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Name: Karen Srack
It's true. I really am the luckiest girl, ever. Don't believe me? Read on, friends, and believe.

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Friday, 24 April 2009

The *hot* spell is over…and the cooler weather is back. But spring is still definitely in the air!
 

For those of you who know me, really know me, it will not come as a surprise to you that I love spring. Despite the sometimes too cold, sometimes too hot, can’t make up your mind, allergy inducing madness the season brings, I LOVE SPRING! It makes me want to rush right out and buy that red convertible I’ve never indulged in. I settle, of course, for new peep-toe coral heels. Not quite the same, but they’ll do. For now.
 

Spring. Just the word itself is a smile. Shout it, sing it! It’s Spring! Hooray!
 

I have spring fever, in case you haven’t guessed. And I’ve got it B-A-D. I always get it, along with the allergies and emerging tan lines, but this year it seems worse than ever. Maybe because work is slow, maybe because I am so deliciously happy with my life, maybe because it is a perpetual disease that continues to get worse every year, like wrinkles. Whatever the reason, I got it.
 

It is a happy time, for the most part. Spring, for me, symbolizes new beginnings, fresh starts, new life. It is in the blooming flowers, the goslings and ducklings, the Robin’s nests. My heart, too, longs for a fresh start, a new beginning, but I don’t even have a crush. It is the only thing that is really missing from my spring time.
 

So if you know of someone, send him my way. Fortunately for me, I hear spring fever is highly contagious.

Thursday, 02 April 2009

‘The most important things in life are not things’ - Anthony J. D'Angelo
 

‘The best things in life are free’ - American Proverb 
 

Great quotes, variations of the same idea. An idea that is especially important as our world, our nation, our state, cities, and even families continue to struggle and clutch at the edge of the boat that is financial security.  The problem is, even though we know and do our best to remember that the best things in life are the things that can't be purchased, we do need things that must be purchased. And therein lies the rub. How do we balance what we know is important, with the stress and worry and general feeling of helplessness caused by the uncertainty of gaining the things that, though not the best things, are still necessities? Things like bills, groceries, health insurance. Things that must be paid for, and when they are not, the stress spills over and begins to corrupt the ‘best things’ in life. How do we stop the madness?? I don’t really have an answer, no wise words coming to mind. I guess the only answer is just keep praying. The necessities that we see are not always the necessities that are real. And, in the end, I think we will find that, though the best things in life are free, they do not come without a cost. And the cost is trust, patience, and a whole lot of faith.