Saturday, January 28, 2012

Autumn An Alphabet Acrostic
Buddhist teaching for the reacting mind.
Christmas has now finally been moved to the...
Deck
"Earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear thoughts give you a headache
Got some Groceries
"Hamatreya" is a passage in the Vishnu Purana which Emerson copied into his 1845 Journal
It includes the above quote
Just chillin' now
Kickin' back
Learning to respond, not react
Mom arrived safely in Florida
Namaste
Old journals
Papancha : Pali word meaning "proliferation of thoughts".
Quiet
Reading
Surprise
Tara Brach podcast
Unbelievable "coincidences"
Valentine idea for ...
Walked my puppy
X, Y,  Zoe Hall

Full Friday

Aspiring... Appreciative inquiry
Boundless
Camaraderie & Critical thinking
Dazed, needing Deep breaths
Fun
Geese
How bold is bold enough?
I Don't Know How She Does It
Jo Allen
Kind and
Loving
Meredith Myths &  Mission Statement
Notability for ipad
Opportunities
Powerful, Phenomenal
Road trip!
Strategic plan
Truths
Unsettled
Visioning Conference
Yearning
Zenii magnolia

Wed, Thurs, Friday....

Yep, even for me it is a WTF kind of time... rare, but it does happen. In the last 24 hours, some very strange things have been happening that have me wondering... "IS the end of the world as we know it approaching more quickly than we think?" The answer is a resounding "YES!" and my response is:
"God, I hope so, Dear, God, Please help, Thank you. Amen"

I say that because the craziness must end. The changes have lately be escalating at such a pace that human beings can no longer cope. The stress alone is killing us and it seems we are unable to untie ourselves from the tracks. The locomotive is approach folks, and think about it. There is no way for us to untie ourselves from the tracks, We must begin to untie each other from the tracks somehow, and my frustration and melancholia is coming from the fact that I don't know how. All I can do right now is ask my daughter to help me and I will help her. It will be an unraveling, and that's ok. There will be tears, and that's ok.

The change starts NOW. Today's ABC list is a release for me, a letting go so I can go forward.

Against the Wind: http://youtu.be/RcDCvQbOdig
Boston

"Don't Look Back"
Enough!
Faith not Fear. Fear must be replaced with Faith
God is the answer
Heartfelt
Insidious: having a gradual and cumulative effect ie. the insidious pressures of modern life.
J
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Love
Mellifluous: having a smooth rich flow ie. a mellifluous voice.
Now
Overwhelmed? Open up
Peripherally is a great word. Pray for others, and then let go, let God.
Q
Reading, according to
Say what must be said. Somerset Maugham said, "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
Too much? Turn the Page



Winter Twilight by Anne Porter
On a clear winter's evening
The crescent moon
And the round squirrels' nest
In the bare oak
Are equal planets.

W. Somerset Maugham : "I saw what hope looked like, fear and relief; I saw the dark lines that despair drew on a face; I saw courage and steadfastness. I saw faith shine in the eyes of those who trusted in what I could only think was an illusion and I saw the gallantry that made a man greet the prognosis of death with an ironic joke because he was too proud to let those about him see the terror of his soul."

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Attended Library Strategic Planning Meeting
But!
Came home early and surprised my kid
"Defiantly cheery" - Winter Garden
Encouraging, brave, strong and courageous!
Fecund : intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree p. 123
Gave up trying to finish this blog
Jackie time
Keeping up with what's important
Lingered over Lunch
Misty so...
Need the walk, so did I
"Obscenely bright" - Winter Garden
Photos add so much
Quality to the final post
Rest and find Rhythm
Surprise!
Talk with John Joseph Law
Über : comes from the German language. It has one umlaut
Verdigris : a green or bluish deposit on copper surfaces p. 139
Warm Weather Walk With Misty
eXuberantly p. 138
Yummy torte thingy from Trader Joe's
Zzzzzz

Monday, January 23, 2012

Aliveness in the body
Being waking up together
Clearing
Dharma
Elizabeth is writing!
Freedom
Good friends are the whole of the holy life
Honesty
In touch with the waves of fear, but not being inside them
J, K, Loving relatedness, M
No agenda
Ok, it's like this right now
Podcast and a Poem
Refuge in the Dharma
Space of awareness, attentiveness
Tara Branch: Taking Refuge in the Dharma:

Taking Refuge from Tara Brach on Vimeo.

