20 Random Things

1. What is your favorite item of clothing? -That would have to be the over sized mens dress shirt with the massive cuffs.

2. What are your biggest obsessions?  -Dogs, animal rescue, Coffee and Tea, the idea of Love

3. Who inspires you?  -My children, Mike, Eric, Shannon, and those with passion

4. Who is your favorite designer and why?  -I don’t have one favorite per say.  I do like Canadian designer’s Beaufille, and Caitlin Power.  Both have a great collection with staying power.

5. What is your favorite song ever?  -Sitting on the dock of the bay – Ottis Redding

6. What is your favorite song right now? -Lips of an Angel

7. If you were a spice what would you be? -Cinnamon

8. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet – what words would you use to describe your rainbow?  -Funky

9. What are your favorite films? -A River Runs Through It

10. Who is your favorite actor? -Betty White

11. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be? -Turtle Island in Fiji

12. What are your 3 favorite smells?  -Strawberry, Sunshine, Gaultier perfume

13. What are your 3 favorite tastes?  -Spicy, Sweet, Fruity

14. What is your most treasured possession?  -My soul

15. What did you always want to be/do when you grew up?  -Police officer, Military

16. If you were an ice-cream what flavor would you be?  -Mango ginger

17. If someone made a short film about your life, who would play you? -Judy Greer

18. What would your perfect afternoon consist of?  -Hiking with my dog, or maybe the guy I love

19. If you were a flower what would you be? –Calotropis
20. Tell me one random thing… be it your favorite line from a song, scene from a movie or quote from a book…..or tell me about something that you love. -“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them – we can love completely without complete understanding.”

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Great Expectations

I’d had such great expectations. They drove me, they shaped me, and in some manner forced me to move when fear would have otherwise held me stagnant. On one hand, expectations can inspire you, but then again, they can truly let you down.

The remembrance of all that I had set aside or pushed away in my selfishness of youth, when I was far too foolish to see it’s merits has given me a unique perspective. I cannot say I am no longer selfish, but I can say that I certainly attempt to allow others in and to share what we are meant to share.