Well, well, well. Thank you for finding your way over to my new home. Come in, rest yourself, look around, open any and all the “doors” you want. Why did I move? Well, Blogger had been good to me but you know, every now and then you need a change of scenery to keep your flow going, to challenge you, to step it up. So…take your time and browse the site. I’m loving it! How could I not? It’s “purplely”! AND there are butterflies!! I love my webperson - YOU ROCK!! All I said to “Super Webperson” was I want it fun, “purplely”, and if you toss in butterflies, it’s on”. So basically, she NAILED it off just that sketchy spec list.

I’m (”WE’RE”) still tweaking things. Just minor stuff but you know what they say about the details, right? Oh, because of the “migratory relationship” (Project Manager flashback!) between WordPress and Blogger, not all posts moved. And get this, NONE of the comments moved. Ain’t that about a blip?! So, I’m in the process of manually moving some of my favorite posts & comments. The comments from blogger will be one long string with my initials beside them. They’re under the tag “BEST OF…” for now. Just thought I’d add that in. *shrug* The design of the new website itself gives me more freedom/control in adding content which was my main driver for revamping. I’m looking forward to adding some excerpts from my works-in-progress and springing up some more surprises. Oh, if you were subscribed to my original blog, you might wanna switch it. Um, that is once we get all the subscription stuff loaded to the new blog. Bookmark the site. Leave your verbal footprints in the guestbook. Come back at your leisure. Enjoy!

And now, here’s a little poetry with a voice. Enjoy that as well….still stuck on those ‘collarbone kisses’. *Sigh*

When I first posted this, I had a very little to say - figured I’d let this piece speak for itself. I know - ya’ll thinking, yeah right. I was but the more I turned this concept of a collage of memories over in my mind, the more I fell in love with it - the beauty of it, the power.

Do you remember making collages when you were younger? Or perhaps you’ve made one in recent years but refer to it as a “dream board”? What has collages on my mind today?

I can’t remember who or what sparked the thought that led to this poem but I say thank you. I do know that I absolutely love the concept of us creating a collage of our lives. Every interaction that you have with others becomes part of your collage of memories.

How powerful a thought is that? That YOU actually get to choose your own reality. YOU choose the memories you want to make. Set your intention clearly. Affirm yourself constantly. Decide how YOU want to show up in the world. And watch the beauty of the world rise up to meet you. You are creating your own reality.

In making YOUR collage, don’t clutter it with things that really don’t have meaning for you. Don’t let the fact that you’re holding on to people or situations that don’t help you grow or help you heal cause you to end up with blank spaces in your collage. Life is much too short for that and our interactions with others are much too fleeting. Stop skimming the surface. DIG DEEP. Become engaged. Be you at every opportunity – it’s the only way to fine-tune who you are. Dress yourself from head to toe in the best of who YOU are – inside out – and then step fully, boldly firmly into the picture. THAT’S the picture you want for the collage.
If that doesn’t nudge you to take a look at how you want to show up in your interactions with others, if it doesn’t encourage you to say what you need or want to say to people in the moment, if it doesn’t push you to call/write/visit that person who just “happened” to cross your mind, if it doesn’t help you to just let go of some hurts so you can heal and move on, I don’t know what will.

See? Isn’t that a beautifully empowering thought? YOU get to create the memories you want to make. YOU get to make the memories. (Note: you do know that NOT making a choice IS a choice right? Just checking).

Choose the memories you want to make. Choose wisely!

Here’s to the sheer beauty of YOUR collage.

Live DELICIOUSLY!!

~ J ~

*~*~* QUOTABLES *~*~*

“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” ~From the television show The Wonder Years

“Life gives us brief moments with another…but sometimes in those brief moments we get memories that last a lifetime.” ~ Anonymous

” Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.” ~ Libbie Fudim