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Unique Times

Where I share my jewels of wisdom of life

I sit in the rubble with every
shade of greige elated and forlorn.

Dreams worth waiting for
finally coming into fruition…

while others lives and homes are fragments
of what was.

Tears leak elation and sadness
holding both as the floor’s
dropped out beneath us.

We sit in grief and despair
with shades of greige
on Friday while we try
to put the fun in the day
but there’s no Yay!

The only thing I can think to do
after my mourning meditation
is to pull out my felt pens
and let my 5 year old self scribble
on the walls in anything but greige.

Well it’s Friday for sure and I’m happy to say I made it through the week with the big sale and start of the remodel! I’m thrilled but to be honest, I’m like a sponge and I wear my heart on my sleeve so it would feel inauthentic to be putting Yay’s all over my post today. πŸ€·β€β™€οΈπŸ˜’πŸ˜Š

Holding both spaces are important and difficult right now and also call us to go deeper on so many levels and spread our love, time and resources to help where we can.

If you are wondering where Greige came from, it’s the new shade in the industry of color. Well, it is for me anyway. Grey has been the rage for some time but Beige is making a comeback so it’s the combination of the two.

Grey + Beige= Greige

I’m not a grey girl as it’s too cool for me and more of a beige one but yet the two combined seems to feel right; so that’s what I’m going with for my bathroom. I’ll leave the grey in my kids rooms since they are all so very cool! 😎!

Have a wonderful weekending and do see if you can put some Yay into your Friday! We need it more than ever right now. Take good care of you and those you love.

See you on you on Monday for Part 5: Overcoming Obstacles in Putting your Dreams into Action!

Blessings and more Love than I can say~

πŸ’–πŸ™πŸ’–πŸ™πŸ’–πŸ™πŸ’–πŸ™πŸ’–

Cindy

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Sheereen
1 year ago

Happy weekend Cindy!❀

eminentconstructionproject
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Hello Cindy

gabychops
1 year ago

Thank you, Cindy, for a beautiful poem and your sense of fun in all situations!

Joanna

eminentconstructionproject
Reply to  gabychops
1 year ago

Hello Joanna

Karima Hoisan
1 year ago

Totally relating to you and color and remodeling…I have been living in a construction pit since October past…and also how the world’s injustices and pain can take all the yay out of our lives.. and make us contemplate. Good luck on your greige:) it is a pretty color and I am a cool baby…grey blue is my favorite shade:)

Karima Hoisan
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Hugs Cindy… yes it will all be worth it in the end!! ( I keep telling myself lol)

Kym Gordon Moore
1 year ago

Oh my FUNyay friend, it sounds like someone stole your Wheaties from you this morning. πŸ˜₯ I was so anxious to read your FUNyay Fri-Yay Funday post and get my laughs on, but I was sad to see that you seem a little deflated, especially after seeing the “F.U. Putin” scrawled on the walls! YEAH Baby, now THAT’S what I’m talking about Cindy Windy! What an S.O.B.! C’mon now girlfriend, you gotta somehow roll out of your “mourning meditation” and slap that Debbie Downer bitch in the face. πŸ€£πŸ˜†πŸ˜‚

You are every woman indeed, but every woman needs a break every now and then too. So I will give you a free, get out of that emotional jail card pass, and savor in my French flavor of the day, Greige!!! πŸŽ¨πŸ–ΌπŸŒˆπŸ–Œ And while that remodel may wreck your nerves, just get your markers out and write your frustrations on the walls. You can paint over them later!!! 😲✍🏼😁 Hugs and smooches Mommy Nature! πŸ™πŸ½ Sending you some positive vibes through the internet!!! πŸ’» πŸŒ πŸŒŸπŸ’¨πŸ’«

Kym Gordon Moore
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Girlfriend, I just can’t send V.P. my love right now with all of the turmoil and death he is imposing on people who are just trying to live their lives. I suppose I am just so angry by his taunting and Godless antics. He’s not only hurting the Ukranians but his people as well. I don’t think most of the people in his country support his actions, but it hurts them just the same. What do you do with narcissists like that? I suppose we have to ask the same questions in our country too huh? Anywho, we won’t let him damper our day, even though we have to be on the lookout as well.

