For Japan with Love

This Friday I will be participating in the For Japan with Love Bloggers Day of Silence   (no postings) to acknowledge and help raise awareness and respect for the devastation going on in Japan, as well as to help raise money for relief aid to Japan. Please stop by the For Japan With Love site and contribute if you are able to do so. Every little bit helps!
“All of the donations {For Japan, With Love} will go to ShelterBox, which provides emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies for families around the world who are affected by disasters at the time when they need it the most. Each large, green ShelterBox is tailored to a disaster but typically contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items.”

 

Wednesday Link Love

I made one of these this week- very easy and very festive!

Wish I had seen these before Valentines Day! But maybe I will make these instead.

A little bit of quilt love here and here.

Great idea here from annalea as the guest blogger on kojodesigns.

We almost have to try this just to see how it works.

So, how much would you love to have Mary E make YOUR wedding invitaitons?!

I think I’d like one of these.  Wonder how DH would feel about it!

Now this is some candy bling!

Fun party invite!

I need this girl to come pack my purse!

Carrying an unknown friend

In the wee hours of the morning today, a woman crept into my vision, then into my heart, and I have carried her piggy back all day long. She is a mother, just like me, and my same age. Her children, like mine, are off at school or in jobs in other cities. She likes to journal, enjoys decorating her home, loves her alone time, and collects old photographs. I live in Kentucky. She lives in Japan. And right now all she knows, all she wants to know is that  her children are somewhere safe, to hear their voices, to know that they are out of all harms way.

A simple question, “What would I do if.......?” and there she was, and all day long as I've watched or read news, I have seen it through her eyes. She and I are a rather unwieldy entanglement. I have carried her sadness as mine all day long, and can't shake it tonight.

Dear Other Mother who I do not know- I will pray for your children as my own. I will pray for you. I will hold out the hope of a day to come when you may write in your journal, set a red pitcher on a table, tuck photos of your grandchildren into a book, fall asleep easily in your own bed.

Loyalty

I apologize for posting videos back to back, but this is so dear I wanted to share it.   While I can’t understand the Japanese, I can surely tell what is going on here.   May we all have a friend so loyal!

Music Monday

I’m on a round of steroids this week which are helping me a lot toward getting well, but the down side is that what little precious sleep I am able to get is filled with bizarre dreams.  Last night’s dream made me laugh out loud when I woke up and remembered it.  I dreamed that Aretha Franklin was singing this song……

What’s up with This?

And my short night of attempted sleep involved a long long dream with me trying to coach the Louisville Cards that went strangely like this video.  

Six Word Saturday

Ever present in my heart today