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Sunday 4/11/2010 - Sink or Swim


Sooo in keeping up to date with my blog, I have been expressing myself visually, for the most part.
Life has been pretty tough lately...it seems that this is the case for many people I know. Marriages are either struggling to survive or have succumbed to defeat. Children are surrounded by a material world that encourages a sense of entitlement and disrespect. It is a real effort to keep a marriage alive in this fast paced modern era. It is only rivaled by the difficulty in successfully parenting children that are appreciative of life's blessings and who treat others with kindness/respect. Talk to any nice man or woman 85 years old or older... ask them what they think of the world today... "medical advancements are phenomenal...technology today is amazing... but...but... the world is colder, less caring...families are separated by geography, time, careers, finances and politics....children spend more time in front of televisions/video games than they do on fresh air,family and manners/etiquette".

Sink or Swim
Succumb or Survive
It is difficult!
Never boring!
To think...when I was a girl I would lament how boring life was... nothing at all to do some days...how awful!
Oh what I would give for a little boring, a little monochromatic...a little less color.

Fickle, fickle, fickle always wanting to be on the other side of the fence.
Always wanting the opposite of where I am at...
Maybe that is the insight... a glimpse at, "the bigger picture"...
Savor the sweet, the sour and the bland...but above all be grateful I have been given the ability to experience the sense of taste at all....

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