Jilly Brandon

In a word..well quite impossible to describe really..The reality of the importance of girlfriends in ones’ life cannot properly be described.  They are the most precious of gifts, and times shared with each of them is always filled with a mix of laughter, tears, sharing of your hearts, and sometimes when something is very funny..a … More Girlfriends Extraordinare…..(ode to my girlfriends…you know who you are..)

Siegfried and Luba Dana, Marleen, Cindy, Janet, Renee, Elena, Dashi,and I , and many others that I’m forgetting to mention..(sorry about that…my feeble mind..)   Where is Albania?  I asked my friend Cindy.  “Guess!” She said…..Feeling a little dense, I paused and wondered out loud?..”Is it somewhere in the Baltics…Russia…I honestly do not even have a … More Wheelchairs for Albania…wait..now where exactly is that country?

I was bored in the night, and so I do what I  often do to tire myself out, and hopefully fall back off to sleep to la la land….I look through photos from my Facebook, and I pad.  So many memories..some good..some bad..and some just darn ugly.  This photo makes me smile..It was taken a … More Oh Goldilocks…I’m thinking this is not your bed..or your house for that matter

My bones…hmm..from the outside of me, they can’t truly be seen, but they are my framework, my solid, that which keeps me together, and without them I would surely be a squiggly mass of flesh and muscle writhing about on the floor like a poor misshapen snake like creature.  One never really thinks about ones’ … More My bones…my bones are all out of joint

And I do believe ladies and gentlemen, that I indeed am stuck…wedged at the bottom of this tube, precariously balancing my “special needs ” daughter atop my lap in a tube because of course I got the “not so brilliant” idea that I should attempt this activity…sounded like a plan, where nothing out of  the … More And she floated out into the lake…and there she stayed…

There is no better feeling to me than to lie on my back…eyes heavenward..searching the bluest of skies…and the only sound being that of muffled water flowing around me..it is indeed “my happy place.”  In times of crisis people often will tell each other to find their “place,” retreat to it when the world feels … More Go Jump In The Lake

Andonce again it seems calm and placid on this this beautiful and quiet, Evergreen Lake…but the thunderclouds are rolling in..the wind and storm are on its way…the perceived calm, is but an illusion to the not so proficient boaters.  To quote Micheal W.Smith..”Can you hear the rolling thunder?”  Excellent tune called “Sky spills over.”  Definitely … More And there came a mighty wind….part 2..(who knew there was a part 1?)

Paddle boarding is my happy place!     Edit        And there came a mighty wind…all at once seemingly out of nowhere, on a warm and sunny day, and I sat on the balcony wondering…how had I not seen this coming?..this upheaval, a disturbance in my perceived calm…I was enjoying the magnificent view of the … More And there came a mighty wind

When I observe the love of a Father towards his children, I find it such a profoundly  beautiful thing.  A Father is so important to his children, and his love means everything to them.  I have seen such love expressed firsthand from my Father towards me, then watching how deeply my husband has lived and … More Only A Fathers’ Love