all right cuties, i must let you know that i tried to post last month, but was thwarted by a blogger.com maintenance message saying that the site was temporarily closing down for technical upkeep. of course i had just typed the greatest blog in blog history about my love for my husband, how good life is, and a little elegy for my uncle billy who died recently. well i admit it was more than a little frustrating, seeing that i hadn't saved it even as a draft, so all was lost. and since then i've carried negative vibes to the blog experience. today i officially move beyond that, and back to the blogsphere where i most certainly belong.

to summarize: love for my husband...WOW, God is good, and grace is amazing. i'm stimulated spiritually, mentally, emotionally, intellectually, sexually, artistically, at all these levels on a daily basis. the companionship of this splendid human being never ceases to mega-bless me. our quality of life, though seemingly humble and spartan in the eyes of the status quo, is shooting through the roof. happiness is a strange and wonderful thing to get used to!

how good life is...and busy, too! i have projects up the wazoo this summer. and i love them all! it's just a juggling act to balance and prioritize everything. at the end of each day, i consider it a backhanded compliment from God that all of this "merriment" has been dropped into my lap for me to shepherd and steward.

elegy for uncle billy...it was a bit more eloquent in my now-gone-forever blog effort last month, but i will say this to my uncle billy who i hope can read this anytime he likes. i miss you...you were a laughing light, and like the song says, "don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone". that's my regret, that we didn't get to connect more as adult peer human beings, but the times we did cross paths, i hold fondly as lessons in high-spirited happiness, and down-to-earth togetherness within...a cool compliment to be called "together" within, since i believe one of the great maladies of mankind is the fact that very few of us seems to bear the fruit of being "together" within. i aspire to these two billy-istic traits, and the fact that they are being brought to my attention right now in my life truly is a stroke of divinity. i would rather be learning about them with my uncle billy here on this planet, hanging out in memphis waiting for me and brandon to come down for blues and BBQ. but God had other plans, and as always, my Heavenly Father knows best. love and peace to the blogsphere cuties!