SisSTARS for PEACE

SisSTARS for PEACE ... Proud to be for Peace and Love...War is Not an Answer!
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them--that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." -Lao-Tse
"The fates lead him who will--him who won't, they drag." -Seneca






Sunday, May 31, 2009

Flowers for the Smeltzer Families






















Poem for Jane

(Photo by Jane E. Smeltzer)
To my friend Jane and her family. Today is their mother, Dorothy's, funeral up north and I sure would like to have been there.
I reprint this poem I wrote for a friend's mother a long time ago.
Dorothy died May 24th, during the New Moon.
My family members had died during Full Moons and it presented me with the feelings to write this one down.
To Honor Dorothy Smeltzer:
Moon phases
Keep paces
Reflections of the Light
Dance to the beat
of the One Heart
Celebrate the feat
of Living
New Moon to Full
Hard to resist the pull
When the Light is
so bright
And the Soul will
abide
by the Call of
the Tide.
-klh/11-11-94

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Watch and listen to Joni Mitchell ... gorgeous Robbie Robertson

I was watching some awesome Grand Funk Railroad on my SisSTAR Rhi's blog and decided to search a few things also ... we've enjoyed watching mott the hoople, savoy brown, spooky tooth, and now I choose to post this one. Please click ... she was always one of my favorites and I always loved learning all the lyrics and it wasn't all that easy sometimes. Ever hear the Dry Cleaner from DeMoines? Enjoy... love, SisSTAR xoxo (don't let the stars get in your eyes, don't let the moon break your heart, Darlings!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZcK48cTiU

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

I Can Tell It's Spring....

... I opened my gas bill just now and had a credit balance from our budget plan so no pmt this month AND the budget $$ for next yr is $7 cheaper per month! Yeah! I guess 60 degrees all winter long helped out and me being such a Red Hot Mama and all, well, it was just no big thang! Now to keep the air cond at a "reasonable" temp. Hey! I don't mind being cold, but I don't like being hot (despite the Red Hot Mama discrepancy above).
It felt so good to mow the lawn today. We have our old trusty Toro rider and it takes me about 2 hrs to do it, and Jeff winged his weed wacker all over the place, so we made a good team. He's been doing so much yard work, I just wanted to help him out. We found some big patches of wild strawberries so we are mowing around those and wacking the weeds off above them in hopes for some luscious berries ... except, gee, we have so many birds and critters all over, it'll be a toss up. Will be time to make rhubarb sauce or "crisp" soon - yum!
Bought 4 purple pots, 2 very large, and planted gorgeous giant pansies in them, with purple daisies, some perennial tansy, etc. The dark purple iris featured here is blooming in more quantity than ever before, and our lilacs are a a heady scented "bower" as we drive in the driveway, as well as a mammoth 20' "bush" in the other acre we see from our living rm. Best blooms ever. And then there's the damned poison ivy. Gotta do something about that. Sprayed it last yr and it did well, but came back hardier than ever. Tuffy thinks it's cute to walk around in it and then come in and rub on us...real nice!
Wish us luck that we can get all the flower beds transplanted where they're too thick and try and keep the shintangle from overgrowing us. Someday you might find us sitting in the living rm, the TV long run out of juice, with spider webs all over us, remotes in our hands, with grape vines, wild rose and blackberry canes, poison ivy, sumac and deadly nightshade consuming our house, blocking the windows and doorways, the cotton poplar billowing cotton fronds all over the roof ... can't you just see it now? So please! please wish us luck that we can get this jungle under control (and then there's my bedroom!)
I have missed all you bloggies ... if there's any of you left out there in my absence. I used to have a small fan base of 1 or 2 people, but, alas, I could be The Lone Blogger - Hi Ho Silver, and away.........^;^ meow
Love from your SisSTAR xoxo
Enjoy your Springtime ... it is so fleeting, sort've like life itself!