Awesome Tuesday

Wow, about a week ago I won an online giveaway on Quilters Newsletter site. I still have a hard time believing it, I'm elated to have won. The fabrics are just breathtaking beautiful, like something I just want to stare at and not touch, except that it is too exquisite not to touch. And, there is also this awesome 2014 calendar with frame-worthy photos of amazing quilts. I'm a little bit in shock. :)
So thankful !

Thought for Tuesday...

Just checked a lottery ticket I had not checked from last month. I buy one Powerball ticket a month. Well, I am stunned, I won $4.00. How awesome!!! 

World of Unknown

Today I am exhausted, and my thoughts are running through my mind like a mouse running through a maze looking for a way out.

“We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!”

~Tennessee Williams

I came home from the hospital last night, feeling so alone and scared. I had trouble sleeping and controlling my thinking, the night was dark and long. I don’t like imposing on people and do not feel comfortable calling on others, not even family. I tried thinking of something that felt safe and secure, something I had not really ever thought about or given thought to came to mind - Growing up my grandma and grandpa’s house was within hollering distance, only a creek and bridge separated us. I could look out our kitchen window and see my grandma’s kitchen window. She was an early riser; she would always be up at 5 a.m. I can remember getting up and it still dark outside, looking out the kitchen window and seeing grandma’s kitchen light on...such comforting sight. I knew for certain she was making coffee and cooking bacon. On her small kitchen table was a lazy susan, which held salt, pepper, homespun honey, grape jelly, and butter, always. I’m not sure why this memory came to mind last night, but it felt safe and comforting.

I am often amazed at how spot-on my messages from The Universe are. This was my message from the Universe today:

It's true, Debra, sometimes when you've had a difficult day, or met difficult people, been let down, disappointed, or heartbroken, it's easy to completely forget the most important thing of all... you're alive.

Without even trying.

Who loves ya?
The Universe