New Year ABCs... a little early and inspired by my friend Sue

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

Tend Tenaciously

Unfurl

Vivaciously

Wander in the Woods... Wing it...

eXquisitly

Yen for more

Zeal, Zest and Zsa, Zsa, Zsu!

Nearly six years later, I see this image and realize no one else will know why I've included it here with "Zsa, Zsa, Zsu" - It is a reference to an episode at the end of Season 5 of Sex and the City in which Carrie described that feeling of "zsa, zsa, zsu" - a favorite episode of mine. A search this morning (5 Nov '17)brought me to a blog someone else wrote in August 2013. 

Perhaps what does matter...

Perhaps what matters is that I get it. I am continuing to discover more about myself all the time and am on my own path of authenticity, no one else's, and it finally doesn't matter if anyone else "get's it".

For me, it's nice that some people closest to me "get me," but it is not a prerequisite to my happiness and sense of contentment. God wants us to be happy and to KNOW, at the core of our being, that that is ALL He expects of us. Everything else is man made, and ephemeral.

I will continue to "write my book" - in quotes because what I am really doing is going back through what has already been written, but with new eyes and smiling. I made it! I made it through to the other side and now my only job is to live each day to it's fullest and be the best me I can be! :)

I would have included favorite quotes from the books I've recently finished, but it's past my bedtime and I've already passed them on to their next reader. They were these Paulo Coelho books: Brida, The Witch of Portobello, The Zahir, and Eleven Minutes, and I sent at least two of them up to Meaghan Minogue as she recently moved to Vermont. Up until the last few months, I'd only ever heard of Coelho's The Alchemist, so it has been wonderful to discover these and others that are so different from that first encounter, but have had a profound effect, having come into my life at just this time.

Overdue? Says who?

It's not that I haven't been thinking about my ABCs blog post, I just hadn't gotten 'round to pulling them together and posting them... until now. Many of these are as a result of my reading The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose by Dan Millman and some from watching Tinkerbell (Interesting combo, dontcha think?) Others are from my daily encounters since the last post. Enjoy!

Adventure, Awakening; Authentic self; Awareness; Abundance; Authority
Balance; Be willing to...
Court Contentment; Cooperation; Confidence; Creativity
Demeter and her Daughter; Destiny
Elucidate; Expectant hours; Enchanting; Expression
Fiddle; Family; Friends
Glimpses of true north; Guiding with authority and Grounded with compassion
Happiness; Healing Hands; High energy
Imagine; Inner Gifts; Intuition
Journey is real life Jacquelyn Beth Law
Key areas of my life
Law of Higher Will and Law of Honesty were my favorite chapters
Manifest Money naturally
Noel: "My name is Noel, and I have a Happiness"
Oleander (fuschia is my fav!); Open loving and giving; Own my Own energy
Power; Passionate; Persephone; Pursue my Passions
Quiet joys; Question authority!
Rapture! Rewarding Reveries; Release angry
Strength; Sensitivity; Sprinting Thistles;
Tinkerbell; Teaching
Umstead Park; Utmost honest with money
Vigor
Well-being; Writing
eXpress feelings openly and honestly

"You know, it's the difference between loving the idea of someone and actually loving who they really are." White Collar

Zen thought: "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end." ~ Ursula K. LeGuin