I Just HAD To Share!

I KNOW that I said that I wouldn't be on in a while, but I read the The Big Book Of Girl Stuff (and I suggest you read it too!) and it had so many great quotes and sayings that I just HAD to share!


"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiousity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." - Miss Piggy (you GOTTA love that woman! Er, pig.)
"Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you." - May Lin
"Shoot for the moon, because if you miss, you'll hot the stars." - Cammi Granato
"If at first yo don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried." - Pheobe McKeeby (HA!)
"I always preferred having wings to having things." - Pat Schreoeder
"Smoking kills. If you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life." - Brooke Shields
"Always believe in yourself. Feel free and never be afraid, because fear robs you of your powers and passions." - Alexander Nechito* (*Alexander made over a million dollars from her art by the time she was 15.)
"My theory is that if you look confident, you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing." - Jessica Alba

Wow! There's SO many more, but I really don't have the time. Besides, I think that will be enough for the week. Have a great week! (And life.)
Sincerely,
~Indigo

Memoirs of a Postcard OR This Made Me Laugh...Hehehe:)))

This afternoon I was going through my mum's collection of ratty postcards from faraway places I'd like to go. I was searching for unused ones that I could send to my best friend/penpal in Ohio when I found this little thing. I laughed and just had to share with my online readers.

[This letter was written in July 13, 1990 by my aunt when she went some Summer over to our homeland, Scotland.]

Dear Jim,
We visited Loch Ness today. It was beautiful but unfortunately, it was tourist-orientated. I tried Scotch today for the first and last time. It was a single malt whiskey and after I swallowed I couldn't breathe! I guess I am not a hardcore drinker - in fact, I am coming to believe that I'm not a drinker at all! Warm beer is so awful! Tomorrow we visit Kirkaudbright - I hope it is beautiful. I love you and miss you. I'll call the 22nd. Deidra.


Wow, I love my aunt! I don't now if she would be mad or not that I posted her postcard for millions to view but she won't ever know so it's OK. Mum's the word!

Sincerely,
~Indigo

The 'Gems' Of The Week

"Everything you can imagine is real." ~Pablo Picasso [Today]

"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." ~Anonymous [Tomorrow]

"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon." ~Jane Austin (don't you just love that woman?) [Wednesday]

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination." ~Henry David Thoreau [Thursday]

"Failing to appreciate the finer details in life is like eating dirt when you could have the buffet." ~Anonymous [Friday]

"If you weren't real, I'd make you up." ~Anonymous [Saturday]

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within." ~Horace Friess [Sunday]

Book Update

Good news, I finally got the inspiration and courage today to write in my ever growing book. I worked on it a little this morning and then later on this afternoon when I found the time. 511 words was the total count by the time I was finished. That's equal to two pages and a half. Not bad, no it is. I should be writing more but I'm in one of those sluggish moods. Oh well, at least I wrote SOMETHING! Right?
Thank you so much for hanging in while I slowly but determinedly continue working on this book, someday I'll be published (hopefully) and I'll send you all a free copy. Just kidding, just kidding.

Sincerely,
~Indigo

A Grain Of Sand's 5 Senses

What if a grain of sand can smell, hear, feel, see, and think? What if they can see the sea's waves coming towards them as the tide comes in, following the cycle of the moon. What if they can hear the rush of cold water all around them as it surges past them and then swoops back, dislodging them from the pile that a little boy had made out of them that morning. What if they can smell the essence of salt overpowering and filling their heads. What if they know, as they're being pulled out to sea, that they're never coming back.
This is what grains of sand experience everyday, every week, every year, year after year. For eternity. That is the day in the life of a grain of sand.

The 'Gems' Of The Week

This week's gems:

• "Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon." - Winnie the Pooh
• "If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child."
• "Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time."
• "So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land." - Peter Pan

I hope those get you through the week, they are sure helping me!

Sincerely,

~Indigo

Childhood Imagination

When we were children, everything was spelled out for us. We knew the rules and we followed them without question. We went through each day the same, testing out mudpie recipes, catching grasshoppers, picking flowers that will wilt in a second to give to our mothers, and then being tucked in. It was pretty much ignorance and bliss.
But now I'm older and I have a lot of questions. And my days aren't filled with catching grasshoppers or feasting on mudpies anymore. I'm in that stage where I'm stuck between a caterpillar and a butterfly. I've made my cacoon but I haven't immerged yet as a radiant new creature. I'm still a little of the old me, but I'm also a little of the new me. I'm split between and time is running out for me to be neutril. Things have changed and I need to figure things out. I still, thankfully, have my childhood imagination, I haven't lost that, yet, to the sensible way adult's think. I'm still me. But, I'm not.
Just this Spring people could pass me up as an eleven year old sunshinee girl, but now postladies are asking me if I'm the eldest over my fourteen year old sister (yeah, she wasn't happy about that).
I have a lot of questions without answers, I have a lot of ideas and dreams that I can't fulfill because I'm too young. I'm stuck in the middle and I don't know how to get out.
When am I going to fly as a butterfly?