Cosmic Sunflower

I love madalas. Every since I found the Bee for Bliss mandala, I’ve looked at many many different ones. This is the latest addition to my collection and it is called the Cosmic Sunflower.

 

Just to catch you up on what madalas are, here is a Wiki link to read up. MANDALAS

This week has been pretty busy. As I stated briefly in a mobile blog post, I’m about to embark on business trip across country. I’m going to Seattle, WA and Los Angeles, CA to visit my top two customers. I’ll be gone five days and four nights, flying on five different airplanes (I hop to Atlanta, then Seattle, stay for a day, hop to LA, stay for a day, hop back to Atlanta, then finally home). I leave September 4th.

My father-in-law has been in the hospital, but he is out now. They still don’t know what is wrong. He is having some kind of scope procedure done on Monday. The bleeding has gotten better, the hope is that he was attempting to pass a stone…rather than prostate problems or even cancer.

Hubby’s back procedure went well. I fussed at him for doing too much so soon after it (he was mowing the yard the very next morning – crazy man). But he seems to be doing fine. Those steriod injections can be sneaky. Make you feel like you can do anything and then before you know it, you’ve done more damage to your back.

The kids have been sick with some kind of stomach bug. Eddie has toughed it out and stayed in school. Ellie missed a day and has a ton of catch up work to do. I’m feeling really oogy myself this morning, but I’m hanging in there. I cancelled movie night with my gal pal Tara. I didn’t want to risk passing this mess along, even if I did feel better by that time.

So that is the summary of the week.

This & That

I am at day surgery with hubby. He is getting a steroid injection through his side to his spine to help with his back problems. He gets them a couple of times a year. Things are really gearing up for my trip to Seattle. I was also surprised to learn I will be going to LA too. My plane reservations are made. Reality is twisting my stomach into knots. I have not flown in over 20 years.

Wacky Vivid Dream

Last night I had a vivid dream about my trip out west. I had an agenda handed to me with a list of all the different places I was going to. I was excited and raring to go. The odd thing is I was in communication with my mom and she kept saying she’d see me in Seattle (she was there right before she died). Seattle was last on my list. Each location I was at, I’d call her and she’d always say the same thing. But when I got to Seattle, she wasn’t there. She’d moved on. The dream became a twisted nightmare/comedy (if such thing was possible) because it was just so ludicrous. There were these “thugs” preventing me from finding my mother. No matter how hard I tried or how close I got, I’d get swept up into this conspiracy theory that would push me further away from finding her. I woke up thinking “dang where the hell did that dream come from?” and just had to laugh.

They say dreams often times are our subconscious speaking to us. But I don’t think that was mine. I know my mother is gone. It is a reality that I’ve accepted. That being said…WHAT DO YOU DREAM ABOUT?