Parchment Paths

I've modified my gardening plans a bit. Instead of creating an entirely new garden, I'm going to modify the one we already have. There's a lot of space yet, so it should be fun! Here's what I have so far.   The Bleeding Heart Bush given to me by a lady in my church. Not sure if it will bloom this spring or if I'll have to wait till next year. The front of the house. The space is all taken up, but it should flow nicely with the work I'm doing around the corner.

Everyone learns at their own pace. During the school years, teachers, parents, and even other students help kids learn effectively at that pace, even if the pace cannot be quickened. However, once we reach adulthood, the grown ups around us expect everyone to learn at the same pace, fast. They also expect several tasks to be learned and done at once, what we call multitasking. Some, master this, even thrive under stressful, busy schedules, some muddle through, and other fail. Some people are just slower then others. I'm one of them. Now, I'm not stupid, I've never been diagnosed with a learning disability, though I've wondered if some exist, I'm just slow. I work best doing one or few things at a time. I believe that people should be challenged to expand their skills, but not everyone's expanding skills are the same.  Some people are not and never will be effective multitasksers. God just did not wire all brains alike because He wanted to fill the word with dif...

I'm planning on planting a fairy garden in my backyard but it's been raining so much lately that this mint plant is as far as I've gotten.   It will be nice to have fresh mint leaves in my tea! I've never really done much gardening but I'm pretty excited about it. I need to start doing new things because as much as I want change, I fear it as well. But one cannot grow without change and as such I've decided to embrace it. I've already changed jobs and I'm signing up to take come computer classes and may be going back to school... and planting my garden. 

Last Sunday I embarked on a road trip to the Lancaster PA area to visit one of my very best friends. After exchanging Christmas gifts, yes, Christmas gifts, we met up with one of her friends for tea at Sugarplums and Tea. f you've never had lemon curd, which I hadn't till then, it tastes like tart lemon pie filling. It was amazing, dainty, yet delicious tea sliders, salads, scones with lemon curd, and of course tea. After that, we had a wonderful cookout and went to a movie. I don't get to hang out with a group often, so this was was quite fun. The next day, my friend Mel and I mostly stayed in to watch Downton Abbey, but in the evening we met her boyfriend at Quips Pub for wings and coffee flavored by Baily's. Yum and Yum. It was a fun looking place, a dart board, lively people. My last day I got to see Jonah at Sight and Sound.  The underwater scene perfectly creates the illusion of being under neath the waves with Jonah and the whale. However, the spect...

As a continuation of yesterday's post. I think my need for change stemmed from an even deeper need to trust God on a deeper level. I needed to be put in unfamiliar territory in order for that to happen. I've always wanted to know every step of the ladder, where it is, what it's like, how hard it will be to mount. Now, things are a bit up in the air. I really do not know what I want to do with my life, but thats' OK because God has a plan and it's going to be great. I need to learn how to not jsut endure but to enjoy the discovery process.

I quit my job of many, many years recently.  Some of my reasons were due to problems I was having with the ill management of the place, some of it was a desire to learn new skills. The main reason, I am discovering, was to make a change. I desperately need change in my life and I am glad God gave me the courage to make one. Yes, the new job does not pay as much, yes, it does not offer the benefits of my old job, BUT it is different and that is what I need.

With so many technological advances it seems like some people are content to simply enjoy what others have created. People play games and watch movies on their phones, even when there out in public and can be getting to know people or enjoying their surroundings. It's not that I don't enjoy playing my Nintendo DS, or watching Law and Order SVU marathons, or even that I don't acknowledge the spring board computers and apps can be to creativity. It was just nice to see a girl a bit younger then myself, sitting at Barnes and Noble, listening to her iPod and knitting away with bright, strawberry red yarn.