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Abstract thoughts
One Year in Frankfurt
I can't believe I wandered into this old place. Old because it was my very first blog. It was also the platform that I met so many wonderful people that have provided support for one another through the years. I am happy to say, despite my change of location I have still managed to keep in touch with most of those that I have met through 20six. I am smiling now. I've come a long way from blogging to creating my own websites using content management systems. Since I have other sites that I am working on and need to update it (it's such a challenge) I need to promise myself that I must always remember to come here often and well, just be my self. When 20six revamped its look a few years ago, a lot of people left and went to find new homes on other blog sites. Many of us lost the incentive to re-start our existing blogs and tailor it to the new platform. I just looked at my images and they are all still there. I cannot remember which posts they belong to and even if I spent the time fixing it up - it would just take too long. Maybe I will little by little. Since this is my very first blog I really need to keep it. Perhaps I'll change the layout since I've graduated from amateur to past amateur. For any of you that have happened to visit just because, you can find me up and running full throttle on digitalfemme.eu. I miss everyone. Let's all keep in touch.
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Creating a Beautiful Life ...
One day I looked in the mirror of my soul and saw that the canvas of my heart had an unfinished painting .... I took a step back ... let out a deep sigh ... dipped my paintbrush into 'green' ... and started .... All over again, I paint a path thru 'green pastures' as I walk bravely onward .. creating a beautiful life.
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The winds of change ..
I hear the rustle of the leaves in the far off distance and I can smell the burning embers as the last flicker of flames continue to dance on the coals.
In my mind it is Autumn and I am listening to the children down below as they play their little games of laughter. I am sitting on the chair that I've come to know and to love, if one can actually love an inanimate object such as a chair. But it is wood. Chosen by my love and I at a Sunday Antique bazaar. It did not cost much, but the price of the memories it holds is priceless.
In my mind, it is the autumn of my life, as I look backwards from that day to the time I made that fateful move to Frankfurt. With not much money in my pocketbook and only 2 luggages which held a few books, some photographs, clothing for the change of seasons and my digital gadgetry's . It was on this day Wednesday the 9th of May, 2007 that I felt the wind of change blow thru my hair as I stood at the airport entrance waiting to check in.
I looked behind me, if only to see the person that had been with me for 7 years, not knowing whether his face I would ever see again, just like the many other faces in my life that have come and gone yet all remain in my mind like raw digital images on a glossy 24" screen.
It was time. It was time to move forward in my life and meet my destiny.
A destiny that I have been carefully preparing for all these years, and yet not really being aware of the preparation.
It was time, it was time to take a courageous step forward and live out the dreams that lay dormant in my soul. It was time. It was time to finally, really LIVE.
These are the thoughts that are in my mind, prior to my departure from Houston Tx. My life is about to change in a big way .. and once again I entrust my fate to the wind. I lift up my face to the sun as it shines it's warming rays on my face, and once again, I throw caution to the wind .. to see where my destiny will lead me.
I am EUROPE BOUND in ONE WEEK!
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Real Life ....
To be actually blogging here again is a feat unto itself. I knew I would eventually find my way back home. But then again, as much as I can still feel the energy of those that still blog here, there are others that have moved to other sites and well, frankly, it's just not the same.
I think it was difficult really, the transition to the new blog software last year. I lost the look of my other blogs and it too did not feel the same. Photos make the entries interesting and to even think of going into the images file to upload the right photos with the right entries .. *phew*, that was just too much to think about.
So, it is Spring and love is in the air!
The earth in the Northern Hemisphere is waking up slowly and giving life once again to the seedlings waiting to live.
I can easily feel the 'love energy' that easily springs forth (hahah) around this time. Be that it may, Spring is not my favourite season. It is the Autumn .. with its coloured leaves and the smell of school and new clothes and school supplies and leaves burning.
*smiles*
Funny, I am 43 and can still vividly remember the Autumns of my life.
