on this last day of this november & minutes before december arrives i offer this glimmer: experiencing the simple magic of freshly purchased multi-colored mini lights now adorning the big front windows in my little nest. what's more is that i have the capacity to experience such magic even though in the minutes before i put up these lights i was walking the streets of my city feeling such heart-ache...may there always be room for *magic.
bless you, beings.
Showing posts with label glimmers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glimmers. Show all posts
Friday, November 30, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
what i need
care to join me for a cup of tea?
someone asked me yesterday, "what do you need?" in this moment, in response, i need:
*quiet
*coming home to myself
*inhabiting my body
*candlelight
*blankets
*the presence of friends & community
*being taken care of
*speaking my truth
*flowing
*writing
*baking
*hugs
*listening
*gentleness
*kindness
*healing
*space
*creating
*glasses & glasses of re-freshing water
*being at home; feeling at home
*cultivating responding (distinct from reacting)
*honoring my power & wisdom & light; rooting there
*connecting
*being light
what do you need, magical ones?
linky-link glimmers:
*this saturday is a full moon!
*one of my favorite artists & author of the color-full The Soul Support Book. brilliant!
*divine Christine is an artist, writer, teacher and spiritual director.
*this post by bella. oh, i want everyone, everyone, everyone i know to read this post on balance & flow & movement & dancing.
*one of the first bloggie lights i discovered...years ago.
Friday, November 16, 2007
love to the sisters
right now two of my beloved women friends/sisters, are in the hospital. one is in labor with her first child, just blocks from where i live. another, just a few hours away, is preparing for surgery, scheduled to begin in minutes, and i know that she's been feeling scared and anxious. so, to them, i am sending my love. my wild, crazy, soulsister, ecstatic, healing, peace-full, color-full, soft love. would you send them some of your love, too?
this morning's glimmer is this visual treat! and, bella dear, lover of the lambies, wherever, everywhere you are, this one's for you. i love you, babe.
this morning's glimmer is this visual treat! and, bella dear, lover of the lambies, wherever, everywhere you are, this one's for you. i love you, babe.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
majesty
glim, glim, glimmers!
*i spent days with this treat, this movie, this beauty, Into Great Silence. i am invited to slow down, to stillness, to celebrating the majesty of this moment and this moment and this moment and to knowing all as prayer.
*returning to collaging, full of collage ideas: prayer; water; animals; food; relationships; december.
*she has a thing for elephants, too! see november 8, 2007 blog entry.
*this brave dancing mermaid.
*coming home to my nest at the end of my work day, a day in which i am feeling intense physical aches, putting on layers of bella's clothes and making a cup of yogi tea containing this message: "May you be healthy, happy and holy."
bless you, splendid ones. may you & yours be healthy, happy and holy.
*i spent days with this treat, this movie, this beauty, Into Great Silence. i am invited to slow down, to stillness, to celebrating the majesty of this moment and this moment and this moment and to knowing all as prayer.
*returning to collaging, full of collage ideas: prayer; water; animals; food; relationships; december.
*she has a thing for elephants, too! see november 8, 2007 blog entry.
*this brave dancing mermaid.
*coming home to my nest at the end of my work day, a day in which i am feeling intense physical aches, putting on layers of bella's clothes and making a cup of yogi tea containing this message: "May you be healthy, happy and holy."
bless you, splendid ones. may you & yours be healthy, happy and holy.
Monday, November 12, 2007
inbox
i have 157 e-mails in my personal e-mail inbox. an improvement over the 300+ that were in there just weeks ago, where they resided for about 17 months.
4 of them are dated before may 20, 2006, in the days before bella's death.
23 of them are dated after may 30, 2006, the day of bella's celebration of life service.
130 are still sittin' in the inbox, dated between may 20, 2006-may 29, 2006, nearly 18 months ago.
i write this and what i feel is awe and gratitude. in awe of the magnitude of bella, my/our bella love and bella's continued impact in this earthly realm. in gratitude for our continued & deepening relationship and sisterhood. this bella-love is my greatest glimmer. i purchased this pendant in honor of our relationship now (and, in honor of the presence of elephants in my life journey). i often feel bella pressed against my forehead/third eye in this way.
4 of them are dated before may 20, 2006, in the days before bella's death.
23 of them are dated after may 30, 2006, the day of bella's celebration of life service.
130 are still sittin' in the inbox, dated between may 20, 2006-may 29, 2006, nearly 18 months ago.
i write this and what i feel is awe and gratitude. in awe of the magnitude of bella, my/our bella love and bella's continued impact in this earthly realm. in gratitude for our continued & deepening relationship and sisterhood. this bella-love is my greatest glimmer. i purchased this pendant in honor of our relationship now (and, in honor of the presence of elephants in my life journey). i often feel bella pressed against my forehead/third eye in this way.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
is
glimmer goodness attached to my yogi ginger tea bag:
"Life is a chance.
Love is infinity.
Grace is reality."
Love is infinity.
Grace is reality."
