Those little choices in life....
The other night my husband and I were reflecting back on the little things we have done in the past few years which have led to huge changes in our lives.
For instance, in late 2003 I decided on a whim to do the Rock and Roll half mary in Phoenix. When we got to Phoenix I fell in love w/ the area and a few months later we were living here. It has proven to be the best decision we have made in awhile, both personally and professionally. But had we not done the race I would have never considered moving here. I always had an idea in my mind that it was ugly and crime ridden w/ nothing but white trash. Go figure?!
Anyway, tonight when I got the mail I was reminded that my decision to join this forum was another good one. I feel like I have made some great friends here, even though most of you I haven't even met in person. But it's funny, when I tell people about my cold water on the noggin issues at IMAZ I say "my friend Nanci in Florida who has ice dived told me...." At least we have spoken on the phone!! ha ha!!:p
But honestly I don't think I could have gotten through IMAZ without you girls. You really did bouy my spirits just when I needed it most!
But now I want to take a cross country road trip. First I'd stop in NM to meet C-mac, then Chicago to visit Lise, then on to FL to meet Nanci. Oh and Virginia to meet Suzanne... I've always wanted to go out to the DC area...:D
Anyway, I just want to thank you again for welcoming me into the TE family! I hope to meet you all in person someday!
We really should organize a TE get together. Of course we need to make it somewhere epic- like Moab...:D Somewhere with good riding! And to please everyone it would have to have good riding for the skinny as well as fat tire girls!!
So what little seemingly insignificant- but turned out to be huge- decision did you make in life??
Ciao!
Denise
P.S. C-mac- YOU RAWK!!! I LOVE it!!! :) :) :)
From our nation's capital!
I am here! I am online! Oddly enough, I can't open my aol mailbox from my brother's computer, but I can come to TE. Probably all for the best...:rolleyes:
I thought of this thread today. I've been wiped out, working hard this week and not much sleep. All I could think of was getting to my brother's and going to bed. Tomorrow my sister arrives, and we all drive to Virginia for my cousin's wedding, and then dirive back, and then fly back to Chicago...it felt so hectic that I had no plans to do anything except sleep. But I slept for an hour on the plane, and felt much better. So Mom and I went to The Phillips Collection, an incredible little art museum down the street from my brother's office. They just reopened after major renovations. Those little choices...
About 7 or 8 years ago I came to visit my bro, and he suggested I go see an exhibit of modern art up at the museum. I'd never been, didn't have any particular feeling for modern art. BUT I had dated an artist not too long before this visit, and learned a lot about how art is made. It opened my mind a bit...so I went. I walked into the "Rothko room", and it changed my life. It's a small room with one large abstract painting by Mark Rothko on each wall. A bench in the middle, nothing more. There is something about these paintings that gets to me on a very emotional level. It almost feels like a cellular level, that my body reacts sooner than my mind. Whew. A very spiritual experience. The exhibit I'd gone to see that time was John Walker, also an abstract modernist. I came home and bought some paints and canvases, and started to paint. I'm not very good at it, but it makes me so happy. A few years ago, I made a painting for my brother to thank him for introducing me to this museum.
18 months ago, I was here for a conference, and when I went to the Phillips, I learned that the Rothkos were in storage during the reconstruction. I was so disappointed. Now they're back, in their glory. The new building also has one of the Walkers that I saw at that exhibit. Oh, yeah, and they've got a big Renoir/Degas show going on...but it's the Rothkos that move me. So glad I decide to take his suggestion all those years ago.