As the song says...
"Each flower smiles with me." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry" watch here
Growth even, and perhaps especially, through Grieving
"Keeping Holding On" by Avril Lavigne listen and watch here
Poem by Thich Nhat Hanh: "Interrelationship"
Quietly listen to the whispers from within...
"Time to be with myself and center..." ~ "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie
Until we get in touch with our innermost longing and its fulfillment we will continue to feel:
Vulnerable
"...While the water that has soaked the earth is pushing forth much growth. I love it! ~ JBL 3/29/09
eXercise self-love muscle until it eXpands beyond anything you ever felt before
"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie "I need some shelter of my own protection... To Be with myself and center...
Clarity, peace, serenity..."
"Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive." ~ "Peace Is Every Step"
Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry" watch here
Growth even, and perhaps especially, through Grieving
"How green, how fresh all that grows / How cool the wind blows...
...It turns the endless path to joy... I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, in order to fear and to hope.
Joy." ~ "Peace Is Every Step" by Thich Nhat Hanh"Keeping Holding On" by Avril Lavigne listen and watch here
"Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch / to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest / to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower / to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.~ "Peace Is Every Step" by Thich Nhat Hanh
"My joy is like spring / so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life / My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh "Being Peace"
"Nothing to do with you/ It's personal, myself and I / We've got some straightenin' out to do / And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket / But I've got to get a move on with my life / It's time to be a big girl now
And big girls don't cry..."
"My joy is like spring / so warm it makes flowers bloom in all walks of life / My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh "Being Peace"
"and so the door of my heart can be left Open, the door of compassion / You are me and I am you / It is Obvious that we are inter-are."
Quietly listen to the whispers from within...
"Rain has washed away all of yesterday's cares and worries, the sun and breeze are drying up any remaining tears..." ~ JBL 3/29/2009
"Shining red sun is my heart. Peace is every step." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh"Time to be with myself and center..." ~ "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie
Until we get in touch with our innermost longing and its fulfillment we will continue to feel:
Vulnerable
"...While the water that has soaked the earth is pushing forth much growth. I love it! ~ JBL 3/29/09
eXercise self-love muscle until it eXpands beyond anything you ever felt before
You cultivate the flower in yourself so that I will be beautiful / I transform the garbage in myself so that you do not have to suffer / I support you--you support me / I am here to bring you peace you are here to bring me joy." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Kristen, Madeline and I had a wonderful warm winter weekend walk! :) So glad I drove to Richmond to see them. Kyle had a soccer game in Fayetteville and came home to luscious lasagna! Kristen is doing a fabulous job of juggling it all - and returned to work Monday morning after her extended maternity leave. These pictures say it all :)
Bathtime.....
