Report from Taiji: October 24
The dolphin hunters stayed in port again today. The free dolphins are safe again, but the captive dolphins continue in their new life of misery.

We went into Taiji this morning and watched the enslavers feed dead fish to the dolphins in the net pens. We also filmed one of the trainers working on the breaking of the dolphins. She lowered a platform into the pen and stepped into the water. She used a whistle to call the dolphins and handed them dead fish. It was terribly difficult to watch these majestic creatures reduced to conditional response for food. Remember, friends do not let friends patronize establishments that capitalize on captive dolphins.

I check on our dolphins everyday. This just completely breaks my heart!

Please pray for them.

FAST FAR DEEP... is a great way to pray for our dolphins. They need to be fast to get away from the 15 -20 Japanese fisherman's boats, swim far and stay away and go deep to get beneath the sound of the banging pipes that the Japanese fisherman bang on to terrify them and trap them in the cove.

They don't deserve this!!

One day.....they will be free!

We must all visualize this!

Detroit showed up!

A lot of people contacted me saying they want to get involved and do something to help the dolphins.

Everybody loves dolphins!

I'm keeping all of your emails and will contact you when things come up that we can do as a group to help save Japans dolphins from Michigan.......which are really ALL OF OUR DOLPHINS!



No one in this world has a right to kill a dolphin, whale or shark. Or any animal for that matter. They are here for all of us to love and enjoy.



Millions of us want to protect our world's dolphins, whales, etc. and visit them in their natural environment.



Whatever you do........do not swim with dolphins in captivity. This business has to be shut down.

Do not visit Sea Worlds.......those businesses need to be shut down as well. Do not feed the "capturing dolphin machine" with your money. This is about money.......we stop spending.....they stop stealing dolphins from their families and will stop putting them in swimming pools.



Let's see........ pool? ........ Ocean? .......no comparison for a dolphin who swims 300 miles in a day in the ocean. They cannot be kept in captivity anymore.....especially now that we know the truth.



This is NO WAY to experience a dolphin........trust me..........I've been blesssed to be on the oceans with several pods of dolphins..........and there is nothing like being with them in the ocean. They deserve to live their lives together as a family (pod). They live a long time too.....and like all of us, should be able to live out their lifes with family and friends of their choice.


Watch "The Cove"............ educate yourself on what is going on..........and then pass the word! One person at a time is all it takes!

Nature..............Life...................Beauty

Somedays it would be easier to just ignore what is going on in our oceans. Particularly now that there are volunteers in Taiji Japan documenting daily the number of dolphins that are captured and killed and we can all see first hand the horrors that are taking place.

2 websites report daily.

Sea Shepard's and

Ric O'Barry's blog

I know there are things going on here at home that need our help.......but after I saw "The Cove" I've been unable to let this go.

It's my cause right now, my passion, to save these dolphins. And to save the whales they are preparing to go out and kill anyday now. The vessels are in the harbor.

The intense anger I feel over what the Japanese allow to go on in our oceans burns my heart. Literally.

I pray about this daily.........what does God want me to do?

In time, my answer will come.

For today, I am participating in the worldwide Save Japans Dolphins Day protest from 12-2. A lot of us are out of work and this will be a great place to gather together and do some good. Sure beats sitting home alone on the computer sending out resumes that never get answered.

In places like Florida, and around the world where oceans are close by their will be huge turnouts.

This is a longshot cause to be a part of, there's no doubt about that. It's heartbreaking and I am in pain a great deal of the time. I also know God hears my prayers to watch out for and save the dolphins and whales that Japan allows its fisherman to kill DAILY.

I believe that most people in Japan do NOT support what is going on in Taiji. Most don't even know what's taking place in this village........much less that their government allows it to take place.

My biggest hope at this time is for everyone to watch "THE COVE"..........that's where you can see firsthand why so many of us are up in arms over this.

These are DEAD DOLPHINS. The Japanese killed them again today!

