RE:Visiting

I have recently been noticing a lot of revisiting...maybe it's been going on forever, but I am just now becoming keenly aware of how, as a society, we are becoming second guessers.  I know that revisiting has many Purposes, checking to see that the original plan is still viable, maybe it's a budget thing, who knows, but whatever the reason we certainly do a lot of it.

It makes me wonder if we have lost sight of the core of that word.  In this socially stunted, media fattened, electronically driven society, do we really Visit anymore?  When was the last time you dropped by a friends house and had a cup of tea or made a lunch date with an old high school friend is back in town. 

There are a few folks I miss visiting.  Certainly family that is no longer here, though I still visit with them, truth be told.  I grew up in an idyllic neighborhood of large cul-de-sacs, I had dozens of moms and dads.  Everyone's house was open for business...visiting was just second nature.  I think I need to get back to that and RE:Visit some old friends.  I would like to think that is truly the meaning of the word.

Peace,

Lindsay

One of the Cul-De-Sacs, they kept the silos from the old farm, great RE:Purposing.....

RE:Marrying

As promised there is news to share.  I am getting married in a few weeks to a man who is one of the good one's.  I am not sure if I like this RE:  Not the man or the act, but the word remarrying.  I may be technically doing something again I have done before, but I am not repeating the first marriage.  So I guess I will dwell on the other RE: I adore, the "about" part.  For this wedding is about moving forward, leaving the past with the past.  The first sentence out of Jim's mouth when he proposed was "We cannot let our pasts dictate our futures."

How ironic it is for someone who RE:Purposes the past to leave one behind....

Enjoy your Springs as we emerge from our Winters.....

Lindsay

RE:Joicing

I look forward to sharing some very important news and photos in the future....stay tuned!

RE:Membering

One of my best friends just suffered the loss of his mother.  An event that I went through a little over a year ago.  I have had time to heal, reflect, cry, laugh and remember.  He will have this time come to him too.  His mother, another mom and my mother were all best friends and they had been since he, my other best friend and I were 5 years old, all the moms, were all our "other mothers", they were like an exclusive but all inclusive club to which membership was precious.  So when his mom passed it hit me, it hit me hard.  It has taken me a week or so to figure out why.  There is only one "other mother" left.  The safety net of being able to bury your head in a moms arms after a hard day or laugh with when you hear a funny story was reduced by another third.

We three kids, more than our younger siblings, have always stayed close.  We may not have lived next door anymore, but we were always just a phone call away.  I guess you could say we are our own exclusive, but all inclusive club too.  It's funny the word remember, its core is as if to say becoming a member again...and it's true.  When we remember we admit a thought back into our conscious, into our collective current thoughts.  I also like to think memories when brought back are being reinstated into an exclusive club.  I also like to think that as these wonderful women pass on to the next life and  we remember them, they are being RE:Membered into their exclusive, inclusive club.  I believe my friends and I have a club to form.  Take a moment and RE:Member someone.

Three of us.....

Peace, Lindsay