Joy Is My Goal: You know its mid January when you see all the ......."fallen angels "

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

You know its mid January when you see all the ......."fallen angels "

8 comments:

Lana said...: our street is like a parade of dead christmas trees as almost every house has one out by the curb waiting for an unknown mystery pick up date:) another sign of Jan!; 4:57 PM
I have a good life said...: That is a great caption for a great picture! :) Miss you. Thought of calling you today, but ran out of time!! Yikes. Life is always supposed to slow down, but NEVER does! :); 5:08 PM
Digital Flower Pictures said...: That's funny. I didn't know what to expect as I scrolled down.; 6:13 PM
DanaB said...: LOL, so true!
Love your header pic!
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http://mywindowswideopen.wordpress.com/; 7:03 AM
Serendipity said...: Great WW shot!; 10:06 AM
Not So Average Mama said...: Poor angel, time to pack her up til next Christmas....; 10:39 AM
Catherine said...: They rest, Marcia, until next December....; 3:27 AM
Pinkerbell said...: Ah, it seems so symbolic doesn't it? The cheery Christmas decorations looking desolate and forlorn after the event. What does a Christmas tree mean anyway if it can be worth so little once the twelth night is gone? I'd rather an artificial tree which can be lovingly put away every year and cherished, than to throw away our Christmas centrepiece every year, it feels like we're throwing away a bit of Christmas, but the other half can't appreciate that.; 4:26 PM

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.

Joy Is My Goal

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

You know its mid January when you see all the ......."fallen angels "

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