The Flight Of The Mourning Dove

I was given my first native name by a blogging friend I never met."Paints With Words" is what he named me in response to my style of writing. I took that as a great compliment.

After reaching a new level of recovery through my blogging efforts, I was awarded another native name in my dreams. Now, I get a lot of help and guidance from my dreams - have been for the last twenty-eight years. So, I pay close attention to any information that comes to me through my dreams. "Mourning Dove" is the new name I have been given - and I was told to spell it with a "u" in Mourning.

That dream came about a month ago. A lot has happened in that time. And I am beginning to understand why that name fits the direction that is presenting itself to me.

I feel like I have spent my whole life in mourning. It began before I was even old enough to know what I was mourning for. Maybe I will never know. It's no longer important for me to know.

All I know is this. A couple weeks ago, I realized that I needed to start a blog about food. And the more I thought about it, the more sense it made to me. It was through a blog that I worked out all that was left to work out with my first husband.

It was through this blog that I reached the point where I was finally able to let go of my second husband who has been dead for 6 1/2 years. It only makes sense to me that if I wish to form a new relationship with food, a blog is the most effective place for me to do it.

When I delved further into how I wanted to do my food blog, I realized that I actually needed two blogs. One for the food that I was attempting to let go of; and another blog for the healthier food that I making a part of my everyday world now.

If you are interested in checking them out, here are the links:

www.buddingrose4u.wordpress.com is called Cooking From Scratch where I am posting my family's favorites - some from more than one generation of food lovers.

www.gramskitchen.wordpress.com is called Good4uFood where I am posting the new healthier recipes as I find them and try them; along with any helpful tips I come across.

I am very excited by this new adventure in my life. It is So Right on more levels than I can even mention at this point - but I am sure that I will do so over time.

You know how things, once they are started, take on a life of their own; and take you with them. I already feel that happening in the short bit of time that I have been doing this.