Love Letters

Tribute to summer past...

This little bouquet of flowers came from my garden yesterday where I was working with my husband to do some cleaning up and replanting of potted perennials... it's quite precious to me, especially since it's the last one I'll have from this year's garden.  Pretty much all of July was so blasted hot this year, that I lost enthusiasm and didn't water the garden like I should've, so from then on it's looked kind of dismal.  Perhaps that's why this little bouquet tickled me so!  

I hope your day is wonderful and thank you for stopping by! 

What is it I really want?

The title of this post is a question I ask myself often... and the answer to that question changes fairly frequently... frequently enough that sometimes I get a bit frustrated with myself.  But it's a legitimate question.  I'm not dead yet, and in all likelihood I may need to work for another 15 years or more... so "What is it I really want"... to do with the rest of my life?  

This is a journal page I did a little while back, made up of colored gesso, dress pattern pieces, stenciled images, painted tyvek, and a magazine image. 

So, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?  Do you ask yourself the same kinds of questions? 

It's a question worth asking yourself... the late Steve Jobs expressed it very well when he said:

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."