Cartwheeling through Life: May 2015

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

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photo 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"

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

Valerie Lorimer

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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

Quinzhee - what a fun new word for me

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!

"Fear of Transformation" from a blog post called "Learning to Fly" by Betty Kincaid

""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

Do you know what your story of self is? we each have one. it’s the identity we've created for ourself that

Exists solely within our own mind and that we deem to be implicitly true. it contains a past, a present and a future

Full character profile of you —along with a plot and a common narrative that weaves throughout everything you do. ~Zen Thinking

G is for ...

It Is 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!

Zen Thinking... my new favorite 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