The Second Act

Today I begin the second act of my life. I have to admit, it is pretty exciting! To now take all that I have learned in the first 50 years and begin creating the next 50 or so! Wow!
Let's begin with some of what I have learned...Stop and smell the roses. Dance! Appreciate the beauty of this earth and care for all that God has given us stewardship over. If it's worth doing, do it well. Find the beauty in even the simplest of things. LIVE the golden rule.Hug the ones you love as much as possible.Babies grow up way to fast! Look each person in the eye and smile! See others the way God see's them. Always look for the good. When people tell you who they are, believe them. I can't change anyone else so don't even try. I can change my own attitude. The only thing I have control over are my own choices.Use your talents or loose your talents.Seek first to understand, then to be understood.Power comes from telling the truth. I am always creating with my thoughts and feelings. I am not Wonder Woman. Repentance is a wonderful thing. Focus on FEELING good! Live by the Spirit. Know that with God all things are possible.Don't take myself so damn seriously! Let people go who don't want to climb the mountain of life with you. Stop trying to drag them along. The weight can cost you your dreams, your purpose, your health and even your life.There is the milk of the gospel and there is the meat of the gospel. I am always in a state of learning. Life is a beautiful, priceless experience.
Where do I go from here? I plan to climb a mountain, take lots of walks, practice yoga, create new media to lift people who choose to be elevated. I will live by the Spirit and serve God with all my might, mind, and soul. I will be an ambassador of peace. I will create from a place of love....and I will dance! 

One Fine Day: Shoptalk Productions

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Weddings 101 or the school of hard knocks...

I think we are defiantly in a learning curve here...we went to look for wedding  invitations at my favorite printers this week and there were so many choices . Vera Wang had some beautiful designs as did others. We chose several designs and I casually ask what we were looking at price wise for 500 invitations...Holy cow!!! $3000.00 to $8000., yes dollars! For a beautiful piece of paper announcing my daughters wedding that would be thrown away shortly after our friends and family received it! Well, even if I had that in my budget it wouldn't be spent on something that is thrown away!
We came home,  designed an invitation that really is a representation of our darling bride and groom, went to the paper store and purchased gorgeous paper and they are being printed right now...all for $350.00 plus postage.
Like I said....it's a learning curve!

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Another new beginning...

Jacque is getting married! This is a first for me, my oldest daughter is getting married. Seems like yesterday she was born, this tiny wiry baby with tons of black hair and dark skin. My dad called her "Juanita". Now she is getting married! I know, I am repeating myself. I just can't get over how quickly time has passed! I still see myself as clear as day picking her up from the bassinet and dancing around the living room with her in my arms, you see she couldn't sleep unless she was moving (or I was moving). She has remained on the go her whole life.

Jacque has been planning weddings her entire life too. Every summer she would lead in planning weddings for all her brothers and sisters and neighborhood friends. She would plan down to the last detail. I would get "urgent" calls to come home from work and decorate the cake with pansies from our yard so the wedding would be a success! It was always magical and well thought out. My favorite was the wedding of her four year old brother Sam to his 3 year old friend Mary! It was so cute!

Now it is for real....(gulp). My baby, my daughter, my kindred spirit, my friend is embarking into the adult world. She's ready but am I??? Holy cow, this is such a strange mix of feelings and emotions. I'm not sure what to do with myself at this point. I want to yell "stop! wait! Let's hold the show for a minute while I figure out how life has passed by so quickly!" Can we go back to the days she was writing, producing and directing plays in our living room? I want to savoir all that one last time before she goes out to live adult life! No one told me how this part would feel! I have always spent so much time working to provide for all my children that sometimes I forgot to breathe in the moments, the joy, the laughter, the experience of motherhood. Now it is changing, they are growing up into adulthood and I am at another stage of life...almost 50, fighting cancer, starting a new business, a relatively new marriage and once again a new phase of life. It's like I stand at the edge of a cliff and everyone is saying jump, I am frozen and someone is about to push me off...into the unknown abyss! But I keep going, walking off the cliff in faith, hoping that the next phase of life will be easier? Having hope in all things and that somehow God will get me through. I just wish I felt ready for what life brings next...for now I am awash in the NOW...teens, new career, cancer, 50! Yikes!!!

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