Well Mommy Nature, make the rest of this day as awesome as you are! Hugs and smooches! πŸ₯°πŸ’πŸ€—πŸ’–πŸ˜˜πŸ₯‚πŸŒž

Kym Gordon Moore
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

See how you broke it down with your experience. Truly I do know that we are the light and we have to make sure it shines brighter than the darkness we see. It just takes me a little while to pierce through the fog of evil in such situations as this, and see that folks can be salvageable if they want it.

And your friend was correct, that this is a humanitarian experience and we do share in this sadness even though we are not in the midst of chaos they are experiencing. Honey chile, this is why I am on my knees so much, praying and trying to be a better person than I am! Smooches my sweetness!!! πŸ˜˜πŸ’‹πŸ’–πŸ₯°πŸŒΊπŸŒž

Kym Gordon Moore
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

You just made a “drop the mic” moment Cindy!!! 🎀😲🎀 See how awesome you are??? πŸ₯°πŸ’–πŸ€—

Mike U.
1 year ago

Such an emotional poem. Just gorgeous and so relatable. And I can totally identify with what you scribbled on the wall. I’d love to be able to do something like that to vent some of the frustration I feel about so many things. Hope your weekend is a good one, Cindy! πŸ™‚

Jane Aguiar
1 year ago

Beautiful poem . You maintained fun even though you removed yay from it, dear Cindy! ❀️

Jane Aguiar
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

You are welcome, dear Cindy! ❀️

eminentconstructionproject
Reply to  Jane Aguiar
1 year ago

Hello Jane

Timothy Price
Timothy Price
1 year ago

I wear all black all the time. No grays for me. Excellent poem.

Suzette Benjamin
1 year ago

Brilliant poem Cindy. I love those first two lines….a masterpiece of imagery in:
“I sit in the rubble with every
shade of greige elated and forlorn.”

katiemiafrederick
1 year ago

Yeah Dear Cindy Since Katrina Has Been
On A Bit of A Buy A New SUV Kick Now i’ve
(Oh, the First World Problems in Paradise)
Come to Be Drably Surprised That the

“New Black”

in Car Colors
Is What Sure Looks
Like “Battle Ship Gray” to
me Working for the Navy for
A Quarter of a Century Yet What

i Remember Most

is Being on the Autism Spectrum at 3
Undiagnosed of Course As i had Bright
Enough Eyes then that the Doctor Said

my Mother Just Loved
me So Much There Was
Nothing i Possibly Could Need
to Ask For Yet Still at 3 Before i Could Speak

At 4 Long Ago i Figured Out What the Human World
Problem is As Without Words So Clear That i am Leaf
of Tree of Forest Whole Just FLoWinG Across the River

Forever Now Alive
Dead And Alive Free

As Leaves Green
Trees and Fall
Brown to
Soul
Soils
As Winter
Freezes
Bring

New
Green
to Fertilized
Soils From
Brown Dead

Leaves

As Spring
RiseS AGAiN
As it is Today
Too So Very True

in Ease

From our
Down Town
River Bank Home Then

True ‘Shot-Gun Home’ Poor
Yet Nature so Very Rich then

SMiLes Dear Cindy The Garden of
Eden Still Exists in a Free Naked Enough
Whole Complete Way of Nature Within Us
Inside Outside Above So Below and All Around

So Much to Value Free As Naked Born on Date Real

So How Do We Come to Disappear From That Reality Well
of Course We Start To CLoTHE Nature With Symbols Eventually
Tools That Collect Knowledge And Art of HeART True Yet It’s Also

True Those Words
Collect Tools of Death

From Smaller to Bigger
Killing Bombs Yet True to Hot Water
Heaters And Warm Baths And Even
Toilet Paper A Hundred And A Few
More Years Ago True too If only

We Humans Will Find A Peaceful
Way to Co-Exist With all Our Tools
Balancing Mastering Them For Love So Far Away

From Fear, Discontent, All Forms of Malfeasance
That Come When We Value the Clothes of Nature We

Create More than
The Essence of
The Spirit
Wind

of Love
Still Inhaling
Peace Exhaling Love For Real
Moving Connecting Co-Creating

