Tex is my very old, ten year-plus, blue healer mix dog pal. This weekend we are spending our time in Jackson Mississippi at a professional Art Education conference. He loves to go on road trips and I am glad for the company as the rest of my family, including my husband, are often not available when I need or choose to head out somewhere. I learned as a very young girl if you have to count on someone else to be available to go with you to do what you want than you should count on never doing much and missing out on many of your favorite things in life.

My life is best if I don't blame what I didn't get to do on someone else because they had to do whatever they must when I wanted them available. So on I go. I keep God close and am never alone. I talk with God often.  I take a good old dog with me when I can because he totally loves it and has nothing better to do. Tex can't always come along and it isn't because he doesn't want to but just because it won't work out. There are always great people along the way, great music to sing and hear and wonderful amazing spectacular moments of life and events all around me.

 LOVE YOUR TRIPS AND YOUR DETOURS! NEVER MAKE THESE EVENTS DEPENDENT ON SOMEONE ELSE'S DIRECTION, WILL, OR ABILITY TO GO WITH YOU! LEARN TO WALK ALONE WHEN YOU MUST BUT MIGHT NOT WANT TO AND NOT BE LONELY!