Monday, October 11, 2010

We have confirmed that 14 dolphins were killed today at Taiji. Two were taken into the harbour hoisted onto a flatbed truck and driven out of town. About 6 dolphins, mothers with calves are still swimming in the bloody waters of the Cove. The fishermen have indicated they may release them to appease the Cove Guardians. We cant confirm this until they do but it remains a possibility.
There were Japanese news crews in Taiji covering the kill today. That is unusual.

This is from Sea Shepards Website.

I check it daily.
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Taiji fishermen slaughtered the entire pod of an estimated twenty Risso's dolphins sparing the life of one to be sold to the Aquarium industry.
Yesterday Sea Shepherd offered to buy the lives of the captive dolphins. The fishermen refused saying that they would not sell us the dolphins to be released. They sneered at the offer saying it was nonsense to buy dolphins to release them hinting it was like welfare and they would not take hand-outs.
Instead they speared and stabbed the dolphins in the cove until the water ran scarlet with blood.
The Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians are on site filming the slaughter, restricted by numerous Japanese Coast Guard and police.

The coolest thing happened in my painting.....

I am doing a mixed media piece with leaves. The most amazing thing happened and it's never happened in any of my pieces.

Yesterday, I was looking at the beautiful mixture of colors I used and all of sudden out of one of the free standing forms.....I see a bright blue dolphin with a baby beside it. It even has an eye.

I keep looking at the piece, trying to decide which way I like it the best (it's an abstract) and all of a sudden, to the right, a perfectly shaped dolphin head with a smiling mouth. Ok, so now I know that piece is go this one way.........3 dolphin shapes....... this is a sign of my heart and where my mindset is now to save them.

To the left, I see another bright orange big whale like looking fish, which sympolizes my cause in general for marine conservation.

I was so excited I called Brett over to look........and then all of sudden kept seeing even more little dolphin shapes everywhere. (He smiles)

When I do my art.....it comes from my mind of course, but so much of my mind is my heart. Some of us are wired that way (you know it if you are one of us!)

If I had tried to create a painting with dolphins, it would have been impossible.

God knows my heart.......my heart knows the killing and capturing of these HIGHLY intelligent

loving animals has to stop!

The worldwide "Save Japan's Dolphin" protest is Thursday Oct. 14. Today I'm making 6 posters......so if you show up without one, I will have one for you.

We start at 4pm. There may be other groups of dolphin protesters starting at 12noon.

We will be at the Japanese Consulate at the Renn. Center. Around the world people will be letting Japan know we are no longer going to tolerate what they are doing to our dolphins. To the oceans too for that matter..........but this protest is to save dolphins.

I hope you will join me.......and all of us around the world who know dolphins do not deserve this treatment. They should be allowed to live their lives in the beautiful oceans with their families, NOT in a pool or having some kid hanging on it's fin in captivity. That's what horses are for.

The BIG DAY is THIS THURSDAY friends!

Greetings Dedicated Volunteers,
I wanted to thank you all for stepping up to speak out for the thousands of dolphins that are being slaughtered every year in Japan. Japan Dolphin Day 2010, Thursday October 14th, is going to be a gargantuan event. I just wanted to check in and see if anyone had any last minute questions and to ask you all to send your photos, videos, and news coverage of your events to me so I can forward them on to Earth Island Institute and Save Japan Dolphins.org.

Many thanks to you for all the hard work you put into organizing the rally in your city! This Thursday Tokyo will see how the world feels about dolphin drive fisheries, because of you.

And remember to tell concerned parties that cannot attend the demo to call their local Japanese Consulate or Embassy to let them know how they feel : )
Thank you for all that you do!

Families and Friends Gotta Stick Together!

Animals of all kinds have always been deeply embedded in my heart. I remember growing up and my brothers hurting a sparrow and how completely sick I felt. I cried for hours.







I've always had zero tolerance for any living creature being hurt or killed.

Taking a wonderful shot of an animal, bird or reptile with a
camera is the ONLY way to shoot.

Once an animal is gone.....it's gone FOREVER. Nobody else will ever get to witness its beauty and uniqueness.

These are pictures from Kenya, Africa and thank God, in Kenya, they choose eco-tourism over hunting as a way to make money. If a poacher is seen in many areas there, he can be shot on sight! My kind of law.
It's still not happening in enough places in Africa or around the world for that matter, and that's why I've decided to make this one of the TOP PRIORITIES in my life today.


