TGIF

"The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gift from the Sea

What a special lady Anne Morrow Lindbergh was, and this book, 'Gift from the Sea' was one of the best I ever read. Once started, I couldn't put it down until it was finished. Written by this remarkable woman over a century ago, I often find myself reaching for my withered copy when I am feeling down, and it continues to inspire me today. If you've not read it, do get hold of a copy. I can almost guarantee it will be with you forever as it has for me.

“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.” 

 Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

Gift from the Sea

As we come to another Friday I once again find myself contemplating just where has this week gone.  October is nearly over already, and each day seems to pass in the blink of an eye. I ask myself, "Why does time have to speed up as we get older?  Why does it seem that one day just melds into another?"  The other morning I found myself dreaming of my lost youth and the beautiful young 'maiden' I once was. As the years passed, she became the 'mother' and now has become the 'crone'. And I continue to find it hard believing that almost 66 years have passed in my journey of life.

And now, before I become too melancholy, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful joy-filled weekend.  I've nothing planned.  Still debating if I want to go out and do a little shopping.  Depends on what the weather brings.  They change the forecast so much this time of year that I'll just play it by ear. Not much else to do.  No cooking this weekend, summer clothes have been packed, and winter clothes are ready to go.  Perhaps it will just be a weekend to stay in jammies and rest.  Yesterday was a 10 hour workday so lounging about sounds pretty good about now.

See you all on Monday.

“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.” 

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 Gift from the Sea