Tuesday, August 24, 2010

When Things Change!

Nina Levins
Sometimes we go along our merry way, as if things are going to remain the same forever. We have a tacit understanding, that all of our plans, are going to go, as we would have them go. Sometimes this remains true. And things continue as is, and sometimes it is not true, THINGS DO CHANGE. Changes that involve, Personal Changes(hair color, makeup, weight),  Change of Shopping Fetish’s, Change of the Church you attend, Changes, that involve moving to another place and Circumstances such as Acts of God that surely promote Change, usually not desired!

    Now I hate most changes, it is really hard to accept some of them. I like those ruts you fall into, the same ole, same ole, kind of thing. At least you know what your gonna do on your list, for you've done it before. Now, you just simply have to work, at accepting change, pray about it, consider it. But I do love to make plans and set dates, on when we will move, now or later, from the West to the Mid West, when we can, and I try to make it happen, before it happens.

This is a long term move. It’s as if I believe, I am the Potter, not the Clay. But that is, oh, so not true. We can makum decisions, and we can breakum, decisions, because of some unforeseen problem that has risen on the horizon. Sometimes it does not have to be a problem, it can be that we have gained foresight, into believing that we can make a living there, as well as here. Or just plain dissatisfaction with the way things are going here, so we dream of another way of life. We only see the good things, that movement brings along. Which is a good thing, for that is, as it should be. We would never make a move or visit, that made it worse on us, if we could, in anyway, help it, or knew in advance The Future! No body wants to go backwards! Just Forward and Upward.

    But that is why we foresee, a Change in the Air! This change Age brings about. Even if one is happy and content in their set of circumstances sometimes it must be. If one made good, where they are at, then they will make good where they are going. There are Plus's and Minus's every time we move. The move itself will bring about good things. Especially when all signs, point to a better way of life, well I should have said, more time to spend at improving one's state of being. More time to do those things like Gardening(veggies, beets, green beans, cilanto, tomatoes, peppers & fruits), Farming(cows, chickens, ducks, geese, goats & pigs)(contingent on us not doing a whole lot of traveling which we love to do-there go our animals-but we can take our dog with us), maybe putting on a manufactured home if we get some land. Papa's not ready to move into a home and relax and play with our Grandchildren, so they will love getting to know Nina and Papa, better, so we will just visit a whole lot. Or if we choose, we can find some other, type of work to do, part time. Or finding Hobbies, Gallore, like Wooden Trains, Book Stores, Coffee and Cinnamon Roll Bakery, or Brewery if we can find right locations. At least, we have those options too. OR, WALLA, WE CAN VISIT EACH KID FOR MONTHS, ROUND AND ROUND WE GO! So we seek it, as the Israeli’s sought the ‘PROMISED LAND.’ After all, he said in Jeremiah, he has plans for our good, to make a future for us. These are just all maybe's, but gotta write the pros and cons out. Plan like you mean it, plan like it depends on you. It does, but for goodness sake, be pliable. Make sure the Lord wants you to go in that direction. Does it benefit you only, or does it benefit, others as well. Gotta give time to 'maybe's' to figure out which is left standing at the end of the day cause IF you give um all a backbone, go figure, which one stands the tallest.

Me & Papa with the Grand kids visit Durango Silverton, Railroad
     So we plan and take advantage of the signs, that point us towards the Move, Old Age being a relatively important reason to retire, but low and behold, do not let my husband read these words, he thinks he’s still a Spring Chicken. Guess you’re what you imagine yourself to be, I always say. Well, if he moves like a duck and quacks like a duck, then he must be a duck....(Definitely sexy>>>Uk Oh Young>>>Creatively good looking>>>Kind man)................So I guess the natural question is,’ WHEN.’ That is the thing that I told you before is in the hands of the Potter. TIMING BELONGS TO GOD, NOT US. GOD~after all He is the one providing for it all. You don’t necessarily need to have all the money, remember the 3 PENNY’S, AS WE WALK!
   
