November ends...

Audacious

Beaming with happiness

Chimeric : Created by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; highly improbable.

Decorating

Enjoying 

Finishing a book is even more enjoyable when the last day of the month :)

Gotta Get Groceries

How DO you solve a problem like ... ?

Juglandaceae : of the walnut family of trees

"Knowledge is the most precious of all commodities" p. 497

Law Legacy of Love

Mailed first 2 packages today - wahoo!!

New candle

Opening a new book, and a new chapter

Peppermint in everything this time of year

Quinine: a drug that is made from the bark of a tree and used especially to treat malaria

Reading and Rest

"somewhere I have traveled, gladly beyond" by e.e. cummings

"Timbre and intensity of his voice"

Unwavering

Vast range of emotions

Whilst Writing and Watching Sound of Music

eXuberantly eXploring possibilities

Year end review

Zzzzzzz

Thanksgiving 2013

Attualmente : At present; in this moment

 Baking not faking - Thank you, John :) 

Cranberries popping
Daddy

Eggnog with
Fresh nutmeg! Thank you Mommy

Grandma Thomason's Gingerbread BEARS!

"Happy Thanksgiving from Humphrey and the Mouse" by Sue Gager Palmer

In

Joy

Kendall found her place in the sun

Love List

Mom sent Me

Nutmeg from New England :)

 Philocaly : the love of beauty

Quiet Quest

Reading Recipes

Stuffing Stuffed

Turkey was perfect!

Unconditional love

Warmth While Watching Harry Potter

Thanksgiving week 2013

Autotrophic : of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis

Boreas Greek god of North Wind

Catechism :  an exposition of doctrine and introduction to the Sacraments

Dietary Changes to Make

Emerson: "The earth laughs in flowers."

"Flowing Flotsam of her old life." p.367 Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

“[Gratitude] turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~Melody Beattie

Inventing Imaginative new words p. 363

Jiao - currency in China

Knowledge is a lovely thing 

Matavi Bay, Tahiti
"No apparent occupation other than to play ceaselessly..." p. 364


Orchidea Cattleya 1871
by Martin Johnson Heade

Play!

Rascally p. 363

"Tiny lords of liberty, they were, and mirthful ones at that." p. 365

Uuairo (a word that sounded exactly like their soft, bubbling cry) p. 363

Vouchsafe : give or grant (something) to (someone) in a gracious or condescending manner
"We Found Love - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris (Boyce Avenue)

veXingly difficult p. 370

Zhuangzi ~ "To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders."

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Anjali Mudra

Bhujapidasana - shoulder pressing pose 

"Crushed" by Valerie Randall
Drishti

Enjoying the scents of the season

Friend of the universe : Visvamitrsana

Great class!!

I am hanging with Elizabeth watching Hamlet

Jane McGonigal's TED Talk

Keat's poem Elizabeth chose to explicate: "Why did I laugh tonight? No Voice Will Tell"

Loving the synchronicity of Life

Mel Gibson

Ophelia

Native hue of resolution

Puzzles the will

"Questing spirit of the nineteenth century..."

"Rocky Road" by Valerie Randall

"Send your body a breath-o-gram" ~ Meghan Griffith
Take flight
Uttanasana

Visvamitrsana
Wild thing!

eXpostulate

Zigzagged path p.356 Signature of all Things

Walking the Walk

"Autumn Walk"

Carry on my Wayward Son
Dionne Warwick's "Walk On" video was included here, but has since been Deleted by YouTube
Early morning walk

Foo Fighters video "Thor - Walk"

Get up and Go... for a walk ;)
Home
"I would walk 500 Miles..."
Johnny Depp in Benny and Joon - fabulous!
Katy Perry's "Walking on Air"
"we are walking in the Light, in the Light, in the Light, in the Light of LOVE"
MaryAnn Kluga used to say:
"Never judge an Indian (or a Squaw) until you've walked a mile in their moccasins"
"... On the Ocean" Toad the Wet Sprocket
Proclaimers' "500 Miles"
Quite curious - error message - "Toad the Wet Sprocket... perhaps "never a question"?
Sawyer Brown - "The Walk
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Unity churches often bring the children in singing "we are walking ..."
"We are Walking in the light of LOVE" now I follow Meghan's yoga instructions on Sunday am to walk
 "Your down dog"
Zulu language Siyahamba/ We Are Marching

Thoughts and Ideas

Anne Lamott : "The is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it."

Building three Blog posts at once can be fun :)

Did you know? Do you remember? he was assassinated about 5 months later

Eat the big frog first originated from a saying by Mark Twain. I love that!

Four gift rule, beautifully articulated by my kid in an e-mail on the same morning that I saw this:

God has blessed us with a beautiful bond

Hungry Games: Catching Fire on the agenda for today.

"I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. ~

Judith M. Knowlton

Louise Hay affirmations can be extremely helpful during difficult times

Marianne Williamson : "“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. "

Now what?

"“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." ~ Marianne Williamson

Positive affirmations for every aliment
Quiet Quotes

ReikiSymbol

 "This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Undoing old habits

Vast

Within

eXigent : requiring immediate attention : needing to be dealt with immediately

All about choices....

ABCs of Superfoods

Breathe

Cirque de Vol Studios

Drishti - look, gaze, focus; seeing

Enjoyed witnessing my "child" after first Reiki session

"Greatist"

Happiness

Ichcha - Sanskirt word for choice, desire, will

"Join the circus!"

Kermit: 

Liquid plumber to the rescue; home remedy not working...

Misty 

Needs a walk, then...

