Category Archives: Gratitude

fearlessness, wonderment & a little glitter

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offbeat

……it’s an off-kilter, swishy, cool, funky, free-wheelin’, mardi-gras dancin’, sweet moon, mess-in-the-studio, shake it up, belly laugh, wearin’ glitter…..

….kind of feelin’….

….it has something to do with love…& the fullness of life…

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find, the destination where all roads of the journey lead. Dig up the acorn that holds the indestructible seeds of your genius & your joy. Rewrite your victim story. String the beads of your life necklace with care & compassion, faith & fearlessness. Cultivate a sense of wonder…..Elizabeth Lesser

write your own story….

charm your way into your own dance,

your own nuance, your own magic….

gather your beads, write your own story…..

while gathering soul,

I prefer a cool mask with feathers, lots of glitter, & a boa….

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delicious & tormented joy

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me in life...

 a giddy-kind-of-silly-lighter-than-clouds-kind-of-pithy-dawdle-daydream-kind-of-day…

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightening, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?

….The Buddha….

nothing is getting put off today….it’s all right here in the palm of my hand…sweetness….

I am reminded that joy & passion are here, not elsewhere….

this is a dreamy & yet stark awakening…..

allusive & yet mine to choose….

a nuanced riddle & yet simple common sense…

     it’s time to play….

 I would not paint-a picture-

I would not paint-a picture-

I’d rather be the One

Its bright impossibility

To dwell-delicious-on-

And wonder how the fingers feel

Whose rare-celestial-stir-

Evokes so sweet a Torment-

Such sumptuous-Despair-

I would not talk, like Cornets-

I’d rather be the One

Raised softly to the Ceilings-

And out, and easy on-

Through Villages of Ether-

Myself endued Balloon

By but a lip of Metal-

The pier to my Pontoon-

Nor would I be a Poet-

It’s finer-own the Ear-

Enamored-impotent-content-

The License to revere,

A privilege so awful

What would the Dower be,

Had I the Art to stun myself

With Bolts of Melody!

……Emily Dickinson…..

Liebster Blog Award #2

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Another nomination for the Liebster Award! This award is a wonderful little nudge to help navigate the blog world. A Big Thank You to lostupabove for the warm nomination. Her blog is a must see…..full of unique ideas, poetry & I especially like to peruse the books/music pages. This is a thoughtful & connected blog.

As we gather connections, I’d like to give a little extra attention to these nominees….

They are definitely worth peeking into….

 The Embodiment Chronicle

Yoga Care Challenge

bahrainisufi

J. Ruth Kelly

Seek the Sacred Amidst the Ordinary

Redifining Reality

ermiliablog

susserative aspirations

ranujanu

caterpillarwithonewing

meet me in the middle of true happiness….

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delicate

True happiness is in the love-stream that springs from one’s soul; & he who will allow this stream to run continually in all conditions of life, in all situations, however difficult, will have a happiness which truly belongs to him, whose source is not without, but within…..Hazrat Inayat Khan

So, I guess I’m somewhere in the middle of believing, accepting, understanding, knowing, feeling, judging, getting IT…

you know, that ok-happy-but-don’t-hit-me-too-hard place….

the morose, the maudlin, and the melancholy shadows of the delicate….

and then there are the really beautiful, really annoying & smiling angels who gift us with simplicity, openness, & humility…..

cheesy & undeniable….yes, don’t we usually resist quippy messages?….

in spite of or because of their power?

Liebster Blog Award

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It’s wonderful to be nominated for a lovely award! Thank you Katrina….

Her Blog, Freedom to a Full Life is full of heart-felt surprises & insights….

The idea behind the Leibster award is to bring attention to blogs with less than 200 followers all in the spirit of gathering more connections…

…..include a special word of thanks for the nominator

…..include a few extra special blogs for nomination so that we grow our connections…

…..check out these diverse blogs

for ‘not so typical’ & cool content & photos….

barbaraelka

crossroad dispatches

dou dou birds

dharma folk

ingaphotography

ABC Award

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Thanks Dolly for the sweet nomination for the ABC award…

check out All About Lemon for a blog that is filled with little nooks & surprises….fun to check out!