    Guess I should tell you the shortened version of the 3 Pennies in case you missed reading it. I needed money, so I was praying. Then I went on walk. After a while I looked down and there was money, a penny. So I picked it up, after all I had been praying for it. Then I walked a while further around the big block, I looked down, and there was another Penny. By now I was uh, unsure, what God was telling me for two Pennies ain't a lot of money. But I kept on with the walk, after all, I needed to get home. So low and behold, I looked down again and here was another Penny. Now I almost thought, what good is Pennies, when one needs money. But I picked it up. When I got home I was thinking about the 3 Pennies. And here is what the Lord showed me. I had to get out of the house to get the first Penny. I had to keep on walking to get the 2nd Penny. And by now I saw it. It was not a Penny that we were talking about. It was about Money. But God used the 3 Pennies to teach me a lesson on Money. Now for sure I had to keep walking to get home and get the 3rd Penny, this meant to me.
    You start where your at, at home. You get to moving outside, you will get the money you need right there at the point of the 1st Penny. You keep on moving and you will get more money exactly what you need at the point of the 2nd movement. And at last, but not least, you will get the money you need whenever you need it for what ever YOU NEED, but you gotta keep moving. So I put the 3 Pennies taped to my computer to remind me how God’s Kingdom works. HE AIN’T GIVING YOU WHAT YOU DON’T NEED. IT’S AHEAD!
    ANYWAY THAT’S THE 3 PENNY WALK!
   
    THESE ARE THINGS THAT CAN AFFECT OUR DECISION TO MOVE OR VISIT.
    Here is why, I believe this to be true. One’s health can get dropsy, causing you to change your leave time, THAT IS GOD REGULATED, one’s wealth can fall by the wayside and the birdies eat it up or one could win the lottery, that would certainly, affect your ability to move, THAT IS GOD REGULATED also! Other people’s  health can be precipitous, thereby showing Mercy would be a call, you would want to make, thereby, changing your arrival time,  THAT IS GOD REGULATED. As for when and where and how, that is God regulated also! You see, so many OTHER things could affect, your ARRIVAL TIME, AND THAT IS GOD REGULATED, FOR SURE.

Now, I think, it would behoove us all, to talk to the MAN WITH THE TIMER! Find out WHAT TIME IT IS. HE will tell you . Then everything else just falls into it’s proper place-health, wealth, family’s health, families wealth. GOD~after all He is the one providing for it all. You don’t necessarily need to have all the money, remember the 3 PENNY WALK.


    And if you think you’re making the decision yourself, without HIS consultation, just GO FIGURE THIS! You are just making, what He wanted you to make. He is still the Potter, with or without your approval and acceptance.

    I would contact HIM, after all, HE WANTS WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU! SOMETIMES WE AIN’T GOT SENSE ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR US, BUT HE DOES!

So kinda accept that, WHEN THINGS CHANGE, it ain’t no big deal. It’s all part of HIS PLAN, but it’s not always a part, of our plan.  We are ‘LOOKING DOWN’ into our plans, instead of ‘LOOKING UP,’ into HIS.

    So whether THINGS CHANGE or whether THEY STAY THE SAME, REMEMBER, IT IS THE LORD! GOD~after all, He is the one providing for it all. You don’t necessarily need to have all the money, remember the 3 PENNY WALK.
The same Lord makes permanent changes for us, and temporary changes for us,   such as Visits. It is HIM! WE MUST COME TO THAT REALIZATION or we will be unhappy with our lot in life. SO WHY NOT BE HAPPY WHATEVER HAPPENS TO YOU. LET HIM PROVIDE THE JOY!
   
    So even when CHANGE INVOLVES JUST VISITS. IT IS BEST TO PRAY OVER WHAT WE WANT DONE OR NEED TO GET DONE, AND LEAVE THE DRIVING TO GOD! He will never steer you wrong! He understands Visits. He’s used them several times in his Word. Even the Lord and his two destroying Angels, visited Abraham to let him know what the Lord was planning to do to Sodom and Gomorrah. But they ate also. AND THE LORD TALKED TO ABRAHAM. HE DID NOT KEEP A SECRET, AS TO WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO. WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS!

Now, TODAY, I think more along the line, of eating and laughing and dancing and other good stuff. These Angels are for our enjoyment and helps and cures and safety and enlightenment and truly to help us with CONVICTIONS of our rights and wrongs. I don’t really think he’s into the destroying business anymore. I do think Destruction Happens, but he’s not individually, doing it to you. I think more along the line of, he’s trying to get you out. HIS WRATH’S BEEN SATISFIED! BY THE PERFECT SACRIFICE, JESUS!

I’m not saying HE CAN’T GET YOU, IF HE WANTS TOO. BUT I HOPE AND PRAY HIS WANT TOO IS TONED DOWN A BIT. And he don't come after you before your time!

Besides, I think when we do wrong, ONE LOOK FROM LOVE, is enough to tear your heart out, AND WE DO ENOUGH SELF GUILT TO COVER THE SEAS! BUT SELF GUILT IS NOT COMING FROM GOD. HE doesn’t want self guilt, he wants repentance, HE WANTS YOU, TO TAKE JESUS, FOR WHAT HE IS.

