Julanne's Village Jewels

                                                                                         INSPIRATION One of the biggest pleasures in my life is seeing/watching an EGRET! I absolutely love everything about them, their shape, shade of white, actions, ease, beauty. More and more I appreciate the BEAUTY and BOUNTY of the outdoors, especially around Gin Lake! There is always a scene to behold, like a new family of baby ducks, which are too cute & oh, so fluffy! I love the way I'm INSPIRED, positively thrilled by sights that are sometimes almost hidden . . . except something sweet catches my eye and there I am. . .  smitten ! In a way I feel like I'm "sluffing" off old interests and have to's and picking up some child like ...

                                                                                           CHANGE Have you ever watched the waves crashing against the rocks, or a sun set before your very eyes, or a child grow from birthday to birthday and marveled at the sight of CHANGE happening automatically or without any human help? It truly is phenomenal! A wonder to behold! There are a great deal of CHANGES that happen everywhere without our even being AWARE of any movement whatsoever! Take our body for instance. I'm always in awe of the workings of the human (or animal) bodily functioning.  Even the workings of NATURE, with its moment to moment changes happening constantly! With these CHANGES, LIFE becomes more and more compl...

NEW INSIGHTS  Greetings Friends! It has been awhile since I have written, December 20,2022 to be exact. A plethora ( great deal ) of experiences have come my way since December, one of which was getting Covid and being quite sick and certainly lethargic. I also still can't taste my food fully! I have 'written' many blogs in my mind but that's as far as they went. It has been a very uncomfortable time for me, both physically and mentally and so I realized that I 'just needed to write something ! I receive a writing called The Marginalian two times a week on my phone that offers amazing articles about artists, primarily and writers, usually ones who wrote many decades ago and who are all brilliant, and inspiring. Something moved me to write today, even a small note to express myself and to communicate with you all that I still care and want to connect again.   Since I have not felt myself for some time I'm AWARE more than ever of o...

                                                                                                BEES It is such a delight to see BEES on the flowers! It is such a necessity for NATURE! Recently a friend and I went for  drive around town to peruse neighborhoods and see the Christmas lights and decorations on people's lawns. It was way  too much fun! We saw two spectacular decorations that left us in awe!  They were filled with huge blow-up figures of all sorts, blinking lights, color, absolute magic from end to end! So much creativity and ingenuity and joy, beyond our wildest dreams! We became childlike in our admiration and wonder of it all! It was like something 'out of this world'! We were ...

                                                                                                CANYON REFRAIN REFRAINING is a holding back of action or reaction; a cautionary  AWARENESS to be AWAKE! Have you ever had the urge  to say something to someone or do something to someone that you knew  would not be kind or helpful? This can arise in me if I am hurt by someone or annoyed or feel dismissed. I have come away from a situation both relieved and possibly still bothered by what just transpired. I have always been grateful I didn't  react (the way I 'm sure I would have) in the long run.  It seems perplexing to me that even though I REFRAINED from reacting, I still can feel the s...

  EXPERIMENTS Have you noticed that life is made up of CHOICES? There is always  something to decided upon! It takes a whole lot of COURAGE and it is RISKY business. It is so easy to stay in the same rut and choose the same thing over and over again and then wonder why our life feels flat and we are bored! There are some 'favorites' we all enjoy and have/do them over and over again. Or some brands we always   buy because they are familiar and reliable. I'm the same way until I suddenly realize I could 'branch our here a bit and try something new and different. I would say that 80% of the time I'm happy with my choice. I have been blessed with making large purchases, like a house and a car that were the best choice ever! Taking a job offer before I even had a blink of time to think about it!Marrying someone I knew only 3 months! All good choices.  That's not to say things stayed the same because they didn't but they were still the right CHOICES. It takes EXPE...

FUTURE I have another dream I had  to share. (It was a bit of science fiction, to be sure).There were huge chartreuse tanks of something all lined up., lying down side by side. Then I was out in a desert of some kind, although there were rolling hills. There were other people as well and we were 'exploring' something on the earth. We dug huge, long ditches every few feet and suddenly, I was looking at them all lined up from the air.  I knew that whatever was happening was a good  thing but I had no clue what it was. It seemed like an experiment of some kind. There appeared to be many more 'tanks springing up everywhere. There were small chartreuse kerchiefs on each one like a small scarf to 'label' them somehow. Now the 'tanks' became graves of some kind or a 'place' for friends and family members to congregate and acknowledge their loved ones. Most of these people were very angry because they felt their loved ones were not being honored. I watched a...