Rule breaker with a “Cherry on Top”

Cherry on Top Blogging Award

Thank you, Val, for the “Cherry on Top” Blogging Award.  Val, also known as an “Absurd Old Bird” passed it on here.

Here are the rules:

The Cherry On Top Award arrived with a few rules:

Answer this question: If you had the chance to go back and change one thing in your life, would you and what would it be?

Thank the person who gave you this award.

PICK 6 people/blogs and give them this award.

You then have to inform the person that they have received this award.)

Gardener harvests carrots

Val is a rule-breaker.  That’s what Absurd Old Birds do.  They break rules.

Kathy is a rule-breaker, too.  As a matter of fact, she has trouble following some man-and-woman-made rules. She prefers to create rather than rigidly follow rules.

(Not always!  Sometimes she follows rules with perfect societal conditioning.  Rules that say “You have to go to work and earn money.”  “You have go outside every day for 365 days and write a blog about it daily.”  Or “We have to chop and split our wood in order to produce heat for our little cabin in the woods.”  Some rules end up benefitting us, don’t they?)

Shimmering

Nonetheless, I am going to creatively fudge on fulfilling the requirements of this blogging award.

Answer this question: If you had the chance to go back and change one thing in your life, would you and what would it be?

Answer:  Oh this is really complicated.  There are different parts of me.  One part says, “What are you talking about?  Everything has been perfect!  Or perfectly imperfect, anyway.  I wouldn’t go back and change a thing.”

The second part says:  I would change this and that and this and that.  The second part is also private and doesn’t want to share these personal details.  Silly second part!  She doesn’t realize that the sharing helps make us all human.  But I can’t convince her to share any more than that, alas.

The third part says:  I wish I could change all the times that I doubted myself and other people.  I wish I could have realized that everything makes sense in the larger picture.  To have more fully surrendered to what revealed itself in the moment.  (I do not mean~~not to have done the appropriate action.  That’s not the kind of surrender I mean.  But to have ceased to have worried so much, fussed so much, internally carried on so much.) Every time I have somehow accepted and allowed the happening to be OK–even though I may not have liked it, even though action needed to be done–there has been a relaxation, an “ah-ha!” moment, a softening into accepting life more fully.  With all its ups and downs, all its bright colors and bare bone tree limbs and deep winter snow drifts.

Perfect reflection

Thank the person who gave you this award.  I already thanked Val on her blog.  But thank you, again, Val.  I love your thoughtfulness.  And your blog.

PICK 6 people/blogs and give them this award.

You then have to inform the person that they have received this award.)

OK, here’s where it gets dicey.  I cannot choose one blog over another.  That would be like choosing one child over another!  That would be like choosing one color of the rainbow and saying “That’s my favorite color.”  I cannot do that.  Simply cannot do that.

SO, here’s the scoop.  I do want to honor all you regular commenters.  You guys make me smile every single day with your comments, your individuality, your spunk, your humor, your craziness, your zaniness, your seriousness, the uniqueness of being YOU.

Therefore, every single one of you who has commented in the last week–no, make that the last two weeks–you get a Cherry on Top Award.  You may claim it.  All of you.  Just save the above image to your computer and then post it in your blog. 

You can follow the rules or not.  You are not obligated.  (Thank GOODNESS Val said I wasn’t obligated to follow the rules.  Thank goodness.)

You folks know who you are.  And I am contacting you here, now, in this blog.  Don’t have enough time to track every single one of you down and tell you the Cherry Good news!

The reason I don’t have enough time is that I must follow the rules of society and go to work very soon.  Anyone know how that is?

Imperfect reflection (peeking in bedroom window)