Pretty Funny

I reread my post about red flags and laughed and laughed!! Seriously, never let red flags get the better of me? Oh well, I like a good laugh so I won't delete it. Today I took a long walk. Just one woman walking this day.I didn't ask Annie and Trina today. It was a beautiful morning here. I ended up at the river. It has been raining so everything looked fresh and green. I love that about living. But I am always missing someone. I don't much like that.
I am always missing several someones.

I have a story about a woman. This woman lived a good, long life. She had children and grandchildren and even great grandchildren. She always treated them well. She loved them and she loved mostly everyone. This woman taught me so many things like: "Never say good-bye, only say, 'See ya later.' " And "Don't let your hair go gray too early. You have so many years you have to be gray. Keep your color as long as you can." (And the best one, the hardest for me to embrace) "Kill 'em with kindness, kid, kill 'em with kindness." She loved her a garden. She did. She loved flowers. She was a good wife to a difficult husband, but she loved him. She was generous most of her life, sometimes to a fault. A person can be too generous.
Anyway, she lived in a place where it didn't even rain for a long, dry time. It was dry and very hot and every living thing was suffering. The flowers suffered and she hated that. The trees, grass and animals all suffered everyday because they all needed a long drink of cool water. The woman was already old when this dry, hot time was happening. She had lived such a long time and she was tired. Her heart hurt from living such a long time and now it was dry and hot and all her flowers were dying. So she was ready to go from this lovely world to another lovely place and she did it. Her heart stopped one day. But while she was on her way to another lovely place she did some magic. Some magic happened when she was going on her way. I have to believe that the woman made rain happen. She made it come down. The gentle rain came down exactly at the time she was on her way. I know she is the one who did it.
This magic woman was my once mother-in-law who was mostly good to me. She passed last Friday, September 4, 2009. Her beauty, wisdom, kindness and generosity live on. I will miss her a little everyday.

Red Flags

When I reflect on the 28 years of my marriage, I can see all the red flags flapping right in my face. But in the beginning it seemed like I could overlook, or change all those pesky, red annoying cloths and hope that maybe they would eventually go away. But go away they did not. Perhaps their waving ebbed and the red faded for long periods of time. But they never went away completely and finally they were just too exasperating for me to keep batting at them. I swear that red flags will never get the better of me, again. Posted by Estrella

Beginning

Yesterday morning at 5:45 a.m. three women walking decided to create a place where stories come to life. This is the place. Let the stories begin.