WHEW!! ( and A poem and random thoughts)

WHEW!!


....thank goodness, thank God, what a relief!!


OK - It's over ... this thing I've been dreading and agonizing over and losing sleep over for the past few weeks... this thing most of you would probably take in stride and not give much thought to at all...this thing of renewing my driver's license!

There were reasons I was anxious about this...mainly I was afraid I might not pass the eye test this time because my eyesight has deteriorated since I last renewed my license! Also...the past 2 times I was able to just send in by mail and be renewed! :) I guess I had become spoiled with this easy way-so it was a bit upsetting to learn this time I'd have to go in to do this! (before my B'day-May 5) Apparently, this can be done ( by mail) just a couple of times during your lifetime driving years.

Well...I passed with no problem-and got an updated picture that looks like me NOW-(LOL- NOT when I was a young chick! haha)...Also-the best part is that this license won't have to be renewed for 8 years! Yippee! During these 8 years to come I will be working on my self confidence so as to be able to handle that little thing better! ;) HAHA- OR get to the point where I don't care if I drive or NOT!

These official things have always been a problem for me...as has most all things in life! Really ALL...and there are reasons that I may be able to go into one day-but not today!

...I didn't drive at all until I was 28 years old-and did then out of sheer necessity... with 3 kids in school who needed me to be able to drive them!

Charles has been my biggest blessing in this life, as he's always been the capable-take charge- type. He's taken good care of me and I can't imagine a life without him in it.

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Here we are in 1982. We were about to take our daughter to the airport to return to school in NYC- 'Fashion Institute of Technology.'

The 'whole family' picture was in early 60's!
(I still have those dolls my little girls are holding! I'm a keeper of all things that matter to me!)






Charles and I will be celebrating our 48th anniversary next week on the 27th. We will be going to Saint Augustine for the 26th and 27th-and coming home on the 28th. We're both looking forward to it! I'm hoping to get some beautiful sunrise pictures!

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Last night I dreamed of my dear mom. I dreamed she came to me and was standing before me...and suddenly as I looked into her face it began to change and she started to look younger and younger as I watched. I can see her sweet smile, still, even as I'm typing this.

I have often wondered about dreams...are there meanings behind them? With Mom becoming younger...does this mean I'm wishing I could turn back time? Well-I guess I DO have those feelings-we all probably DO yearn for things that have passed-as futile as that is...and it comes out in our dreams. (which I think are our thoughts running rampant with no controls...no reigning in, as with our more rational thinking of when we're awake!)

Or-was that dream my dear mom just reassuring me that things would be OK today in this little patch of stress I had to get through!
Yes! That's it I'm sure!

Each Day


Each day we are given
a brand new, clean, slate…
with ways to recover
what we might have squandered.
A new span of time
to recapture lost ground,
and, perhaps, to find answers
to questions we’ve pondered.

We’re given a chance
to reverse bad decisions…
to change our direction
when finding we’re lost.
A chance to take stock
of the things most important,
and to balance our follies
against the high cost.

Take each new day
to find your direction.
Examine the things
that have led you astray.
Resolve to do better,
to do what’s expected…
to know there is always
a price you must pay.

There must be atonement
for each wayward turning.
Sometimes we're astounded
when learning the cost.
Those things we encounter-
so tempting - enticing-
in the end, may not equal
the things we have lost!


June Kellum

Love,
Junie Rose