February 25 thru 28, 2017

Blessings are all around us. Literally.

Could Grounding Recharge Your Immune System?"

Decided to walk barefoot for the entire 2 hours all over campus with Misty - it was AMAZING!

"Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force... but

Face your aloneness, something begins to happen. In a sense this is the endless task of finding your true home within your life." ~ John O'Donohue Excert from Eternal Echoes

Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality." ~ John O'Donohue's 

"I feel the earth  - move  - under my feet - I feel the sky tumbiling down..." ~ James Taylor, Carole King

Justine shared this   thank you

 a Valerie Valentine from Feb 14, 2013

"Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you. The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, you return having lost some of yourself." ~ John O'Donohue

"...No longer on the run from your aloneness, your connections with others become real and creative. You no longer need to covertly scrape affirmation from others or from projects outside yourself. This is slow work; it takes years to bring your mind home." ~ John O'Donohue's "Eternal Echoes"

Outback for dinner? why not - I was needing an "O" to finish out this blog post anyway :)

Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus: "The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

Rest in the house of your own heart, doors and windows begin to open outwards to the world." ~

~ John O'Donohue's "Eternal Echoes"

Time to plant something ...

"Until you learn to inhabit your aloneness, the lonely distraction and noise of society will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary." ~ John O'Donohue

Valerie Randall is on my mind, again, so I went poking around her page..

"When we bless we are asking that a circle of beneficence and light surround whatever we are blessing as well as us. We are mutual participants in a field of goodness. There is no distance between what is being blessed and us. That is what makes blessing so powerful." ~ Gunilla Norris

saXifrage : from the Latin, means stone breaker. saying yes is the way the flower of the soul breaks through the stone of the world." p. 57 Mark Nepo's Endless Practice

"Your True Home" 

Zen-like petal position of the magnolia known as Zenii