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LindaTateWilson

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Things are looking up.  After an incredibly painful half of 2014, We are all healing.  My three sisters and I took a our first Sistercation last week, (Labor Day and the following week).  We giggled, we acted like crazy ladies, we enjoyed the ocean at Panama City Beach, we rested, and we ate at some great spots.  My sweet husband, Benny, and my son, Greg, took care of my Mom while I was gone.   I think I earned new respect for what I do as a caretaker.  Laughing.  I'll be posting pictures from our trip.  I hope you enjoy them.
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Hello, DA friends.  I know it's been awhile since I journaled here, but I have had a very stressful 2014 thus far.  We lost my Dad, at age 93 after complications from a silly fall in his kitchen.  He was one heck of a wonderful man, and I miss him terribly.  My Mom, since she's unable to get along by herself (age 89) now lives with my husband and me.  Her macular degeneration is so progressed that she can no longer do much of anything by herself, and after seeing my Dad go down so fast (3 months) after his fall, I don't want her falling at her home alone.  It has been an adjustment, but we are all managing nicely.  I'm at her beck and call 24/7, and sometimes get worn out, but she'd do the same for me.

Less than a week after my Dad died, a beloved brother-in-law passed away with cancer.  He fought a good fight, but just wasn't strong enough to fight the cancer AND the chemo.  My sweet sister, lost her Father and her Husband in such a short time span.  

Then, as if that wasn't enough on our plates, my only brother passed away from cancer as well, the last of May.  We knew he was very thin, but felt he was kicking cancer's butt.  We saw him about two weeks before he died.  He came in for Mother's Day.  We are so thankful for those last hugs.

So trying to breathe and putting one foot in front of the other has been our major accomplishments so far this year.  We are trying to put a positive spin on it all, but it's hard.  I find myself doing a lot of art while I'm trying to put down the what if's that blast through my head.   

The rest of the year is going to be good.  That's my mantra, and I stick by it.
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New Day

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Well, the election is over, we have President Obama for another four years.  I feel optimistic.

However, I'm a bit put-out with many of my friends for the negativeness and hate that they have spewn,  the name-calling they have posted on FaceBook, the bully-tactics they have employed, the maturity they have thrown aside.  I pray not only for my country, but for the whole world.  I pray that we all learn to live together as the Human Race, that peace and serenity will come out, that there is no longer a need for formal charity organizations because of the plenty that is in the world is emphasized by charity from the heart.  Am I naive, maybe so.  But I am a firm believer in the "Law of One".  One Love, One Family, One Light.   I believe that what we focus on becomes our reality.  I choose to focus on truth, love, hope, and happiness.  Love to ALL of you, Love to ONE.
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I know that some of you may have decided that I had disappeared, but I haven't.  I find that I am definitely a Facebook addict.  I get to share my art there too.  I don't know how many cards I've made for my friends.  Here are links to my Miscellaneous Cards Album  www.facebook.com/media/set/?se… and my Birthday Card Album  www.facebook.com/media/set/?se… .  So you can see, I have still been creating.  For any of you who are on Facebook and are not friends with me there, I'm Linda Tate Wilson there www.facebook.com/LindaTateWils….

It's already been a hot and dry summer.  We've had triple digit heat.  Today was a little cooler.  It only got to 103 degrees today.  On days like these, I'm glad to be able to stay in my air conditioned home.  I know that not everyone is that lucky, though.

I'm glad to say that my parents, ages 86 and 91 are still doing well.  They both are having memory problems, but I told them to just join the crowd.  I think that they both have better memory recall than I do.  :-)

I've recently been on a spiritual journey.  I've always felt that there was somehow a connection between science and the spiritual realm.  Through some of my contacts on Facebook, I've found people who have some of the same ponderings as I.  I've always thought it was wrong to feel that you were better than or less than another human.  It somehow is just not right in my heart.  I have many friends now that think of the whole world as ONE.  We ARE One.  Only one race, the Human Race.  

I first started on my quest when I ran across a Youtube video of Kiesha Crowther (Little Grandmother) and resonated with her message of 'Just Be Love'  of 'Staying in one's heart'.  I started reading on the forum "Tribe of Many Colors".  I met many a friend there.  The forum got too big to manage, and it was shut down.  Our group of friends was dismayed.  We, in a panic, started reaching out to each other as if we were drowning victims. We were all broken hearted at the thought of ripping our family apart.  It was just too heart wrenching. A couple of the members of the first forum quickly started up another forum and many of our group found our way there.

A little later, this forum, too ran its course and we headed to another.  When that one went down, a lot of us had started meeting on Facebook.  Now that's where a huge group of us are now.   We had become such a close knit group that we found a way to stay together so that we could support each other, and so that we could extend our hearts to one another.