Yet It’s True i am Only Still A Small Child
of 3 in Paradise With All These Words Just
Hoping Someone Will Value Naked, Enough,
Whole, Complete As Much as i Still Do as the Child of 3…

SMiLes Dear FRiEnD So Many Hot And Cold Rocks in the Vast
Expanse of Space That Telescopic Lens Don’t See Any Love Up There

It What’s We
Have Left Now
To Give Share Care
And Heal to All With Least
Harm i Value the Most True

Peace Starts

Within one

Small Step

For one, one More
Step For All mY FRiEnD
Not Unlike ‘Groot’ From “Guardians
of the Galaxy 2,” Someone Has to
Pick Up The Peace And Dance the
Way Back to Heaven in All the Human Wars

Play Slaying Fear Now
For Real Transforming

BacK iNto Humanity’s Love
As Long As Our Peace Lasts at Least mY FRiEnD…

What’s It Gonna Take, An Asteroid to Come Visit for
Us All to Play Together Again True Humans Always
Bond and Bind Over DarK Thru LiGHT Ideologies
And Associated Symbols ‘Religion’ at Core is what

Plays
Us in Politics
And Philosophy
And All the other
Symbols We Co-Create

Either Slaying Fear For Peace
And Love or Raising Hell Now
For Real too

in Hate

Meanwhile
For Joy i Must Continue to
Dance iN Play to Clear All Fears
For Love Still to Breathe From Peace Within

As Always “Silence of Dance Brings Beauty of Song”
Hehe Thanks Again For A Title of This Blog Post i am Currently

Writing With SMiLes…

And Yes Actually
First Words i Danced
And Sung to Begin iT All Again..:)

katiemiafrederick
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Thanks Dear Cindy
For Your Inspiring
Poem Hopefully
Peace Will
Return my
FRiEnD Nice
To See The Depth
Of Your Human Caring
β˜ΊοΈβ€οΈπŸ™

katiemiafrederick
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Thanks☺️πŸ₯°πŸ™

katiemiafrederick
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

☺️

aruna3
1 year ago

Dear Cindy!! Your poem is related the frustration,unhappiness and vanishing beauty and peace of world.oh.you take all seriously sitting on rubble.yeah.the peace will come after many darkness.we can have only hopes.most beautiful poem.i am impressed by your poem and specially greige’s shades.Weldon.my dear!!πŸ’–

aruna3
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Yeah.My dear Cindy!! We must pray for peace and love for world and keep the faith and hope always.The prayer is most powerful instrument .much love and big hugs from India,my dear friend.πŸ’–πŸ™πŸ’–

aruna3
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

I wish as same to you.welcome,my dear friend Cindy!! Love you.β€οΈπŸ’•πŸ’•πŸ’•β€οΈ

Gibberish
1 year ago

Happy weekend Cindy ❀️πŸ₯³

cheriewhite
1 year ago

Beautifully written poem, Cindy! And love the color blend, I’ve never heard of Greige before so you taught me a new color! Thank you! I’m so happy you got the sale and wish you much success in your remodeling! I can’t wait to see it when you’re finished! Have a great weekend! πŸ’–πŸ’•

cheriewhite
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

You’re most welcome! πŸ’•And I know you’re excited!

cheriewhite
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

You too, dear! πŸ˜ŠπŸ€—

cheriewhite
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

πŸ’•πŸ’•πŸ’•

KK
KK
1 year ago

What a beautiful poem, Cindy! It touched my heart. Colour and fun suit you. Good luck with greige. Have a great weekend πŸŽ‰πŸ’–πŸ’πŸŒˆπŸ˜Š

KK
KK
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

My pleasure πŸ˜ŠπŸ’–

Bharath Upendra
1 year ago

Peace will overcome darkness?? Looks chaotic. πŸ˜‚

Bharath Upendra
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Add colours 😬

Bharath Upendra
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

I’m all for black. Sometimes red, sometimes green, sometimes yellow.
Pick any.

Bharath Upendra
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Of course you would. But think about this poor child too. πŸ₯Ί

Bharath Upendra
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

The landlady won’t be pleased. πŸ˜‚
Take the face instead.

Bharath Upendra
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Haha! Rawrrr!

Bharath Upendra
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Hahaha! Yes please.

