OTish: More will be Revealed (for Wicked)
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sorry, there was supposed to be more to this....it had to do with the big trees and shade that have been a part of our life here at the lake house and how just THIS week our neighbor hired a tree trimming service and they came and removed some old dying trees and cut away a bunch of the low lying limbs that acted like a canopy. we now see sun in places that have never seen sun before....our view is totally different. there is LIGHT where there has not been light before....we've been here almost 7 years and everything about the place has now CHANGED. we didn't even know what we were missing.....
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ack, stupid f'ing windows 8. ruined the whole thing....dammitohell.
and no, sorry, no power motors. there is supposed to be a BEFORE pic here, back when the yard was scruffy mess, and the tree overgrown, and the dock all rickety...and way before hank built the upper deck. the view has never been this unimpeded.....we've never SEEN so much from here before....it's like being in a new house....my POINT of all this was....we became accustomed to what is was like...we adjusted...we assumed it was what it was - not that is was BAD by any means...but still, we assumed it was as good as it gets.....
and no, sorry, no power motors. there is supposed to be a BEFORE pic here, back when the yard was scruffy mess, and the tree overgrown, and the dock all rickety...and way before hank built the upper deck. the view has never been this unimpeded.....we've never SEEN so much from here before....it's like being in a new house....my POINT of all this was....we became accustomed to what is was like...we adjusted...we assumed it was what it was - not that is was BAD by any means...but still, we assumed it was as good as it gets.....
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Originally Posted by cynical one 
Is there room for a 30' Sea Ray down at that dock?
Thank you both so much. How can I ever express my gratitude.
Let's see, you shook me out of denial, made me look in the mirror, cry a few times, lol, and offered awesome words of wisdom. Now this? Could this be the work of my HP? :rotfxko
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and this is a pic of a camellia bush that we JUST discovered a couple months ago! when I realized what it was I first wondered, ok, who snuck into my yard and planted this? in truth it's been there the entire time.....it only took us 7 years to FIND it....a few blossoms finally poked out....they too having not seen the LIGHT for a long long time...until MORE was revealed.
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hah, speaking of MORE being revealed....when I went to my appt for an exam/blood draw on weds we determined that A) I am healthy as a horse, miserable ******* of a cold nothwithstanding....and B) the horse is older than she thought??? turns out....i'm 53.....not 52. wth????
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It is amazing how things come together when I need it.
wow, it has blossoms even with so little light, and with some judicious pruning that
shrub is a sure fire stunner!
The ones around my building and in some yards, cannot hold the weight of the heavy
blossom, so they lean down and get ruined! (I did manage to prop up the plant and got
a perfect blossom for my one flower vase.)
Even without sun, they still search until they find enough to blossom.
This lesson (blossom where you are planted) is coming around to me.
Also, the strength of that shrub was hidden, but it does not mean it was not there!
I am learning that I am truly and forever powerless.
Sure, it was easy to say about alcohol, and give it up.
The part afterward was some hard work on me.
But, being powerless (over my son in treatment or any of my close relatives) was a tough one.
One lesson was anvil's yard and house suddenly changing into a sunlit cottage with
a spectacular view of the lake.
How a few changes, (didn't have to move the house!), and how the different perspective changes everything.
A few branches came down, and the world lit up!
I am letting that dying, (but never gives up completely it seems) branch of control go,
it has served me nothing but pain and fear.
I release it all to the Universe, and I will do it daily.
That branch of control can block my vision too, like what my life could look like without
this constant stress of thinking my way into interfering with a grown man's life.
(He is 31 years old).
Or being powerless over any of my children. The youngest is turning 21 in
September.
Watching Deepak Chopra on Oprah (Lifeclass Sundays) An old show from 1994,
but amazing how my mind creates what is happening in my body.
Mind, body, spirit.
Spirit is the infinite choice maker.
Love this metaphysical stuff, and another reminder that it is me that controls me.
And only me!
The worry about a bad experience, can be as bad as the experience itself or worse.
Wowee! What a gobsmack!
I have been making myself sick with worry about something I have NO control over.
Yeah, gotta let that go.
So, I begin again.
they too having not seen the LIGHT for a long long time...until MORE was revealed.
shrub is a sure fire stunner!
The ones around my building and in some yards, cannot hold the weight of the heavy
blossom, so they lean down and get ruined! (I did manage to prop up the plant and got
a perfect blossom for my one flower vase.)
Even without sun, they still search until they find enough to blossom.
This lesson (blossom where you are planted) is coming around to me.
Also, the strength of that shrub was hidden, but it does not mean it was not there!
I am learning that I am truly and forever powerless.
Sure, it was easy to say about alcohol, and give it up.
The part afterward was some hard work on me.
But, being powerless (over my son in treatment or any of my close relatives) was a tough one.
One lesson was anvil's yard and house suddenly changing into a sunlit cottage with
a spectacular view of the lake.
How a few changes, (didn't have to move the house!
), and how the different perspective changes everything.A few branches came down, and the world lit up!
I am letting that dying, (but never gives up completely it seems) branch of control go,
it has served me nothing but pain and fear.
I release it all to the Universe, and I will do it daily.
That branch of control can block my vision too, like what my life could look like without
this constant stress of thinking my way into interfering with a grown man's life.
(He is 31 years old).
Or being powerless over any of my children. The youngest is turning 21 in
September.
Watching Deepak Chopra on Oprah (Lifeclass Sundays) An old show from 1994,
but amazing how my mind creates what is happening in my body.
Mind, body, spirit.
Spirit is the infinite choice maker.
Love this metaphysical stuff, and another reminder that it is me that controls me.
And only me!
The worry about a bad experience, can be as bad as the experience itself or worse.
Wowee! What a gobsmack!
I have been making myself sick with worry about something I have NO control over.
Yeah, gotta let that go.
So, I begin again.
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the horse is older than she thought??? turns out....i'm 53.....not 52. wth????
say, at a doctor's visit. I just remembered that.
Odd.
Not to worry, anvil, according to Deepak it matters not at all what age you are, or how
you look, you are spirit in a human being's body.
As I get older, I remember how much I cared how I looked as a younger person.
High school, a nightmare of using a clothes hanger to pull up the zipper on my jeans!
I wanted to look like a skinny model, but I was not built that way.
Now, that is okay, I just want to be healthy.
So, I can finally live my whole life!
Beth
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