Being Still...

Allow time for the stillness to enter.  AFTERnoon does not mean After everything else is "done"

Bath Before Bedtime now is so helpful

Consider "Cozy" to be a Crucial part of each day.

  Thank you, Suzanne, xo (currently walking the Appalachian Trail)

Fascinating Fundamentals of water and physics
Gerald H. Pollack's video: What is life-lecture

I've recently been referred to as "Holistic Hippie," and I am okay with that 

Just what I needed to hear:
"Keep working diligently and walking your pathing reminding yourself it's unfolding at the perfect speed in the perfect way, especially when it doesn't feel that way." 
Love you,
Meghan, Mom and Many others whose texts and Facebook posts help than you know

"Nature's nectar nourishes the butterfly and the gardener." ~ Meghan Natifa Kerr

 Image: Geir Jartveit

"Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul. ~ Rumi 

Peaceful warrior: Permaculture visionary Bill Mollison, died 24 Sept 2016 :(

Quora, a "new" tool I just stumbled upon

Rose from Carolyn's Collection

Spirit of a Hippie Facebook post:

Try again, and again to Take it easy... ah... meditation is the answer here

Unlimited power of the Universe is always there to support Us

Vita, short for curriculum vitae, is Latin for “the course of one's life.”

eXclusion zone water or living water is a very interesting concept that I am learning about

Your mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work unless it’s open. ~ Jordan Maxwell  ~ Art by Amanda Cass

Zone, what a great word, idea, and concept for remembering and staying in the Zone of peace, harmony, power and connectedness

just finished reading...

"...And with love there are now rules... The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters...for in every love lies the seed of our growth" (vi).

"...joyful...no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender. This book is about the importance of that surrender... To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God" (vii).
IT was lovely, and powerful, and made me feel hopeful and sad at the same time.


"That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance...Only then...will the water extinguish what the flames have written. All love stories are the same" (2).


"As I listened to what he was saying - I felt myself growing closer to him - I was more and more convinced that he was right: there are moments when you have to take a risk, to do crazy things" (25).

"The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we are living in a different way.

"Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the father... In order to have a spiritual life... All you have to do is have faith and accept God. From then on, each of us becomes a part of His path. We become a vehicle for His miracles" (120).

The winds of change... a new perspective Feb 25, 2011 and now it is 2017

"Anxious?" was the first word of this post, originally publish 2/25/2011

Begin now to shift focus

Cranky? Dare to jump out of the page, it could save you

Drew Canole's Saturday Strategy video here

 we will march for science

Fern Frond Joyner Hall 
Giving away control, you Get it.

"Honest company can lead us back to our own possibility." p. 45 Endless Practice

"I find that happiness can always be recollected in tranquillity, Ma'am." ~ Lord M

"Jittery, and I don't think it's the coffee..." now I am solid and strong and...

Keeping things simple

Letting go of control is the paradox of accessing your own personal power

More you give it away, the more it comes back.

Now what?

Open hearted - Organic power - and Oyster soup :) recipe here

Pretty Pink Cherry trees

"Quarantining our involvement in the world, we run the risk of letting our soul sleep..." p. 42 Mark Nepo's Endless Practice

Reflective pauses Release our soul 

See by our own light and Simply BE Strong

"The force of Spring - mysterious, fecund, powerful beyond measure." - Michael Garofalo, Cuttings

Unity with the whole of the rest of the Universe
Venture Into Wellness, LLC

Winds of change? Why not!

eXhilaration and learning in each moment
Yoga on the beach! Yes! I'm ready!!

Zucchini Noodles with Avocado, Pesto, and Shrimp

Spring! I love SPRING!!

I hope that everyone who has recently had a Birthday is Happy Happy Joy! Joy! :)

Jasminum nudiflorum

Jasminum nudiflorum (Winter jasmine, Hardy jasmine)

They are all... moments of forever

Moment of Fovever by Willie Nelson

Was it wonderful for you
Was it holy as it was for me
Did you feel the hand of destiny
That was guiding us together

You were young enough to dream
And I was old enough to learn something new
I'm so glad I got to dance with you
For a moment of forever

Sometimes when you're cryin you're happy
And sometimes you're just cryin
I know I know

And come whatever happens now

Ain't it nice to know that dreams still come true
I'm so glad that I was close to you
for a moment of forever

Sometimes when you're cryin you're happy
And sometimes you're just cryin
I know I know

And come whatever happens now
Ain't nice to know that dreams still come true
I'm so glad that I was close to you
For a moment of forever

Being Peace

"If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die." ~ THICH NHAT HANH, Being Peace
That is why I write—to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. So that when I finish telling myself the story... Only then... will the water extinguish what the flames have written. All love stories are the same.

anything for my girl...

Posted this on facebook this week with the caption: "Have you seen us? LOL Elizabeth and I were going through a box of my old stuff last night, trying to find pics of me when I was the age she is now. She's decided I was a geek, a jock AND a nerd. lol"

I would do ANYthing for Elizabeth, but this was actually fun. And now I am taking the afternoon off so I can BE with her and drive her to a riding lesson about an hour away. More later... maybe :)

a little late today...