Understanding, V, Wisdom, X
You are here to pay attention: that is enough

CLEARING by Martha Postlewaite

Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hand
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue

It's all about choices

Avow: to declare assuredly, openly, bluntly, and without shame
Beautiful
Caring
Dear
Exceptionalism : the condition of being different from the norm
Friend's
Gift
Here
Is everything okay?
Joyful
Kindly
M
New word for Nerd
Otaku - Japanese for Geek or Nerd :)
P,
Q, R, S, Tired
Uxorious : excessively fond of or submissive to a wife
V
"Warm Whilst Waiting for me to open the door" ~ Sue about Humphrey

:)

Ydelnesse by Keith Henderson 1907


Second cup of coffee kind of Saturday

A true and dear friend sent a much needed blessing
Beautiful Blessings are everywhere
"Careful the tale you tell, that is the spell. Children will listen..."
D
Everybody makes mistakes..
Festival!
Giants can be Good
Here's my Hand
Into the Woods
Just remember...
K
L
Meditation and Music
"No one is alone"...[even though]sometimes people leave you, half way through the wood
Once upon a time...
Plantas: http://vimeo.com/33347421
Quiet and
Rainy
Shine the Light

Together We'll Go
U
V
W
X
You decide what's right, You decide what's good.
Z

Niece's 32nd Birthday

Ambitious Aunt
Birthday Girl
Cute Cousin
Darling Daughter
Fantastic Friend
Gorgeous Granddaughter
Healthy
Intelligent and Independent
January Joy
Kripalu 
Law Lidestri mix :)
Magnificent Manifestation!
Nimble Niece
Open-heart
Playful Person
Quiet
Relaxed
Sweet Sister
Talented
Unique
Vivacious
Wonderful
Xcellent
Yogi
Zest for life

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Alice in Wonderland
Busy, Busy day...
Cullen Cornett Came by the library
Discombobulated
Encaustics : a paint made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and resin and fixed by heat
Fugenzo: Japanese flowering cherry tree
Gratitude
Happy Endings depend on where the story stops
It's It Ironic
Just barely holding it together
Kinda...
Let's see....
Martha gave me the Manchego cheese in my quiche
New episodes...
Overwhelmed
Pooped
Quadrennial performance of Alice at Meredith this week
Royal Pains
Spinach Quiche recipe from Smitten Kitchen
Thank you, God
Understanding
Very busy morning
White Collar
X, Y, Zanzibar p. 91 Winter Garden

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Aliveness, Awareness
Belonging, Benevolence
Capacity to love
Development if trust
Ego of self, Einstein
Fundamental
Goodness
Harmony
Intuit
Justkiran1103.blogspot.com
Kind
Love
Mask
Nice, Nobility
Opulent
Part of something larger - Podcast
Quandary - thank you Kiran:
Radiant truth of nature
Say yes!
Trusting our basic goodness - Tara Branch
http://tarabrach.com/audioarchives2012.html
Unconditional Love
Vulnerability
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
eXacerbate
Yes to Yoga
Zanzibar p. 91

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Artur Schnabel: "But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!"
Brainy quotes  ^^ and early morning Bacon
Cerulean: resembling the blue of the sky
Deep breath
Enthusiasm
Fantastic grade on...
Geometry exam today!
Harmony: pleasing or congruent arrangement of parts
"I don't believe. I know."
Jung, Carl
Know
Lives: Get One
Mottled
N
Occam's razor: the simplest explanation will be the most plausible
Pauses between
Qi: frequently translated as life energy, lifeforce, or energy flow.
Rheumy: watery; especially of the eyes or nose
Samovar: an urn with a spigot used to boil water for tea

