Got an email from Barb yesterday...as we anxiously await spring to grace our weary winter hearts, Barb wondered why it was so cold in Sisters the other day...well, you guessed it, the furnace went out! Not only that, but it was drowning in a foot of water from all the heavy rains we've had lately...what next you ask...
Ok, we are anxiously awaiting the warm spring breezes, but along with that we have tornadoes and front line winds. Last year winds knocked down trees, two hitting the house and causing major roof damage and hours of labor picking up limbs and wind-driven stuff.
Yet, we struggle along, not alone in our calamities...whole downtown's wiped off the planet, as the floods did last year in Cedar Rapids. How do you start over???
Failing economies, stock markets' downward spirals, job loss...
Yet we persist because we love what we do...it's in our blood...it's what we live for...then someone will ask...what's your best price, wanting you to come down on your already bottomed out dollar. You squelch the urge to pummel them and politely say, the best I can do is 10%, thus lowering your already squeezed bottom dollar...
Then you look beyond...to the dreams you have and somehow things work out, in spite of the weather, in spite of the economy, you just move forward and dream the dream and look forward to the next open house and try to make it the best it can be for the people you know will come and share your dream...if only we lived in a more perfect world...
But then we wouldn't have all these things to look back on and say...I SURVIVED...
Then you look beyond...to the dreams you have and somehow things work out, in spite of the weather, in spite of the economy, you just move forward and dream the dream and look forward to the next open house and try to make it the best it can be for the people you know will come and share your dream...if only we lived in a more perfect world...
But then we wouldn't have all these things to look back on and say...I SURVIVED...