 BELIEVE HE DIED FOR YOUR SINS.......PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE........ AND IS RESURRECTED, AND WHAT HE’S DONE FOR YOU. THAT IS TRUE REPENTANCE............ NOT THIS, DON’T DO THIS, OR DON’T DO THAT, KIND OF THING........................ HE WANTS REPENTANCE............................... or WHEN THINGS CHANGE!

 CHANGE YOUR MIND, TURN AROUND AND GO THE OTHER WAY, IF YOU BEEN TRYING TO GET TO HEAVEN ON RELIGION. RELIGION IS MAN REACHING FOR GOD, CHRISTIANITY IS GOD REACHING DOWN TO INDIVIDUAL MAN FREELY, THAT’S BEING BORN AGAIN, AND HAVING YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE!

But that LOOK IS A LOOK OF LOVE! COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN..... A TRANSFORMING, LOOK OF LOVE..... ONE FOR YOUR GOOD........... HE TRULY WANTS US TO UNDERSTAND, LOVE CARRIES IT’S OWN LOOK OF PITY AND DISAPPOINTMENT! BUT HE’S ALSO SAYING AT THE SAME TIME.>>>>>>> HE’S ALL FOR US, NOT AGAINST US!
   
    As for visits one makes, especially if one has prayed about it, when it all falls into place, one would have to assume, the visit should be taken. GOD MAKES IT ALL RIGHT AND GOOD, EVEN PREPARATIONS FOR A VISIT!!! YOU SHOULD FEEL HIM UNDERGIRDING YOU AND EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE VISIT. VISITS SHOULD BE GLORIOUS HAPPENINGS OF GOD~after all He is the one providing for it all. You don’t necessarily need to have all the money, remember the 3 PENNY WALK.

 Visits are good. Mary(visited Elizabeth for 3 months. Lots of woman talk, going on there.)
Peter visited Cornelius(learned to accept the Gentiles as Clean), Paul(visited lots’ of his Churches, he started) Jesus(visited a lot of people, ate with a lot of people too. He Visited with Zacchaeus ). Me and Papa love to visit. It is a privilege for us. We LOVE TO HELP, WE LOVE TO RECEIVE HELP. THE FLOW IS OPEN, IT NEVER SHUTS.

    You just got to have 2 things, to visit, time, and willingness.
    You just got to have 2 things to move, time, and  willingness.
    Isn’t it weird, that it takes the same things to do both.
    Isn’t it weird that you can make both of them happen.
    Must be the Lord!!!
  Love Nina
Later more later
"I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:14)
NOW THIS KIND OF CHANGE IS GOOD!!!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Ambassador


Nina Levins

 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water— Joh_4:7

    The casual contact, not a planned one, just one found upon the road of life. In this instance Christ met a woman at the well. It became a life changing experience for her, and I am sure He was met with much to give to her. She found there was something different about this man, the fact, that He even spoke to her, was a testimony in and of itself.

For Jews did not socialize with Samaritans at all, and the fact that she was a woman and He took time to witness to her, was a great indictment against all the people of his time, who considered women to be second rate property of their men.

Yet here He was, He actually talked to her in a simple encounter. And it showed the mercy of God and the Love of God to one who really needed it.

    Now I have met people, in simple encounters along the way, at rest stops and malls and grocery stores and resorts and some have even written me notes about the encounters later. One lady at a resort, said, she was so impressed with having met me. She was truly smitten by my personality, one I hope was emanating my Lord. For I wanted to show there is something different about a Christian and how they view life, she could tell I was a Christian by the way I talked.

     I even had a lady who was in lockup for depression, she was my roommate and one night when I went out to visit with my husband, who had come for a visit with me, we left and I came back home, after the visit, and found her curled up under the lavatory on top of my bunny suit. I asked her what she was doing and she said she missed me, so she found something, I wore all the time to lay down on, to comfort her while I was gone.

             Now this is the way, I think all Christians should be emanating Christ in their lives. Now mostly, in all these women's lives, I just shared my kids and grand kids and  my life with them both and they were so thrilled to hear someone be so honest and down to earth about their life. They really appreciated this kind of thing.
    I tell you, this to say, we never know where we are going to be, or what kind of influence we have on others. It was a total surprise to me that these women, both were profoundly moved by having met me.

    So I can imagine what profound effect Jesus had on the Samaritan woman at the well. He was able to affect others, with His charged personality, and His differentness and his Power and He had a life changing affect on all He met. This is what I feel God wants us to emulate.

