of fish, and drift wood that look like birds and fish, and coral and rocks that look like a giant tooth and cars, and different animals.  All of these items, and many more were picked up along the way as I contemplated someone or some thing yet to come.  Gentle reminders of life.  Laugh often live with love.

Aloe

How strange that I should get so side tracked that I would forget that I decided to blog about aloe to begin with! Love it! I have several plants and can not imagine living without them now. They are huge, which is necessary here because I use aloe after the beach for the sun and for every cut and scrape; not just for me but for my animals. The only draw back with pure aloe is that is stains. So I have some aloe Jammie's and I am good to go. It is like a refreshing face lift. It is a magic cure all for just about everything; have an itch -aloe; have a cut; aloe; have a burn aloe; need to look refreshed aloe! laugh often and use aloe!

It isn't Easy

Well just when I get comfortable about something, I am always reminded that I am human. I have been attempting to retrain my deaf cat and my blind dog at the same time; either I have succeeded or the Universe wants me to take a day off. Yesterday I managed to pull a muscle in my right arm. Not the end of the world by any means I grant you, however, today was water day and those 5 gallon bottles will not jump out of the car and into the house by themselves. You see I have been putting off this water run for days in favor of oh nothing, and now I am paying the price of pure; I would rather run with the dogs, so to speak; they run I walk; instead of taking care of stuff. You see there is always stuff and when I first arrived here it overwhelmed me. Then the signs started. Not all signs where obvious at first. Bit by bit I began to see them for what they were and pay attention. Yesterday a friend came by with a bag of ice out of the blue which is what kept me from going to the store to get the water and that should have been my sign! I never went; hurt my arm and now it will be a big to do just to get water, all because I missed the sign. It even kept me from going to pizza night at the local watering hole. I mean if I didn't have to go through all the effort to get out the gate at this point why go. Had I gone for ice my car would have been out, I would have gone for pizza and stopped for water. Didn't need to get Ice so none of the other stuff actually happened, just other stuff instead!

Whoa!

I just didn't see this coming. One minute I am writing journals and the next I am attempting a blog. I suppose It came out of the perfect moment swaying in the hammock yesterday. Since I decided to live here I have found that planning is just not something you do anymore. One minute I was up for coffee with friends and the next; it was sorry; perfect moment and I just can't let those pass me by. They are so surreal, that even trying to find a way to explain how the air and the wind and and scents of all the plants around me combine; it is even more than that; because somehow sound is even affected; when you put it all together it is almost as if time is suspended just for you and somehow you accomplish so much all the while doing nothing but swaying in a hammock for a few hours!!!!!!!!!!!! When these days happen you just go with it! At first I just took a moment and thought hmm cool; now I embrace the time and just let it flow. You always get it back. That is the really funny thing about time, we rush around like there just isn't enough of it and yet we simply seem to forget to take it; it is free. Tomorrow if my re-training of my cat goes well I shall take some more time. I was fortunate enough today to have another perfect day in paradise (weather wise) just long enough for my beach time with the dogs; we shall try for a triple play tomorrow.