KattyWilly

“I
felt human and alive for a few hours.”

Makes me wonder if we will ever feel that way for more than a few hours
at a time. In my case, sometimes I’m just wondering if I’ll ever feel
that way.

Thanks to all for the birthday wishes.  I had a very nice day, and
finished it off with some golf and beer with a good friend (who has
only been playing golf for a month or two and is already playing as
well as I do).

What could be better than Elk Turds for my birthday? Eh!

How about Beer Sauce!!!

September 15th.

We all know what day that is, don’t we?

Keiro-no-hi of course.

While I was at the rink yesterday I watched a little girl playing. Mom
was watching older sister skating and younger sister was entertaining
herself. Actually mom wasn’t paying too much attention to either
daughter, but was getting in some quality chatting with some of the
other moms.

So little one is coloring in her coloring book with some markers. That
doesn’t last too long though. Next she collects all the markers and
starts stacking them end on end into one long marker. Eventually they
fall and there are markers everywhere. Wow! A cool new game. Arrange
the markers on the steps of the bleachers. Wow! another cool game.
Stand at the bottom of the bleachers and try throwing the markers onto
each step. Wow! Another cool game…

And so it went one cool new game after another. Playing is fun. I so
wanted to get up and play some of the games this little girls was
inventing. I figured out each one in seconds and they all looked like fun.

But to do that would Be
Reckless. “The other thing that keeps you young, in my experience,
isÖ keep playing. Play with your kids. Play with your lovers. Play with
your friends. Play with your dog. Play with yourself. Live life as a big
fun game. And remember, itís not so much about all the toys you can get.
Itís more about the games you can invent to entertain yourself and others.”

I was listening to some of the Blogher podcasts over at IT Conversations
and there was some interesting talk about linking and A-List bloggers.
As a blogger who writes a journal style blog the talk about A-Lists, and
top 100 lists, and not finding women bloggers in searches just sounded
weird.

The blogs I read regularly are on my list of subscriptions because they
say interesting things. Write interesting things and people will find you.

I currently subscribe to 130 sites, and I usually end up traveling to
maybe a half dozen other sites that are linked from my subscriptions. I
don’t read 131 sites everyday, I only “see” the ones that have updated,
and of those I only go and read them if it sounds like an interesting
read.

Today I posted a few links to things that I found interesting this
morning. It just so happens that two are blogs by women and the other
is poetry by a smart young woman on her grandfather’s site.

“Heart’s
Desire: Know what you want”

“First things first, know what you want. And be as specific as possible.
The universe responds more readily to specific requests that are not out
of proportion.”

Heart’s desire. Specific request. My heart’s desire is “out of
proportion”. I wonder how you go about changing your heart’s desire?

“When we sat down to wait for our take-out order I couldnít stop
laughing, and Jon looked at me like, ìWe live here voluntarily, you
know that, donít you?î“

Voluntarily, yes.

“The tale is over

As I sit here alone

I know where I am“

Yep

“And in the end all you have is the memories
The memories that haunt you until your very last breath of life
Yet still we strive with our very last might about what could have been
And what you should have seen
Longing to be able to only take that one last breath with you“

Wise beyond her years.