Jewish Young Professional "JYP"
1 year ago

Greige is one of my favorite nail polish shades (I have opinions on nail colorπŸ’…), so I got all excited ready to talk about favorite nail enamel brands/shades. Then I realized that was not the point of your post. Your poem is beautiful, but sobering. I hope you find some light and color in these grey times.

Jewish Young Professional "JYP"
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

You should treat yourself to a mani/pedi! I’ve decided to get one myself today! Sometimes you just need a pick-me-up.

Keith
1 year ago

Cindy, too funny. I am more of an ecru or taupe person. I just wanted to use those words. Keith

GraceoftheSun
1 year ago

Brilliant poem, dear Cindy. Loving “greige” so different. Have a fabulous weekend. Much love to you.πŸ’•πŸ’•

GraceoftheSun
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

I sure did. My pleasure.πŸ’•

Laleh Chini
1 year ago

Love your beautiful poems ❀️❀️❀️

Laleh Chini
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

My pleasure sweetheart.πŸ’

Cheryl, Gulf Coast Poet
1 year ago

I like your graffiti wall. Soon it will be replaced by your lovely new bathroom. I hope the news is better soon. <3

Sadje
1 year ago

A subdued yay for the start of the re-model. Hope you have a good weekend.

Sadje
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

That’s great! I hope it all works to your satisfaction

Jeff Flesch
1 year ago

Wow! It’s so great to see how the house is coming along. Awesomeness. I loved your poem too. It reminds me that no matter how bad things are, we can still take a stand and use our talents to do so. Happy weekend, Cindy! ❀️❀️❀️

Jeff Flesch
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

You’re most welcome, Cindy! Always. Thank you, my dear, have a great week! πŸ’•πŸ’•πŸ™

Infinite Living
1 year ago

“on Friday while we try
to put the fun in the day
but there’s no Yay!”
“Mourning meditation”

Your poem is lovely and keeps it light, but word choices like above make the deeply felt evident – all peaceful hearts are aching, praying and trusting what your 5-year old self scribbled.
Ah so good to know of that new color πŸ™‚
Wish you a great weekend too Cindy, Much Love.

Infinite Living
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

My pleasure and privilege really too _()_

Ingrid
1 year ago

The idea of you drawing on the wall in felt tip pen brightens my day Cindy! πŸ’•πŸŒˆ

Lisa Mae ❀️
1 year ago

Beautiful as always! I’ll admit that I had to look up β€œgreige” before you explained it- to see the color palette. Very interesting indeed!
Good luck with your renovation! I’ve always thought that the best therapy was to smash something then transform the rubble into beautiful, because that’s life in a nutshell.

Lisa Mae ❀️
1 year ago

πŸ’•β€οΈ

Suvi K
1 year ago

That’s a very interesting poem ma’am.
Greige? I have never seen it, thanks, will Google nowπŸ˜‚

Suvi K
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Aah okayyπŸ˜‚
Yepp, going good!

Suvi K
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Really, I’ve missed it here too. Finals just got over today, so I’m back!! Will be active here nowπŸ«‚
Have to catch up on everyone’s writings now, and start posting myselfπŸ˜‚

Suvi K
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Yess, thank you so much, that means a lot😍

boundlessblessingsblog
1 year ago

Wow, Cindy. It’s nice to see how the house is coming along. I loved your poem a lot. It reminds me that no matter how bad things are, we can still take a stand and use our talents to do so. Happy weekend. Thanks a lot dear.

boundlessblessingsblog
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

You are always welcome dear Cindy. You write excellent poems too. We all have to continue on our paths. Happy Sunday. xxxxxxxx

boundlessblessingsblog
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Welcome dearest Cindy. Take care and stay safe. xxxxxxxx

boundlessblessingsblog
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

xxxxxx

Rupali
1 year ago

A lovely touching poem Cindy.

