life lesson

... and then life hits us
with so much greatness
that it is almost difficult
to believe and take in


or sometimes
it sneaks upon us
for a long long time
without us noticing
the dangerously
scary
but important
lesson
for all of us

my dad refuses treatment
and all we can do
for now
is

share
smile
laugh
focus
learn
listen
grow
celebrate
embrace


for the time
he has left
here

together
we'll make it right

s i s t e r s ...

Monday Apr 14th 09


Lynn(in Holland): 'Hey sis, saw you called. Watcha doin?'

me(in Sweden): 'Hi sweetiedarlin', me in car from C. to M. and the roadmap in my car is gone, I needed you to go online to help me get where I need to be without driving around for three hours with my head in my ass.. sorry butt.. bum? Oh look!!.. a SIGN..
I'm on the right road.. nice.. and what are you doin?'

Lynn(still in Holland): 'I'm painting the stairs. And I have to paint them again 'cause I want them white.. you know WHITE white but you can still see the brown through the white, I'll have to paint them nineteen times'

me (still in car eyebrows high): 'I thought you were already done painting the stairs??'

Lynn (in Holland waving arms pointing at stairs): 'Noo NOT those ones the OTHER ones, the ones I fell down from 'cause we stripped the carpet off and mah feet don't work in the morning'

me (in car grinning): 'oooh THOSE stairs, mm I get it.. may be you should get some antiglide strips or put something in the last layer of varnish that makes it saferohno wait, that doesn' work, remember when T and I lived in that old house in the countryside and we had white painted stairs?? Beautiful!!
And then T called when I was in the shower and the phone was downstairs and me on wet feet hurrying down.. trust me, it DOESN'T work and I KNOW how much it hurts..'

Lynn (in Holland grinning more): 'Yeah I knoooow... but I've been really smart and painted every other stairstep and put one sock on the ones you could step on and then the cat didn't get it.. and neither did Erik...'

me (laughing so hard that my head hits the steeringwheel and the car is zigzagging off the road):
'hahaa.. ooooh pooooor kitty.. white paws.. that's sooo cute.. paws AND sockprints.. can it GET any better??.. '

(and I can laugh cause I KNOW it would SOO happen to me too..)

just another Monday phone call..
nothing unusual..

lovya sis..

out of hibernation

for us humans
living
in the colder areas
of this planet

today
is a major event

we wait upon it..
remembering
and recognizing
the near new feeling

today is the first warm and sunshiny day
after months and months
of pearly grey chill and cristal white cold..
it almost feels like everything is becoming
a little bit more alive,
a little happier..
a little prettier.. a little bit of everything..
including us..
without anything in our lives
actually changing..
just the light and the warmth
upon us
and around us

amazing..
don't you find..


indulge all..
love is in the details..


stay safe..