Colorado Kimmie

 Sunday I joined some friends for Denver’s Dragon Boat Festival at Sloan’s Lake in Denver, Colorado.  Denver boasts the largest Dragon Boat Festival in the US!  🐉  Did you know Sloan’s Lake is only 3.5 feet deep?  This is why it’s so polluted.   Despite the sweltering heat, we had a blast.   Here are some photos of this year’s festivities: The dancers taught us the cultural routines!  I worked up a little sweat! These were some of the dragon boats on Sloan’s Lake  It took over a year to carve out this dragon boat.  These guys sell for upwards of $100k Enjoying a light snack.  Some Colorado Palisade peaches  A little travel pillow we picked up  Strike a pose there’s nothing to it…VOGUE With July 2024 almost in the books, cheers to August right around the corner.  I hope your month is filled with blessings and surprising new beginnings! Kimmie 

I woke up this morning thinking about Codependency.  I always thought this was a psychological term for weak people who couldn't survive life without the sources or energies of another person (or even people - a clique).  I was not wrong.  But, I wasn't completely right either.  Are you the helper?  The people pleaser?  Chronically pouring out your light and energy for basically useless bullshit? If you find yourself always being the therapist, the life jacket, the safety net, the bright and shining light (EVEN with greatest of intentions of the illusion of  helping "save" someone from a cesspool of hurt) -- CONGRATS you are CODEPENDENT!  In a codependent relationship there is the (for lack of better way to describe) - alpha and the beta.  The beta is the empty vessel who traded their light for the comforts of hell.  And, the alpha is the fire, the light, the medicine - with great intentions of saving the beta from hell fire.  But h...