Monday, January 16, 2012

Acknowledge is to recognize something as true ~ Gunilla Norris
Being Home ~ finally bought myself a copy (qtd. in Simple Abundance)
Commune with the ordinary tasks and events of my own life
Dwell with...Devotional literature... Deep awe
Exquisitely precise
Firings of tough events
Got up kinda early, even for me :)
Housekeeping spirit
Immense and Intense
Joy to the world!
Kiln
Learn what it is "to be in place"
Mystery that infuses and supports everything
New York by Snow Patrol
Our heart's ...
Passion, Prayer and housekeeping... they go together
"Quiet chaos driving me back..."
Responsibility to the time I've been given to live
Savor the Sacredness... not only Sense, but also See
Time
Understanding
Vitrified: to convert into glass or a glassy substance by heat and fusion
We need to be centered in...
Xpressions of Itself
"Yellow pottery at the end of the driveway..."
Zola Jesus - Skin

January 15, 2012

Afraid ruins everything
Big & Carrie
Chillin on a Sunday afternoon
Decide
"Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours"
Facebook inspires me
Guess what I am watching
Harry & Charolotte
I Inspired someone else :)
John
Keats
Lily & Rose
Miranda & Steve
Nine hours of sleep last night and still Need Nap today
Oh! I need a photo here, don't I??
Poetry
Quiet Sunday
Relax
Spelunking: : the hobby or practice of exploring caves
Tired
U
Volumes one, two, and three
"Whereabouts" by Marcus Jackson "...we would fork from the same plate."
X
Y
Z

ABCs we'd rather not face

Angry
Belligerent Blaming
Critical
Denial
EtOH, a shorthand used by EMTs to describe a patient who is displaying 
symptoms of over-consumption, or withdrawal from, alcoholic beverages.
Family dis-ease
Grandparents
Higher Power
I am struggling to process it all
.
.
.
One Day at a Time
Problems Prayers
Quitting is not the same as surrendering to a high power
Realized I just could NOT post a blog so bleak.... and then...
heard this on Writer's Almanac Podcast for Jan 5, 2012

Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye
A man crosses the street in rain,
stepping gently, looking two times north and south,
because his son is asleep on his shoulder.

No car must splash him.
No car drive too near to his shadow.

This man carries the world's most sensitive cargo
but he's not marked.
Nowhere does his jacket say FRAGILE,
HANDLE WITH CARE.

His ear fills up with breathing.
He hears the hum of a boy's dream
deep inside him.

We're not going to be able
to live in this world
if we're not willing to do what he's doing
with one another.

The road will only be wide.
The rain will never stop falling.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2012/01/05

ABCs for my Mom, some powerful memories we share

Against the Wind
Benny, Bob...
“Carnivals and cotton candy, Carousels and calliopes”
Dad even went!
Expect a Miracle
Forgiveness
God
Hug a tree
I am forever grateful
Jackie Joined the club and
Ken too :)
Lillian and Gilles

MaryAnn and…  Mary Lynn
Og Mandino
Patty, Powers & colors
Quiet
Renunciation
Surrender
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved
Unconditional love
Val David
Walk
X factor
Yes! to life!
Zest for life!

Sunday, Jan 8, 2012

Ahhh... what to do today... let's start with enjoying this gorgeous sunrise....

Breathe.... Bake
Chewy Caramel Cookies
Drizzled p. 22

Enjoyed a snuggle with my kid. yay!
Flurried p. 40
Gray minutiae p. 26
Haltingly... he carried love songs in his Heart p. 24

Intimate p. 24

Journal - Junco: it's a bird, a small, grey, American swallow to be exact :)
Nanosecond p. 38
Oatmeal cookies in Oven
Parchment Paper for cookies
Quiet is nice
Reading Winter Garden
Sunrise in my "window room" :)
Towee: it's a bird too. It nests on the ground.
"Under your spell"
Viburnum:
Writing
Yearning p.32
Zoe played by Jennifer Lopez

Combining 1/7/12 with 2/15/16 - fun!