To see different cultures and they way people lived was why I started traveling many years ago. As time went by, I started learning way too many things about the places I visited and what was really going on. We'd go to Costa Rica and find out about the quetzel being nearly wiped out to extinction, because of it's magnificent feathers. They were killed (I mean overly killed) and sold for money. We actually got to see a quetzel and our tour guide said "that was a miracle, she hadn't seen one in years!"


It's just everywhere we went, we'd hear about innocent animals and birds being killed by humans. Not for food.....not for survival.......but for MORE more MORE more MORE more money!! Ya know.....the stuff you just can't get enough of in this world of ours.


We were cruizing in a small canoe down the Amazon River and didn't see one monkey. They'd all been killed. NOT ONE MONKEY in one of those trees. That was just mind blowing to me, and so so disappointing to be all the way in South America and not see a monkey while cruising down the Amazon.


Unfortunately, my pictures of the dolphin pods I shot on the Sea of Cortez didn't come out. The dolphins were too fast for me! They were amazing, simply breathtaking to watch. The way they race each other and play all day was just one of the most amazing sights I'd ever seen.

Right now, our dolphins are being ripped away from their families. Like us, dolphins mate for life. A dolphin is a whale, and I'm sure you know by now that whales mate for life.

Dolphins are being captured by humans and being help in captivity to make money for businessmen and women. They are put in pools to do tricks and put in roped areas so people can swim with them. This is a billion dollar business. The dolphins sell for $150,000.00 a piece in Taiji Japan and are killed if they are not sold.

Dolphin meat CANNOT be eaten. It contains too much mercury. They are being killed just to kill them.........everyday from September to March every year in this village in Japan.

A worldwide protest is taking place this Thursday, October 14, 2010 at the Japanese Consulate in downtown Detroit on Jefferson in front of the Renn. Center. We will start picketing with our "Stop the Japan dolphin slaughter" signs at 4pm.

I volunteered to start the protest in Detroit and it's listed on the Save Japans Dolphins website along with all the other Japanese Consulates around the world. This is going to be a huge event in some places. Not so sure about in Detroit but I have been getting emails and hopefully those who have contacted me will be there with signs too.

There is so much work that needs to be done, and this is not an easy cause to get much satsifaction in. It's hard to convince countries who kill their animals for money to STOP killing them.

We all need to help educate whenever we can about Ecotourism. People will always pay to see whales, sharks, dolphins, lions, exotic birds, monkeys, elephants, etc....in their natural environments. There is NOTHING more thrilling than watching mother natures creatures in their own habitat, doing their own thing. Living the way God intended them too.

And again.....if you're free this Thursday (Oct. 14) from 4-6....I'd love to have you join me for the worldwide "Save Japan's Dolphin's" protest in downtown Detroit Michigan at the Japanese Consulate.

Emceed for the Down Syndrome Buddy Walk Saturday

........and did we ever have a magnificent turn out.
What wonderful families and friends these special kids have. The event was at the Palace and there must have been 2000 people there...........I believe nearly $200,000.00 was raised for down syndrome education, awareness and community involvement for these kids with the one extra chromosone. I learned that from one of the signs one of them was carrying, (that's why she was so special she said!)
The teams all dressed up and had such cute names for their teams. Starwars was there and the people wearing those hot costumes were a class act. It was hot, they donated their time, and made the event. Whoever you guys are.........I couldn't see your faces.........my hats off to you!
It was fun emceeing and I was told by many I did a great job and kept everything moving! Always nice to get compliments on your work!
All of you who put on the 6th annual SE MI Buddy Walk did a wonderful job.......I was just
amazed at all you did for this. Your hard work and passion for these kids certainly paid off!

My time alone with dolphins and whales on the Sea of Cortez and Pacific Ocean

It wasn't very long ago that Brett and I were on the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean in a tiny boat with only a driver. NO one else was around.....not one person or boat the entire time we were in the oceans.

