My "ankles" are the size of tree trunks.

It's been a very long (and very blessed) day!

Hubby is now massaging aforementioned tree trunks.

And I am blessed again.

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February 2010 Artwork (So far...)

*heart*

Happy St. Valentines Day!

Abi

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Books

The lofty bookshelves sag
Under thousands of sleeping souls
Silence, hopeful -
Everytime I open a book, a soul is awakened.

Xi Chuan, "Books"


FYI: I read/listened to more books the first month of this year than I did all last year!

Not sure if I should be proud of January or ashamed of 2009.

O_o

Abi

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"Doing Nothing"

I think it's pretty safe to assume that for most of us, at some point in our childhood we had such a good time doing something (however mundane) that for the rest of our childhood and maybe the rest of our lives we are trying to recreate a part of that good/fun/exciting feeling we had while doing that certain activity...

Mine probably doesn't look like much to most people. I just remember one day my brother Michael and I (presumably after we had finished school for the day) decided to "do nothing"... which basically involved us talking (probably about the condition of our tree forts, or our next lego project, etc...) and walking around the poking things with sticks.

We certainly were not deprived children and did many wonderful and exciting things throughout the years at home, but I remember poignantly this "doing nothing"... we even discussed it after we were "done" doing it and realized what a good time we had had and sometimes we would even go out saying we were going to "do nothing" again, but somehow... it wasn't the same...

and may never be.

Wha?!