Bobby is comin'round - yay!! - a little over 4 years ago now, But still in a wheel chair :(
CassJayTuck was my newest YouTube fav because my kid told me about her :)
Dave Matthews' song "The Space Between"
Enlightenment happens a little Each day, Even though
"Fickle, Fuddled words confuse me..."
Good news about Bobby this am - yay!
"Hearts in Nature" courtesy of the UMN Extension - Isanti County Master Gardeners.

It is now February 15, 2016, but... 
January 7, 2012 when this post originated 
Ken teaching yoga in Mexico today :)
"Love is all we need here..."

Michelle Nicole Law's 24th Birthday (Feb 15, 2016)
"Our wicked lies..."
Publish Post
"... Quit me so Quickly"
"Ran like sadness down the window"
"Safe from pain ..."

"The space between the Tears we cry is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more."
Umberto Eco's 80th Birthday was this week (part of original post from Jan 2012)
Valentine?
"Wicked lies Wasted hours With talking talking We're strange allies With Warring hearts What a Wild-eyed beast you be..."
"You cannot quit me so quickly..."
"... no corner you could squeeZe me"

Another new beginning - Jan 6, 2012


Arbutus unedo – Strawberry Tree
Bella Monica for lunch yesterday
Chamomile and lavender
Deep steep
Epiphany
Friday - yay!
Gorgeous sunset for Geoge' Birthday yesterday
Honey bee on the loquat tree
I've Got You Babe
JC Raulston Arboretum
Kristin Hannah
Loquat in bloom smells luscious!!
Meatball sandwich
Nice!
Oh! the joy!
PRAXIS prep work
Quench the thirst
Research and Reflexology
Surprise Serendipity
Thank you, God, for this most amazing day....
Uplifting message
Vegatarian chili - sort of
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Xeric garden
Yum!!

On this, the 12th Day of Christmas...

I give to my true loves, the gift of Joy!

On the 11th of Christmas

A, B, C, D, E, F
Humphrey gave us 11 piper's piping and Sarah BanBreathnach recommends we give to our true loves...
the gift of peaceful surroundings.
I agree :) so I went to the Arboretum for lunch
Jessica Prescott's Facebook status
Ken headed south
Leaving LA for...
Mexico
Now
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Perihelion: the spot in Earth's orbit where she is closest to the sun :-)
Q
Revel : to take intense pleasure or...
Satisfaction
Xera Plants: Mt. Etna Broom

On the 10th day of Christmas...

Sue Gager Palmer gave to us the Humphrey Chronicles:
 "Day 10 - Not able to stand the lordly merriment anymore, Humphrey bungie leaps"
and Sarah Ban Breathnach reminds us to give to our true loves the gift of...

WONDER : a cause of astonishment or admiration : marvel: miracle
The quality of exciting amazed admiration
Rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one's experience

On the 9th day of Christmas...

I give to my true loves... the gift of Surprise!! :)

and Sue gives us... 9 "Ladies"?? Dancing? so cute :) but! as luck, coincidence or the gift of surprise would have it, this was the one and only Humphrey Chronicle to be turned 90 degrees :)

Happy New Year!!

Act Authentically
Breathe Deeply
Create Contentment
Dream Daringly
Enjoy Elizabeth
Fan the Flames (2 Timothy 1:6)
Give Graciously & Generously
Help Happily
Inspire Imagination
Jump Joyously
Kiss Kindly
Love Luxuriously
Make a difference daily
Nap Noisily
Open Opportunities
Play Purposefully
Question....
Rest
Seek Solace or as Elizabeth would say: "Stop & Flop" :)
Tend Tenaciously
Unfurl
Vivaciously
Wander in the Woods... Wing it...
Xquisitly
Yen for more
Zeal, Zest and Zsa, Zsa, Zsu!!

"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."
~ Patti Smith