I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
thank you for all your wonderful, positive comments! ineke, rene, liza and retha, you have blessed me with a smile today!
i hope you are all thinking of a word for 2008. now, the next challenge is to scrap the word. i have already done so, and will upload the photo tomorrow.
janine, if you see this, please let us know how you are doing. you won't believe how much we are all thinking about you. almost every day someone wonders out loud how you are doing. janine is a client who moved to seattle, USA last week. we are missing you, doll...
something one of you said, was that you were turning 40 this year. retha, i won't tell everyone it was you. i won't give your age away... this reminded me of when i was turning 30.
turning 40 was relatively easy. but turning 30 was a challenge for me. not because of the age-thing. but i had this feeling of disappointment. is this what we have worked for all our lives? all the school, the manners, the preparing. stef bos has a song called 'is dit nu later?' he askes if all that 'one day, later' is this. is this it? i felt like jack nicholson running through the doctor's rooms, asking 'what if this is as good as it gets?' in that movie. i read somewhere that in your 29th year it is the first time since the day of your birth, that all the planets are aligned the same way again. this is supposed to bring some emotional turmoil. well, planets or not, i had a difficult time then.
now, 11 years later, i am happy to say that things get better. i am certainly happier, more content, more confident, more assertive, more at peace within myself and more fulfilled than ever. and fatter, and poorer, and working harder. but that is a different matter.
who knows, maybe turning 50 will be difficult again. i hope not!
love, jacki
ps. how do you like the new image?
SCRAPPIN TIMES
