Serendipity

Pleasant Lake Michigan. That's where I am, healing from my breakup with my boyfriend. I needed time away, to regroup and find myself again. It's beautiful here and the purpose of this post and others that will follow, is to share with you some of the beauty Michigan has to offer. Sunset 2nd night here Sunset 3rd night here A family on a boat ride Great Blue Heron Edge of the lake This lake has an abundance of life, from swans to geese, herons to ducks, muskrats to what might be left to discover.   Water lily leaves Most of the boats on the lake are pontoon boats Other water crafts are used too. A single duck Another sunset   Within the yard here are some flowers I thought were pretty: Echinacea  Hosta I think   But my eyes fell in love with the swans! Single swan geese and swans More of the water fowl swan couple up close These 2 squirrels were having a blast ...

From the time I was a child, who had a younger brother and sister, and later a step-sister and four step-brothers...into adulthood, having no less than one child with me (and up to 6 children in the household--my three and 3-step-children--at one time)...then living with my daughter and her three for most of the last decade, I have not known "silence". There was always, always the sounds of children in my home where-ever I have lived. For all those years in my adulthood, the need for silence, peace and quiet, away from the daily influx of noise, was a thing I coveted. It was my way of recouping and maintaining some degree of sanity...away from children and husbands. What little time alone that I did get, was rare...and there were times that I was lost because that silence was deafening to me. Call it a misguided sense of co-dependency. When I moved away from my daughter's home last September, away from my grand-children and their daily noises, I was like a bird t...