    Now I realize, we dress up, to be our ‘best.’ These meetings are planned and not so spontaneous. But when we are just ourselves, amongst the daily grind of things, I do believe we can affect peoples lives, if we do not put them off and try to say, I am too busy, I am on my way to something important. Like the ‘good Samaritan’ that took time to help the wounded and bleeding man on the street, that may very well be our moment, God planned for us to ‘go about doing good.’

We, too many times, over look the common where we should minister, to go to the finery, and dress up, of where we should not be ministering. No wonder, we do not get the results God intended for us to have. We are looking for the wrong thing. We need to remember the woman nobody would talk to and love. She had 5 husbands and even the one she lived with was not her husband, yet God did not condemn, through Jesus. He sent Jesus on this mundane trip to Witness to her about the Real Love she was seeking. God told her things about herself, she knew it was God, she met.

We should take time, to talk to them and take time to love them and take time for all of them, the weak, the downtrodden, the lost, the confused, the intelligentsia, the proud, the culturally unacceptable, even the rich. God has room in His Inn. And let God solve their problems....Listen to them. Ask Questions. Give um time to answer. Tell why you have Hope. You don’t have to be erudite. Just be honest! If you don’t know, then say you don’t know. But, Let’s talk Him Up! RIGHT NOW! People need Hope.......
.We are just ambassadors to Heaven not it’s Gatekeepers.

“...His Word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot” (Jeremiah 20:9). 

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Rain

Nina
 I sense people saying, “oh my, why would anyone Blog about Rain?” But I very well intend to Blog about Rain. Probably because of the effect it has on me. I have to give a little background, in order for this to make any sense.

I come from Oklahoma, where the Rain Storms get ferocious at times. It has been about 18 years since I have lived in Oklahoma. Both my husband and I are teachers. I am a Science Teacher and he is presently teaching Computers and Baby Sitting the Net for the High School. I do not work for a pay check. But he loves saying, I DO WORK, I JUST  DON'T BRING HOME A CHECK, BUT WE SHARE EVERYTHING HE MAKES. He loves allowing me time to 'Work at Home.' Which is great, because I love Music and get to play Music, a whole lot, the guitar, fiddle, banjo, piano, dulcimer and blues harp. And I love to write bunches about everything. I write this Blog, 4 Journals, I AM PRESENTLY WRITING 7 BOOKS. AND HAVE ALREADY WRITTEN 3. Plus I love sewing, knitting, cooking, cleaning, exercising and shopping.

But back to the Rain. Last night I woke up at 2, could not sleep so got up. The window was open and I leaned out of it and could vaguely hear Rain, pitter pattering on the Dry, Dusty, Parched Ground of the Desert. We had a Dust Storm on the same day. It was announcing a change in the Weather Pattern and boy, is Rain a change. But there it was. Too dark to see, but, oh I could hear it, if I tuned into the droplets.

Sweet drops of pure water! Now if anyone’s ever been affected by a dust storm, then you understand, how wonderful it is, to get that dust that lingers out of the air. There is nothing worse than a dust storm, and nothing more wonderful than rain, pitter pattering on the hard, caked dust of the desert. A real desert storm is indeed a magnificent animal. Dark, foreboding and unending, it blows and blows and blows dark furrows of dust everywhere. Even inside, you can taste the bitterness, of the dust in your mouth.

It’s hard not to think of death, at a time like this. For that is what our lives all end up, consisting of, ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. Makes one quite humble, to realize, whoops, that’s our end state of being. What exactly did I think I had that I could be proud of. Then I realize, absolutely nothing, except what God has given me, even down to my gifts and talents. That is why, I dance in dust storms and ice storms and rain storms, with everything I got, to signify, I am still alive. I am told to give it everything I got. Whatever you do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord and not to men. Col 3:23

A dust storm signifies the end to me. I’ve always hated them ugly things, and they smell awful and they are as dark as Night. The ending of whatever is happening to you, now. All stands still in an ‘ice storm’ and a 'horrid rain storm' and a‘dust storm.’ That is why I hate dust storms, They always quote that at funerals. But without an ending, there would never be, no new beginning over yonder, where our Spirit will be residing with Jesus, until our ashes and dust catch up with our Spirits. Yes, my friends, ashes and dust from here, the corruptible, become the new beginning over yonder, the incorruptible.

 For like in Ezekial, the dead bones come alive. Sinew is put back on the bones, ashes and dust become the new skin and walla, our new bodies are ready to meet our Spirit, when they are called, by the Creator to come forth. I always like to think, we are changed from the corruptible to the incorruptible, immediately if Jesus comes back before we die, so the old dust storms of our lives are left behind/a new beginning bursts forth. It’s kinda like throwing Spiritual Rain, on earthly dust here! Something mysterious happens.
   
