spring has not yet sprung

But everybody's ready for it. Here are some thoughts on the coming of spring.

Spring! What is it I Like About Spring, by Anonymous Woman

Spring is cleaning, birth of beauty, and music from the little ones who are born to sing.

Spring is a perfect name for the season, because everything is springing up. The birds and other baby animals spring up.

Then you have the colors springing up from trees, plants, flowers, and God even gives color in the sky from rainbows, or the sun shining across the ocean that comes up with many different colors of red, orange, yellow across the sky.

Plus time, you have to spring ahead which your clocks.

Gardens growing vegetables and bushes growing berries of many colors. Spring is a very beautiful season everything all new again.

What it means to me is a new and beautiful attitudes and feelings!!




Spring, Anonymous Man

February is almost over. Spring will be here soon. I'm looking forward to the warmer weather (and even the warmer rain!). I enjoy all the seasons equally but spring is when everything starts to reawaken. The flowers come into bloom once again and the birds can be heard trilling their songs to all that care to listen and enjoy. The cloudy skies start to clear, the children and seniors once again seek pleasant comfort in the out of doors. The young (and older) lover find surcease in long walks, reflecting the season in their smiling faces. Spring introduces summer.




Spring Time!

When I was a little girl, I was put in foster homes, but what I can remember is tulips. I played outside.

I also had asthma, so I couldn't really enjoy everything everyone else could. Easter in the city of K. Falls, one of the boys was in Boy Scouts, so we made a Boy Scout camping trip with them. We set up camp, roasted hot dogs, and all that. We had breakfast in the camp lodge. We'd go to bed, wake in the morning to hung Easter eggs with our Easter baskets.

Spring vacation from school was cool. I remember it woudl cloud up really good and the storm drains in the street would back up. The kids in the neighborhood would all run out and play in the streets with each other and just get soaking wet. Parents came home and we all talked about our day, soon we kids were fed and off to bed. Laughter, tears, fears, and I'm still here.




Death to Heaven, by Dreamer

living on the souls of the dead,
tower of heavenly wonders
amongst the chain of the
living dead. the dead
don't know they're dead but
their souls are the feast
of the living. only confusion
from thought to thought of the
barely existing dead being
feasted upon by the souls
of the living, feeling
powerful, meaningful emotions.
a spirit rising from the dead
continuation to the living
here on earth to death of
heavenly wonders to await those
worthy of feasting on the dead.

what are *you* proud of?

Last week's assignment was to do with regret. I asked the group to think of the things in their lives they've regretted and to write about those things, to say what they need to say about those experiences, to make apologies if necessary. I haven't posted those yet, but I will. This week, to balance that out, I asked everyone to think of things they're proud of. I got a lot of different responses and here they are.

Being Grateful, by Ishibon

I'm Grateful to my Higher Power
I'm Grateful to Grandfather Rocks
I'm Grateful to Mother Earth
The Sun, Moon, Stars, the Different Seasons.
The Animals, the Deer, Elk, Salmon,
the different Roots, Berries, the Hide
We're able to make Our Moccasins,
Buckskin Outfits
The Eagle's feathers to make our
Fans we use so gracefully when Dance.
The Hide we use for our Drums.
Each New Dawn and Evening we've survived.
I'm grateful for geting my GED in '83.
I'm also grateful for the Diploma
I received for my Alcohol Treatment.
I'm Grateful for getting as many
Jobs as I have had.
Remember Grant,
Remember Lee,
The Hell with them
Remember me!



There Are Some Things in Life that Make Me Mad or Glad, by Anonymous Woman

Things that make me mad: injustice done to anyone, people hurting other people and getting away with it, guys devaluing women, thinking they're better than a woman is. People hurting animals. People taking advantage of others. For instance, my insurance saying I don't have insurance, but then taking money out of my account anyway.

Things that make me glad: people getting along with one another. Generosity, true and loving, no strings attached. A warm spring day when you can feel the warmth and the sun and see the blossoms blooming and the birds singing.

