I’m spending this day clearing out emotional, spiritual, and physical rubbish left over from 2013. It will take a while, but it’s worth it. 2014 deserves a nice, clean space so it can flourish.
OK. In other words: I’m sitting around backing up and deleting pictures, writing in my journal, cleaning the house, and tossing out trash.
I begin 2014 with feelings of loss and feelings of hope.
It will be what it is supposed to be.
My Eclectic Life 
Jan 01, 2014 @ 15:55:10
Way to go! 🙂 Clearing up for new beginings.
Jan 01, 2014 @ 18:57:27
Thank you. 🙂 A little encouragement is always appreciated.
Jan 01, 2014 @ 16:31:53
I will be doing some deep cleaning of many areas of my life this year…this is MY year, the year of change, and hope, and I pray…love and a new life. Hugs my friend. 🙂
Jan 01, 2014 @ 18:58:39
I like that, “love and a new life.” Awesome!
Jan 01, 2014 @ 19:06:00
Yes..it is time. I want joy, laughter, hugs, true love, and some security…I don’t know yet how all of this will come about, but that’s the great thing about vision…it’s a start. I’ll trust God to lead me in the details.
Jan 01, 2014 @ 19:17:30
God will take you there.
I want hugs, love, joy, and laughter. Emotional security would be awesome. Other than my parents, my children, and Seren and Jesse I don’t know that I’ve ever experienced ‘true’ love. I’ve pretty much given up on it. But I’m old. You’re young. I’m sure you’ll find true love 🙂
Jan 01, 2014 @ 19:41:10
I’m not that young darlin’…and now that I’ve been married three times…I probably shouldn’t believe in it either…but alas, I’m a dreamer, and I will never give up hope. 🙂
Jan 01, 2014 @ 21:08:39
You appear young and you sound young. Married three times WOW! True love will come your way.
I was married once for 27 years. I have two awesome kids out of the deal. Not so bad.
I’ve been on my own 10 years. Well, my son was here for 6 of those. He grew up and moved away. I’d like true love to come along. If experience is a teacher, then I’ve been taught I’m not the kind of man a woman can love. Doesn’t bother me. It did for a while and then I figured it was for the best that I continued alone. 🙂
Jan 01, 2014 @ 22:33:53
I’m the kind of woman that could love any man, thus my many marriages, the third I am just attempting to get out of. A total of 27 years of marriage if you add them all up. (Does that count?) My 3 children came with the first one…Praise God. Everyone can be loved..it just takes finding the right person…which obviously, I’m not too good at. …”best that I continued alone”…I’m beginning to wonder if that is not going to be me. I hope not. I have too much love to give, and I crave companionship.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 07:24:49
Sure 27 years of marriage is 27 years lol.
Three lovely children. That is wonderful. My 2 kids light up my life. I haven’t seen my son in almost two years. I manage to see my daughter a couple times a year.
People keep telling me I’ll find someone eventually. rofl Maybe so, but as years go flying by it seems less and less likely.
I like companionship too. I make do with the few friends I have and with strangers I encounter along life’s way.
I’m sure you will find someone once you escape from where you are.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 07:32:43
I’m hopeful…and stubborn. This helps. Mama used to tell me I should have orange “caution” cones around me when it came to men…I think she had it backwards..the men I have chosen to love should have had the cones. Ha ha…oh, and escape is the perfect word.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 07:54:25
Orange caution cones – that’s pretty funny.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 08:03:56
Yeah it is…my mom was an awesome lady. I get my wry sense of humor from her…thank goodness.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 09:34:00
A sense of humor is a powerful survival tool. To many people are too serious. People tell me I’m not serious enough. lol.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 09:54:42
My sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me going, and no one has been able to steal, kill, or destroy it!
Jan 02, 2014 @ 12:14:15
Wonderful!
Jan 02, 2014 @ 10:00:57
This is the area where I live. I am in Brunswick
http://www.goldenisles.com/
Jan 02, 2014 @ 12:30:35
It looks like a beautiful place. Jekyll Island caught my eye because of the name. lol
I live just south of Birmingham AL.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 16:46:56
Yeah, Jekyll is really cool, much less crowded and more natural. I don’t go there as often as I’d like. It’s a bit further from where I live. Ahh, I went through Birmingham twice in 2010, on the way to and from Arkansas.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 19:01:02
I like more natural. That is why I stay in the country rather than a city.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 19:04:16
I have usually felt that way too. I have lived on a farm in a hundred year old cabin, in the city, in the mountains, and now by the ocean in a “city” that is not a city. If you look at Brunswick’s downtown, it feels very small town. There are also some very isolated areas of Glynn County too. I would like someplace a bit more private, as soon as I am able.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 19:15:54
I think a smaller city would be ok. I like Fairhope AL and some other places that size. In bigger places all the people make doing simple things more complex. lol. Crowds and traffic complicate life.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 19:19:21
Yes, crowds and traffic. Which is another anomaly about living here, there is rarely a problem with traffic, except near the holidays, when the more rural county people come here for the stores we have. Ironic that you should mention Fairhope…when considering where I might like to live when we moved south, that was one of the places I considered. I pick where I live by strange means sometimes…I liked the name! 🙂
Jan 02, 2014 @ 20:29:17
I’d be one of those country people coming into town. hahahaha j/k You’d picked well using the name method. Fairhope is an arty town. There are a lot of artist, performers, and writers living there. It’s a neat place.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 20:46:46
I may have to make a road trip there once I manage my “escape”.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 22:00:28
Fairhope is definitely worth the trip. I’ll be there again. I have a writer friend there.
