Windows

As I am typing this entry in my blog, I am sitting in my favorite spot in my current apartment, the window.  I have the shades wide opened and a breeze is blowing in, it refreshes my spirit.  I will miss my windows, that is what drew me to these apartments to begin with.  I love the light and air, especially the surrounding trees that would sway back and forth from the gentle wind.  Sometimes, if I needed to escape the misery of the world I would have a cup or glass of something and I would look out the windows, everything from my perspective looked peaceful, as it should be.  My window view was a source of comfort.  Unfortunately, these last few months I have stayed in a lot, and my apartment windows helped with my healing.  I would look out my windows to the world and I would start to plan what I would do once my strength would increase, and now that I feel 85% stronger, I am looking forward to some adventures, adventures I would plan behind a screen and glass pane.  My new apartment will give me a different view of the world, mostly from the ground up.  I just hope that my new view will inspire me to have a new perspective and plan new adventures.  I am very much looking forward to these new old windows, they will have a lot to show me.

 

 

Hallway Hutch

It is a beautiful day today.  I have all my windows open, the dogs have been taken out and fed and I have dirty dishes soaking in the sink.  There are boxes all over my apartment and yesterday a friend made arrangements for movers to come on the 10th of June to take my furniture to my new place.  It seems like things are falling into place, and the best thing about this move is that I do not feel anxious.  I know the Lord is orchestrating the whole process, and I am so grateful for that.  Don't get me wrong I have had some moments of what ifs, but then I am in total peace and continue on forward.  I just sold my beautiful hallway hutch that was given to me a couple of years ago.  A friend of ours had this this hallway hutch in her home and she did not want it anymore.  So, I told her if she ever got rid of this gorgeous piece of furniture, I would take it from her.  Well, she gave it to me and I so loved it!  Unfortunately, it is a little too tall for my new apartment.  So, my son placed ads in several venues and a very sweet woman purchased my hutch.  She stated that she had been looking for a hallway hutch like mine for years, so her husband came by and purchased it from us, at full price.  She later messaged my son's account to let us know that she loved the hutch and thanked us.  It made me feel better that someone loves this piece of furniture as much as I do.  I know it is an adamant object, but it was something I appreciated and used, and it made my bedroom feel so elegant, it really was a beautiful piece of furniture. 



Grieving Colorado

It has been awhile since I've last written.  It is not that I had nothing to write about, but life does keep one busy.  Not that I am busy all the time, but priorities can become misplaced.  In other words I have been too exhausted to write or maybe too lazy.  But, I am still working at the hospital, I am getting ready to go back to school and I found another place to live.  I have shared in the past on the issues with my apartment complex and continued increases in rent, which will be going up another 65.00 a month.  So, my son and I have been packing for the last month, I cannot believe how much we have, mostly my stuff.  It is a lot of things I use and the things I do not use I have been donating or throwing away.  I decided to stay in the Springs for another year, the place I am renting is a little smaller and a lot less on rent, but it will help me save a little.  The cost of living is becoming ridiculous in the Springs!  People are having to work two to three jobs just to stay above water.  The Springs is being overtaken by people from "progressive" states, and they are rude, selfish, arrogant and they are not wanted in Colorado.  My  beautiful state is becoming Colofornia.   Even though I am not a native of this state, I have been here 18 years and assimilated to the lifestyle of Colorado.  But those coming from other states leave their crap that they help create in their state, then move to other states because they like the lifestyle, then they bring the same mindset from the states they are fleeing from and they vote and want the crap they left.  Why don't just stay where you came from if you miss you crap so much!  It is just pathetic and unfortunately many Coloradoans are moving to states like Wyoming or Montana.  I cannot blame them.  How sad that Colorado will be destroyed in a matter of years, it is already starting with the garbage and politics, or is it one of the same.  I don't think I want to buy a home right now, but I hope I can save enough money to leave the Springs. But for now I will be moving into a two bedroom one bath basement apartment.  It is an older home, but I have the backyard for my dogs and no pot smokers!!  To think that many people are moving to Colorado for the pot, how pathetic!  Anyway, even Governor Hickenlooper stated that he did not want to pass the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, Yeah Right!!  Now, that he has lined his pockets with pot money he regrets it.  He could have vetoed the legalization of pot, maybe he is seeing the demise of our state with the garbage, homelessness, broken families and crimes increasing in Colorado.  Unfortunately, more lethal drugs have increased too.  I hope all these pathetic politicians sleep well at night.  WOW!!  If I sound disgusted and angry about sharing the truths of what a legalized drug can do to a state, I am telling you, it can destroy it!  Even the Coloradoans who voted for the legalization of pot are regretting it, big time!

Anyway .  .  .  .

Now, I wanted to write about what I have been up to, but I believe that I needed to share how Colorado is changing, and not for the better.  I miss my Colorado, especially the Springs, you are not the same.  You are becoming a giant garbage dump and the people who are moving here are disgusting.  They do not love you, but they are using you because they can afford to rape your natural beauty and they get away with it.  I will not leave you completely, but I will grieve you, I will live in grief for the slow loss of my beloved Colorado.



Garden of the Gods. Photo by Lilia