CAROUSEL HORSE

I love making cards with stamps. The problem is I don't always have the stamp I want and if I find a stamp I like it usually cost more money than I want to pay. So I have started drawing my own designs. After I draw the picture I can make a copy or just color the picture as drawn. By making a copy I can shrink or enlarge the picture. This picture I think I will shrink so I can make it into a card. That is tomorrows project.

CHANGES ARE COMMING

As I look at my blog I feel like I am having an identity crisis. I started my blog as an extension of me as a counselor. I have been retired for a year now and I find I don’t think like a counselor. There are many more things I am free to think about. I think more about my religious beliefs, want I intend to do with my future, my health, my family and friends. I don’t know that any one of these parts of my life I want to blog about.



If I was to choose a new idea of blogging I would choose my art and crafting. It has been a long time since I taught others to do crafting or art so it might be a challenge but maybe that is exactly what I need right now. So beginning next week this blog will change. I don’t know if it will be successful but the only way to find out is to try.

THE GUILTY NEED NO ACCUSER

What a profound thought. I know that I am a very hard judge on myself but do I have to worry about what others are saying about me because I have done something to offend either intentionally or unintentionally. Am I uncomfortable around others because I have slandered them in the past? What about my thoughts? No one will ever know about my thoughts so shouldn't I be entitled to them. Do I like the directions my thoughts take me or are they just innocent judgments of others that I reserve the right to feel.

The book The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is about a man who was about to get away with murder but he couldn’t stop hearing the beating heart of the man he had killed. He imagined that everyone could hear the beating and eventually it drove him mad. Being without a guilty conscience in word, deed and thought is the only way to stop the accuser.

BACK AGAIN

It is good to be back among the world of computer users. After a hiatus due to computer meltdown all is well in the Munson home office. Well almost all is well. There are many blogs addresses that I have lost. I follow you but I don’t know how to find you again. If you are reading this and want to let me know your blog addresses please leave me a note so I can put you in my favorites! Or if you prefer my email is lorriemunson@sbcglobal.net.

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

SUMMER IN ST. LOUIS

Today is the beginning of the 4th of July weekend. As I talk to friends they discuss road trips, fireworks, Fair Saint Louis, parades, picnics, and barbeques. It's July and we live in St. Louis so the weather will be hot and humid. Flowers are in full bloom. Neighbors have their flags out and some of the scout troupes are placing small flags by mailboxes. Swimming pools are at maximum capacity. If the Cardinals are in town you can expect traffic on all roads leading into the city. Going to the Muni is a tradition as well as visiting Forest Park and Shaws Garden. Yes, its summer and it feels good.