    Rain signifies a NEW BEGINNING! For if you water the old dust, life springs forth to make new things grown. The seeds of hope, is what rain carries inside each tiny drop. And faith blossoms into flowers that we all love.
   
    How wonderful when rain, brings a cooling relief from a horrid heat. Makes one want to jump for Joy. How wonderful when crops begin to grow, because of the moisture, the rain brings, to loosen the hard clods of resistance, and give seeds a softened pathway, to find their way up out of the dust, into the light of life. How wonderful rain is. That is why I always loved the Oklahoma rainstorms. I would gaze out of the window and watch them, within the safety of our own house. I would look in the dark, rainy night and think, God was walking in the Garden of Eden, in the cool of the evening. My husband worked nights, and I was so afraid of the dark, till when THE DANCE came on the radio, I would dance with Daniel. Somehow dancing helped with fear. Brought me closer to God, anyways and so did the Garden of Eden. I SURELY MISS THOSE RAINSTORMS, THEY ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE ONES HERE IN ARIZONA, EXCEPTING FOR THE ONE, THAT BROUGHT THOSE TORNADOES, IT POURED HERE, just like Oklahoma. BUT Tornadoes ARE RARE out here, AS I SAID BEFORE IN MY PREVIOUS BLOG. But one does not get too many rainstorms in Arizona.                       
    But fear can creep it’s ugly head, in amidst, the raindrops of Heavens Dew. Oklahoma is Tornado Alley. And I grew up with a fear, of the rain, for I knew what terrific devastation, it could bring with it. But one day, driving home from Oklahoma State University to Mannford, Oklahoma, I was alone, and it began to rain and I was not at home. For a moment in time, I wanted to run scared and I mean really scared! But I stopped my car along the edge of a pull off, and felt the rain hit my face, AND I EMBRACED THE RAIN, and I decided it was time for me to let go of the fear of rain AND TORNADOES. So I started dancing in the rain. Man did it ever feel good. So that is why I dance when it rains or blows up a dust storm. It is simply me saying, FEAR IS NOT GOING TO RULE MY LIFE. I AM GOING TO ENJOY, EACH AND EVERY MOMENT OF WHAT GOD GIVES ME, AND LIKE DAVID I’LL DANCE BEFORE THE LORD! AFTER ALL, HE SENDS BOTH THE RAINSTORMS, AND THE DUST STORMS. ALLS WE HAVE TO DO IS TRUST HIM, TO GIVE US WHAT IS BEST FOR US. SUBMIT!

    EVEN NOW IN ARIZONA, I HAVE LEARNED, NOT TO FEAR, THE DUST STORMS OF MY LIFE. And I drink for my infirmities. Just don’t get proud and say you don’t. DUST AND NIGHT AND DEATH, IS AS NATURAL, A PART OF LIFE AS ICE STORMS, RAIN AND TORNADOES, THEY ALL POINT TO GOD WITH AN AWESOME BEAT!  YES, IT IS SCARY, AND FEARFUL AND MAKES YOU WANT TO TREMBLE, WHICH NO ONE NEEDS TO LIVE WITH, BUT JESUS CAME TO TAKE OUR FEAR! REMEMBER THAT. SUBMIT!
                ‘so lets just dance.’ 


Friday, August 6, 2010

Privacy, Facebook & Miss Folks




It seems, the Older I get, the more I miss, People. I hate saying Goodby, but I wrote a Poem, saying, “If I were not going, I could not come you see. And I love arriving and saying, ‘HELLO.’
So I guess it’s just part of Life. Here's the Poems this reminds me of:

COMING
I've arrived with colors flying-With my wings tucked under from trying
To take off aloft-With the blowing of the winds

I've arrived and I'm not here-I've come up in the air so clear
I'm about to level out-With new wings about to sprout

I'll make it and I know it-As soon as I take up my landing gears
I don't want to make it easy-Or to assuage any fears

That I may harbor-From my very present years
Coming is really going-In reverse upon the tears

So I'll be a better person-Only and if

I leave it a better place-Than I have found it here

GOING
I'm going on to higher lofts-Up in the clouds so bare
I'll be a greater person there-Than ever I was here

Going is really coming-Or is coming here to be
For if you were not coming-I could not go you see

I hope without a doubt-That I am leaving every tear
I know I can't do one without-The other sowing sprigs of cheer

So when I close this door-And open that one over there
The tears I'll leave-The smiles I'll meet
I know without a doubt-That I am happy to be going

Or I could not be coming there

I guess I was deep in thought, at one point in my life.(now I laugh more) And I wrote, wrote and wrote, Poems, Songs, Books etc. These were just to alleviate my Need to Write so much. I use to write long letters, not so much anymore, I, Facebook, E-mail, Text, Phone and Blog now. I don’t care what, George says, about privacy in Facebook(in Ok) issue, I love Facebook and Farmville.

