End Jan begin Feb, 2017

"A place for me in your heart." ~ Tracy chapman's The Promise

"Clearing our emotional debris has many positive consequences with respect to love connection." ~ Jeff Brown

 ~ Art by Crispin Korschen

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Emily Dickinson quoted in Wild by Cheryl Strayed : "If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve—"

"Forgiveness is for me. Forgiveness sets me Free." ~ Deepak, Day 20 Miraculous Relationships

"Grace grows best in winter." ~ Samuel Rytherford

"Have a sense of faith that what you are moving toward is already done. It's already Happened." ~ John Lewis Krista Tippett's OnBeing podcast

Intimacy: 

Jeff Brown : love excavates "This is the actual new earth. Not a place where we sit around staring at our pain bodies like self-avoidant automatons, but one where we actually do the work to heal and grow through our unresolved material so that we can truly show up when love arrives." 

“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Magnet for goodness. Manifesting My future by allowing the energy of attraction to flow through me with grace and ease." ~ Oprah, Day 4 "Effortless Creation" Energy of Attraction

"Night Travel" by Suzanne Britt

"Of course, love will excavate unseen issues from their hiding places, but with more intimacy with the processes of pattern recognition and healing, we stand a better chance of staying out of our own way.

"Power to believe that you can visualize that sense of community, that sense of family." ~ John Lewis OnBeing with KristaTippett

Quotes from other peoples "random"? thoughts help me assimilate my own thoughts.

"Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy." ~ Paulo Coelho's Brida

"Sandhill Cranes staying on course, following the river. Time to re-focus." ~ John Kincheloe
Tracy chapman - The Promise

"Unresolved [emotional] material is like undigested food- it blocks the channel and prevents new nourishment from entering. All bunked up, we may not even notice love when it walks through the door." ~ Jeff Brown

Verboten : forbidden, especially by an authority. ~ Gilmore Girls

"We convince by our presence ..." Walt Whitman

eXcavating is what I see here, now. I original shared this with Liz on Facebook, Jan 30, 2015

 image by Patricia Dolloff

"You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone keeps popping into my mind in the early mornign light.

Zydeco is a musical genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers which blends blues, rhythm and blues, and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the Native people of Louisiana. - thank you for the new word, Gilmore Girls :)