Well Blow Me Down

You know some days I do pretty good at watching and listening and then some days I just get blown away. I mean I've got my feet firmly planted but sometimes my mind just gets slapped by a cold wind of absurdity that I just didn't see coming. I ask myself rhetorically and quite often "what in the world is this world coming to?" Knowing the answer ahead of time doesn't make it any easier to take when it finally hits.

You know that kind of day when you shiver from the blast but then your face heats up from shame that turns to flaming hot anger. It's amazing how cold and hot can be so intertwined. Dang I've shivered from both extremes, meaning I've been so hot I got cold chills and so cold that it burned.

The world would wish to keep you reeling between fluctuating tempers and we all fall prey to one side or the other once in awhile. You know what it's okay I think to be cold and hot sometimes. I believe it's when you try to mix the two and you find yourself in a mediocre state of lukewarm that trouble begins.

It's a result of attempting to please both sides and the man-pleaser just usually finds him/herself sitting the fence while the other two sides remain intact.

It can be "cold as ice" and/or "hot as hell" one we can experience now and prove because last I checked ice is cold but you know what if you leave it too long in one spot it will burn you. I've even heard the term "cold as hell" so I assume that hell is both right?

They say if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen so again with the references we have is the kitchen like hell I'm just asking cause that's where the coldest and hottest things I own reside. Curious to me both are associated with food. Guess we are what we eat?

There's a cool word hot off the press just sit and spell and see which one you feel.

Winds of Change

Now that I'm old and I've been old long enough to know I can feel when things are changing. This fan here in my life doesn't oscillate but I've seen a great many that do turn side to side. They blow a little here and blow a little there and those kind never really seem to hit the right spot at the right time...and when stuff hits one of those oscillators stuff flies everywhere. Stuff hits my fan it just sticks right here. Every mess I make and every mess thrown at me just stays right here.

I wish everyone was like a box fan. Just find a place and firmly plant yourself. I catch a little dust every now and again but that's easily brushed aside. It does amaze me how dust can be so fine that you can hardly see the stuff and it hardly has any weight at all and yet cannot be blown by a fan. That dust just settles everywhere on the fan and clings.

The only thing that rattles fan dust is a duster. If you can ever just break the dust up the dust clumps will fly.

Somewhere is all the dust when it settles is a message....if you got the time sit a while enjoy the breeze...I won't turn on you....But winds are changing and dust that we are at least if we join together and cling to a good fan blowing a steady wind in one directon we'll make it to the right place.

Just Breathe

That's all there is to it just breathe. Just breathing is easier said than done when I think about it. If I don't think about it then it just sort of happens naturally but the minute I focus on my breathing I then realize what an extraordinary task that it really is. Let me just say that such thinking does not occupy a great deal of my time but more often these days these kinds of thoughts pop up during my day. Breathing is not as aggravating as when someone first pointed out to me that our tongues are actually too long for our mouths. Every time I think about that one my tongue gets a major cramp as I physically attempt to do what will happen just naturally without any effort IF I'm not thinking about it.

Maybe the world would be a better place if we just allowed those things that are natural to take care of themselves and concentrated a great deal more on the spiritual after all that's what really matters.....So just breathe on me Holy Spirit breathe.......................

How time flies

It's almost two years since I placed this place of rest and repose here. I decided to come by today and decorate. I've never really been a fancy material sort of person so you won't see a great deal of that. What you will see is a perfect picture of how I see myself.

No matter how many times we pass by the little ball of stuff atop a thin slender stem we are compelled to pluck the little wonder hold it in our hands and just blow. Instantly countless little parts of the whole are pushed out into the open air and carried by the wind.

I'm not a fragile soul my roots run deep but occasionally I am grasped by and unknown hand and shaken by the wind.

Did they know that what they were doing was not destroying me but multiplying the little plant?

Oh what a dandy-lion!

We don't really notice the small yellow flower of the dandeloins humble beginnings. Children pick them as flowers. Adults just call them weeds.

Yellow somehow became associated with being a coward and so in it's beginning the dandy little lion seems without courage but not so for it's roots are deep and stubborn.

Sit down for awhile and think about it. There is a lot of wisdom in God's "lion tooth."

Just a Place to Post

Sometimes in the big world of blogging you can just get lost in all the busyness of it all. I enjoy reading old blogs as well as discovering new but it's always nice to have a place to come home and rest.

This is what I do here. Just come home and rest from it all. Rest from the reading, rest from the writing and just lay back and feel the wind.

Like a cool drink of water to my mind this place is. No constraints, no restraints....just my good ole "Box Fan" pulling out all the old and blowing in the new.

I wonder if anyone peers in here from time to time. If you happen upon my refuge there is only two rules.

1. Rest
2. Be quiet

Enjoy the Air. That one is not a rule but it is a requirement!

Simple Instructions

Introduction to The Box Fan.

Items needed:
2 windows
1 box fan

Instructions for installation:
1. Raise both windows. Preferably have windows located on opposite side of room.
2. Take box fan and place in first window.
Note: This step is not as easy as it would appear. First make sure the fan is positioned in the window backwards. The front of the fan should face the outside.
3. Close window down onto top of the fan.
Note: Make sure you balance the fan well and bring the window down toward top front so that your fan controls can be easily accessed with re-opening the window.
4. Turn fan on.
Note: If a big blast of air blows in your face......turn the fan around see #2 Note.
5. Position your bed, or wherever you sleep in between the two windows.

Purpose:
The box fan should pull out the hot air, and miraculously cool air will blow through the other window.

Now lay back and enjoy the cool breeze, nothing like it after a hot summers day in the south.

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of summers spent at my grandparents house where I first encountered the magic of "The Box Fan". Couldn't we all use something that would pull out the old and bring in the new. I know I'd welcome a bit of fresh air ever now and again.