What Person is Private anymore, anyways? It’s just like living in a Small Town, if one person knows something about you, THEY ALL KNOW IT. I guess that is why, it don’t bother me to tell someone if I have Blue Eyes or not, by the way the Optometrist told me they were Blue. I always thought I had Green Eyes, but depending on what I am wearing, they change Colors. Anyway does it really matter?  I will even tell Gorgeous George, I have blue eyes, I'm not private, but it is self evident, if one looks at another long enough. Sometimes by looking, one can even figure out, if someone is Overweight or NOT. You can actually lose weight and people don't hardly recognize you. Yes, it is so hard to cover your Looks, but I guess it can be done, with a good Dye Job and a Hair Cut, one can look like someone else AND HIDE IN PRIVATE.OR just do it for fun!!! They might not be hiding, they might just be having 'loads of fun,' doing a changeroo!!! Which is a possibility!!!

Please realize, Blanket Statements are just that, Blanket Statements. But sometimes they do not cover the feet!

Well, I have no Privacy Issues, I write! That keeps Privacy on the Back Burner. So I’ll just go ahead and play around on Facebook. Let them that are smarter than me figure it all out. I still haven’t figured out what’s Public and what’s Private on Facebook and I quit trying. I enjoy it better that way. I figure anything written on the Web is Public Domain.

The Media makes a Man or Woman, and all of a sudden ‘George gets Private on us.’ HE IS A FAMOUS MOVIE STAR, for goodness sake, everybody loves, George.  How very Dorky. Curiosity is what makes people desire to know Trivia about another person, anyway. That is why I buy OK Magazine. To find out what, when, where and how. It’s bred into us from the word get go, when Schools want to know how to pronounce our Names, etc, etc, etc. How many Brothers and Sisters, do we have. What is our Address and Phone Number. We don’t bat an eye, we tell um. So I don’t care if Facebook, followers know I am Married. Some of my friends are Single. They are looking, but why not. It is better on the Internet than standing on the Street Corner hollowing, I’m Single. This way there is lots of visiting going on, and I get to oversee it all, for sure.

Back on Track! Not to Veer too far off the Subject, but I did anyway, this Blog was about Missing Folks. But Privacy and Facebook, just had to cover those too. It feels good to me, to address a few Dozen Problems no one has but me, or Issues that I do not even have, but could some day, Maybe, Maybe not! Besides, these Subjects do not Warrant a Blog, all by themselves, they’d each be too Short, so I joined them all. Hope no one minds, it’s a Trait of Mine to Talk about Two or Three Subjects at the same time, like Veer off the Subject sometimes into unbeknownst territory. Just thought this Time, I would use it to my advantage.

I really miss going knocking on my Friends and Families Doors. Oh, how I Miss that. Having them over for Meals and seeing them at Holidays and just gatherings because one thought of it happening. But I know all these People Miss me too. I just thought I would enumerate it, one more Time. Already faced it, just want to talk about it a little bit more. It’s not a subject that one can let go of lightly. CHEWING THE CUD, comes to mind to me. Missing people causes Loneliness, and Loneliness is a MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS, INCLUDING EATING OUT TOO OFTEN AND TOO MUCH, overbuying too much, never being able to settle down, too much. And my favorite is animals. I love animals, and they sure do help one get over loneliness sometimes, etc. So loneliness does have a habit of 'COMING AND GOING,' SOMETIMES.
Loneliness is kinda like a Cycle of Life, which I also wrote a Poem about: It also comes and it goes:

CYCLE
The wave of leaves-Float around

Sent sweeping by the-Winds abound

Hit by an adverse-Sound

Swish-Swash-Soon their aground

Sent back to the-Soil to grow

Helps to guarantee-The slow

Absorption of Life
Bursting forth


One just has to get HOBBIES, PROJECTS, AND LEARN MUSIC INSTRUMENTS, LEARN LANGUAGES, EXERCISE MORE. THESE ALL HELP. TRAVEL MORE, GET A PET. DO SOMETHING SPONTANEOUS. GET A NEW HAIRDO. Play on Facebook a whole lot.