Day #1. A mama Grey Whale spots us. They are very curious. She senses she can trust us and swims over with her baby. Next thing I know.......I am petting the baby whale and looking in her eye. I saw God! I truly felt such a deep soul connection with her. She was looking right into me with such trust and love that I literally felt the holy spirit.

Day #2 and everyday: Pods of dolphins keep swimming by. They are so playful. They are so fast. They jump. They are full of life. They race each other. They are a forever family....just like all whaless (dolphins are whales too in case you didn't know)....they stay together for life. They love their life in the ocean and have such fun being all together. They should never ever be kept in a seaworld or in captivity for people to swim with. When a dolphin is ripped away from it's family......it's like you or I being ripped away from ours. This is happening daily in Japan and in the Solomon Islands. Dolphins are being sold and shipped to little pools for people to stare at them. They do those tricks because they are hungry. They keep them starving until showtime.

REMEMBER:
A dolphin always looks like it's smiling.......in captivity......it is crying and dying inside and missing it's family. These are highly intelligent whales and this treatment of our dolphins has GOT to STOP! This isn't even the worse of what's going on right now in Japan.

But first......back to DAY #3:
All of a sudden 2 humpback whales jump high out of the water in front of our boat......oh wow, another 2 are rolling over on each side of the boat......wait...2 more flying out of the water and slamming back down into it behind us. We got a Humpback Whale show that they did for us because it made them happy. I was completely in awe of the wonder of this. They loved us....they trusted us........they are curious, playful and friendly. They won over my heart completely!

DAY #4 and 5.......was spent with the Great Blue Whale who is very very shy. Now remember, we were in a tiny boat....totally quiet and respectful of the whales space and home. We didn't startle it or scare it. They are the biggest whales in the world....and so very shy. But we were with several of them and everytime she came up to breathe and then back down with that gorgeous fintail following.......I thanked God everytime! What a gift this creature is to us. What a glorious animal. What a peaceful home for them. I was happy because I felt they were safe here. I think they are. I pray they are.

This trip was the one that got me really into wanting to help the dolphins and whales. Of course I love sharks, and turtles and seals and walrus and every creature on our earth and in our seas. But I had to start somewhere, so saving the dolphins and whales was the place I decided to start.

I recommend you watching on the Discovery Channel to educate yourself...."Whale Wars".......it's not easy watching.........but if we hide our heads because it's depressing to watch........we won't know what is going on. AWARENESS is the key to everything in life.....if we don't educate ourselves...we can't make a difference...knowledge is power.....and we have to take a stand for something as huge as keeping our whales safe and alive and with their pods (families).

Also, please see the award winning documentary "The Cove"....it runs on the Discovery Channel and can also be rented at video stores. This will change your life....you will see why so many of us are so passionate about stopping Japan from capturing and selling our dolphins to seaworlds and such. As if that isn't bad enough......they then KILL all the ones that don't sell in this cove. They hit poles that drive the dolphins crazy and then lock them in the cove. The dolphins have no clue what is going on and are scared to death. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS. Please!

Tomorrow I will tell you about the worldwide protest called "SAVE JAPANS DOLPHINS".....thousands are meeting up to demonstrate with signs at the Japanese Consulate in Detroit. People will be doing this at Japanese Consolutes all over the world.

The details tomorrow.....I want to try and post some of the pictures from my trip. I had the wrong kind of camera and it wasn't fast enough to get a good shot of a dolphin....but boy did I try.
I truly know we all want to do what's best in life. This may not be your top passion.....but please, if you just stay away from seaworlds and don't swim with dolphins or go see Orcas held captive in swimming pools....we will put these places out of business. This is the goal! This will stop the violence against dolphins.

In the name of money and greed, dolphins and whales are slaughtered everyday! This has got to stop!

Somehow, someway......someday soon I pray!

Letting Go and Letting God

When the worlds events start to get me down, which they seem to do alot lately....I have to just turn things over to God.

I am passionate about the unemployment situation and how congress is failing to act on behalf of the 15.1 million unemployed people.

The job scene is so bad and obviously they are so far removed from that they don't realize what's truly going on.

Of course, when I had a job, I knew a lot of you were layed off because you would call me and talk about it.....but I had NO idea how hard it truly was to get another job until this happened to me.