Depending on the issue you choose to pay attention to, it will affect you, either you'll be glad or mad, or mad or glad. You can change your outlook but it can be difficult. What you can do is, look at your attitude and see what your focusing on and then try and focus on the glad items. You can also flip it in reverse. It's ok to be both glad and mad or mad and glad. It's ok to feel these feelings. It's what you do with these feelings that matters.



My Dream Last Night, by Dreamer

Well, I won't tell you what I had in the back of my car, but it was worth $200,000. Then the cops were after me. I was driving, going over 110mph. I came upon a cliff and then went over it, the cops stopped behind me. I started to freak out and almost woke up, when I looked and saw a blue, flashing light that said "push to boat." I thought "how convenient" since there was water below me.

So I pushed it then the car turned into a boat. I landed on the water. Then I got thirsty in my dream, and boom: in came a root beer. I saw land and then looked down and saw a button that said "push to car." I pushed and it turned back into a car, just in time. I went home and the cops showed up.

The house suddenly turned into a burrito. The cops didn't know what to think, so they left. At first I was watching it like a movie, but suddenly I was inside the burrito. I started eating it. I could taste the beans. Then the house-burrito turned back into a bouse and I was still inside. I looked around and saw everything was normal, but there were bites out of the stairwell.

Then, suddenly, when I walked out the front door, there were ducks, sheep, groundhogs, chickens, pigs, cows, bunnies and much, much more. I'm still not sure what that was about. The pig spoke, "hey you!" I said "What?" And it said "Dreamer." Then a lighter voice called "Dreamer?" And I woke up and there was my friend, "Dreamer, what do you want to eat?"



How Will I Be, by Mavis Wykopf

Before was crisis and trauma
Now more calm
Before was highs and lows
Now more calm
Before was a roller coaster
Now more calm

Although I'm still on a ride, it's new! A new way to live has been handed to me on a silver platter. I've worked hard for it but I never felt as though I deserved anything good. Everything was used, hand-me-down, faded.

Things are brighter. I've heard of a "new lease on life" from people who have failed at suicide. I'm not so sure.

accord

It's a full moon tonight and it shows. Things here at the Oasis are tumultuous, but we still manage to pull through. Last week I had some technical difficulties when I tried to update the ol' blog, but that's more or less worked out now. Here are some of tonight's gems from writing group. Enjoy.

Life's Accord, by Greatness

Making a change for self-improvement to date requires a unique assortment of resloves when, due to many arbitrary challenges maintained by forces of questionable interests, life bears no relevant texture, lest through inadvertance one would cater to the afflictives and thus forfeit an overall and timely purpose. Since the human experience can only be of what the spirit wills, projective instance cannot be without some frills. No direct intent to rhyme is presented, yet it will only reflect truth in the area of being total within and fitfully capable of expressing valid potential outwardly from the properly preserved point of being. It is alleged that life is too short or that one can only do so much, therefore, setting it altogether to make it all worth-while can only be achieved through a set commitment held true to one's exact purpose or desire. So keeping it real can be such a great deal or doing just what you like or whatever you feel.



What I'm Looking Forward To, by Andi

I'm looking forward to getting some one-on-one counseling. I feel like I am always having to defend myself. I am constantly on the defensive.

I'm tired of fighting. I want to work, but I'm not longer sure of what I can do. I need something to fill the time.

I try really hard to think; whatever is meant to be will be.

I'm tired of people taking advantage of me. But I think I'm getting stronger in that respect.

The fact that I am getting older and uglier is really taking a toll on me. I have had image issues all my life, but now those issues are becoming more intense.

I keep wondering if I am the person people perceive me to be.



Looking Forward, By Dilly Scott

Looking forward to a peaceful place where I can sleep until dawn or noon and have a furry friend and no one to holler for beer or anything at 3am. I can open the door when I'm ready, have a dead-bolt, and read the Psalms to the cat, have some music and dream of more.

I do not feel too old to dream.

I miss the "strawberry roan." I want to look forward to making new friends. I feel as if I should find a way to fix something first. No more pussy-footing around. I do want to read the Psalms and the Song of Solomon.