Chancedance Chronicles'Perhaps the poet whose verses gladden us was sad and solitary, and the musician a melancholic dreamer...What they give us is no longer their darkness, their suffering or fears, but a drop of pure light, eternal cheerfulness...' --Herman Hesse, Magister
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Feature of the Week: Warm A love story Lyric of the Week Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my opened ears inciting and inviting me. Limitless undying love, which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe ~Across the Universe-The Beatles This used to take you to my guestbook but will now send me an e-mail which I will add to the guest book. To view my guestbook, please click here
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2-11-10 Happy Valentines Day! I hope you have love in your life and take good care of it. That includes loving yourself. I'll be off celebrating a long romantic weekend in Newport, Oregon this weekend like hubby and I have done pretty regularly for the last 8 years or so. Honestly, I'm very ready for a vacation. I've got new & old clients keeping me busy and just finished a backbreaking labor of love painting the set for You Can't Take It With You at Lakewood Playhouse. I've also taken advantage of unseasonably nice weather in the Pacific NW to dig in a new flower bed. For you east coasters, I'm not trying to gloat. Sorry about your many feet of snow. We had none at all this winter. I just hope we don't get a sudden late cold snap because I'm itching to get things planted in my new garden. I want to take a minute to talk about gratitude and taking things for granted. Recently hubby and I became involved with a wonderful group, Bikers Fighting Cancer, who help kids with cancer. The day before another biker's funeral, one of our members went down due to an out-of-the-blue heart attack while riding and ended up brain dead. BAM, just like that, his light was snuffed out. What were his last words to his loved ones? Theirs to him? What were his plans for tomorrow or next week or next year? How might your priorities change if you lived life like every day might be your last? Who would you spend time with or make amends with or say I Love You to one last time if you knew the end was near? Take moment to say thank you and I love you now. You never know what might happen tomorrow.
1-14-10 "The only
way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it,
and join the dance." --Alan Watts Speaking of changes, around January 3, I moved this website to a new host that is pickier about code than the old one which resulted in a few broken links here and there. There are over 100 pages on this site so I've not had time to check each one. If you come across a page with a broken link or image, please e-mail me and let me know where it is so I can fix it. 12-30-09 I hope everyone had a nice holiday break and that your New Year starts out on a happy note. There's a lunar eclipse tomorrow so expect unexpected shifts and changes that open new windows after closed doors. This phenomenon pretty much shaped my whole year in 2009 so even though I'll be starting 2010 facing a great unknown, I'll trust that things happen for a reason and look forward to watching it all unfold. I will be moving Chancedance Chronicles to a new host this weekend so the site might be down for a day or two but when it comes back it will be more stable and who knows, I might even update it more often.
12-20-09 I
still can't seem to get here more than once a month. Just busy with
life and stuff. Since my last update I've been to Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico, finished another class toward my degree and got a nice
e-mail from a lady who found something she needed to help her
through an emotional time so I've decided to keep this website up. I
also did some contract work at
my old
travel agency job. It was really nice to see old friends and do
something useful. Puerto Vallarta was rainy for most of our stay but
we had a great time anyway. Hubby posted pics on his
facebook page. It was a bummer that we got home to freezing cold
temps and a malfunctioning breaker panel, so much of our Christmas
budget went to fix that. Still, I'm grateful we had the money to fix
it and that we were still able to buy some nice gifts for the folks
on our list. I finished Christmas shopping yesterday but still
haven't mailed my mom and brother's gifts to Germany. Guess those
will be late but hopefully they'll think the gifts were worth the
wait. that's all the news for now but more coming soon. Till then
11-13-09 Happy
Friday the 13th everyone. This past week I launched the new home of
my business site at
www.snakebitegraphics.com. I got a
hosting service that will allow me to move this site over to the new
service too but I'm debating whether or not to keep Chancedance
Chronicles up. If you are a long-time reader, you know that this
site has been up since 1997 and I was actively writing between 1997
and about 2003. But, times change, lives changes and I rarely write
any more. I guess these things go in cycles and I don't know if the
emotional roller coaster that brought all these stories and poems
will ever come back, bringing the fickle muse that feeds on all the
emotional crises with it. Honestly, I hope to be done with emotional
crises. Although I do sometimes miss the dubious company of my
vanished muse, neither would I like to fall on her sword. I own
chancedance.com for about another year, so for now this site isn't
going to vanish, but it may be offline for a day or so if I move it
to my new hosting service.
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