My Myrnita

My stepmother is named Myrna .  I love her so much!  She has been the light of my Dad's life for like, a bazillion years, which would make me, like, a bazillion and 56.99.  She is facing some medical challenges one way or another, and ,come to think of it, has been meeting medical challenges for a long while now.  Always with grace and a calm demeanor.  A great role model and friend to moi.   That's her on the right, my sister Leni in the middle, and Dad.  So keep on keepin on, Myrnita!  Give those challenges h-e-double hockey sticks!  

Back to Moi.  Okay, it's raining and I am stewing, steaming actually, about all the ways I would like to cash in on my extreme talent.  I  mean art stuff.  Why is it when I see other artist's work in a Gift Shop I feel so inadequate, like there are art police that will prevent me from marketing?  Am I afraid to make money?   that no one will buy anything?  That it has been done before and so much better so why bother?  Probably all of the above.  Which is kinda dumb, because I have swum with Mermaids, and we all know that's impossible.  I am pretty sure that I can do anything if I allow it.  So I guess I will make some cards or something....

The Litany Against Fear--from Frank Herbert's  Dune

I must not fear

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear. 

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.

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