Magic in the Memory

Magic is everywhere, all around you.  It's in the sound of the wind blowing through the trees on a summer's day. It's in the things you can touch, smell and feel around you.
Where is your magic place.
The place that blurs the edges of reality and turns it to whatever you imagination can conjure.
Lately for me the magic has been in the music.  I listen to the music I grew up with, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills, Nash, music from the 70's.  Even though 64 summers have come and gone for me, I hear this music and I am there again, 20 some years young and I can feel what I felt then.  I see the trends today called boho or gypsy and that takes me back to the same place as the music.  This is how I dressed but it was called hippie then.  Whatever the name I have always loved that look and I still love it today.  Its free and wild and different and that's what I have always been. Never one to follow the rules and even my home has its own style.
I was listening to the Led Zeppelin song "Going to California" the other day and it brought back feeling and memories so strong I wrote the following...

Words float through my mind and whisper  remember, remember

music tickles my memory and brings back days of sunshine and nights of forever
golden child living in a time with change that came with the rising of the sun
Smiles and love in the eyes that met yours, words floated like smoke, not really there. 

Gods of that time sang for our pleasure, bringing new meaning that life is forever

Long flowing hair touched your pillow and flew in the wind with flowers and songs that are etched In time

Remember. Remember
The hair is still long and music still brings pleasure, the memories come back of nights of forever

A face in the mirror asks where have you gone, golden child of yesterday
My heart answers back I am here, and still  the same, time has taken the beauty of youth away
My mind of today of says yes to what I see and my heart  says it doesn’t matter. Be what you are

meant to be.  

 

Some gods of that time are still alive today and their mirror tells the same story
We are stardust, we are golden and ours hearts will always shine
So play the music that takes you back to peace,  love and a beautiful place in time


Hope the magic takes you to a good place.

MIA

Yes, I have been absent for quite a while and I suppose I have no excuse except I just didn't have much I wanted to say. To update on my life... good news and bad news.

Bad news first I guess so that's out of the way.  I have been on disability since last August. I started having trouble with my eye and the Dr's tried everything to save it but could not so I had my right eye removed last Nov 3.  I was lucky to have had no problems since I was diagnosed with ocular melanoma in early 2012, but my luck ran out I guess. The tumor in my eye started bleeding and they could not stop it.  It has been hard getting used to having one eye and everything you did so easily before is now a challenge, depth perception etc.  I got through it and because I am fiercely independent I was driving by December.  First just on city streets close to home and then the freeway with someone with me to tell me if the right lane was clear when I wanted to switch lanes.  Now I am confident and have learned how to watch where people are so I know when its clear to change lanes.
That was bad news part one.  In early December I started thinking about the eye tumor bleeding and I associated that with spreading those bad cells throughout my body so I requested a PET scan and they found a small tumor in my liver.  I was good they found it early and I have since gone through radiation and now will have treatments with a drug that teaches your  good cells to kill the cancer cells.  I am told it works 50% of the time so I plan on being in that good 50%.
So far I've had one treatment and its nowhere near as bad as chemo was, but I still have nausea occasionally and get tired sooner.  We shall see what happens.

Good news is for the most part I feel OK and am able to work in the garden sometimes and yesterday I adopted a new kitty from the Humane society.  He is the cutest little guy, all black with big yellow eyes.  A year old and came from a hoarding house that had more than 30 cats.  I guess the lady thought she was going something good, but having that many cats that were not fixed was a very irresponsible thing to me.  My little guy is thin, but very friendly and because he is used to being around other cats, is one of the reasons I chose him.  I already had two, Kissy and Isa.  Right now he is under the bed in my room and the other two know he's here, but wont have contact with him until I see he/they show interest from behind closed doors.  Kissy is used to sleeping with me every night so last night was hard to hear her sit outside the door and cry.  I ended up going out and sleeping on the couch in the den for a while. These kitties are very spoiled to say the least. He is not named yet as I need to be able to interact with him more to be able to name him.  I will post pictures as thing progress. 

The weather here in San Diego is so beautiful and the roses are blooming along with the wisteria.
I would love to plant new roses, but with this terrible drought I thought I better be content with the ones I have for now. 

Hope everyone is well and have a wonderful weekend.