I have worked 2 jobs...and paid into unemployment for both of them. I have 34 weeks left of unemployment benefits and I need that money to live on while I look for a new job.

The American population is so angry right now. People hate President Obama with a passion. Just like they hated President Bush. All that hate scares the hell out of me.

I just pray for peace among our own people.

I also am praying for the Gulf's oil spill. That has caused me many a sleepless night. The animals of the ocean and what's happening to them is just deplorable.
Animals are my greatest love on this earth. I care for the people too, but they have a brain and know what is going on. Animals are innocent and just keep trying to survive in their ocean.

The people are being compensated. I do know that is NOT enough. Losing a livihood that you love or don't for that matter, is AWFUL. I know, I'm in the same boat. But the death of innocent sea amimals and fish is truly devastating to me. Even more so than losing my job. My heart just can't stand to see an animal suffer.

I also pray for the wars to end!

I pray for God's Will.......many many times throughout the day and the very long nights...for I don't sleep well since I lost my job.

Nature is in full bloom...no matter what time of year!

Brett has a great camera and I've been taking pictures to create my own pictures from watercolor, india ink, and pencil drawings.

Will be taking 2 classes this summer and in the fall hoping to go to Wayne State and get into the art program there.

I had a schlorship to go to college and major in Art out of high school but my parents said NO! I was a wild child and they envisioned me being a starving hippie child forever so I majored in Communications instead and became a radio dj. However, my first love has always been for creating art. I just quit doing it because my radio shows and career consumed most of my thoughts, time and energy.

God decided to change that for me when my shift was eliminated in Dec. 2008 and I couldn't work for a year due to a non-compete that I didn't even know I had and I began to re-evaluate my life and think about what else their was that I always loved besides radio and it didn't take me long to remember my love of creating art with any type of medium.

I've done pottery, jewelry, oil painting, china painting, ink drawings, stained glass and loved them all. The one thing I haven't done though is taken drawing classes. Just didn't seem exciting enough at the time and now I realize that is the basic thing I need to learn well. Compostion and all that stuff. Yes, I can draw.........but I can be much better and plan on it too.

I'm very excited about my new/old path back into the world of the arts.........one things for sure.....no corporation can take it away from me like they can your career job. I've never been let go before and it has had a profound effect on me.

The legacy I now choose to leave behind will be in art form on paper! I am finding I love being with people in art classes and studios creating art with them. Radio was an artform for me for many years, not so much the last two when it was basically playing 4 and 5 songs in a row and :20 breaks. That was deathly boring! For many years though, it truly was an exciting and wonderful release not only for me, but for many listeners who got to hear themselves on the radio too, along with that special element of surprise. I passionately enjoyed putting people on the radio and creating that special moment for them through a song along with their situation at hand. Music is art and when it is tied in with a human experience and emotion on the radio that someone calls in and shares and everyone can hear and relate too was what I loved about my radio career. It was a joyful time! Yes, I do miss that kind of radio and probably always will. Thank God for wonderful memories and experiences for sure!

I will be posting my new artwork here.....so stay tuned!

Hope all is great with you!

Love Always!

HOW COME.......

it's always late at night when I :finally: think about writing in my blog? Probably because
1. there's nothing on tv right now ;)
2. already looked at all the job posts and ha ha...........there's nothing for us non-nurses
3. who wants to sit and write on such beautiful days????? not me!

Seriously..........I keep trying to get in the habit of writing down my thoughts and it's not an easy one for me to get into..........they say writing everyday is so good for you........so I'll try and remember tomorrow.

Plus, if I ever do decide to write that book I've been talking about for years.....this is a great place to start.

I have been doing my art and taking a cool class at the BBAA..........called WET AND WILD....I love it!

I fell holding my dog Sophia (the so cute over weight one) and hurt my shoulder pretty bad. Tried to tough it out and golfed twice last week and OUCH.........so Iwon't be able to make my golf league tomorrow or I'll just prolong the pain. DARN.......I do love it. The ladies on my league have no idea what a beginner I am.........they asked me what I normally golf and I told them 90 for 9 holes. lol. Really, I quit counting after 20 on the first hole. I'll get there......this is my first year for golf and I'm still trying to figure out how to hold the club.

