Waking Up Me!

This weekend, a dream came true and I traveled across the world for the second time in as many years and flew into China. As a young girl, I was fascinated with China. I am not really sure why exactly, but the beauty of it drew me there in my thoughts often. As the travel shows, documentaries, and even the big screen movies featured China, I imagined a chance to come here, but didn't really know when or how. The mountains, the rivers traveled by old boats making a way through the wilds and ancient time all drew me in. It was dreamlike in quality. While I am not in the part of China I had once dreamed about, I can see flavors of it all around me in the people and the architecture if not in the landscape that captured my eye and mind. Street Vendor with lovely fruit in Foshan Qinghui Gardens Last year, I was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and just fell in love with the area. I was telling my colleague that it wasn't just KL or Malaysia I really enjoyed, but the whole experi...

For weeks I have been meaning to post this. To remind Joseph of what I said before he left. To remind him that he's still that same man who stole my heart the moment it all began. He told me when he'd read it before that it was the sweetest thing he'd EVER read...EVER. It is based on a playlist I made for him, for us, before he went overseas: When I realized that I was  Ready to Love Again , it was  My Wish  that God would bring me someone made just for me. I want to thank  Your Guardian Angel  for watching over you so you were there for me to share my  Secrets  with. I hope you’ll always be around to  Take Me There  – to that place that only our hearts can lead us. When I saw your  True Colors,  I knew you  Gotta Be Somebody  that I would want to spend my time knowing better. From the beginning,  You Got Me .  We all know that  When You Got a Good Thing , you have to hold on to it. I am so thankful ...

Sometimes after I have an intense dream I have these little wisps of the dream that act like flashbacks to moments in the dream that pull me back to certain moments within the dream. Last night I had a very REAL dream where it was the end times. I was in a minivan with my mom, this guy who looked like Jim Parrack (Hoyt) from True Blood   and driving into a big city which I will say is Boston because I think that is what I remember from the radio banter when this explosion happens. This huge, orange-yellow, mushroom-fire cloud that looked to be going up into the air then starts shooting toward us and all I think is that this is the end...and then it's peaceful. I brace myself for what's next. Will it be blackness? Emptiness? Nothingness? Bright lights? What? And then I am in this big all black room like an empty museum space that we're walking through and Gabby's hand is in mine. Noah and my mom are a little in front of us and the guy who looks like Hoyt is next to me......