Inner joy

Hello dear friends… Oh the weather outside is frightful… I so hope this freezing January evening finds you comfortably warm—a nice fire burning brightly on you hearth while frost jewels sparkle and glow outside…

It is so nice to be able to come here—this special place I so dearly love. Talking to you and telling you the little stories of my life it really is a catharsis… although really, sometimes I think it’s just me and my computer in an absolute lonesome Universe. Thank you to those of you who take the time to say hello and assure me that I’m not alone.

Thank you also for your comments, and to those of you who emailed me with your concerns about my last post. I'm overjoyed, because I have recuperated a great portion of my photographs by accessing Picasa and from my blogs. Some of the photographs I will never get back, but I have what I need. And there’s always a beginning to every end. Life is a great magician you know; it reconstructs itself and its moments again and again. So I will forget what’s behind and start anew. Make new memories; new recollections. Oh, and about my Wicket Witch of the West at the office… well, we don’t have to live our life in “Victimville” do we? However, it is hard to escape certain situations in life; particularly when your boss is the one being downright abusive. He has the complete control over your most basic human needs, your ability to put food on the table and a roof over your head, and I need a job. And besides, I’m not a quitter. So I will build a shield of indifference around me and work extra hard on seeing life, and people, through difference lenses. Optimism and positive thinking is so important to our wellbeing. Looking on the bright side of life surely helps. Replacing negative thoughts with positive ones takes practice, but this is so necessary.

It's all good -- really! :-)

Finding the lost—what delight and joy that is! And what a blessing it has been to be able to relived old times; the remembrances and joys of moments in time forever gone, but too, captured forever through photographs. What a blessing. I've discovered many photographs which I hadn’t seen in years and even had forgotten I had them. I so enjoyed seeing them again. See, there’s always a positive side of everything. I am totally thrilled. Here are some of my lost and found pictures… enjoy!

Just looking at those photographs lift up my spirit... I'm so so ready for the arrival of spring...  oh oh are you feeling what I'm feeling?  I don't know why, but these words keep coming to my thoughts... and to my lips: "You are my strength when I am weak, you are the treasure that I seek.... when I fall down, You pick me up, when I am dry, You fill my cup... You are my all in all"...

Blessings my friend! 

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