Friends

Friends are the best!

The House That Built Me (Miranda Lambert)

I know they say you can’t go home again
I just had to come back one last time
Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam
But these handprints on the front steps are mine

Up those stairs in that little back bedroom
Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar
I bet you didn’t know under that live oak
My favorite dog is buried in the yard

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years
From Better Homes and Gardens magazine
Plans were drawn and concrete poured
Nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to mama’s dream

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

You leave home and you move on and you do the best you can
I got lost in this old world and forgot who I am

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I walk around I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

Ponderings

Serendipity? Karma? Fate? There are old sayings : old friends are the best friends - and- you have to be friends first - and- best friends can last foever if they are true to themselves and- you can go "home" again - and - just when you least expect it.

But the sun is shining here again - perhaps an good sign for all. Happy Spring (well, almost) April had better hurry!

February Forecasts

February has been filled with various things, mostly good: Snow, new challenges at work, old friends, new friends, memories of parents sadly missed, healing of toes (much longer than expected-patience wearing thin), trips planned to warmer weather, and time to reflect.

The snow outside brings a quietness to my antsy temperament. I need to be patients for things to come in their own good time. It is my challenge for 2010: to exercise patience in things that need not be hurried. It must be the teacher in my that wants a PLAN! I feel better when the road is paved - and yet flexible when it takes a turn. I can be flexible! However, when there is NO plan, I tend to fret more. I am making progress and will not give up on this resolution. One day at a time, one step at a time.

I have been looking back at old photos and realizing how lucky I have been in my life (mostly). I am grateful for my parents and my siblings and feel I had the best of the world as a child. I tried to mirror that in my adult life- and I hope that I have somewhat succeeded, despite the rocky road. There are just certain things in life that cannot be forseen - and some that cannot be controlled. We need to know how to "just move on" .

I had someone once say to me that "If I can just ask myself ' Would I treat Linda this way?' in dealing with people, then I will know I will always be the person YOU think I can be". I remember that often and want to follow that same advice. Too often people get caught up in being "small", and I don't ever want to be one of those people.

Eternally grateful for my friends and family. Not everyone is surrounded by good, caring people - I am. How lucky that makes me!

Life is good - and there is much to do and see - and so little time. It is time to make the most of what God has given. Here I go.....