Jan 01, 2014 @ 17:16:53
Perfect words for perfect January 1st actions. Happy 2014!!
Jan 01, 2014 @ 19:00:14
Happy 2014 🙂
Jan 01, 2014 @ 18:30:19
Understood and I have emptied my emotional trash basket into the pond up the road and with each ripple let go of, and come to closure with many things.
2014 is an open road for emotional adventure with my camera and family.
Jan 01, 2014 @ 19:02:03
Wonderful. I see 2014 as a year of change. I’ll have my camera along. Good luck my friend. It’s gonna be an interesting year for all of us.
Jan 01, 2014 @ 18:59:14
i should do the same
happy new year
Jan 01, 2014 @ 19:03:58
If it works, do it. Lots of things and one person has pushed me into cleaning house. It’s good. hugs
Jan 01, 2014 @ 23:39:38
Wow! Such a good thing to be doing on the first day of this new year! I’m proud of you! You are an encouragement to me!
I need to do the same…but I’m finding myself kinda’ “frozen”…and staring into “a pool” of what might be in this next year…I fear that what I want to happen and what will happen are vastly different. The optimist in me sees the potential and hope. I wanna’ listen to her.
I need to start the throwing away and cleaning out of stuff…like paperwork, etc, and that might lead to emotional and spiritual.
Sorry. I didn’t meant to go all weird all over blog. 🙂 It’s just your topic is something I’ve thinking on for the past week.
I wish you well, JR! And I hope your 2014 is THE MOST AMAZING year for you!!! : -)
HGUS!!! 🙂
Jan 02, 2014 @ 07:29:27
If you are like me, my look ahead and predict the future function is dysfunctional. It tends to be biased towards seeing a negative future. And it’s usually (almost always) wrong. Stay positive dear friend. Don’t look into the dark. Look into the light. Listen to your optimist.
Jan 02, 2014 @ 23:49:41
I’ve been doing some cleaning myself and getting rid of things that aren’t needed anymore.
Jan 03, 2014 @ 08:43:11
It’s amazing how things accumulate.
Jan 04, 2014 @ 00:01:17
I’m also working on clearing out clutter — paper all over the house that has found its home where it landed! Maybe I’ll eventually fit into this space!
Jan 04, 2014 @ 04:12:48
You’ll make it. lol I fight the paper war every day. I try not to even bring it home yet it still accumulates.
Jan 04, 2014 @ 03:06:32
this is a good idea. i seem to have gone on without really noticing much difference, that a new year has begun. like, no time. it doesn’t exist.
Jan 04, 2014 @ 04:15:36
That is pretty much how it is for me. The reason I’m doing decluttering and working on pictures is because I’m off work. lol
Jan 06, 2014 @ 00:58:57
I am really glad you are off work!
Jan 06, 2014 @ 14:02:53
Thanks. That’s about to end for a bit. I go back on Wednesday.
Jan 21, 2014 @ 21:33:15
It’s always what it’s supposed to be I suspect. Sounds like a really productive day.
Jan 22, 2014 @ 04:37:16
Somewhere I read or heard that things are exactly as they are supposed to be. If things were supposed to be different they would be different.
Dec 28, 2016 @ 02:31:15
how in the heck did this post from 2014 turn up in my feed??
Dec 28, 2016 @ 08:39:42
Beats me. It seems to be in the right place in my feed.
Dec 28, 2016 @ 14:10:42
it does. interesting to read it!
you feeling alright?
Dec 28, 2016 @ 20:03:53
I’m getting better slowly. The implantation sight hurts but is healing nicely. My heart rate is much better. I have some restrictions for another 3 weeks. I am not supposed to drive. There are others but that is the most limiting.
Dec 28, 2016 @ 21:19:06
cool. I’m glad you’re doing better. you’ve been in my thoughts.
Dec 28, 2016 @ 22:30:10
Thank you. I appreciate you.