Off to the store

Quiche in the oven

Restorative Yoga Workshop booked. wahoo!!

Squashes are cooking

TED Talks : Shawn Achor - recommended 4 and 1/2 years ago - now (6/22/18) listening

Wonderful Words for Delicious Dialog

ADLUBESCENCE : Pleasure, enjoyment. From the Latin allubescere, to gratify. 

Be Emotional 
Cry.Click on the words to read the article

DULCILOQUENT : Having a gentle, sweet way of speaking. From the Latin dulcis, for sweet.

EYESOME : Easy on the eyes. Attractive. Said of maidens and majestic views.

'FIREWORKS' is the name of this...

GOMPHRENA cultivar

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

JUCUNDITY Merry enjoyment, delight. Also commonly spelled “jocundity,” but those repeated u’s are so merry and delightful.

Keep 

Letting it all go.... both Yesterday and Tomorrow

MENTAL FLOSS

Now is all there is

OBLECTAMENT : A source of delight.

PULCHRITUDINOUS : Beautiful. From the Latin for beauty. 

Quest for creative outlets

Respect - give it to get it!

Soothing, agreeable speech. Ahhh.

Toxies = Toxic + Crazies - thank you Antoinette!!

Uprising - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

VOLUPTUATE To take luxurious pleasure in something. Voluptuate in this list of salubrious words. 

"Whatever it is, let it out" by Rachel Brathen

Xigua is the Mandarin Chinese word for 'watermelon'.

Yum! both words and fruits

Zazzle Razzle Dazzle - Pink gomphrena - if you think I'm making this stuff up, click on the link 

The Signature of All Things

Allowed herself ... Amazement

Bruised her heart

"Cease all argument and debate...Communion is our Consent"

Deep stillness

Enthralled, Elevated, Exaggerated, Exalted ... Evensong

Freedom from interference

Gifts of Grace

His slightest glance bruised Her Heart with fearful joy

Inflamed by amazement ... Ignited by Intimacy ... Imbued with Impossible energy p.255

Jakob Böhme : German Christian mystic and theologian,  considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition. His first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal in 1600s.

"Kingly in his refusal to quietly die" (308).

Letting go without fear

Miraculous even the smallest Matters became revelatory

"Nature, in her limitlessness, has no concern for the boundaries of our mortal imaginations" (243).

"Our lord is a benevolent botanist" (240).

Plummet, Puzzled, Penetralia : the innermost parts of a building; a secret or hidden place.

"Quite out of the blue, she found herself solving botanical problems that had vexed her for years."

Rampant with inspiration p. 255

Sudden surfeit (excessive amount) of the most astonishing Self-confidence

"Treasure of my soul...you have brought me such peace" (267).

eUonymus americanus : "hearts-bustin'-with-love"

Vivid purity and thrill

"...wept like to pull down every cloud from the vaults of heaven" (296).

aXioms

Yearnings p. 295

Zoetic : of or relating to life : living, vital.

Saturday Morning fullness

 Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider Man with Martin Sheen, Sally Field and Denise Leary - wow

Big actors, very good movie. Being with my kid, priceless.

"Creative Spirit" Exhibit at Meredith - thank you for encouraging me Rebecca and Dianne. 

Enjoying time with my favorite teenager :)

FINALLY

Get some lunch

Have some down time?

I love  Mary Oliver's poetry and her quoting of Shelley in a recent interview... see below :)

John Kincheloe to the rescue once again

Kindest...

Misty Morning walk with Misty for Many Miles

Now it is off to get some lunch and then the library for help with research project.

"On Love": "... in solitude, or in that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the flowers, the grass and the waters and the sky. In the motion of the very leaves of spring in the blue air there is then found a secret correspondence with our heart." 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quotes sent to me from a friend who knows me so well 

Research librarian help - Thank you 

Susan 

Thank you, friends, for encouraging my creative spirit 

Ubiquitous : present, appearing, or found everywhere

Vitally important to encourage, support and let go

Wuthering Heights is the topic...

Some thoughts for the end of my week

Brisk Bright days of November

Don’t surrender your loneliness / So quickly / Let it cut more deep / Let it ferment and season you / As few human /Or 

Even divine ingredients can ...
Ferment and season you
[God], Something missing in my heart tonight 
Has made my eyes so soft / My voice / so tender / My need of [You] / Absolutely Clear. Hafiz

Inured :  accustom someone to something, esp. something unpleasant.
Journey to Peace
LAW come into operation; take effect.
My favorite quote by Thich Nhat Hanh is below

Nutriments for Healing

Oh oh OH!

Pincha Mayurasana
Quote: "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 thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her

She will Slowly die." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, O Magazine, Feb. 2007

Voices of Compassion with Thich Nhat Hanh

"What more can I give?" ~ Anne Lamott

eXistential attitude: a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world

My Mommy - Happy Birthday to you!!

April 1993

Birthday

Coffee or Chai?

Does not matter

Elizabeth's and 18 others' Gram :)

Four generations: Bailey, Thomason, Law 

Grammy

Home

Kind

"Life is Good"

Mary Oliver quote:“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.”

Nancy loves Napatree

"Ocean Heart"

+

Questing for peace
Ready to Release
Sculpture Garden Greensboro NC today

The Tao doesn't take sides;
it gives birth to both good and evil.

The Master doesn't take sides;
she welcomes both saints and sinners.

The Tao is like a bellows:
it is empty yet infinitely capable.
The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

Hold on to the center.


5th Verse - Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell Translation

Understanding
Vivacious

Yellow House Coffeehouse

Zestful