Some children never walk, they never are able to stand, to bend over and pick up a rock...yet somehow they find The Power to give us gifts. For this I am grateful.

First Things First - It really is a dry heat - honest!!  And quite frankly I love it, just for today, even though as I am in this particular moment it's 106 degrees!!  So why am I not out enjoying the sunshine here in Sun City, because it's too hot?  Nope, because I have stories, even more than before, and they are piling up on me like just like a football team swarms on a fumble.  Part of my new stories do indeed center around fumbles, mine, theirs, and ours despite the fact that I'm not sure who "ours" is because I do still live alone, but I think since I am affectionately referring to myself in my new found retirement community of mostly seniors (meaning very wise and mature), as the "new kid", perhaps "ours" refers to the little kid inside of me that like the natives of Neverland, refuses to grow up.  I certainly feel young on the inside, it's the brain and the body that fail to communicate with the harmony and precision of the "good ole days".  So, what the hell, I'm trying my best to make the "ole days" as good as I can - with progress....which gets me to thinking....which I often do.

This is not a typical Power of Surrender, aka sereninks, aka "we are not in Kansas anymore Todo", aka "is there an answer to the question can one be serene in Kansas and when "blown away" to the desert still maintain serenity when it's 106 degrees?....the answer is a resounding (at least so far) YES!!  But not for today.  Today is just an amends to any of you who have been diligently (does this really happen?), checking to see if I have written anything new, or hell if I am still alive! I do appreciate your thirst for whatever may be on my mind in this "dry heat" as I learn to adopt and try my best not to go "loco", and wondering if perhaps those of you that do check for updated writings are not perhaps at times a little loco too....and accepting that it is okay if we are all a little loco for it is progress - acceptance of where I am - just for today is very important.  So where I am today is actually at least three weeks behind in my "perfect plan" - yeah right - like that was going to happen.  However it has been an adventure and an experience and I am grateful.  And soon, I will have, "most of the time" in place all I need to begin writing again and share some new stories, pics, and poems of life today, on the desert, in my dry heat and even tell you that when I walk in my "new environment" - hell I'm in Florida!!  But not today, which gets me to thinking....which I often do.

I can't yet.  I have to finish my change, my metamorphasis, my final chapter in Landon's Story, the final loose end.  The aftermath, which is a beginning, and alpha which is an omega and today on my walk in Florida I was shown this final chapter and I knew it was time - soon but not today - because I can't yet.  I left my charger for my iphone in a motel in Albuquerque and I can't upload the pics on my phone that conclude what Landon has given me, that illustrates his gift.  Symbolized above with this small child's gift of a rock in his hand, all that he had and all that he could find and he chose to GIVE IT AWAY....and I do too, to you, and I will soon but I have to do a little more shopping and make progress towards putting all of the pieces back together again....a day at a time exuding gratitude for being exactly where I am just for today, and exactly where I was all the other days of my life, for had I not been where I have been I would not be where I am today for I have come so very far, one could say full circle almost because guess what?  Guess where I lived when I was three years old?.....um, ah, YUP - PHOENIX!!

So just for today don't turn the page for there is no poem, there is no photo, no song, no Power of Surrender but I just wanted to let you know I may be gone, but you are not forgotten and whatever may appear on this site hopefully in the next week or two it promises to be "smoking hot"!!  :)  Keep coming back, I did and I'm forever grateful.