Cold and Colder here in Maine. Sunshine and 14 degrees.

 This image has been here before-- and this is the final curtain for it....the original went into the trash just moments ago.  I do not feel caged but when I cut this image for the desktop- I DID.  And today I noticed the woman is not IN the cage...the door is open.  She seems to be saying- "just TRY to get me back inside that cage"

Now that I am NOT the second member of an unhappy married couple--now that I am SINGULAR.  Not responsible for the care and safekeeping of another soul....I feel lighter and lighter as the months go by.  Shedding my  responsibilities.  Just as I am letting go of Gardening, Cooking, Decorating  and Quilting books.  And yes...I was unhappy. All those years.

Whatever knowledge and ideas I have in my head right now....those are ENOUGH.

I can work with whatever I have stored in my head.  Let go of anything else...things that were once very interesting but are now excess baggage.  I have a recipe card here to the left for Roasted Cauliflower Soup and halfway thru the instructions I stopped writing (whenever I was writing this card).......but my handwriting is very very nice.

As usual, my daughter has left the piles of books we are NOT keeping by the window on the floor... And as usual, I take one or two out of the piles, look them over and consider keeping them....

As we are going thru this- as we did with the tubs of clothing.......some stays and the rest goes. But we take our TIME.  So far, I have kept all the cloth...and all my FICTION books (I even have added MORE)...almost all are rom-coms.  I like the romance and enjoy the comedy.

Well, It's cold...here in Maine...and I need my first 8 ounces of water and then my oatmeal and tea.  And the newspaper where Susan Collins has AGAIN shown her true weak colors........but this is Maine and I am an outlier.....not a Republican.  And I have NEVER in all these years..... voted for her. Or respected her.