Still painting the dining room. Been moving slowly with that too due to the shoulder.

Trying to decide if I want to go back to school and if I do..........what do I want to do?

After 30 years of being a radio DJ and wedding and party DJ ... I am completely starting over because both of those careers are now in the past. Time for a new beginning.

Maybe I'll be an artist.........just keep taking art classes and getting really good at that. Maybe that's what I'll do. It's a great feeling to finish a new piece and I truly love creating something out of nothing.

I have a 12:30 meeting tomorrow with my friend Ann at her new house. We are discussing resentments...........yes, I am doing a 4th step with her. I'm not really the resentment type........I'm more of a live in gratitude type person......but I did make a list and my biggest one really has to do with my resentment against greedy people in the world.........ie. my job was elimated because I made too much money. So many of our jobs were eliminated for the same reason...........do you buy that??????? Don't get me going.....I'm trying to not give those people any of my energy............ I believe in KARMA so watch out all you corporate high up money people who didn't fight for your people or let us take a paycut to stay on board. Millions of us worked so hard for you and were so loyal. Surely...........we all deserved better!

Although.........I do believe that things happen for a reason...........it's just very very surreal not having a career or job to go on a daily basis. It's a job just getting used to not having a job!
But it gets easier with every passing day........it really does.

Pray for everything.
It can't hurt!

have you made your "Bucket List" yet?

Since my show was eliminated on WYCD I haven't written one yet. I used to write them all the time and it always amazed me how all my dreams came true once I wrote them down.

The only reason I haven't is I've been feeling pretty stuck about what it is I even want to ask for. All of my dreams it seems have come true and I feel so grateful for that but it's time to dream some new dreams.

My career was always huge to me, and since radio has changed so much, and won't be changing back to what it used to be, that is out. So do I focus on a new career or just living my life each day and seeing where it takes me?

I'm thinking just living life each day.....although....I do want to help animals like gorillas, elephants, monkeys, whales, and all wildlife. I guess my dream job right now would be to work for National Geographic and do documentary films. Maybe I should look into that right now.
This could be number one on my new Bucket List. I need to find a new passion and sense of purpose. That isn't easy to find. But animals are #1 on the list so I say this is a place to start.

Thanks for stopping by today.
I miss talking to you on the radio. That was the perfect career for me for 30 years and I wanted to do it forever.

But life changes and we must change with it. It's definately time for me to start motivating myself to finding another sense of purpose.

I've remodeled my kitchen with a great friend, Lori Roberts. HandEChic is her nickname. She's awesome and we had an amazing month and half together working our butts off. I still need to post the kitchen pix. You will be shocked to see what it was and what it is today.
Never in a million years did I ever see myself doing a project like this. It was a great blessing.

I'm also painting my entire house with a friend named Carmen. Painting.............I've always hired it done......now I'm doing it. Its a great thing to do while I'm trying to figure out what to do next.

Then I ask myself.....as I write this........does one need to constantly be looking for the next big thing? Seems I do but often wonder if that isn't a waste of energy.

Oh well, this won't be figured out today. But I am going to google National Geographic and see where that leads. I know I'm ready for a new amazing adventure.

It's out here now.
Written and vocalized.
Let's see where it leads.

Hello World!

You sure are looking good! ;)
My watercolor teacher at the BBAA wants us to draw for 15 minutes everyday and I've decided to do the same with writing in my blog.
I've always wanted to write a book and have an art show........ taking baby steps could lead to such big things! Here's to sticking to this decision! (you'll be the first to know!)

I also joined a golf league that starts Friday morning. Something else I've always wanted to do because I love being outdoors and think the courses are so pretty. Wow, I'm doing all kinds of new things I've always wanted to do in my life right now. See how writing things down can be such a good thing? I'm feeling very grateful.

It's been 15 mos since my radio show went away and I tell ya, dealing with the loss of a career hasn't been easy. I was with the same station for nearly 16 years and honestly thought I would have been there forever.

