I want to make a point that was not mentioned in the promo. Though I do often speak about it when educating, approximately 5% of the population of people who are abused are male, the reason I often refer to women as the victims is that 95% of those victims who are abused are female. Of course, this is knowing also that not all abuse gets reported! Statistics change all the time.Thanks for the feedback!!! This message is true for everyone!

Please check out this video!! Be sure to remember to mute the magnatune entry that is embedded on this website-you don’t want to miss the sounds in the video-powerful!

The sun beating into my windows invited me to join those that were already up for breakfast, it was too gorgeous outside to stay in. I love this time of year! I have wanted to drive to Cherry Valley just for the sites and stop at the TeePee. So I did. The rolling green hills were beginning to reflect faint colors as if very slightly shadowed with a paste of pipe clay. So beautiful. I was right by Cooperstown so , of course I could not pass by it without stopping down by the lake and driving through town to the old stone covered bridge. The lake was a brilliant blue today, it is so amazing how the water seems to take on the mood of the sky – as if a mirror with an attitude. The blues had a fleet of white sail boats dancing next to each other along it’s calm surface , very peaceful to watch. This has always been one of my favorite places to come, I want to buy a house on the lake, someday. I count the bodies of water that I see each time I go this way-I pass at least 8 lakes and ponds. It is so peaceful by the water. I often can bring myself right back to this peace…each time I think about the beauty that I embrace. Please enjoy the beauty that is around you. Let us never take for granted that we can see all the beauty while we still are able to.

I was helping a beautiful, young woman in a wheelchair today, she is determined that she will walk again.. one day…I am sure she will. My mom used to say where there is a will, there is a way! The lady was thanking me and I just told her that I know very well what it is like to be immobilized. She cocked her head and asked “what do you mean?”I told her that I used to be bound to immobility by fear.. living in an abusive relationship. I was afraid to do anything on my own in fear of retaliation.Some people have a choice to walk every day in their back yard, down the street ,in a park and yet they may choose to sit and watch TV. Some people would rather watch TV reality shows than to actually live their own reality. I have become so aware lately of how I spend my time and trying to make some better choices with the use of my time for time is short. If we have a choice to be free, we hopefully make choices that we are content with. Let’s not let our emotions, fears, objects, people stop us from doing the very things that we were put on this earth to do.

Just returned from a visit to paradise, beach house on the ocean, beautiful pool and jacuzzi.  The deck upstairs seated white, wicker chairs that rocked by themselves in the ocean breeze- which was relentless and so relaxing. The first night the moon lit up the majestic waves as they crashed violently into the sandy beach-there was no creature hiding from the light of the moon that night! As days went on, the moon began to hide behind the clouds. Every day I went looking for the moon , but it was hiding. Many days had passed and lo there it was tossed upon the clouds, only now like a galleon sailing in the night sky. I remembered the words from “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes … “The moon was a ghostly galleon ..tossed upon cloudy seas…” I tried to take a picture of it but was unable to ..it slipped away under the clouds that carried it to another place…hiding.. A new day began as the sun burst open the horizon and brilliant colors of pinks, reds, yellows shimmered across the water. That galleon, never to be seen again!