Random bits that crossed my path, and I liked, today... While having my second cup of coffee and reading Partnering with Nature: The Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth, for just a few minutes between the dropping off of Elizabeth at school and being at work by 8am: "...tiny hummingbirds hovered their iridescent colors mercurially changing in the glinting sunshine" (4). It is 4pm and I just remembered I had not hit publish yet today :) Perhaps it is because ...

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)

A couple of quotes...

"Put on your fig leaf, let down your hair, and whatever happens, blame it on the snake."

- oh! and on the cover...

Perhaps Eve shoulda had a V-8! :)

Faint heart never won fair lady. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
(1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)

Saturday morning....

As if I needed it, further proof that when we make plans, God laughs.... and this is just a little one. Elizabeth was sick last weekend with high fever, tired, aches. Went back to school Tuesday. Sick again Wednesday after school. Sore throat that hurts "as bad as when [she] broke her arm." :( So, off to the doctor yesterday for flu and strep tests, both negative. We just manage the pain with warm water baking soda gargle, pain meds and rest... Dave offered to let stay with me, which of course is fine with me. So... rainy Saturday morning with my girl and our pets...

Songs... with Missy Higgins and a few others

"Any Day Now" :

"And in our honesty, together we will rise / Out of our nightminds, and into the light / At the end of the fight..." ~ "Nightminds" by Missy Higgins

"But if I listen to the dark..." ~ "The Sound of White"

"Clean the cobwebs out of one another's minds." ~ "Don't Ever" by Missy Higgins

"Don't ever say you've tried for the last time..." by Missy Higgins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMC-UZzCY4

"Embrace me like a star. Envelope me. Envelop me." ~ "Sound of White" by Missy Higgins
"For You" by John Denver
"Gomenasai" (from Japanese: ごめんなさい, lit.: "I'm sorry") click here for video

"How long, how long, how long will we take to come undone? If you know the answer tell me now and I'll write up a calendar for our count down." ~ Any Day Now

"I will learn to breathe...So we can both be there and we can both share the dark." ~ "They Weren't There"

"Just lay it all down. Put your face into my neck and let it fall out."

Ken told me about this lovely lady a five years ago now (Feb 2011)

"...Led through fields of naked land Where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away..."

Missy Higgins

Nightminds by Missy Higgins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbyBZR8chBE "Nightminds"

On a Clear Night

click here for video

Powderfinger "These Days" Puts pressure in my day This life well it's slipping right through my hands These days turned out nothing like I had Planned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdl60MfTBY

Questioning the reason why nothing beautiful does last..." ~ Any Day Now" by Missy Higgins

Rumi beauty: "You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."  ~ Rumi

"Sometimes I hear your smile, and breath your light...if I listen to, the Sound of white."

"They Weren't There : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBIS0E70Kk0

U2 "With or Without You" click here for video so good...

Valerie's is the only song that can possibly go here:

"Where were you when I was burned and broken?" Pink Floyd "Coming Back to Life"

Xavier Rudd - Messages : "these trees that we see / Cannot forever breathe / With the changes they will confront

You were blessed by a different kind of inner view: it's all magnified.

Zen moment for today:

My Inspiration...

I had forgotten about this great picture I took of Elizabeth while visiting CT/RI last summer and "found" it on my old phone when I went to donate it. I posted it on facebook with the following caption: "Elizabeth often inspires me to be the best me I can be...". I received this wonderful response: "She has inspired you well, because you are a pretty terriffic you!" Of course, that's not why I posted it, but it did make me feel good about the progress I've made. The picture is just SO inspiring that I had to share with others :)

Feb 3 fb grabs...
Thich Nhat Hanh Listen to each other. Be there for each other. Our practice for the new year.

Perhaps what does matter...

Perhaps what matters is that I get it. I am continuing to discover more about myself all the time and am on my own path of authenticity, no one else's, and it finally doesn't matter if anyone else "get's it".

For me, it's nice that some people closest to me "get me," but it is not a prerequisite to my happiness and sense of contentment. God wants us to be happy and to KNOW, at the core of our being, that that is ALL He expects of us. Everything else is man made, and ephemeral.

I will continue to "write my book" - in quotes because what I am really doing is going back through what has already been written, but with new eyes and smiling. I made it! I made it through to the other side and now my only job is to live each day to it's fullest and be the best me I can be! :)

I would have included favorite quotes from the books I've recently finished, but it's past my bedtime and I've already passed them on to their next reader. They were these Paulo Coelho books: Brida, The Witch of Portobello, The Zahir, and Eleven Minutes, and I sent at least two of them up to Meaghan Minogue as she recently moved to Vermont. Up until the last few months, I'd only ever heard of Coelho's The Alchemist, so it has been wonderful to discover these and others that are so different from that first encounter, but have had a profound effect, having come into my life at just this time.