Quote From: blgspcI am often inspired by your posts. Thank you for the beautifully sensitive way you responded to this particular issue. I adore the ways in which you express your uniqueness.
It has been my experience of you, via this board, that you actually and actively are an astute observer, appreciating, whatever special 'gifts' others bring to this mix called humanity!!!!!
Thanks, Again!
Brenda
Brenda,
How does one thank you for a "thank you"? It is true, I am learning to appreciate what makes people different from me, and to celebrate it.
I was at a street dance last Saturday (not yesterday) in Hamilton, Montana. It was a Blues festival where they have about 4-5 live bands come and play and it lasts from 4 in the afternoon to midnight. You take a chair and water and kick back as long as you can until this amazing phenomenon happens....
People from all walks of life, all ages and all mental states start to dance. Some are great dancers, some are WILD, and some are just grooving to the wonderful music. Here, on a street, in a little town on the western edge of wilderness, people danced, and danced their hearts out! I watched two teenage kids do the Lindy and do it well! I saw two people who obviously had mental illness do some kind of dance I can't even begin to describe. I saw people in their 80's dancing as well as small children dancing with their parents. Families danced together and people danced alone. We were all different, yet here, we were the same. We were all moved by this blues...so we danced.
When I first picked up Self Matters and I did the exercise where I circled words, I realized there are many things I want to be, many words I wanted to describe me, yet I knew I had to be open to becoming those things. I want to be observant, I want to be an active participant in this thing we call Life. I want to look around and be able appreciate everyone for being a part of this world I call home.
So Brenda, Thank You, for seeing this and recognizing my efforts. It means I am growing as a person, so I truly appreciate your observation and smile warmly at you with gratitude.
Teri
Here's a picture I snapped from the highway, this is the big climb hubby and I are taking this weekend. Yes, I finally set the date, sometimes you just have to let go and have a little faith. Each is over 14,000ft high, the trailhead starts just under 10,000ft. The entire hike, round trip going to both summits is about 8 miles, so it's not as far as I first thought. Longstory, sorry I didn't wait, but I felt the time was "right", if you can understand that. There's enough time to plan other hikes this year too, so maybe we can do another later. Thanks for all the support and tips everybody has given me to make it this far, I couldn't have done it without you, and you will all be with me in spirit as I climb.
Hey gang! I made it! This is me recuperating at the top before the descent. Only made one one summit, this time. The altitude was difficult for me. On Mount Everest there is the "Kill Zone", for me it was the "Sick Zone." I really wanted a victory dance picture, but this will have to do. 