I honestly don't think that I've ever done so much reading!  Everyone gleans the Internet for information contributing to our interests and then posts the links and information for all of us to find.  We believe that our world of greed, of hate, of looking out for number one,  is dissolving and that a better world, one of love, trust, joy, plenty, and good health is in store for all of us.  We think that all of this is going to happen, or begin to happen by the year 2012.  We have perused the writings of the Mayans, the Incas, and  indigenous tribes all over the world.  We've read philosophies of religions and beliefs and have found parallels .  What didn't make sense to me is finally falling into place, like a perfectly planned jig-saw puzzle.  I still have much to learn, but the quest is so rewarding to me.

Anyhow, that is a synopsis of how and why I had disappeared for so long.  Just in case anyone missed me.

I'll be posting some of my art work that I've been playing with.  I hope that all of you are well.

Love,

Linda :iconlindatatewilson:

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Life is too short, too fragile, to spend it with regrets. Live each day as if it will be your last. Live each moment the same. Love, dance, sing, rejoice, have compassion, be honest, then love dance, sing some more. Collect things you love, listen to great music, share your joy. Tell the ones you love how much they mean to you. You aren't guaranteed another second, another breath.

Linda 2008

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I don't know about all of you, but many of my friends and family and I had a pretty rotten 2010.  Let's all bring positive thoughts and hopes for 2011 and make it happen!  I've been pretty productive lately.  I've learned to do more with my gimp program.  Still having fun with it.  I'll be slowly adding to my gallery.  My satellite connection isn't all it should be, so sometimes I can upload and sometimes I can't.

Things are pretty much the same here in South Arkansas.  We are expecting some snow and sleet in the next couple of days.  It's hard to believe it could happen since the temperatures reached the 60's today, and it's still 54 here at 9PM .  One thing about Arkansas weather, though.  If you don't like it, just wait awhile.

I wanted to tell everyone that I peep in to see what's going on here, but don't comment a lot anymore.  I tend to get snowed under this time of year with records and receipts to gather for Uncle Sam and his yearly Tax Reports.  I should be working on them now, but look what I'm doing.  :D

I thought I'd share some of the works that catch my eye in my collections of your art.  No particular theme or color planned right now, but we will see what it becomes.

Happy New Year, Everyone.  Hugs and Squeezes!

Linda  :iconlindatatewilson:

Fractals

:thumb108302237: Sunflower by HBKerr :thumb97592801: Fractalwave by Sparrow667

Trees

Bark by Aspartam Against The Night Sky by paintergurlie Spring is coming by Eredel when she is not there... by technologyMan One Way Ticket To Poland Pleas by Sesjusz Flowers of March by XavierJamonet Heal Me With Life by oO-Rein-Oo

Water  

the moody pier.... by VaggelisFragiadakis   mangart by renatoart :thumb132845288: The Springs II by FramedByNature Sea. by LadyRedRose A Fan Of It by aFeinPhoto-com Plitvice Lakes III by Luke-ro Water Heaven by shell4art

Sky and Landscapes


DREAM by Hydrangeas :thumb182375629: Surrender Your Heart by JustinDeRosa Begin again.... by LauraWilde Green Flash by FramedByNature Hungarian skies pt.XXVII. WP by realityDream :thumb128661381: .........Home........ by Dadans Blue Moon by Ryser915


Others

Memory by PridesCrossing :thumb143676545: DIVERSITY QUILT SQUARE by SushiSprinkles Plumeria Flower by satishverma The blue Flowers by kaborge

Some of my more recent deviations

JapaneseTreePrint by LindaTateWilson   RoyalPinwheel by LindaTateWilson   IllusionPlayWithNature by LindaTateWilson

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:iconnntr: nntr: no need to reply stamp by 1footonthedawn

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The Yard Collective stamp by The-Yard-Collective

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dA Thanks Stamp. by jugga-lizzle Thanks for visitin by k-nelo Fav and Run by Fractoid :thumb98557313: Long Term stamp by electricnet Artist's comments stamp by Shutsumon


CuriousBoomer Stamp by PridesCrossing
Thanks PridesCrossing and HarLeeRider for the wonderful stamp above! I'll always cherish it!


A Stamp for Linda by colt51 made by :iconcolt51: Thanks Colt!

gimp by nika-serpens

CuriousBoomerID by LindaTateWilson Western Zodiac-Leo I by InfiniteIterations I Love dA by GoodiesForYou American Pride Stamp by Starda45
PandoraEntry by LindaTateWilson
curiousboomerStamp1 by LindaTateWilson ProudArkansan by LindaTateWilson GRITS Bottlecap by bandit4edu

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