BUT WHAT HELPS MOST OF ALL, IS TELLING SOMEONE, YOU MISS THEM A LOT. That is the beginning of Honesty, and Healing can arrive. And if one has a Disease, one has to get Healed or the wound festers. Pray first, then go to Dr, and tell them and they will give you advise as to what to do and not to do. Besides it always helps when you can talk about it.
Then there is hope of Recovery. Don’t keep it Bottled Up inside of you, Yell it out, Sing it out, Play it out, have Mad Passionate Love and Love it out. Talk to a complete Stranger about it all, thinking you’ll never see them again, laugh about it. Cry about it, HOW EVER YOU LIKE TO HANDLE THINGS, don’t let it go, a Day longer. Call that person up your Missing and just tell them. I bet you’ll find they feel the same way about you. This Shared Knowledge, is worth more than a Million to you and them. 

I hope you take this as a ‘fession,’ ‘that I am Lonely,’ MOST OF MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE FAR AWAY and I have a whole lot of downtime alone. I loved cooking for them, Biscuits and Chocolate Gravy-Sausage and Bacon for Breakfast, Fried Chicken-Biscuits-Gravy-Hash Browns-Tabolie-Corn on Cob, Brownies, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Oatmeal Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies, Apple Crumb Pie, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Dump Cake, Banana Nut Cake, German Chocolate Cake. Oh how I miss cooking for all the Kids and Grand kids. Yes, I can cook here, but my husband and I can't eat a whole Fried Chicken etc, with all the trimmings. AND MOST OF ALL, I DO MISS, HUGGING THEM AND KISSING THEM, SEEING THEM, AND LAUGHING WITH THEM IN PERSON AND JUST GENERALLY HAVING A BLAST VISITING AND DANCING WITH ALL OF THEM. I LOVE MUSIC AS YOU CAN TELL, and I would like for THEM AND YOU, to know, HOW MUCH I MISS THEM, FOLKS. But maybe we can become Friends, because I’ve taken the first step of many, that will get me out of this ‘Pit of Depression.’ Just telling everybody, I SURE MISS THEM!!! This leads to, RECOGNITION OF A PROBLEM!!! I will tell you something, it always helps to have an audience, cheering you on. Just ask those people at Carnegie Hall. Sure I'd love to play my fiddle there, along with my Grandson, but I ain't good enough. HE IS THOUGH!!!He's 10. DREAM ON!!!I ALWAYS SAY!!!Man. never take a man's dreams away from him, that's tacky............you let them make the call on it!!! After all, a Goal is a Dream with a Date affixed to it. Jewish Hil.

And by helping me, you’re actually helping yourself the most. ‘THE NEED TO BE NEEDED,’ is a strong urge, AND that is actually the FIRST PLACE YOU NEED TO FIND YOURSELF, STANDING BESIDE A PIT, REACHING DOWN INTO THE PIT AND HELPING YOUR FELLOW MAN OUT OF THE HOLE. 

   
NOW I FIND, I HAVE NO NEED OF PRIVACY, WHEN IT COMES TO ALL THE FEELINGS, THAT ALL THE PEOPLE EXPERIENCE, ALL OVER THE WORLD.

WHO REALLY KNOWS, JUST HOW FAR YOUR REACH GOES. EVERYBODY IS A PERSON JUST LIKE YOU!
WHY HIDE IT? QUIT BEING SO PRIVATE!!!

LOSE THAT ANONYMITY, AND, REACH OUT! 
Facebook is a start!!!
LOVE NINA

MORE LATER MORE

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Around The Corner

A funnel cloud touched down on the navajo reservation in the small town of Many Farms, AZ. This happen about 5:30pm mtn time.
Fall is just ‘Around The Corner.’ Well, I always plan ahead, always. If August, which has been unseasonably Cool(in the 80's) and(Wet), does not feel like Summer, well then September is probably going to get the ‘Heat Index Rising, with horrid 3 Digit Numbers. After all this is the Desert. Since I’ve been back, part of July and part of August, have been turned upside down, COOL INSTEAD OF HOT, HOT, HOT!!!ON AUG 3RD THERE WAS ACTUALLY A TORNADO, THAT WAS SPOTTED ACROSS THE ROAD 191. They are very, very rare!!! More photo's coming!

So why not let September, get changed by you 'Around The Corner,' which should be pretending to get cool AND FALLISH, around here normally, but could get hot, hot, hot instead, WITH SUMMER'S HEAT FALLING DOWN AROUND THIS HERE TOWN!!! September could be, devastatingly drought like. That's cause the rest of the Country, will send the heat to the Desert, when they tire of it.

