Saturday, January 23, 2010

TODAY HAS POSSIBILITIES

Today we are having a bit of 'weather.' It is smoggy, foggy, dull and dismal but I'm not going to complain (much) because last year at this time my two cats and I were preparing for the impact of a winter storm. It arrived: 'The infamous ice storm of 2009' left a huge swath of people in five states trapped and without electricity. Being more fortunate than some, I survived with no heat in my house; at least I had a house - and water - and food. So, this nasty day is not worth complaining about! My computer is up and runnning. I am in contact with the world. I'm going to research lighthouses.

My focus began with Captain Walter C. Dibrell (1875-c.1973), a cousin, and superintendant in charge of U. S. Lighthouse Service 16th District, Alaska c.1900-c.1930. Then I switched from looking at the lighthouses he tended in the Pacific to lighthouses located in the Atlantic - switching from Dibrell to Anthony Thacher, another cousin, for whom a little island off the coast of Massachusetts was named Thatcher Island. My family knows it as 'Thatcher's Woe' since it was so named because Anthony Thatcher survived a disastrous shipwreck there in 1635. We only know this because he wrote about it in a letter to Peter Thacher, his uncle and a prominent man of the Church of England.

Today held more possibilities than expected: I learn something new about lighthouses; I became reacquainted with a couple cousins I hadn't thought about for months; I remembered to be grateful for surviving a major storm; and, I figured out how to add a new post to this blogsite--PTAH DAA. Nancy y Te

Monday, January 4, 2010

New Year; New Beginning

I survived 2009 and have stepped into 2010 with as much enthusiasm as I can muster.

In order to survive this year in comfort, I have chosen simpler and easier resolutions:

#1: I will be grateful for the physical, mental and spiritual balance in my life.

#2: I will be selfish; I will go places, do things and enjoy people who make my life happy.

#3: I will search for inspiration that enriches my well-being (then share it with others).

#4: I will laugh every day (whether I feel like it or not).

#4: I will read and write every day (as I am fortunate to have enough sight to do so).

#5: I will turn up the music and dance (as I am fortunate to have energy to do so).

#6: I will enjoy the fruits of life, and the vegetables and chicken-fried steak and chocolates.

#7: I will appreciate every of the 1,440 minutes I am given, one day at a time, in 2010!

Perhaps I have chosen these 7 resolutions because it is too late in life for me to live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse. I find life at a slower pace more personal, more colorful, detailed, hopeful, energetic, serene and more rewarding. Hurray for 2010.