Will You Still Dance When You're 60?

Interesting question my husband posed to me the other evening. My thought was, of course, "Why wouldn't I?" also floating in there was, "Are you serious? are you insane?...don't you LOVE music too?" I love how thought provoking this question is for me. He had no notion of investigation just a thought that occurred to him as I was "getting down" while he was driving us home from my Mom's house on the OC last Sunday. We were laughing at me and enjoying the song on the radio.

I can't help it-I love music and I now understand that I see myself as always "the same age" - like that wonderful quote, "we are always the same age inside"

That's how I feel emotionally and spiritually. Physically I'm close but also know my body has no choice but to endure what I Gratefully and Thankfully put it through-in other words, age as my days pass.

Music is a unique human experience that can connect you with people -it's something we can share and enjoy without needing to "U N D E R S T A N D " it...I listen to French music but don't speak a lick of French (yet) but I am still feeling the music and what it means;

Dig?

namaste & much Love

Dawn

My Sister's Spring garden

Ahhhh Spring......she has finally breathed her life into our chilled landscape.......

Surgery time!

Well, I had to have a surgery to remove 4 large alien eggs from my uterus. OK, they weren't really alien eggs, they were fibroids - non cancerous tumors that are fairly common among women. I started out with the plan to remove 2 that were "discovered" during my annual. But an ultrasound revealed there were actually 3 - and then when my surgeon was in there he found there were really 4 - one had been hidden behind of of the other big ones.

ANYWAY, the surgery was done laparoscopically on March 10 and I recovered for 3 weeks and went back to work. We removed them to make room to make a baby-yeah!!

I'll save you from the horror of the photos my surgeon gave me of the surgery and the fibroids and instead will share with you a couple of the journal pages I did while recovering - once I got back to being able to sit up awake (without pain meds) for a couple hours at a time!

Photo Crawl - Pike Place Market

My friend Gwen has been trying to hook up this photo crawl for a long time and we finally got together on March 6 down in Seattle. The day was glorious and we met up down at the AmTrak station to pick up Paula and Jan who rode up from Portland. I arrived a bit later than planned so I met the gals at Pike Place Market. We walked through the market, inside and out. Then we strolled down near the Seattle Art Museum to grab a coffee and lunch and do some journaling in these awesome little journals Gwen made for us for our photo crawl. It was so much fun to hang and shoot with some like-minded artists. It's very inspiring and really re-ignites my creative energy.

Olympic Peninsula & the Hoh Rainforest

Collin and I went on a weekend getaway last weekend. We drove up on Friday afternoon and stayed at the Chito Beach Resort, based on Teesha's recommendation. It was a cozy little place to stay and we spent Saturday exploring the Hoh Rainforest inside Olympic National Park. It was awesome! We saw 3 herd of Elk, about 5-6 Bald Eagles, some river otters, and many other various size birds and critters, including one cute fellow with a pinecone (see below).

Daytime Seattle Trip

We decided to go to Seattle to have lunch with Collin's sister on a beautiful Saturday a couple of weeks ago....looks so different in the daytime:

Found some cool graffiti and stencil art...