Well, I usually put up Capri’s and get out Winter stuff in September, for October, which is usually Cool enough to start the ole clothes Switcheroo. Yes, September’s Fall Piece, is falling into the Puzzle. And then Labor Day, Calendar Day, Turkey Day, Christmas Day, and then, New Year's Day, again.  Wow, I am really getting excited about all these Day’s, we have to look forward to, and all I had to do was take September, for a drive around this here Town, along with Sing my Fall Song!!! I wrote a Song, called GOLDEN LEAVES.  It includes March Winds a Blowing, Fall Leaves a Falling and Winter’s Snow a Snowing and Summer’s heat a Falling. THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU!!! NOW REMEMBER THIS IS A SONG, SOUNDS BETTER WITH THE GUITAR AND ME SINGING IT, well Ok, anybody singing it. BUT AS I SAID BEFORE, THIS IS THE RIGHT TIMING FOR THE WORDS TO BE SHARED WITH YOU!!! MAYBE YOU’LL UNDERSTAND THE WEATHER CHANNEL BETTER AND LOVE  MORE ALSO!!!


GOLDEN LEAVES

Golden Leaves are falling down around this town
Golden Leaves falling down bringing pain to my heart
There are  things that happen that I don’t understand
There are things that I  know

Winter snows are falling down around this town
Winter snows falling round bringing pain to my heart
There are  things that happen that I don’t understand
There are things that I know


March winds are blowing around this town
March winds blowing round bringing pain to my heart
There are  things that happen I just don’t understand
There are things that happen that  I do

Summer’s heat is falling round around this town
Summer’s heat’s falling round bringing pain to my heart
There are some things that happen I just don’t understand
There are some things that happen that I do

I know I know I love you
I know I know I do
I don’t understand why I love you
I don’t understand why I do

No I don’t understand why I do
 



Here are a few pics of those Tornadoes. I actually  go to see one of the MF one's  as it passed over the air  going toward the Dog Kennels, where my friend Peggy was working, she saw it too and got inside the Brick Building. It was all kinds of wierd swirls, as I watched from my Porch, which were getting down and dirty, more and more swirliest and circular, by the moment. Thankful it, bypassed us all in the air.

But I am Stymied this year!! What to predict?

Which doesn’t usually happen too often to me. Usually my Pseudo Predictions are just that, Pseudo and just as tricky as a Casino. Care to wager? Weather wins every time, just like the House.

But I kinda really do, like being prepared, so I will pretend, I know what the Weather is going to do, and make sure, if I’m wrong, that I do not take down the Air Conditioner. You can usually wear, jeans and a long sleeve shirt when the Air turns Brisk, inside or quickly change to Capri's if it's hot out.

I am sure where ever you have planted yourself, you are facing similar circumstances. Trying to outguess what Mother Nature has planned for you there in the Mid-West, or plain ole, North, South, East and West. The last time I talked to someone in the Mid South, they say it is, ‘really, really Too Hot, To Play Outside, kind of Day!’ Guess they are Praying, for some of our Cool Rain, which is socked in, for the rest of the Week here. Thunderstorms everyday MSNBC, INTERNET SAYS!!!I love MSNBC!!! Their Weather is right on the Mark, right up their with the House.

But they are probably wondering, if their Weather is extreme, for where they live. Well, I know our Weather is ‘extreme,’ for the Desert. Cool usually is not a temperature, that ole Mercury hits around here, excepting for Night Time. And that is super great. For if one can just survive the Day, the Night cools, wonderfully. NOT so in some places. The Heat just stays as an uninvited guest. IN THIS CASE, THE WEATHER CHANNEL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, IF THEY PREDICT THE, SAME OLE, SAME OLE, ALL THE TIME, YOU'D THINK THEY'D DO A JIG, WHEN THEY GIVE IT TO YOU or at least call you up and say, "sorry."

But whatever your Weather, turn on some Music and Dance. It is good for the Soul and downright excellent for your exercising body. Get a cool glass of-Tea, Coffee, Chicken Broth, Diet Coke, Diet Snapple, Gatorade, Sangria, Beer, Margarita, Strawberry Daquari,  Pina Colada or Martini with Olives, of course, after the dance. Put your Feet up, and make a Call to someone you LOVE!  AND TELL UM SO!!! DON'T WAIT, DO IT BEFORE YOU GO 'AROUND THE CORNER!!!'

NAH, YOU’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY YOU LOVE UM. JUST ASK MY SONG!!!