The Good Life @ MindSay 
life is good
( I've only recently come across Katherine's work and enjoy her perspective. )
Living Your Joy Filled Life
What do you see around you that brings you back to yourself and your joy? What reminds you that Life is meant to be joyful? Whatever the little triggers and messages, hints and nudges - watch for them and encourage them in your day to day experiences! When you see or hear them - let them remind you of your own joy and to bring it out and let your joy shine. It might be a bird's song, the unbridled laughter of a child, a butterfly landing near you. Perhaps the lyrics of a favorite song, a smile from a stranger or maybe even just some of the new slang words in pop culture like Sweet and Juicy and Ease. Even in marketing; "Life Is Good" has become a popular slogan. The Discovery Channel has a similar promotion with an uplifting, positive message about loving life on planet earth.
I might be a bit prejudiced toward these messages and nudges; it's the main focus of my on-line work where-ever I pop up on a search. Encouraging people to watch for the magic in their own lives, seeing how little choices can make big differences, celebrating nature and our natural world. Even celebrating the human spirit immersed within it all! It has been my passion to find ways to capture magical little moments in words or photographs when possible and share them through blogs, a website, and a variety of on-line social sharing formats (I've triedFacebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picassa, Photobucket, YouTube, Lulu, Clipmarks , Care2). I've never thought much about what I was doing, rather I seemed driven to learn how and to explore a wide range of computer applications to make it happen.
Over the years the greatest benefit for me has been the ability to see beyond all the bad news, strife and grief that permeates our society. It doesn't make me ignore it or enjoy it - don't get me wrong. Simply, I can also see that there are beautiful aspects to our world as well. There are heroes of all walks of life. There are courageous and generous people in every country in the world. There are lovers and children and grandparents. There are birds and fish, flowers and trees; there are incredible sunsets and there is unmatchable beauty and it is right here in this very same world where some people have lost sight of their joy and have chosen to focus on war and anger and pain.
I know, I know it has been forever since you heard from yours truly and for that I am sorry. I will say that I have missed blogging a little. I really miss reading everyone's thoughts and such the most. I have been in-cog-Negro (yes I still think that is funny Myclette ) because I have been working some crazy lovely hours at the Bookstore as the Merchandise Manager and let me tell you the book signings alone are enough to make you rip out your hair. The authors range from extremely nice and independent (they come equipped and ready to sell their books rather than just sitting there waiting for people to spontaneously become interested in their take on the great American novel) to the lousy ones who are so dull that people pass by their table and nod off unexpectedly or they are so abrupt that folks literally block their faces in anticipation of a slap.
Anyway, since my readership has dwindled due to my own absentia I suppose I am more free to just write without constraint.
It was not my intention to take such a long hiatus but life outside of these cyber-walls beckoned and I had no choice but to answer the call.
My dream of living the writing life is being realized and I have been spending countless hours of my life submerged in that reality.
The good news is that with all of the work and research and sweat that comes with that life I still know unequivocally and without a doubt that it is the life I want.
Better news is that the shell I wore for so long has dissolved under the solvent of my new existence.
Contentment is a hard word for me to use in connection with my life sometimes. Not only because it seems so elusive sometimes (what with me feeling as though I never have enough of what I want) but because it signals the apex or phoenix of good things, good times and good people to come. So no I wont say that I am content in the sense that I have all that I want or need. I will say that swimming through my own psyche and acknowledging who I am has brought me a measure of spiritual and emotional contentment. For that I have to be eternally grateful to the world around me that has allowed me to slow down and find myself in the great big show that is ME.
I know this may seem like a bunch of mumbo-jumbo to some but to others it will be a mirror of their own thoughts and emotions.
So here I am, a published writer (short stories in small magazines right now but keep your eyes peeled for the Sovereign Chronicles), a good person with big heart and honest nature; a flawed individual, unafraid to admit the wrongs I have done and the people I have hurt. In turn I have forgiven a number of people who have hurt me. I can honestly say that I have let it all go.
Dont get me wrong I committed some acts of revenge in the beginning and oh how those acts will affect those people! I am not proud of my behavior and I wont even say that I wish I had not done it. I will say that I wish I had been a better person then and better equipped to deal with what had been dealt to me, but at the time I most assuredly wasn't. So I took a break and looked completely at who I used to be and who I had become and here I am.
But ultimately I didn't compromise my morals, I stayed true to those I committed myself to and most importantly I did not Settle for what I thought was the best I could do--thinking back now I cant even remotely believe that I was going to stop where I was now that I am here...whew! Talk about dodging bullets!
Anyway I am going to be back to writing my healthy living nonsense over here at The House of Environgirl and giving my 2 cents on the ways of the world and for anyone who stumbles over here I would like to say that you are welcome and if you say howdy I will most certainly say howdy back!
Be safe be true and honor your commitments, Karma will let you know what they are!
Goddess Bless
except for the banging coming from behind the white doors were i used to sleep, today was pretty close to ideal. Calico spent alot of time playing with me. her favorite game is to scratch my tunnel and I jump through it pretending i dont know she is doing the scratching. and after we do that for a while she lets me play the way I love to play. mean and tough. she has this grey snakey thing that's like the stuff around the dors to the outside and I like to hide inside my white lair and go for it. once i get it I jack rabbit kick and chew and maul it as if it were a real snake. Keeps me in practice in case I ever encounter one in eal life which is unlikely and I will confess ( but don't tell callico) that I like being inside so much.
Today some nice birds were at the glass walls and although I couldn't get my claws on them , they sure smelled interesting and keep me pretty busy planning and dreaming. But I do believe in live and let live most of the time. the closest I have ever come to live game is when she opens that can and it hasn't been chilled yet. sigh. I am so pampered.
Some people have disappearred in this neighborhood and last week a big tabby came to the window and told me abot a pretty rough night he had a while back when he came too close to a coyote. He had to get on top of his animal's ( Katy and Steve who come over here to vist my animals) roof to stay safe and it got pretty cold and boring up there. Plus, and I know this is hard to believe but he has to find his own food. I meanot's noot waiting for him the sameplace four times a day. So when all is said and done we people have a good deal having let these animals live with us and do our bidding. I mean it's hard work and someone has to do it. right? meow.
on another note, my job is going good, from here to the end of november, all my checks are MINE!!! i have no payments. I don't want to become an adult yet, i am sooooo not ready for those freaken payments. I'll have my man do that for me :)
i'm so freaken happy on the inside, and only i know why!!! yay!!! a sense of warmth has overcome me since about last week, and it feels too good to be true...i told the ex, and he's happy too!!! yay us!!! we're awesome, i wonder if we'll ever look back and say "what the fuck were we thinking???" but for now all is good, i just wish it could be like this more often. o well that's what life is for, to live and learn and repeat.
i love my babe!!! he's awesome...it's just sad that he's so far away...but some day, i'll have him by my side!!!
You are good to me,
And I delight myself in You,
You are wonderful, my Lord,
My Hope, My Joy, my life.
You are good to me,
You guide me tenderly,
You are Faithful and True,
And everyday Your mercy's new.
You are good to me,
Your grace to me abounds,
There is none like You,
In You abundant life is found.
You are good to me,
Your promises are always true,
What You've spoken You perform,
In Your perfect time.
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