I find it hard to focus on anything else right now, so I am spending my waiting time cleaning. Cleaning my room, my closets, my stacks of papers and boxes where things were tossed after hurried homecomings from far and near. Things that I have put off sorting through for the last 2 years (or is it 3?). I feel that I now have the luxury of time to devote to some organization. A cleaning out of the old and making room for the new. Creating not only space in my house, but in my head. And I must share with you this new book I just started today. It's the book I think I've always wanted to write. I say "I think" because I've just read the introduction so I can't guarantee that everything in it will resonate with me, but so far, so good.
The title is The Red Book
. I don't remember where I read about it - someones blog I'm sure. But it's just the thing for me right now. And small and lightweight enough to carry in my purse, so I'll have it with me at a moment's notice....if you know what I mean. All the Amazon reviews say, it's written for a younger crowd but appeals to the more "mature" woman as well. Hey - Gertrude Stein said we are always the same age inside. I'm young. How about you?
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On this upcoming Saturday, I'll be a year younger. *S* I always say to people who ask that my main man is 15yrs younger than I, but then EYE am 15yrs younger than I.
Age is a total state of mind.
Just bopped by to say hello...Love your blog!
blessings,
kari & kijsa
One of the very best things my great (great in terms of family lineage and adjectives) Aunt Rene (who lived to be 97.5 years young) taught me: just cause you can count it, doesn't mean it counts.
I apply that most especially to age.
And I thoroughly enjoyed The Red Book, too. It mostly just sounded like common sense to me, but that could be on account of my age.
Whatever that is.
I don't feel older than 30 in my head and I feel like my kids are catching up to me.
Age is a very strange thing, I feel like I am going to be the same age for years and then one day I will suddenly be old. Right now that day still seems very far away.
I have always been seeking a quote like that but didn't know it. Yes, I'm a mature woman. I don't like those other descriptions, ya da, ya da. I feel as if I'm 18 years old - creatively. And so I copied that quote down and will keep it close to my heart. Thank you!
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