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Vintage Labor Day Fun

Like many low middle class families back in the 1950’s, it was a much simpler and happier time.  Not many years out of the great depression, there weren’t a lot of distractions from the real world.  The waters were much cleaner back then and even the birds sang sweeter to me.

I wanted to share some of my early vacation pictures in Michigan.  The oldest of six children, one of my Aunt’s loved taking pictures of me when I was little so our family had a glut of baby and toddler pictures of just me or me with another family member.  We don’t have many pictures of my father because he took off when I was a teen so we don’t have any pictures as a family after the one where we at the park having a picnic.  My father was so fun and talented, but very impulsive with a drinking problem at times.  I wanted to post the few pictures I had of having fun with my father for Labor Day.

We used to camp all over the state of Michigan when we were not visiting my Aunt and Uncles cottage on Black Lake.  I only feel good when I am out in nature and still find myself walking the trails as often as I can taking pictures of the beauty I find.

Dad and me at the cottage.
Not sure what game we were playing.
In my wading pool in our Detroit backyard.
Got dad to play dolls with me!
Dad and me cooling off.
Swimming in my undies missing dad.
Dad and me playing on the Seesaw. I used to be so scared of those things!
Dad with me, my sister and my oldest brother probably in Lake Erie somewhere.
From our ages, we are probably somewhere in the Upper Peninsula.

Daily Prompt: Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

Oh, if only I had some secret or technique to focus, I would have a much more successful blog.

If anyone out there has any good ideas, send them my way.

I used to be so focused and hard working and now I coast by each day, not really caring what gets done.  It’s not depression, it’s decompressing from over 40 years of working non-stop.

The only way I get things accomplished is to quit all distractions, and just keep moving like I have blinders on.  It helps when I’m in a manic stage.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life

Street Life of Greenfield Village and the 2008 100 Year Celebration of the Model T Invention in Dearborn Michigan

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Before it gets away from you!

There are just too many things to do and too many experts vying for your attention telling you to do things the right way, their way!  Especially if they have some snake oil to sell you.  The best way to live is to find a way that is comfortable for you.  Ways that you believe in and to put your attention on what is important to you, not some celebrity or self-proclaimed expert.  This is the key to living the best life you can. 

Life will never be perfect or easy, so you had better get some kind of fulfillment by making your living in something you believe in.  Most of us work or have worked for the money, not for purpose or fulfillment.  Most of the world’s poor is stuck doing this.  Just because you are not rich does not mean that you cannot live richly.  You will see that there are so many blessings in life that are free if you have a grateful heart.

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Your Future Is Unknown

but it is still your future. 

Make the most of everyday and don’t expect perfection from yourself or others.  Don’t dance to the tune of the world, but walk slow and sure and do the best job you can wherever you are placed.  I have experience and talents in many areas and consider myself a Renaissance Woman.  I used to feel bad that I never seemed to excel in any one thing, but that is not important to me now.  Everyone is different and I have always been easily distracted.  I sometimes think I have always been ADD, but never diagnosed, thank God! 

I’m sure the world would label me with some kind of brain dysfunction, but that is the very thing that makes everyone who they were born to be!  My Dr only recently told me that I could be mildly manic-depressive because I am very creative and sometimes have issues.  I believe that it is important to just live and not try to be a “winner.”  That is the way of the world, which is wrong.  Man has made life a contest with a culture that determines winners and losers and those that just fade away (the invisible people). 

Every life is precious, no two are the same and no one can ever be replaced.

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Wishing a Happy 2013!

Here’s hoping that you all accomplish your goals and resolutions for the new year, as long as they are positive and benefit all involved. 

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Don’t be hard on yourself or others when trying to accomplish anything in life. 

 It is already hard!