You know, being Digital Femme... of course I would easily migrate to that 3D Web I've been talking about, "Second Life". But every once in awhile, I'll take my eyes off the monitor and look outside the window and marvel and Real Life.
Wanting so much to be a part of Real Life's waking moments instead of sleeping thru the day light and staying up to live during darkness.
NO, I have not been inducted into the Vampire Club. It's the nature or my RL job. And Yes, I am still trying to get out of it!
I think I've done Florence's spirit good.
And of course, I love all of you without question. I am back and I will take time to visit all my dear hearts and it will be a lovely reunion.
always,
DF.
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A Second Chance ...
I use to think that certain opportunities only presented themselves once in your life and if you miss the boat then you missed the boat. I even tried stretching that concept a little to think that perhaps the Universe was forgiving of my ignorance and maybe I would be given a second chance. Anything to not have to come back ....
I've realized that the 'stretched notion' may not be so stretched and that it has appeared indeed that the Universe is a forgiving Universe. Even though it has been compassionate enough to show us signs a long the way and place people in our paths as 'hints' - it does not give up to easily. I've also often wondered why its persistance was such.
I am glad that it is.
I am glad that there is always an opportunity to realign your self with your life's path and that no matter how far you may have strayed or detoured .. there is always something or someone there to carefully guide you back, even if you've refused to look at it's map.
I met someone a few days ago and of course if was not one of those everyday meetings with just any one soul. It was one of those meetings where you immediately knew you had to be a part of their world. It was like recognizing a long lost kin that you never knew existed and but when they suddenly walked into your life, you knew it was meant to be.
For whatever 'meant to be' means, I cannot allow this person to get away. I cannot be afraid of whatever connection their may be. I need to follow what I preach and to explore the possibilities of a 'second chance.'
I owe this so myself. We all owe ourselves a 'second chance'.
Thank you Universe.
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Just thoughts ....
I can't remember why I stopped blogging or what in my life occupied too much of my time to even post an entry, seeing as nothing much as happened anyway, other than a move.
Moves happen all the time. People moving to different parts of the city, the country and even the world. This move was unremarkable.
"Unremarkable". That's a word you would often see in the H and P (History and Physical notes) of the docs when writing about nothing abnormal on a patient. "Unremarkable".
Hmm. To me it is something REMARKABLE that there IS nothing abnormal. Guess it's just a figure of speech.
I put on 10 pounds. I'm 136. So that means I'm back to where I was a year ago. A healthy weight for a 5'3" person. 10 pounds lighter and I thought my body was becoming more 'balanced'. Now after living the 10 pounds lighter and having returned to 10 pounds more I feel that THIS is more balanced. It just feels right.
As a I scan my life I take note of all the things I've done and didn't do, of people I have met and kept close and of those that I had let go of. Well, one can never really 'let go' of a person - even after death. In that case, I must rephrase and say that perhaps I have chosen to not be 'active' in certain people's lives - for no reason or other, but just because.
I stopped Yoga for awhile. Out of laziness I suppose. The one thing neat about Yoga is that you never really loose it. Once in awhile I'll try out the poses in the middle of whatever i'm doing (in private of course) and I'm astounded to find that I can easily contort my body into that pose but maybe not maintain it as long. But it's as if the body remembers, the muscles, the ligaments, the tendons .. the energy. The energy remembered where it had flowed before. I thought it was pretty neat.
I met another Piscean yesterday. I immediately liked him when he started to talk. He said that people thought he talked too fast but I didn't think so. We made a 'connection'.
He made me think of all the 'connections' I had been generously given in my life and I am thankful and grateful for those.
When I think of 'connections' I think of electrical currents flowing out and to one another.
It was nice to blog again. I feel 'connected' with my friends here that I miss dearly. I need to blog more.
Hope everyone is keeping well.
Love,
df.
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Plazes.Com
This may be old news to some of you but I just recently found out about Plazer.Com and have been busy romping around the city 'discovering' wifi hotspots and making a mark for myself.
Check it out!!
Still in its beta stage but two years running, this platform will surely surpass the others .. just watch.
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