Quotes of the day

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
  --Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
  --Louisa May Alcott

6:40:26 PM     

Monday's musing

I actually had a pleasant day at the office today considering it's Monday.  I wasn't at all sure one of my employees would show up this morning after I had to "counsel" her on Friday, but she acted as if nothing had ever happened when I saw her today.  I'm not sure if that's a good thing...  Surely, she understood what she'd done wrong and won't do it again. Right?  For her sake, I sure hope so because I don't like being a bitch.  Stresses me out. 

My secretary is expecting a baby the first of June, and she showed me the crib set she's buying.  The patterns come from drawings John Lennon made when Sean was born, and evidently Yoko is promoting the heck out of them.  Cute little animals and musical notes in soft muted colors.   Very pretty.  I'm thinking she may have had an ulterior motive in showing me these things, because she went on to say there are coordinating items.  Ok, I got the hint...and I also remembered that I need to start thinking about planning a baby shower for her sometime soon.  It's all very exciting, really.  Been ages since I've been close to someone having a new baby.  And she's not only my employee, but she's a great friend.   I may even offer to babysit sometime...maybe.

I've invited my daughters and their boyfriends over for dinner tomorrow night.  Dinner and American Idol - which may just turn into a regular family weekly event again this year.  We need it, and for whatever reason, the older my girls get, the more they seem to enjoy spending time with me.  It hasn't always been that way, and I'm thankful beyond words...  :)

Good vibes       Good vibes         Good vibes

Tomorrow, warm air will seep into our area and lift us out of this long cold snap.  God willing and the creeks don't rise, I'll sleep well tonight and wake up in the morning to find something else beautiful in my life...

6:25:31 PM     

Rumi

From my mailbox this morning...

I see my beauty in you 

I become a mirror that cannot
close its eyes to your longings. 

My eyes wet with yours
in the early light. 

My mind every moment giving birth,
always conceiving, always in the ninth
month, always the come-point. 

How do I stand this?  We become these
words we say, a wailing sound moving
out into the air.  These thousands of
worlds that rise from nowhere, how
does your face contain them? 

I'm a fly in your honey, then closer,
a moth caught in flame's allure, then
empty sky stretched out in homage.            
          -- Ghazal (Ode) 2234

5:38:02 PM