jodi.mama

I am Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

"Our own hearts, and not others opinions of us, forms our true honor." --Friedrich Von Schiller

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him." Gustave Flaubert

My friends are my estate." --Emily Dickinson.

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that's left is compromise." --Robert Fritz

I NEVER get bored! Boredom is for boring people, and there are NONE of those around here!

I'm sure I amuse myself way more than I amuse others...lucky me. However, I am NOT easily impressed. I like a sunny day(no humidity)mixed with a good thunderstorm. I like cake mixed with eating it too. I like busy days mixed with naps. I like socializing mixed with solitude. I like friends mixed with family. I like healthy mixed with unhealthy. I like kissez mixed with huggez. I like deep mixed with shallow. I like simple mixed with glamorous. I like thinking outside the box mixed with traditions. I like grace mixed with works mixed with more grace. I like listening mixed with ignoring. I like east mixed with west and south mixed with north. I like my fingers mixed with yours. I like colors mixed with neutrals. I like messy mixed with straight. I like saving mixed with spending. I like rock mixed with gospel. I like garden vegetables mixed with creme brulee. I like traveling mixed with staying home. I like Rocky Top minks mixed with Chinese ducks. I like text messages mixed with snail mail. I like staying up late mixed with getting up early. I like kings mixed with paupers. I like the city mixed with the country. I like dressing up mixed with sneakers. I like girls night out mixed with slumber parties. I like romanticism mixed with realism. I like staring mixed with denial. I like whispering mixed with yelling. I like the old mixed with the new. I like me mixed with you. I like reading mixed with watching. I like sobriety mixed with a glass of wine. I like blue eyes mixed with dark hair. I like black mixed with white. I like knowing mixed with mystery. I like English mixed with French. I like Solomon mixed with Seuss. I like ambition mixed with laziness. I like designer mixed with thrift store. I like talking mixed with silence. I like confidence mixed with humility. I like clean mixed with dirty. I like the Hollywood Hills mixed with the hills of Tennessee. I like extroversion mixed with introversion. I like laughing mixed with crying. I like strange places mixed with familiar faces. I like familiar places mixed with strange faces. I like you mixed with me...can't you see?

AND...I descended from a German princess named Phoebe, who married a Jewish man and came to America...End of story.

In my dreams, I'm always kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream...

I'd like to see the Riviera and slowdance underneath the stars...

SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES:

"It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty." -Leo Tolstoy

"love, every mode of it - solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes as comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. No cranny of heart or body remained unsatisfied. " - C.S. Lewis

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame" Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave this world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have success." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lord make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, joy.O divine master grant that I may Not so much seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive- It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. And its in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.~Prayer of Saint Francis

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

"I find beauty in the fine detail around me. I wish to design in a way that leads to a simple way of gracious living everyday" --Barbara Barry

When Bono was on Oprah, Oprah said she'd noticied that he was a very religious man. Bono responded, "I don't consider myself religious. Religion is a lot like Elvis. When the Spirit (God) leaves the building, you get religion. I'm just as comfortable in a Catholic church up north as I am in a tent meeting down south- if the Spirit is there. But if the Spirit isn't there, I'd rather not be in either place."

(I couldn't agree more)