Memorial Day Week...

Awe: an experience of such perceptual vastness you literally have to reconfigure your mental models of the world to Assimilate it." ~ Jason Silva


Counterintuitive Ways to Find Happiness"
 Darwin said: "Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement."

Endless love and support
"Flowers bend their bright bodies, and tip their fragrance to the air, and rise, their red stems holding all that dampness and recklessness gladly and lightly, and there it is again - beauty the brave, the exemplary, blazing open." ~ Mary Oliver qtd by Mandy Smith
"Grass... becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." ~ Henry Miller

"I do believe we're all connected / I  do believe in positive energy / I  do believe in the power of prayer / I  do believe in putting good out into the world / And I  believe in taking care of each other." – Harvey Fierstein
John
Kincheloe end of time at Meredith
Looms
Millions of Blue Velella Wash Ashore California Beaches"
http://californiadiver.com/millions-of-blue-velella-wash-ashore-california-beaches-222/ thanks for the link Kathryn Mueller
N ew week and month begins soon... time to close this one out well...
Oak leaf Hydrangea at Meredith College

Paean is a fervent expression of joy or praise, often in song.
Quiet moments of reflection
Reading: The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
Saturday morning sighs
by Tyler Knott Gregson
Unlimited potential
https://www.facebook.com/129861503698507/photos/a.136885982996059.20482.129861503698507/1009964922354823/?type=1&theater
Watching Pacific Rim... interesting...
eXtremely grateful
Yoga twice on Sunday
Zen moments of my own: "Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves." ~ Humanitarian Carol Hegedus

Words (and images) to live by

Accept others for who they Are 
Break away from everything that stands in the way of what you hope to accomplish
Captivated  by beauty on these most amazing days

thank you for sharing this Carmen

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea ... teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." - John Lubbock 


"Genuine acts of kindness always make us free." ~ Gunilla Norris
"Honest friends are doorways to our souls, and loving friends are grasses that soften the world." ~ Mark Nepo 18 May The Book of Awakening
"I will be whatever you need as long as you need it."  ~  also from Mark Nepo's May 18th 
"Just as an organic gardener knows how to make good use of compost to grow beautiful flowers, so too does a practitioner know how to make good use of suffering to generate happiness." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Kale chips are on the to do list - dino kale, to be exact
"Listening with an Awake Heart." by Tara Brach Jul 25, 2012
Made ice cream last night - yum!

"Nothing among human things has such power to keep our gaze fixed ever more intensely upon God than friendship." ~ Simone Weil
Open your eyes and take in all the beauty around you
Play every day
Relax
Share your Skills
"Take your busy heart ... to the forest. The song you heard singing in the leaf when you were a child is singing still." ~ Mary Oliver
Use your gifts to the best of your ability... Fly!
""Vanilla Flower Cupcakes" 
 Why even  bother with  "X" and "Y"  go to ...
Zest Bakery, Stonington Connecticut now :)

Time for a new story - Saturday, May 16, 2015

Courage vs. Discouraged


G is for ...

IIs time...
"Journey today, 'I am Free'." ~ Deepak Day 7 "Fearless Me" Desire and Destiny Meditation
K is for... 
L is for Lovely wildflowers, and their Lessons 
Mountain Meditation Memory is very powerful
NOW is the time to... 
O is for ...  and Optimism
P is for Positivity...
"Quality of Focus" - Day 8 Deepak and Oprah, Desire and Destiny Meditation "What Do I Want?"
Release like the weeds that they are, all those things that no longer serve you.
Spectrum of choices as wide and beautiful as the Spectrum of color
Trust in Spirit to Take us to the next right step
Unique, Unspoiled beauty, hope and possibility
"We blossom and outgrow selves the way butterflies emerge from cocoons. Except that being human, we have the chance to emerge from many cocoons." -- Mark Nepo, The Endless Practice
eXpanded sense of freedom - Day 8 - Deepak Oprah - Desire and Destiny Meditation: What Do I Want?
YES!

http://www.zenthinking.net/podcast/


Where are we now?

"Accepting what we’re given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us
Become intimate with the nature of life." ~ Mark Nepo from The Endless Practice
Callie Davis
  Dani Kendrick

Emily Lane

Helps to Have a full cup, and not spill over at the slightest jostling
"I Am" is Shiva/Shakti, merged in Indissoluble embrace
Jeff's family was a Joy the other night - and here is Jeff at Commencement

http://herebedragons.weebly.com/verities-2-vortex.html
Libertine : a person who rejects accepted opinions in matters of religion; a freethinker.
Mother's Day and Bob's Birthday
Natural happiness : ananda Awakening Shakti p. 33
Our "baby" brother's 49th Birthday
"Parents" by John O'Donohue - thanks Ken
https://www.facebook.com/JohnODonohue.AnamCara/photos/a.195041557196029.45433.128546530512199/978180415548802/?type=1&fref=nf
Quest of my own personal greatness
Rose Turchi posted this a few day ago ...



"Uncontrollably wild" I like that - see "W" below
Vireo - Scrabble word played by Sue
"Without the awareness and stability of Shiva, Shakti is uncontrollably wild." ~ Awakening Shakti p. 31
eXtreme fun! eXtreme JOY!
Yoga this am - always the very best gift of love I can give to myself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebu

MAY DAY!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206449639464405&set=a.10201948766305389.1073741846.1371710592&type=1&theater

Celtic festival of Beltane, also referred to as May Day.
Dancing around the May pole

"Go seek the wearer, not the cloak." ~ Rumi

https://www.facebook.com/DPNCenter/photos/a.87881048172.86845.49414728172/10153047222338173/?type=1&theater

I have felt this way every day since Earth Day!


Kripalu Newsletter 
Love Letting Misty Lead us on a Long morning walk

National Treasure 


Purifying light of the full moon
https://www.facebook.com/dreamcatchersmd/photos/a.420138198037610.108403.420132071371556/942436075807817/?type=1&theater
Reading Awakening Shakti, finally, and loving the synchronicity
Sue has hummies already!

Time to make the hummingbird nectar!
 Underway (Spring) and summer approaches...Wiccans around the world celebrate Beltane.
Verdammt!

"eXpansive sense of freedom and hope" ~ Oprah
"Yet, as two hands cup water to the mouth, we need both male and female energies to drink fully of this life." ~ Mark Nepo - May 3
Zagarenski, Pam, my "go to gal" for Z, never fails to be the perfect way to end a blog post
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203207602704594&set=a.2258335791587.2090202.1644165430&type=1&theater