just want to tell all my new and old friends that i love you all...
no matter where you are! You always brighten my day!
may we lighten up the paths as we travel together!

peacelovelight, Margo

I don't have any idea why i started this blog. I have not felt like writing anything beyond a paragraph for a while now.
I guess i feel that mist around me, unclear of clarity about much of anything.
altho since the spring equinox... I have more energy than I have in quite a while.
so that is good.
isn't it?
the energy swirling around.
nothing is clear in my vision.
perhaps why  I paint out of focus.
only I have not been painting for some time now.
is this that creative block I have heard spoken of before?
oh well... i really dont feel much like writing now either.
would rather just float around in the mist.
perhaps another day...
this too shall pass.

I have a song in my head about summer time, I wonder if I will find it...

wasn't what I first had in mind, but I love billie holiday, it might say cannot run, but you can clik onto whichever you want to hear, i just happened to get billie, some old old photography thing happening... after the blue dainty flowers above from mich last year at friends garden...

trying some flowers, maybe a song...

the dense wooded and green path is a photo of friends property in northern michigan, love that place,lots of old memories since late 60s... and visited again almost 2 years ago. I even tried cross country skiing there years ago, but still fell on my face! there was a small hill we needed to go down in order to take a shortcut over the frozen lake, it was 10 below zero and soooo cold!!! I also was not dressed for the occasion, but very glad my friends ran out of film before I fell, haha, altho now would be a good memory picture, and bring back laughter. remember when you did not have a digital camera??? I know right now it is probably all covered in snow, just as many people here on gaia are still in winter... so this is a reminder of the green to come...
and as reminder that when I am in schvitzvillle(which means sweat a lot) with 115 degrees, there in michigan, it will be 60s... so here is also a picture of what I see here in az... the order got backwards tho, oops, had to edit and change a few words.

We reached 80 yesterday, altho I did not get outside, and house is cooler, at least in the winter, so now we are approaching our short spring here. the birds are chirping, my doggie gwen is enjoying the outside, and the flowers are blooming. i wonder if there was enough rain this winter to fill the desert with blooms as well, I am still in a city...

I am somewhere on my own path, yesterday had a headache all day, thought it might rain, but here in the desert? we only wish! but the day was sort of lost for me...
so now am on my way out to do errands, the ones I don't like to do, like get my banking stuff in order, one account appears screwed up, and then to health food store, out of vitamins oh dear, and then maybe some groceries too, as well as a few other boring things like getting blood drawn, if I make it to that part of town... and still trying to figure out what to do with my car that is still costing way too much and do I reregeister it here, after I registered it in michigan? where do I call home?

I guess it is within me, altho some days I am not sure where 'me' is... my heart is here in desert and my daughter, but wondering where my next path will lead...
the eternal question... I guess I will know when I get to that cross road...

 added a photo of part of our back yard, for the contrast of views...I think they both will be here, only not in the order I planned... easy to figure out the 2 very different climates tho... please excuse my techno errors of the order of them, intended the other way, but my head is screwed on backwards today I guess!

and on to meet the outside... wonder how bad traffic will be, it is not as busy here this year as the tourists and snowbirds seem to not have flocked here this year, thanks to our wonderful economy... but I hear there are lots of rentals availbable... altho not good for the owners of the properties.... ah well, this too shall pass.

hope the sun is shining where you are, the sky is a beautiful shade of blue here.
and oh damn, I forgot to watch lulin the green comet the last few before dawns...
peacelovewellnessbeautyjoy to you all...

just set back and let it flow...

can't do this all nite long, well, yeah I probably could... I could listen to blues all nite long and have... but just a few more tonite here... altho I did do a robert johnson thing which lead me to john lee hooker which led me to bonnie raitt which led me to little feat and dixie chicken, and now, who knows what I will pick next...


and a little bit of country with dicky betts, couldn't help myself...

those bbking kinda blues that makes you want to dance...
guess I am into a music journey today...
these remind me of chicago blues and bars and  many a memory...


aaaaahh sweet home chicago, with a bit of my soul...

So I was sitting and listening to 'the theory of a deadman', that is a group I had never heard of, but my friend sent a youtube... and I listened to several of their songs...
the first was about a lot of crap in their lives that they hate... then i found a gentler one and sent it back to her, and then she sent me another... 2 steps back and 1 step forward, maybe this relationship is not working... some of the words of the song...
Then my roommate asked if ok to put on some music, lately he has been a cowboy junkie junkie... so I said sure... and added as long as not sad music, which led us into a discussion of what music makes you feel, how words are often not understood but it does not matter because the tone of the sounds resonate with ones body... and we got into talking of classification of music. Do we intentionally play songs to make us feel something, either sad or happy or calm or dancin on the table or whatever? is there a song that makes us want to clean the house? if so, please let me know!!! altho the stones can often get me moving and then somehow some things get done, haha.
so what about the music? are the words important? or a certain melodious charm? or perhaps a piano or violin solo? I happen to like a wide selection of music, but my roommate gets into a few albums, oops showing my age, and listens over and over. every time I hear steeley dan from the 70s I think of him back in the 70s...  altholately it is cowboy jinkies, leonard cohen or linda ronstadt...
many of my choices often bring me back to old memories, especially since I have not bought anything new in years. atleast i am getting more into using youtube, which one song offers many other choices, so I go on a journey, and then share with my slapcraplist friend in chicago, but she knows what I like and often sends me great stuff, altho some times I just enjoy her process of choosing, and can tell what mood she is in...
so what about out moods these days? what kind of music is being played?
here is sample of what I heard today... altho common disaster might not work!!!
but after listening to thunder road, you can pic another song by cowboy junkies or even bruce springsteen, amazing this youtube thing, and even more amazing is that i can figure out how to use it, hahahahahah love to laugh at myself, you can too!

besides my daughter's laughter... a babbling brook under the winds gentle breeze, the sound of the leaves in the breeze, spring is on its way!