In a world of so many great photographers and writers, I am venturing into some unknown territories, leaving comfort zones, finally very willing to practice the art of seeing. By maintaining the practice of posting daily photos, I hope to continue learning about the possibilities that I trust are out there for the taking.
Contestants on Dancing with the Stars Click here if you are curious.
Again, the judges do not have it in them to be honest and direct with Jane Seymour like they can be honest with the other contestants. Jane has got to go.
I actually went on the ABC.com website and registered so I could vote for Mel and Max and Helio and Julianne. You are allowed 5 votes. So I just kept voting between Mel and Helio. If I don’t vote I really can’t be mad at the results.
Last week on the drive into LA, in the beginning of a conversation with LR, he said, “I’m glad to see you are getting so interested in current events.” I said, “What are you talking about?” He mentioned the anger and disgust I showed in last Tuesday’s blog when I wrote on Sabrina’s leaving Dancing with the Stars.
Why is this show so addictive? I love Monday nights and Tuesday nights. Because I get to watch the dancers and get mad at the judges. Maybe I like watching Dancing with the Stars because I can legitimately get mad. I rarely ever get mad anymore. Maybe I just miss justified anger.
Ray is going to tape tomorrow night’s results show as I’ll be in LA at the S.F. meeting. Will I be able to stay up and watch the show when I get home at 11:15 tomorrow night? Or will I wait until the next day and savor every minute well rested and clear headed for the next bout of justified anger, that dubious luxury or normal men!
p.s. I went outside to the back patio for a half hour with my camera just to practice. It was a waste of time. I hated all the shots I took. But just so I can have some before and after (a photo class) shots, I’m posting something from the shots I took.
I’ve had the book -52 Weeks of Conscious Contact by Melody Beattie – a long time. I just starting using her book as another daily spiritual reading. I’m on Week 1, Day 4: Inventory Focus.
Here is Day ~4~
Some problems are slow-burners. We live with them for a long time and get used to mucking about in them.
Other problems strike hard and fast, coming down on us like a hailstorm.
It can be difficult, when the storm hits, to remember that the journey is a benevolent and holy one, a process that is working with us to help us learn something new.
Inventory Focus: Are you going through a situation right now that feels torturous, like it’s happening for no reason other than to irritate or punish you? Can you believe, just a little, that what you’re going through right now is a valuable part of your life and that an overall benevolent process is taking place? Can you at least believe that this situation has the possibility of shaping you in valuable ways and bringing gifts to your life?
Gratefully, I am not going through a hard time right now. However a number of very special friends are going through hard times.
I’m thinking of you and hope you know how much I love you.
5pm sunset tonight. 
I wrote my friend LR about how I was feeling insecure about sharing tonight. I’m remembering the dead room of people I spoke to a couple of weeks ago, where I felt the lack of their response during my talk was because I was so boring. Probably not true (that I was boring), but it’s my nature to be dependent on everyone’s response to determine how I’m doing. LR wrote back: LJ, I like LR’s feedback. I’m waiting for the response to my clarification of what going “commando” is?
Taylor Sherrill took these photos of our master bedroom and living room.
Sherrill & Associates Inc.
Cathedral City, CA 92234-7255
Our home designer, Roberta Clark, will run these two photos in both the Palm Desert (92260 Magazine) and La Quinta (L.Q. Magazine) magazines which are inserts placed in our local newspaper the Desert Sun the 2nd week of every month. These home photos (without our names and address listed) will be displayed in the Nov and Dec 07 magazine issues.