• Feb 1st - LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW RIGHT NOW (WHEN HOME). DESCRIBE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE YOU SEE

Looking out my backdoor - darkness had settled in. The faerie lights on my tree were shining. The faerie light that Lenny gave me - also shining. The woods were full of shadows. The neighbors were in their backyard with their gas firepit lit. They were laughing and the flames looked so warm. Casting fire shadows among the trees.

• Feb 2nd - A MEMORY OF A BELOVED PET

For this entry I'll mention KoKo. The little dog I grew up with. Part pekignese and part chiuahua. A little brown dog - with slightly buldging eyes and a somewhat smushed nose. Sweet. She rode on the motorcycle with my mother. She traveled to Canada with us. She slept with me throughout my teenage years. Her little ears fell forward just a bit and felt like velvet. She would groan when my alarm clock would go off in the mornings. I think she may have been. almost twenty when she passed. Warm. Wrapped in her blanket. She just went to sleep.

• Feb 3rd - MAKE A CUP OF TEA. PREPARE IT COMPLETELY. THEN SIT DODWN AND WRITE A LIL ABOUT WHAT IS ON YOUR MIND AS YOU DRINK IT.

My favorite tea - Irish Breakfast. With just a splash of creamer and occasionally a little honey. Olivia is over for the night so my thoughts are with hearing her playing. And her hugs and how sweet she can be. Tea is very comforting to me. When I was a little girl, my Nanny would make it for me. As I grew up, she and I shared time for tea often. Now with my Lenny, he loves tea as well and some of my favorite moments together are preparing tea and then drinking it. Usually right before we retire to the couch and fall sound asleep while a movie plays on TV.

• Feb 4th - RUN YOUR FINERS THROUGH YOUR JEWELRY. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

I did away with my jewelry boxes and armoire quite a while ago. I have my necklaces and some bracelets on hooks (cup hooks) on the wall next to my closet. And then pretty little storage containers for other bracelets, then rings and pins sitting on my dresser. My earrings are in a pocketed holder that hangs on the back of my bedrrom door. So, I ran my fingers through the container that holds the stone bracelets that are stretchy. Ohhh wow, the energy in there! And I was thinking about the fact that I am so glad, for me, that I have my jewelry like this now. It's simple. And I wear it more often, most every day. Especially the necklaces and bracelets. Want to do better with the earrings tho. Even tho at almost 60 I love the dangly, flashy and colorful ones most of all. And yes, I can wear whatever I want. ♥

• Feb 5th - TALK A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR WEATHER TODAY

Sunny. Blue skies and then clouds later. Just a slight breeze and temperatures in the 50's. I hung a load of clothes out on the clothesline and the were almost completely dry late this afternoon.

• Feb 6th - THE SKY. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? TELL ME SO I CAN SEE IT IN MY MIND. Its not a bright blue today, more like a powdery blue. Whispy clouds blending here and there. Almost a soothing feeling.
• Feb 7th - THERE'S A SONG CALLED THE GREATEST LOVE BY WHITNEY HOUSTON. BUT RIGHT NOW, WHAT IS ONE GREAT LOVE YOU HAVE DISCOVERED ABOUT YOURSELF?

I love who I am now. Sure, there are things I need to adjust and work on. Always. I thought when I got ready to turn 60 .. it would be depressing maybe and even kinda scary. But the truth is, I think it will be the greatest decade of my life. And yeah, I love my patience, my faith, not giving up, my hope. How I love. And who I am.

• Feb 8th - WHAT ARE YOU READING? TELL A LITTLE ABOUT IT. I am not reading anything at the moment. Even the study books I was reading are currently by the wayside. I get this way sometimes but I sure hope that it passes soon. Reading is something that I love to do.
• Feb 9th - IF YOU LOOK AROUND WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW, LIST AT LEAST THREE COLORS. WHAT IS IT THT IS THE COLOR YOU SEE. Firs tis Pink. It's a big slice of watermelon on my lunchbag. Next is white. It's the tall pillar candle I always have burning when its time to journal. Then there's yellow. Its a silk flower stem of forsythia that I keep in a mason jar in the center tray of my tablle.