Never Saw This One Coming

Am continually surprised by how incredible, never-could-have-predicted-it things keep happening in my life.

Aside from some traditional goodies I already have in the baking pipe line for the college, today was my farewell to the traditional baked yummies that have been my stock in trade since I made my first batch of Krazy Krunch - for the 7th Grade Christmas party. And it was a great & glorious adieu, visually & gastronomically. Totally aced it - could feel the inspiration. Looked like a magazine spread!

If anyone had told me at this time last week that I'd be psyched about concentrating exclusively on HEALTHY baking... well, I just might have thought him or her utterly nuts. I really never saw it coming - and am I happy happy happy that it did!!

Healthier

I didn't make all wise food choices today, but I certainly made better ones!

Tweaking Lyris

How much of my breathing problems tie to the shadow on my lungs, how many relate to what I've done to my body?

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell me. Don't go back to sleep.

I recite that first thing every morning. Hold onto it throughout the day. Be awake in each moment to what I'm doing, make sensible decisions within each moment that will benefit my long-term well being, get as fit as possible within each circumstance. Don't go back to sleep.

How better to sum up my current sense of myself, of my place within the structure of everything, than to tweak Miss Lyris' advice to my ANC freshman self ~ If I put as much time & effort into taking care of myself as I spend on others, I truly truly truly will go far.

I am Deev, and I've been saving all my best lines

for my 3rd act, for this moment forward.

Ever Hopeful!!

What dreadful disappointment - popped in the floppy discs that contain text of Mom's Mindwalker1910 musings & memories, and they were unreadable!!

Crushed!!!

Unless hopeful requests to two possible resources pan out, will be without the blessing of those last 18 months of Mom's time with us, when she spent many an hour in the computer studio with me, her dictating, me transcribing to keyboard. So many precious moments of musings & memories!!

Ever hopeful!!!

Transformed

My baking profile is transformed, thanks to someone's request this morning for nutritious muffins & goodies rather my standard fare.

Have been aware for some time that I should be making healthier nibblings for my ANC Juniors & the college, so the request fell on well-prepped, fertile ground.

Yup, the Universe drop kicked me in a whole new direction. Touch down! Looking forward to scoring points with a new range of yum.

Loving the experience of discovering healthy, delectable goodies for the Bank of Princeton, my ANC guys & gals, and college staff & students!

FACEBOOK and a SENSE of PLACE

Was taken delightfully unawares today by my niece's Facebook Profile picture - a photo of Whitney, Reynolds & Scott in front of the Woodland Road Christmas tree, a photo I took when the Australian Lockharts made their first trip back to the USA after emigrating Down Under.

From what I can gather, Whitney reposted it as her Profile shot after seeing it posted on Scott's wall!

So many memories snapped in place within an instant - one of our family's happiest-ever times, suffused with family & heart connections. (Brings to mind the special glow that surrounded our wedding almost 20 years later, when those three young people honored us by being my Maid of Honor & two of John's ushers!)

How lovely to be reminded ~ just by logging onto Facebook ~ of young people & moments so dear to my heart!

ODE to JOY

What joy - my 17" HP laptop computer arrived last night!!

Every avenue I'd pursued since early summer to raise enough capital to buy a laptop or iPad2 - and start Cyber Access for the Technically Timid - fell flat. Mayhaps because the Universe wanted ME to underwrite it on my own ~ and arranged a circumstance where that incredible possibility could happen.

Even when my cpu crashed weeks & weeks ago (blasted virus!), wiping off all my documents, I stayed resolute & optimistic that things would turn out. Even when it took what felt like forever to scrape together enough to get the cpu repaired, I still held faith. Two fund-raising efforts went "pffftttt" - still I didn't crumple! And gee did the Universe come through!!

BACKGROUND: It's more or less standard that my active credit card hovers around $100 of my max level (in spite of how much extra I pay in). But in December, I paid $300 toward it (might sound like small potatoes, considering the balance, but it sure felt wonderful). Typically, if the opportunity to get a just-right laptop came up, even the monthly payment would have been over my head - - not this time!!

Time to get rolling on Cyber Access for the Technically Timid!!! (A sure sign it will be a resounding success - much to my own surprise & infinite delight, its acronym is CATT!!)

"Large, rich, opulent, lavish financial surprises now come to me, and I AM GRATEFUL."

The Universe loves me...

...Serves me, nurtures me, and wants me to win.

The only thing that I knew for absolute sure when I sent my "state of my union" letter in October was that I'd be surprised & awed by the unexpected blessings that would accrue. I certainly was! Few people were able to chip in $ to help underwrite my mega important but initially low income-producing 3rd act. About three. Blessings on them!

The most precious & productive contribution rec'd was from Molly D - and it probably set her back just the cost of a stamp. It was a rather long affirmation, one I was instructed to write out each day & say out loud three times daily. And I did! Never missed a day, never even came close.

Each one of the lines rang true in my heart. And the joy I felt in writing out the words each day opened up my heart to the whole world.

Some people - maybe a lot of people - might think me a kook for sending out the sort of letter like I did, one that was honest & asking, but I consider such epistles like a fisherman's net ~ ~ cast it out over the waters & be blessed by whatever's caught up in its reach.

"Large, rich, opulent, lavish financial surprises now come to me, and I AM GRATEFUL."