Hello Gratitude

 Hello Monday

Hello Gratitude

 Hello gratitude for being invited to

a most lovely birthday party 

for Miss Hannah

who is my daughters best friend.

I was so excited and tickled to see Hannah and her husbands

absolutely delightful apartment

filled with creative vignettes and eye candy everywhere!

Our gorgeous Miss Hannah has her own 

style blog - RunawayStyle here.

 Hello gratitude for magnificent  SoCal December weather!

I am so grateful for early morning walks with friends!

Hello gratitude for instagram

I am so enjoying this social media

I love building my holiday gallery

and
connecting with people all over the world.

 On of my favorite visual artists is 

Merilyn 

her gallery is always such a beautiful escape!

So I was quite excited and honored to have one of my photos

used in one of her stunning collages!

(Mine is the lemons)

Thank you Merilyn!

 I am very grateful

for such a creative week.

Sometimes 

as a creative

you can really feel when ideas and concepts 

are really pulling together.

This was definitely

one of those weeks

and

 I am so very grateful!

I love when I can feel my 'real life'

and

creative life 

meld into one

This was a week when 

I was truly  making my life my art

one day at a time.

 My yards are all dressed for the holidays

as I guess they should be by now...

I was shocked to realize today

Christmas is in one week!

So 

Hello Monday and Hello gratitude

to a meaningful 

holiday season.

I will be trying to slow down

and to put intention into

savoring and enjoying this season.

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Tuesday update

After writing this gratitude post
which was truth
but I guess only a slice of the truth
I got in an uncommonly irritable mood
and
 I really didn't know why.

One of those moods where it is best to
send myself to my room and retire early.
During the night
I woke up from a nightmare
screaming
or at least trying so hard to scream
because I didn't really have a voice

But as I awoke
the voice trailing behind
made clear
'let the pain out"
and i got it...

You see
I am still trying to rectify the pain
that I wrote about here
and
 still be positive
and
 focus on gratitude
and
not give into the anger that is building in my heart
to practice forgiveness as a way 
to protect my own heart 
and not let anger
poison my families
holiday season.

I am also tiered of hurting over the situation
and
 thought if I just didn't think about it
I could diminish it's importance.

But for me
it doesn't work
and
 I realize
there must be a synthesizing of emotions
a realization
sometimes
it is with a hurting heart
that the greatest of beauty 
can still find it's way in.

Hurt and joy
can and
sometimes must
exist
in the same moments.

As always dear friends

I wish you love and joy

as you style your life