Renaissance!

Okay back to blogging.  I figured out why and how to continue to add images to the site.  duh.  Today - as to getting back to "words" and the whole "blog" thing. . .today is cold.  Winter is grey.  I need more coffee. . .be right back. . .HOT coffee in hand, I'm back.  It is indeed cold, my feet are cold, because the floor is cold because of the high wind today.  I'm watching a special on PBS about winter in Yellowstone, watching all of the beauty and the struggles that the wildlife goes through each winter season.  All of a sudden I don't feel so bad about my "cold" situation.  I don't have it that bad!  Winter gives us such an opportunity for introspection.  Still I come back to beauty.  Environment.  When my environment is organized and beautiful - I operate very well.  So as I look around my place, I realize that that department need a LOT of work!!!!!!  And it is something that I truly like to do.  Even in the cold snow, animals play!  I so much love the mountains and the beauty of the wildness of places like Colorado, Yellowstone, Montana.  I hope I get to travel there more.  THAT all depends on a more steady stream of income.  So beautification along with improved income streams - and let us add to these thoughts - more communications with people. I LOVE teaching adults how to do glass.  It is such a joy to me to see them light up and be proud of themselves when they accomplish successful glass manipulation from cutting glass to the assembly with soldering and cementing.  Adults don't often "get to do something fun, something creative" it is so much "reserved" for helping children become creative.  Adults have children and then end up their full jobs becoming "taking care of children" and all of a sudden one day they wake up and find that their own desires of creativity have died on the vines of survival needs for the kids.  I totally see the need to teach children, don't get me wrong, and there are a LOT of people focused on THAT aspect, but what about the "forgotten adults?" who are still "kids at heart?"  That is where I come in.

I have had a very rough past 4 years of getting away from focusing on the needs that I have for myself.  I have helped a LOT of people, and I am glad to have done that for each and everyone, but now it is time to get back to my own desires.  My old "story" is about trying to make "go" a retail storefront that was underfunded, and this past year to make it into the past 5-year-plan of recovery from the 4 years of attempting to succeed in retail.  The recovery year has been slow slow progress, but I believe that I am about to reach the end of that tunnel.  

I am wanting to face the future with a word.  That word is Renaissance ! If you are reading this blog, I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts about a future of renaissance for all of us.  We need - in America - to have a revival of being proud of what we create, make, invent. . .to create new things of quality.  To adopt a work phrase philosophy of "steady as she goes" and "Quality doesn't cost more, it costs less!"  (because of a lack of returning to repair the rushed first attempt).  Instead of shipping our labor needs out to foreign countries like China, India, Mexico. . .get back to the inventing and building that is part of our nature as proud Americans.  Homes full of home-made, handmade items from bread to quilts to stained glass windows, to alcohol generated power, sunlight helping to grow groceries, a place where animals AND humans thrive and embelish eachothers lives, from plants to animals including humans - all respecting eachother. . .including the Earth itself. . .that is where we need to return home TO.  Please leave any comments - someday I hope that my blog will create some iteresting discussions and exchanges of ideas for us to all ponder and expand upon.