Stevie D. and Strawberry say Happy Autumn folks!

It's so pretty here these days in State College. It is hard to dislike being somewhere when nature's kiss comes right to your lips with cooler weather and bright, beautiful dying leaves.

These are photos taken off the highway on the way to Pittsburgh

Our neighborhood by South Atherton Street

Stevie and Strawberry earning their keep, raking leaves

Andrea helped

Happy Fall!

October birthday

Some things change, and some don't.
Beth, September, 1981
Beth, October 6, 2007
Today I'm 34. It's the last year that I can check the "25-34" age category!!

There are lots of things I know now that I didn't know any time before this moment, and I'd like to reflect on them:

Any moment can be held onto as long as we want to, and we can also choose to let go of these moments. They don't necessarily define us.

Hangovers are bad, and no longer worth the few hours of gregariousness that drinking provides.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Intuition is good, but can also be thinly-disguised projection. Either way, it's a shot in the dark to intuit something, because we never know what's outside of our own minds. Therefore, we never really know if our intuition is correct. Too much error variance kicking around in that equation (I can hear the snorts coming from my schoolmates).

You can still be a feeling person and emotion-regulate.

Too much of anything is not a good thing.

Things really do skip a generation.

If we are angry at someone, it's more than likely that we are seeing something we dislike about ourselves in someone else. Really. Look deep into it. Deeper. Deeper. Yep, there it is. Don't you feel better now?

Elders, however naive and/or misguided you feel they are, really do know a lot more than you do. It pays to listen to their perspective. You'd be surprised at how yours will be similar to theirs at some point.

Happy Birthday to Me.
I miss my loved ones like crazy and I had a lonely birthday without Mom and Mike, Eric, Grandma and Kevin, Jason, and Devin. As usual, no birthday goes without thinking of Dad. Thanks to all of my loved ones for loving me and walking with me on my path. I love you all so much.