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| Whimsy_girl |
Posted - Aug 03 2005 : 11:24:13 PM
I find inspiration all over the place.. usually the unusual and funny things in life get me thinking.. my husband being both a little strange and unusual is a huge inspiration in my life to keep things light and happy most of the time, he is very smart so that encourages me to keep a sharp wit and not let my brain get too dim and fuzzy.
My mom has nearly unreachably high standards, so she inspires me to be the absolute best I can be, and to continue the work to be better.
My babies inspire me most of all. They make me want to be warm, and soft and sweet... It's because of them that I stay home each day, I love a quote I once read that says "the best chefs in the world all have the same memory, a kitchen with both a warm stove and a mom in it" I want to give them so much!! I have become a much better person because of them, less selfish, and I am reminded of how important it is to "Think little" everything is so facinating when you see it through their eyes....
Who has made you who you are? What makes you swell up inside with a passion for life and love and everything great?
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. James Stewart in the movie HARVEY |
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| MeadowLark |
Posted - Aug 05 2005 : 3:22:10 PM
My dear mother and father, and all my grandparents, aunts, and uncles that have gone before me. Their integrity, honesty, patriotism, devotion to home, and family and their God sustains me each day of my life.
The flowers flee from Autumn, but not you-
You are the fearless rose that grows amidst the freezing wind. Rumi |
| sqrl |
Posted - Aug 05 2005 : 09:15:37 AM
Well the first person I though of is my Grandmom. I grew up with her more as a Mom than a Grandmom. I didn't realize until I was much older that many people don't have this special relationship with their Grandparents. Most of my friend growing up didn't really know their grandparents. I'm happy to know know her, we are very much alike sometimes too much so, We've had our spats always making up in five mintunes. She raised us in an old fashoion, new fashion mix. She can grow anything, make the most delious food, knits the BEST socks, I could go on and on. She's an strong old stubborn german women, who has a great sense of humor once you figure out that she's joking. She has an amazing sense for reading people. Growing up every friend of mine that she didn't like some how is no longer in my life, she could just tell of course I wouldn't listen to her but she always right. She raised a house full of strong women.
Ever since my Father-in-law called last autmun and said "check out this website, your going it love" I've found another person who inspires me - Mary Jane. I found her website first than as a birhtday gift I got a subscription to her mag. She and her crew are just so inspiring. They make me take myself and the things I creat seriously, I can have what I want. She did it so can I.
Blessed Be
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| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Aug 04 2005 : 05:36:43 AM
Your question really made me think, probably because I get inspiration from so many places. Like most people, I get it from my family. I used to always wonder where this love of nature and the love of the "old ways" came from, my love for farming. I was so little I dont really remember but my grandparents had a farm in PA. I found pictures of it with me on it after my parents died. My granmother was a very funny, warm devilish woman. She taught me to have a sense of humor. I want a small farm so bad, I just ache from it, cant think of anything else at times. So that came from Gram. Im inspired by my daughter and husband. my siblings, some of them. Im so moved and inspired by nature, all of it, even the fury, although I'd rather be out of the way of the fury. Nature to me is like blood running through my veins. I dont have to be out hiking in it, although I love that, But when im outside in my garden watching the bees, butterflies, birds, bugs all doing their thing, Im amazed, happy and just so very content. For me, growing things brings me to the core of nature, even in my so very small yard Im able to grow things. When I go out and pick my herbs, carrots, tom. flowers, whatever I manage to grow, I'm in my glory. Even when I make mistakes out there and I do, Im happy in the dirt. I think also when you grow things, no matter what scale, you feel the rhythm of nature more, your closer to it. Even when my big hairy dog, Chaos (an Akita) is shedding all over my house and my bird Ozzie (a cockateil) is molting and feathers are flying, I just tell myself, it's nature. I clean it up for 10,000th time and move on. Inspiration comes from many places for me and I feel so blessed because of it. Great question. Michele
"she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands". Prov. 31:13 |
| bramble |
Posted - Aug 04 2005 : 05:34:22 AM
Robin- What beautiful thoughts. Sounds like you're a lucky girl to have such wonderful people in your life. It's hard to have lost your Mom too soon like I did too, but I have come to a realization lately. They planted these wonderful seeds in us that have blossomed and grown into who we are today. I used to think how sad she didn't see me married or have her first grandchild, but our mothers stand with us everyday in every word, touch, hug and smile that we share with the people we love. They could see , like you can, who we will be before we ever knew and they took care to help that grow in us.
