Dear Reader:

Never let your fire go out spark by spark in the swamps of the ” not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. ”

Each of us must follow our own paths that match the unique insights and dreams that reveal who we really are… never imitating someone else’s personal revelation or dismissing it… but respecting it… like we desire others to do for us.

And how blessed I am! Yesterday Mandy, Doodle, and Lassie went back over to the house to check the water pipes and then secure them before the deep freeze hitting record lows for our area of the state arrive this weekend …They will also bring ” Big Red” inside…( my beloved red geranium that was waiting on me after my first breast cancer surgery in 2008. No card or ID was on it… but it has never left me… for the past sixteen years it has bloomed and bloomed and bloomed… never deserting me… so it is going inside until the temperatures get above … below freezing nights and early morning temps!

They are also bringing precious items (from family long ago) that mean the world to me! They will be exhausted, no doubt, when they leave! Another dent in the on-going arduous process of moving! I feel so useless watching others give up their time so generously to help me and our family… I am so lucky… so blessed.

I am having some more medical issues that require dressings and added medical attention. Another obstacle, another challenge that tests my faith …allowing God to pick up the lantern and guide me ( once more) through it .

So until tomorrow… thank so many of you for responding with memories of the happy role Winnie the Pooh played in your life and as Jo Dufford reminded me… especially on Pooh’s birthday ” Today is my favorite day!”

Today January 19th is Robert E Lee’s birthday and my ” insanely talented” nephew – jazz guitarist Lee Barbour!!!!!

PS. … Stay tuned tomorrow… changes are still happening in new additions here at The Palms…under Mandy’s creative foresight!