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Just writing random thoughts

Been wanting to do this for a while. So many things to write about, yet still so many things to do.
Now on summer break so it's a good time to start a new blog. I have other blogs but they are very specific to what they are for.

This one, I named Flower Freely...


To flower freely
let life flow freely, sharing your being-ness with the universe as you are, where you are.

As a woman that has lived a few centuries,

I think a lot and ponder thoughts randomly and
have come to a time when I may actually have learned a few of life's lessons.
(which are different for different people)

I have thought about a lot more things than I ever had before. Besides studying art, theatre, and business I have taken the academic core and learned a lot of other things. But, this is not the only reason I have had a lot on my mind. No, I have also had a lot of life experiences in the last ten years. Traumatic things like the loss of a loved one, a son in the war zone, having cancer and surviving it, the loss of dogs and friends dying, at least 10 surgeries, chronic pain, swelling, gaining weight, losing weight, being bald, getting hair back and the damage that cancer and chemo have caused and a whole lot more. But enough of all that, I want to think about the positive things I have discovered in my life.

Now, I feel like I am away from most all these issues and have truly survived. However, I am not the me I was, I am a totally different person. I do not look the same and many people that haven't seen me in a long time do not recognize me. The core essence of my soul, what made me is still intact, but my life has changed drastically. I found out people really love me. When you have a crisis or a major life threatening disease you really find out who your true friends are. I was blessed with so many friends that showed their love for me. It was far beyond anything I ever expected or anticipated.
I thank them all and am so very grateful for their love and support. Perhaps I have books I need to write, I don't really know. But I can tell you this, I learned a lot about a lot of topics while I had cancer. (enough to fill up a couple of books. Although I have been back in college, I have not taken any English or strictly writing classes. I would have liked to but I had taken them when I got my associates degree... a thousand years ago. So... if you notice my writing isn't always grammatically correct and I tend to overuse commas, semi - colons, and whatever these are called ...; you are right. But I have learned to write research papers in my art history classes. Albiet, I am still learning. I hope to always learn more.

Having been a blogger for over twelve years, with no one correcting my grammer or word phrases has been a blessing. I have been able to talk about art and share what I think about a variety of art related topics. In my newest blog, "Flower Freely" I will write about whatever, whenever and however... you just never know what this women might say!

  "Flower Freely" August 2019.

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