How nice is nice?  It was so nice today.  I was able to sleep in, have a relaxing morning, a restful afternoon of simple shopping trip (the kind you know what you need and you go get it and you’re done), AND…YOU TREAT YOURSELF TO A MC DONALD’S SOFT SERVE!  Then you come home and have the pleasure of watching a movie all afternoon.  Now the movie was the opulence for me.  It has been a long time since I took the time to watch any TV, much less a movie that lasted over two hours.  I watched THE HIDING PLACE, which tells the story of Corrie Ten Boom’s life.  It was a sad and amazing story.  I would highly recommend watching it.  I read the book many years ago and the movie actually did it justice.  It is the true story of a person who survived the concentration camps during World War II.

Now I have the absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting, and time consuming task of planning the next few weeks of travel.  I used all those descriptive words because I’m trying to psyche myself into the belief that it is great fun to do.  The traveling is great, but sometimes the planning and reservations can become tedious.  I still have too much to do (like having fun) than to take a day to plan.  But now is the time to do so while I have the comfortable place I do it where I feel so welcome.  I think there may even be some surprises in store for me.  I think I am going to be seeing some beautiful country.  Hope you keep reading along with me as I think I have some pretty neat things I will be seeing and experiencing.

God is so good!  God is so good!  God is so good to me! (Words of a song going through my head).  And oh, it is so true!  And with the above song singing in my head I set to write a poem and his is what came out.

HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Kathleen Martens

May 25 2015

Quiet time  is lost to me

So much noise flies so free.

Television blares it’s noisy racket,

Sometimes I would like to smack it!

But I won’t , for I love who’s here,

And not often are they near.

With generosity their home they share

And to do as they please is only fair.

A beautiful home welcomes my day,

A place for me to sleep and play.

A yard of beauty awaits each morn

As a new day again is born.

The fridges are full of delectable food

And the atmosphere has a happy mood.

And even night has its own sounds,

For in the waterfall frogs abound.

I love this home away from home

For it is far that I have roamed!

But now I feel a peace and calm

And and the noise of the TV has become a balm.

And I am loved by a furry little creature

Who is the queen of this home’s feature.

Black little Nikki is the love of my day,

She greets me heartily and wants to play.

I’m not alone and the sounds are sweet

And I love that our path did meet.

It is such a comfort that I can hear

Those who are close that I love so dear.

Thank you Daneece and Joyce AND NIKKI!

MY SAGE ADVICE FOR TODAY:  “ENJOY WHEREVER YOU ARE FOR SO SOON YOU WILL BE SOMEWHERE ELSE.”