Length and Width!!!

I think this quote was from a June magazine, but I will post it in July. Since this is the month, I have been reaching for Joy.

"I don't want to get to the end of my life
and find that I lived just the length of it.
I want to have lived the width of it as well."
-Diane Ackerman

I love this, we have to live with intention every day, even if some "yuck" has descended into your space. I think, more important, we should pay attention.
With the summers off, I like to flit through all my photographs, and discover my width!!! The big "w" comes from being surrounded by so many aunties!!! On both my mother and father's side of the family, my aunts were characters, and ahead of their time. I adore them all, of what they added to my life, and continue to give me. There was Adah, and Gail, Frances, Peggy, Sarah, Eleanor, Kit, Ruby, Essie, Lucille, Murial Lee, and Nellie. All were my great aunts, except Gail and Adah. They cooked, and danced and prayed and sang. I would hang on every word, I think I knew, how lucky I was to be in the company of strong women. With their strength, came great weakness also. Yes, they had demons, some overcame them, and some succumbed. Still, lessons in all. Every picture tells a story, we have to study the length and the width!!!