I am everyone's favorite aunt. I'm the one who lets you have cake for breakfast but only carrot cake because its kind of good for you (from the carrots, geez!). I will always get us into trouble but I will take all the blame. What an adventure, everyone should have an Auntie O !!
Life is big and broad and too short to be pigeon holed into one little box, it never fails to astonish me however, just how many people don't want you to be able to do more than one thing creatively... I refuse to subscribe to this impoverished way of thinking and plan to carry on writing poetry, making music, supper, photography, gardens, quilts, and writing stories until I drop.
Alabama The Beautiful in photos
In 2001 I moved to my childhood home and I lead a life of almost complete serenity in the magical deep piney woods of south Alabama. I read a lot, study the Bible, I garden all the time, planting trees, flowers, shrubs--mowing 2 acres each week with a push mower and have really transformed the outside of this old place. Having my hands in the earth is not only theraputic but it makes me feel so close to the Lord. I am very spiritual; I value close relationships; I look beyond the surface; get involved in causes; need harmony in my life; have a burning need to be creative; and I love to nurture people, plants and animals.
Thoreau said, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And that's exactly why I came back here to the piney woods.
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Me? I am 100% Dixie. It asked me if General Lee was my father? No, but he is a distant cousin!
The South is my home...my beloved Dixieland, sweet home Alabama. And I love everything about it. I love ... the ante-bellum homes, the oaks, the mimosa trees, cape jasmines, the swamps, the pines, the Spanish moss hanging from the trees, the bayous, the fields, the rivers, the lakes, the crawfish, the shrimp, the cotton fields, the sugar cane, pecans, pralines, beignets, gators and riverboats.
I love Southern rock, Blues, Jazz, Bluegrass and Zydeco. The French Quarter in October, The Mighty Mississippi, The Cajuns, Mint Juleps, The MudBugs, Confederate re-enactors and The Stars and Bars.
I love Southern hospitality, Southern charm, Southern gentlemen, red beans and rice, froglegs, hushpuppies, fried catfish, Gumbo, Etoufee, magnolias, dinner on the ground, roses, azaleas, scupernongs, dogwood,whippoorwills, mockingbirds, blackberries, strawberries and Jambalaya.
I love Alabama beaches, Tennessee hills, Louisiana bayous, Arkansas Ozarks, Mobile Mardi Gras, The Big Easy, Mississippi Mud , Georgia peaches, Indian mounds, Kentucky Derby, Virginia culture, The Carolinas, Oklahoma hills, Texas plains and the Missouri temperament.
I love cornbread, fried chicken, okra, butter beans, pecan pie, biscuits, fried green tomatoes, oh this could go on forever and I have only just begun.
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Alba mo dhuthaich gu deireadh mo la. Far off in sunlit places, sad are the Scottish faces, Yearning to feel the kiss of Sweet Scottish rain. Where tropic skies are beaming, Love sets the heart a-dreaming, Longing and dreaming for the homeland again. Scotland forever ! Ceud Mille Failte !
NOVEMBER PEOPLE: Have a lot of ideas. Difficult to fathom. Thinks forward. Unique and brilliant. Extraordinary ideas. Sharp thinking. Fine and strong clairvoyance. Can become good doctors. Dynamic in personality.Secretive. Inquisitive. Knows how to dig secrets. Always thinking. Amiable. Brave and generous. Patient. Stubborn and hard-hearted. If there is a will, there is a way. Determined. Never give up. Hardly becomes angry unless provoked. Loves to be alone. Thinks differently from others. Sharp-minded. Motivates oneself. Does not appreciate praises. High-spirited. Well-built and tough. Deep love and emotions. Romantic. Uncertain in relationships. Hardworking. High abilities. Trustworthy. Honest and keeps secrets. Not able to control emotions.