Songs... with Missy Higgins and a few others

"Any Day Now" :

"And in our honesty, together we will rise / Out of our nightminds, and into the light / At the end of the fight..." ~ "Nightminds" by Missy Higgins

"But if I listen to the dark..." ~ "The Sound of White"

"Clean the cobwebs out of one another's minds." ~ "Don't Ever" by Missy Higgins

"Don't ever say you've tried for the last time..." by Missy Higgins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMC-UZzCY4

"Embrace me like a star. Envelope me. Envelop me." ~ "Sound of White" by Missy Higgins
"For You" by John Denver
"Gomenasai" (from Japanese: ごめんなさい, lit.: "I'm sorry") click here for video

"How long, how long, how long will we take to come undone? If you know the answer tell me now and I'll write up a calendar for our count down." ~ Any Day Now

"I will learn to breathe...So we can both be there and we can both share the dark." ~ "They Weren't There"

"Just lay it all down. Put your face into my neck and let it fall out."

Ken told me about this lovely lady a five years ago now (Feb 2011)

"...Led through fields of naked land Where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away..."

Missy Higgins

Nightminds by Missy Higgins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbyBZR8chBE "Nightminds"

On a Clear Night

click here for video

Powderfinger "These Days" Puts pressure in my day This life well it's slipping right through my hands These days turned out nothing like I had Planned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdl60MfTBY

Questioning the reason why nothing beautiful does last..." ~ Any Day Now" by Missy Higgins

Rumi beauty: "You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."  ~ Rumi

"Sometimes I hear your smile, and breath your light...if I listen to, the Sound of white."

"They Weren't There : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBIS0E70Kk0

U2 "With or Without You" click here for video so good...

Valerie's is the only song that can possibly go here:

"Where were you when I was burned and broken?" Pink Floyd "Coming Back to Life"

Xavier Rudd - Messages : "these trees that we see / Cannot forever breathe / With the changes they will confront

You were blessed by a different kind of inner view: it's all magnified.

Zen moment for today:

My Inspiration...

I had forgotten about this great picture I took of Elizabeth while visiting CT/RI last summer and "found" it on my old phone when I went to donate it. I posted it on facebook with the following caption: "Elizabeth often inspires me to be the best me I can be...". I received this wonderful response: "She has inspired you well, because you are a pretty terriffic you!" Of course, that's not why I posted it, but it did make me feel good about the progress I've made. The picture is just SO inspiring that I had to share with others :)

Feb 3 fb grabs...
Thich Nhat Hanh Listen to each other. Be there for each other. Our practice for the new year.

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.