no words...

can describe to you how I feel about this man. 

  

Everything - all wrapped up into one.  The emotions - the memories - the committment - our children - our plans - our past - our future - our happiness - and our love.  Side-by-side, through the seasons. 

It began 5 years ago today...

Happy Anniversary, My Love!

*photos by Ellen M. Reed Photography... wonderful photographer and dear friend.

tread lightly.

It's easy to feel as if you are wandering - alone - while perusing sites of beauty on the internet.  Browsing and clicking as if you are the only one there.  You have the ability to change your name to Amy, or click 18 times a day if you choose.  Or attempt to login 500 times in a week.  Or go where you shouldn't - when you have no business being there. 

But along with the vast wide open of the internet, comes technology through the back door.  You have a footprint.  An IP address, all your own.  And your every step is trackable.  Your every click is recorded.  In detail.   Updated every 30 seconds to a minute.  And logged.  Even when you think you are alone and no one can see.  Even when you think you are "wearing a disguise."  So changing your name, or clicking through a link, or removing your connections - they are like an invisible fence.  The Emporer's New Clothes, if you know what I mean.   There comes a time when perusing becomes excessive - obsessive.  And it's time to let you know...

There are Emporers amongst us.

Everyone is welcome here.  But come as you are.  Come often.  Peruse, comment, and listen to the music.  

Be Authentic.  And be Respectful.  And be Appropriate.  This is a place of business.  MY place of business.  And I don't tolerate Emporers.

looking forward.

And facing the road, head-on...

The wide-open avenue of possibility...

With streets lined with new beginnings...

 Taking the next step - best foot forward - into responsibility and freedom.

 Reflecting on the past and bright with future.

love speak.

Families have a language all their own.  The way they relate.  The way they laugh.  The way they tell stories.  The way they express love.  It's a gracious language...  sweet and generous.  Captivating an audience whenever it is spoken...

a million miles of wonderment.

They've come a long way, these overalls.   From generation to generation, down the line of the greatest greats.  Oh, the stories they could tell.  From farm life to city life, from the point of view of so many toddlers...  Exploring, learning, growing...  in wonderment of this beautiful world.