Not too long ago I said something about my Mom to my son and he said "Mom, I would have really liked Grammy, wouldn't I?! and I answered Yes sweetie you would have but why do you ask?!!" and with a smile that could melt the polar ice caps he said "Because I really like you".They are with us always.
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| TheSoapMaven |
Posted - Aug 04 2005 : 05:22:04 AM
I love this thread! I have to tell you all, the latest inspiration as come from MaryJane and her staff. What a most awesome group. Each time I pick up the magazine, book or talk to someone at MaryJanesFarm, I am renewed. They will never know how they have blessed my life. Words wont do it justice.
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| ThymeForEweFarm |
Posted - Aug 04 2005 : 04:50:13 AM
This will sound odd I suppose. My Great Nana Tressa. She died in November and I was born the following April. Her name is my middle name. She knew I was coming but we didn't get to meet before she died of cancer. She left me her green Depression glass. She was a strong willed, always-on-the-go, do what's right, hard-working business owner back before women commonly owned businesses. I strive to be like her. I wish there were a picture of her.
Nature inspires me. Animal mothers are so protective, nurturing, teaching and strong. Have you ever watched a mother bear with her cubs? She takes only so much, warns, and then little swat (she doesn't have time out) brings her children back in line. She is patient and firm at the same time. Or a dog with her litter of pups? We've had two litters here. Maggie is tired at the end of eight or ten weeks of motherhood to nine babies but she's taught her pups through example not to bite because it hurts, not to bicker with your siblings, and she's protective. If she thinks we've had a puppy out of the box too long she will come to gently take the pup from us and return it to its litter mates. It's ok to visit but puppies, like children, need to be with family. A tiny seed grows to provide many meals. God's given us such a beautiful world to live in. There are promises of tomorrow and next year all around us.
My husband is a strong man. I work hard to be the person he thinks I am. He doesn't put pressure on me to be someone I am not. He knows I have high expectations of myself and he's there to put me back up on my feet when I let myself down. He tells me when I'm on the verge of taking on too much. My daughters have grown into and are growing into amazing women. I can see what kind of mother my almost 21 year old will be. She is nurturing, firm and loving with children now. She is full of adventure. My mother took her on a great adventure called Puddle Jumping when she was a toddler. She still puddle jumps today (and if you're close enough for her to soak she has that much more fun!). I once threatened to "teach your children puddle jumping if you don't cut it out!" to which she relied, "I'll have already taught them." I can see her with children in hand, walking in the rain and jumping in puddles. She'll be that kind of fun mom. My youngest daughter will be a chef who buys fresh food from local farmers and feeds many people. We just might see her on Food Network one day. My girls are silent leaders. I try to live up to what I want for them. And my mom. She was a strong woman who died much too young. She would be so proud of her grandchildren. She never would have allowed the division in our family that we have without her. She believed in working hard and playing at least as hard. She raced her brother on ATVs one day because "anything he can do I can do better." She wanted to hit a puddle (see a theme with puddles?) just right to soak my uncle. Instead, she hit loose gravel and rolled the four wheeler. She broke ribs and her glasses but she pulled herself together and never let her grandfather know what she'd done because she knew she would catch heck from him. He didn't see well. He never knew she was looking at him through crooked glasses that were missing a lens. Stubborn! Oh was she stubborn. My uncle dragged her to the hospital the next day to have her ribs x-rayed. She taught me to preserve food, cook on a woodstove and manage a greenhouse. She packed a gun while picking berries on remote backwoods roads after we were harassed by a couple of drunken men. I miss her terribly. My dad doesn't waiver in his belief in me and always tells me that he loves me. He stood by me at the worst time of my life. I am blessed by the people in my life, including all of you here.
Robin
Thyme For Ewe Farm
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