And my abc list….litlle tidbits about me…

a/art  b/berries  c/contentment  d/delve  e/elysian  f/forgive  g/gift  h/heart  i/iphone  j/journal  k/kite  l/languid  m/mist  n/nest  o/olives  p/pearl  q/quiet  r/ruminate  s/solstice  t/tea  u/unicorn  v/vintage  w/white  x/xenolith  y/yoga  z/zoon

Following through with other nominations for ‘awesome blog content’…..

Qjorn

Warrior Poet Wisdom

Emma Tree

Shutter Sisters

Soul Aperture

Journal Girl

A Fanciful Twist

Kind Over Matter

Meredith Winn

Oh Olive

Versatile Blogger

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Thank you Elisa for nominating me for The Versatile Blogger Award. Elisa’s blog, Fun & Fabulousness is lighthearted & quirky….a breath of fresh air…. especially nice to peruse a blog with so much about traveling.

The Versatile Blogger is a unique way of linking the blog community together. We are to thank the person who nominated us, share our insights into other blogs by nominating 15 blogs, and then share 7 things about ourselves not yet known….

…love chocolate

….fascinated by Joseph Cornell

…am an avid art journaler

….love manatees

….yoga everyday

….love the mix of coffee shops & poetry

….really want a llama

So to keep the connection going, I will nominate my favorites as well….

Katie’s Camera Blog

Deidra Alexander’s Blog

My Soul Leapt

Blissful Thinking

Soul Dust

The Noisy Plume

Madelyn Mulvaney

Doorways Traveler

Susan Tuttle

Susannah Conway

Be Present. Be here.

Open Sky

Graceful Presence

Contemplating the Moon

Pink Coyote

organic unity & the cohesiveness of beauty…

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humble gifts...

Aristotle said that like a plant, a work of art is an intricate arrangement of parts, all of which contribute to the whole. The roots, stem, leaves & blossom are all necessary. ‘So a work of art..a play, for instance….is made up of parts, all of which ideally contribute to the whole. The interconnection & interarrangment of parts comes from within the organism; it is not imposed from the outside. Thus successful works of art can be said to have an organic unity…that is, the arrangement of parts seems to have come from the work itself, not to have been superimposed by a creator or viewer…..This defines ‘organic unity.’…….Marcia Muelder Eaton….Basic Issues in Aesthetics

This sweet spot comes from the place of longing…the place we cannot name….the place we find ourselves mid-story….beyond us….a feeling like nostalgia….like the attempt to name the infinite….

coming from humble places with humble gifts….

 

Contentment…like finding flowers in winter…

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           winter flowers….a tiny miracle…
Spiritual life is a fine balance between effort & surrender. In spite of what the fast-food spiritual teachers of our time claim, spiritual practice requires tremendous effort, & effort brings with it tension. We need to relax that tension, so we might open to the grace, depth, & energetic subtleties that result from practice. We learn to gracefully receive what life gives us, rather than demand that life should always give us what we want. This is contentment…..Mariana Caplan
Just full of it today! Loads of life out on a simple stroll…..it’s all just right here….all here & gone…a glimpse of ‘suchness’….
“So let me get this clear,” I said, as I walked up to my teacher’s desk. “You’re telling me that I absolutely cannot trust myself because the mind is conditioned, confused, & full of lies & deceit, & at the same time, I must trust myself implicitly because there is nothing else I can trust.”
“Exactly,” he said……Mariana Caplan
Just rolling along…
 

flying into the heart….

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walking alone....considering flight...

 When you open your eyes to the world

You are on your own for the first time. No one

is even interested in saving you now

and the world steps in to test the calm fluidity

of your body

from moment to moment

as if it believed you could join

its vibrant dance

of fire & calmness & final stillness.

David Whyte

calm abiding & clear seeing….like ocean & sand….peanut butter & jelly….

in other words….being very aware, tuned in, clear….

& then being able to deal with it all, equanimity….

reality cannot be described or defined in any satisfactory way…it must simply be realized, fully experienced in the body-mind…Stephen Cope

opening the heart, walking alone….this brings the heart into connection….

wide open, walking the beach, flying feels possible…