Julanne's Village Jewels

                                                                                                AZALEA DREAMING The other night I had an extraordinary DREAM. I was in an empty lot with a cyclone fence around the lot and a few dried weeds. Not a cheerful place. I saw a young girl about 13 standing across the lot alone as if waiting for someone. I walked over and started talking to her,. She was very responsive and in a matter of moments we were feeling very close. She had cancer and when I realized her situation and the loneliness she felt, I was completely connected to her. After talking for sometime, a woman came to the gate. I asked her "What should I be doing now?" she said, "Just what you are doing." I had been waiting for 'someone' in that lot but I didn't know who or what for. I was in a 'lot' at a hospital, St. Jude's Hospital where children with cancer are treated. I realized in that moment that I could support the parents whose child

                                                                                    WALKING IRIS FEWER As I was contemplating what I was going to write this time, the word FEWER just popped up in my mind. It is always so fascinating to me how words just pop  up for me. I consider it a 'sign' to PAY ATTENTION. Perhaps the reason it happened today is because I spent some time going through my closet and my papers this week. It was a relatively easy task as I am one to weed-out  quite easily. It is a way of having, possessing, collecting FEWER things, no matter what they are. Since I have started watercoloring again, I'm completely fascinated with the colors of paints and all the paint brushes to choose from. Decisions, decisions all jumping up at me to NOTICE them. It's quite fun and a challenge to be practical as well as generous and sometimes extravagant with these wonderful tools available. I've actually been studying watercolors and really seeing what can be done

                                                                                                               RED ROSE                                                                         HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY SENSITIVITY Yesterday was another 'wake up' day for me. I took the bus to the Tower Club for my second Covid vaccine shot. (While I waited for the bus, I NOTICED some people waiting to board were very impatient. They  seemed to not be AWARE of each other with walkers and slow maneuvering). It was not like every other day going to be taken care of. It was (and has always been) a time of being taken care of with such conscious SENSITIVITY. The staff greeted each of us with such warmth and SENSITIVITY, like children coming to a big event. Every  step was so thought out and clear. We were guided exactly where to go and what to do even if we had been there before. I had not brought all the paper work required for the shot but it was no problem, I just had to fill out

                                                                                                RED  HAWK ATTENTION The dependable SPIRAL CYCLE has come around again for me waking me up to the wonders of the mind, nature and deep desires. For one thing, the wonder of the magnificence of this hawk on our fence at Lake House.  The stature, the colors the ATTENTION it is showing to something? These signs of beauty wake  me up to pay more ATTENTION than ever to what is right in front of me. Recently I saw a show on You Tube about a different way to paint watercolor. I have dabbled in watercolor for many years bit I never became as inspired as I am now with varying method of watercolor. I'm thrilled to be inspired again! I'm more AWARE than ever at paying ATTENTION to what I'm looking at or visualizing than ever. This includes all  that I look at. I'm seeing such wonder in my watercolors that smush into one another, that blend together, that differ from the last stroke I jus