Gabriela Marie Milton
1 year ago

What a splendid verse Cindy. You are the best.
Love you hon. Have a beautiful weekend.
xoxo

Daphny Aqua
1 year ago

I love your idea of Greige I think its awesome, loving the poem so very much and greige suits the state of mind we all are in as of now. You’re amazing dear Cindy, lots of love to you. ❀️❀️❀️❀️

Daphny Aqua
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

You’re most welcome Cindy…. I absolutely love your idea of Griege. You’re welcome and thank you.. Yikes indeed but xo will work 😁❀️❀️❀️

Daphny Aqua
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Haha… Great to have you back πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈβ€οΈπŸ‘‰emojis πŸ˜€ Happy week ahead! πŸ€—

Lisa at Micro of the Macro
1 year ago

I’m glad to hear you’re thrilled, but I also feel your lack of yay, my friend. Hoping you can find it somewhere in the rest of your weekend. Much love backatcha! πŸŒžπŸ™πŸ’•

ben Alexander
1 year ago

<3 <3 Cindy <3 <3
(too bad there’s no “greige” emoji heart!)

ben Alexander
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

your emojis aren’t working⁉️ how will you write your emoji-ku⁉️

inspirechief
1 year ago

The prayers from throughout the world will prevail and lead to peace. πŸ™

Jaya Avendel
1 year ago

“and let my 5 year old self scribble
on the walls in anything but greige . . .”

I just fell in love with the spirit of the above lines! It sings to my inner heart and has a wonderful sense of freedom and certainty to it. πŸ™‚

Chaymaa
1 year ago

Thanks for your wishes! πŸ’
One beautiful piece πŸ’•

ivor20
1 year ago

Your words reverberate within my saddened soul .. decency is disappearing …

ivor20
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

My pleasure Cindy.. I try my hardest to visit everyone. … I admire how you are able cope so well πŸ€—πŸŒπŸ’•

eminentconstructionproject
1 year ago

Hello Timothy

A Star on the Forehead
1 year ago

Hi Cindy,
I am glad you survived the first week of construction.
It is hard to celebrate anything lately, but we still must try.
Beautiful poem! Blessings! β™₯β™₯

theburningheart
theburningheart
1 year ago

Hope you soon accomplish your house project soon, I know how you want things done properly, quickly, and be over with it, so you can relax, and enjoy.πŸ˜€

KINDNESS WISDOM
1 year ago

Kindness wisdom ✨

Sowmya
1 year ago

Beautiful poem with shades of greige Cindy.

rothpoetry
1 year ago

it is very hard to celebrate when in other parts of the world life is falling apart! A great post Cindy… and a new vocabulary word for me.

rothpoetry
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Yes it is… I looked it up!

rothpoetry
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

:>)

Gottfried
1 year ago

Love the poem. It spoke to me. πŸ˜…

Lamittan Minsah
1 year ago

I felt my tears hanging close as I read that poem, dear C. What a moving one, my friend. Well, it’s tumultuous times, even so given the situation in Ukraine that quite breaks my heart to fragments. We gloom together.

I love the new shade. You call it Graige? Wow, what a modestly memorable name! The two colors blend just well. πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’–

Lamittan Minsah
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Yes, it’s appropriate and I love it too. I noticed my notification πŸ”” had gone off for some sites, and I’ve been rectifying it. I just hope it won’t turn into another glitch. I certainly enjoy reading you and I’m glad to reconnect. Many thanks for your concern, and for returning joy and marveling onto my face. πŸ’–πŸŒˆπŸ’–

Lamittan Minsah
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Sure. Sometimes they raise my worries. Haven’t been writing a lot this month, but I’ve had a few stuff there. I hope to adjust. Thanks for your presence and continued support, dear. ❀🌈🌟 xx

Lamittan Minsah
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Indeed! I’m obliged for your invaluable support. Always. Have a wonderful time. 😊 πŸ’πŸ’–πŸ’–πŸ’

jonicaggiano
1 year ago

Blessings sweetie another lovely though sad piece. I decided to stay up as long as it takes. I finally made it here. Sending you my great big southern hug and my love too sweetie. β€οΈπŸ€—πŸ™πŸ€—β€οΈπŸ™

jonicaggiano
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

β€οΈπŸ€—πŸ¦‹πŸŒΉπŸŒΈπŸŒ»

paeansunplugged
1 year ago

That was emotional and beautiful, Cindy! Greige sounds good! πŸ˜€β€οΈ

paeansunplugged
Reply to  Cindy Georgakas
1 year ago

Me too, Cindy. You are welcome. ❀️