I want to remember how comfortable and easy you walked out to the edge of the diving board, arms outstretched ready to leap into the deep end, completely trusting that you would be supported and lifted up by your own abilities, yes, but also by the lifeguard waiting in the water for you. 

I want to remember how proud I felt that you were so willing to do this and how proud you were of yourself. And as I watched you jump, I want to remember the lesson you taught me at that moment...if you could trust that you would be supported and uplifted surely I could trust that truth too.

I have a lot of video footage just sitting on my Mac 
and external hard drive waiting for me to do something
with it.  Enter Ms. Viv aka Vivienne McMaster and her
fabulous course Montage~a guide to creating soulful videos
(highly recommended!)

And like magic, I'm looking at my videos and finding the 
story within it.  For this one, I had actually wrote a blog
post earlier this year that spoke to me as being perfect for 
this video.  Add music and SHAZAM!  one of my stories
came to life. 

You are the divine romance fully realized
the power of love made flesh.

Your 'spark'...the thing that makes you, 'you'
will never be recreated in exactly the same way.

Cherish your one beautiful life.
Shine like the light of a thousand suns

Now that summer is truly here
there's only one wish that I hold dear
Some time at the beach is what my soul craves
To relax and play and jump in the waves


To South Carolina, Myrtle Beach is where I'd be bound
To enjoy all my favorite summer sights and sounds
A stroll on the boardwalk then I'd take in a quest
But listening to the ocean is what I'd like best

Time for quietly refilling my inner well
Restoration and renewal of every cell
This is my wish, it's as simple as can be
in response to the Wishcast question of Jamie 

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I think this fairy rhyming spell is finally done
now all that's left to say is Happy Summer Solstice everyone!

One of my goals this year is to get our pictures out of boxes and back into our lives using the simplified scrapbooking system designed by Becky Higgins...I invite you to take a look inside a journey I call Project Past Life 
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We've started sorting the next box and made a wonderful discovery.
We found some official looking paperwork mixed in with the photos.
When I read it I discovered a piece of history about my Grandmother
that my mom had mentioned to me once or twice but I had never seen 
any proof of.

The attending nurse who was at the birth of my grandmother
took it upon herself to name my grandmother Olga Burgess.
Where this name came from no one knows but they didn't like it.
My Great Grandfather had to dictate a letter and have it notorized to say
they did not name her and had been calling her by the name Winifred.

As I'm going through these pictures, I'm starting to think I may need to
figure out a way to divide them up so each of my kids can have 
some of their family history to take with them when they finally
go out on their own. 

Project Past Life is turning into quite an amazing journey and
it only promises to get better.