Radio has changed so much, and I'm not even sure it's what I want to do anymore unless a show comes along that is high in personality and less music and more talk! What I loved about radio was the listeners calling and us doing our conversations together on the air AND being able to talk about all sorts of topics AND play the songs everyone wanted to hear. Actually taking your requests and being able to play them and make your day...that is what I loved doing. I loved making a difference and having a sense of community with my show. Just having 4 breaks an hour that are :20 seconds long and having to follow a strict format was so boring. Everything is automated and you just sit there with nothing to do except push a button to talk 4 times an hour. DJ's mostly shop during their shifts nowadays and pay bills! Anyone that's honest, will tell you the same thing. Or they're on facebook. You have to do something or the boredom will kill ya I swear!

I just feel so grateful that I got to do radio in the "good ole days" when DJ's were personalities and the listeners mattered. I loved this career more than anything. When I think about going back......it's the days that are no longer here that I miss. Yes, I miss radio so much........but I have to say again, the way it used to be.

I actually just now came up with an idea. A GREAT IDEA!! The people who have had their jobs the last 2 years, should lose them for 2 years, and let those who lost theirs take over. Then in 2 years switch back. And keep going that way until everyone has a career job back.

That way, people who say we don't work because we are lazy or don't want a job will see what its really like out here in the real world. How an $8.00 hour job or even 2 $8.00 an hour jobs won't pay our house and car payments and keep the life style going we had established over the last 30 years being steadily employed.

The people who report how it feels to be unemployed have no clue because they still have their jobs and you honestly can not know, like anything in life, until it happens to you.

I just wish people were able to have more compassion for others............that is what I'm really trying to say. Very insensitive things are said to those of us who have lost our life long careers and will most likely never get them back because the world has changed and our industries now function with 3/4 less people in the workplace. Those who still have their jobs complain about how overworked they are. Anyone of us, would gladly switch places. Days are very long when you aren't working.

See what happens when I write is I start out talking about the great new things I'm doing.....because I have too. I've been forced to change my life because if I don't, I'll die of lonliness and depression. It hurts to lose your career.........even though I'm doing lots of fun activites......I still miss going to work everyday and doing a career job that I love.

I am very open to Gods will and finding a new sense of purpose in my life right now. I want to work, but money is not the main goal to me, it has never been. I need to make a difference in the world with what I do and put love into the world everyday. That has always been my goal. To just work for money and not be able to spread joy and make others lives better.....would just feel empty to me.
Or I want to work with animals and make their world a safer place for them.

I know the next big thing will come along, because I've been here before and it always does. It's the downtime that makes us who we are. Keeping our joy when everything around is gone and life the way we knew it is too. So.....here's my plan:
write in my blog, sketch for 15 minutes a day, join a golf league, take an improv class and keep remodeling and fixing up my house. Keep a postive attitude and know that everything in Gods world happens for a reason that is for my learning and growth as a person. To make me more aware of how others feel and know what it's like to be on top and in the valley once again.

To help others and be open. To be a loving person at all costs, everyday.

need to make the time..........

because......
it does such great things for the soul when you share your heart with friends.

The night has gotten away, it just flew by...... the rain and thunder have stopped and there's a calm feeling everywhere. It was a lovely loud beautiful storm. Crackling and bright.

My dogs little feet, all 8 of them, are wet and we're definately going to bed.

Man oh man, this woman is tired..........what the heck am I doing up at 3am!!?!?!?!

Let's try this again tomorrow!

NEW PICTURES COMING SOON!

in the meantime, big hugs!

love you!

A big heart full of love

......and why not?

Love is what will heal the world!

No matter what you're going through...
remember to put your love into the universe......

we all need it!

Love the Rain.........

Love the sun........love everything in nature!

People complain a lot about the weather around here........seems everyone wants more sunshine, always more sunshine.................but without the rain..........the sunshine would just dry everything up.

A balance is good.

Yes, the mud can be a pain........especially with 5 dogs who love to run in from outside and jump right on my pillow and blanket....but..........I still cherish the rain, and let my 5 dogs share my pillow.

Coming from a place of Gratitude daily, in all things, is the answer to being OK with everyday life brings you.

I am grateful you stopped by!
Big hug!