Your thoughts?
Expand to new elsewheres.
Your thoughts?
Love where you are. Be brave. Braver still. Be the Bravery.
Your thoughts?
Life is always a game of skill.
Your thoughts?
Be the only Kool-Aid you drink.
Your thoughts?
I have a great and unyielding desire to touch you.
Make Space for New Thoughts
Your thoughts?
Find out who you are and then find companions who support you. Be prepared for your companions to change.
As if there could be a WRONG rabbit hole to go down!
Your thoughts?
Break every one of those bones and reset them at a more pleasing angle.
Your thoughts?
Whatever we look at, we believe.
Your thoughts?
There's only one route, and it's straight through the middle.
Jeannie brought the money to that relationship.
My Favorite Thing
I love the diversity of interests I see at the beach in the Fall. It looks like everyone is doing their best thing. Their favorite thing.
For some it involves standing on a long flat board wearing a wet suit and pushing at the sea with a paddle. They look like they’re having fun.
For some it involves laying fully clothed on a blanket and making space for the suns rays to warm them. They look they’re having fun too.
For others it involves digging holes in the sand and watching them fill with the incoming tides. Or throwing a ball to a dog countless times across the sand. They also look like they’re having fun.
So, why was it hard for me to do my best thing at the beach today? Why this self-consciousness? Wasn’t my best thing as worthy as theirs? I walked to the waters edge and started practicing qui gong. As I moved, I was met with waves of self-consciousness and had to let that go. Then I realized I was showing off, performing for anyone who might be watching. So I had to let that go too. When I started to really practice, I found I wasn’t self-conscious or show-offy at all. I was just having fun, doing my favorite thing.
Plum Island at Sunrise
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We are only two days into summer, and it has already been hot! As usual, I hide indoors or in the shade during the heat of the day. I am really loving the early mornings and evenings, though. I’ve been waking up at around 6:00 to make sure the dogs get a good run in the woods while it is still cool. I’ve realized it’s equally essential for me to get out and breathe fresh air and feel the earth under my boots and the brilliant expanse of sky above me.
In the evening when the sun goes behind the trees, it feels good to go out and water the gardens and admire what the sun has done for them. Enjoy this video of our gardens. Most of the veggies were started from seed in egg crates.
Funky Flowers
I have always loved an eclectic mix of styles and shapes and textures and colors, and my flower garden is certainly all of that. This year, I am building my flower collection around the frame of an old tent that we found under the deck. I love it! I’d love to know what you think. Too janky looking? Just right?
This video contains an overview of the gazebo flower garden as well as my budding perennial border garden. Be on the lookout for an update on our veggie garden later today. AND…soon, I’ll be posting a time lapse video of the amazing Pollinator Garden that a friend is creating in our front yard.
A Prayer of Love and Awakening
May this time of silence soften the bruises of the world and the pain of misunderstanding and fear and righteousness.
May we be patient and generous with our confusion and with the confusion of others.
May we make space for the discomfort of not knowing what’s next, what’s right or what’s wrong.
And may this discomfort make us available to new landscapes of understanding, new vistas of brilliance and clarity
May our vision be clear. May we have the courage to see ourselves and others exactly as we are.
May we have the courage to be truly known and the willingness to truly know others.
May we honor the deep sleep we are waking from. Just as we honor the stir to awaken.
May we stay awake and not miss one minute of this precious gift of aliveness.
May we stay awake.
May we stay awake, even when it's hard and getting harder, and when there are so many distractions and things to run after and things to run from.
May we stay awake for our joy – even when it surpasses our greatest expectations. Even when we are not sure we deserve it.
May we stay awake.
May we stay awake.
Eden: A Video Journal from Paradise: June 1
This video shows off some of the amazing views we have, even though we live on a very busy street where cars fly by at 45 mph street. We can find beauty everywhere. If we can't find it, we can create it.