Joy Is My Goal: Weekend Snapshot

Monday, November 26, 2007

Weekend Snapshot

Not this weekend, but one weekend awhile back we went driving in rural Ohio, south of where I grew up. This is where my Mothers ancestors first settled in America coming from Ireland. You might be able to see why.

10 comments:

Natalie said...: Wow! What a gorgeous area! :); 6:23 PM
**"Liza"** said...: wow! look ata that! gessh i feel like im looking at it my slef..i love country reminds me of my home... ;) thanks hope you have a great week ahead!; 6:40 PM
SandyCarlson said...: I do see why. This landscape also has magic!; 8:50 PM
Unknown said...: You always have such awesome shots on your blog!

Blessings, Regina; 9:24 PM
Carver said...: I certainly do see why and you got some fabulous photographs. Makes me want to visit there. Also, reminds me of some photographs my daughter took while studying in Cork, Ireland. I hope you have a great week.; 11:31 AM
Ginny said...: What gorgeous pictures!; 12:34 PM
Anonymous said...: wow. what a great view! excellent photography.; 3:11 PM
Sandi McBride said...: A view to die for. I mean, really, I'd fight to the death to hold onto land like that. It's the Scots blood in, though...; 6:18 PM
Jennie said...: these are beautiful!; 5:34 PM
Jean Chia aka Ms.Yummy~licious said...: beatiful sceneries! great shots!

Jean Chia; 11:02 AM

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White

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"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.

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Monday, November 26, 2007

Weekend Snapshot

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