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
smidge & sass & smoochies & mwah...
tangled. feisty (not in the deliciously endearing kind of way). sensitive to loud-ness. not wanting to be in process. wanting to be in control. growl. that's how it is for me in this moment (as i write this) & in other moments today.
i'm watching myself, witnessing myself when i do, when i stop just enough, just a smidge. [smidge. ha-ha-ha! that's a bella word.] i want to sit myself down and say, "yo', what's up with you, girl? for real, what's up?"
i feel antsy. unsettled. dis-satisfied. i feel like i'm living more in the future, more in anticipation, rather than in presence and awareness. my energy is scattered. i jump from one thought to the next to the next. i'm not centered. i'm not inhabiting my body, my being-ness. noticing how un-comfortable this is. i'd rather not be here...again. and, here i am. in all my red-headed glory. me. here. now. so, i will sit and wait as best as i know how in this moment.
as for glimmers:
*remembering some of bella's words: smidge, sass, smoochies, yummy, snuggle, super, yay! (or, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay), neat, mwah and kiddo.
ah, isn't it most delightful, this bundle of bella words?!
what are some of the words of the ones you love-like-crazy?
i'm watching myself, witnessing myself when i do, when i stop just enough, just a smidge. [smidge. ha-ha-ha! that's a bella word.] i want to sit myself down and say, "yo', what's up with you, girl? for real, what's up?"
i feel antsy. unsettled. dis-satisfied. i feel like i'm living more in the future, more in anticipation, rather than in presence and awareness. my energy is scattered. i jump from one thought to the next to the next. i'm not centered. i'm not inhabiting my body, my being-ness. noticing how un-comfortable this is. i'd rather not be here...again. and, here i am. in all my red-headed glory. me. here. now. so, i will sit and wait as best as i know how in this moment.
as for glimmers:
*remembering some of bella's words: smidge, sass, smoochies, yummy, snuggle, super, yay! (or, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay), neat, mwah and kiddo.
ah, isn't it most delightful, this bundle of bella words?!
what are some of the words of the ones you love-like-crazy?
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
a big, brilliant, yellow mug
it's all about the glimmers. as you read, imagine these glimmers being offered to you (from me) in a big, brilliant, yellow mug...hand to hand, heart to heart:
*two words written, familiar friends, "SMILE" and "BREATHE", one stacked on top of the other, on a building near my home. i nodded to these words from across the street in the early morning autumn rain.
*receiving SARK's e-letter, "Change is God", today.
*this evening i prepared the "Basic Corn Bread" recipe on page 114 of the Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen and enjoyed it with a big, brilliant, yellow mug full of minestrone soup.
*this brilliant woman, singer-songwriter, creativity consultant, public speaker, blogger babe. if you have not listened to her music, you must check it out!
*two words written, familiar friends, "SMILE" and "BREATHE", one stacked on top of the other, on a building near my home. i nodded to these words from across the street in the early morning autumn rain.
*receiving SARK's e-letter, "Change is God", today.
*this evening i prepared the "Basic Corn Bread" recipe on page 114 of the Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen and enjoyed it with a big, brilliant, yellow mug full of minestrone soup.
*this brilliant woman, singer-songwriter, creativity consultant, public speaker, blogger babe. if you have not listened to her music, you must check it out!
Monday, November 5, 2007
messages
today's glimmers:
*this morning i noticed/received a message, etched in the concrete sidewalk across the street from where i live: "LOVE YOURSELF".
*receiving messages like these from tender creatures in response to an e-mail i sent about a journey i am taking in late february-early march: "Joy reigns"; "Whoopee!"; and, "oh honey/this is so so good".
it is, as my beloved friend, sb, says: "This life rocks."
*this morning i noticed/received a message, etched in the concrete sidewalk across the street from where i live: "LOVE YOURSELF".
*receiving messages like these from tender creatures in response to an e-mail i sent about a journey i am taking in late february-early march: "Joy reigns"; "Whoopee!"; and, "oh honey/this is so so good".
it is, as my beloved friend, sb, says: "This life rocks."
Sunday, November 4, 2007
aparigraha & glimmers
in july i began a journey of exploring at a deeper level the 5 yamas (restraints/abstentions) and 5 niyamas (observances) as outlined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. i've been working with one yama each month since july and when i complete my journey with the yamas (at the end of november) i will begin to explore one niyama each month for 5 months.
this month i am working with the yama, aparigraha (non-possessiveness, non-attachment). daily i am reading & digesting these j*u*i*c*y words about aparigraha (words shared with me by the kripalu center/karma yoga department, where i studied/practiced/served for 4 months in 2003):
"As I trust that there is more than enough for me, I create a spacious world for everyone. When I am safe and taken care of, I can provide that for others. When there is plenty of room for me to shine, I am willing to let you shine, be powerful, and be wonderful. Then the world is more beautiful. We begin to live in a world where life is full, we all have all we could possibly want, and all there is left to do is relax into that awareness and extend that generous spirit to others."
yes to this: trust, enough, spacious-ness, world, safe, plenty o' room, shine, be, powerful, wonderful, beautiful, live, full, relax, awareness, extend, generous!
what are you practicing or working with this month? what are you a "yes!" to?
here we are in november. some bloggie lights (bloggers who inspire me) are posting daily for NaBloPoMo. in particular, i'm loving visiting here and here. i love the use of the word "glimmer" and the question, "What do you want to take note of this November?" in this post. although i am not participating in NaBloPoMo, in each of my posts for the month of november i will be noting glimmers, the sparks/flashes of light for which i am grate-full.
glimmers:
*a tasty, ease-full, & connecting/reconnecting saturday evening/night visit with my bro.
*this fairy wisdom: "Your inner truth is your guiding light."
*the call to explore elephants (symbolizing, among other things: strength, ancient wisdom, commitment, power & patience) and Guan Yin (the bodhisattva of compassion). do you ever have the experience of something/someone showing up again & again & again in the most magical & mysterious ways? elephants and Guan Yin are the ones showing up for me these days. they are offering themselves to me as guides, teachers & companions as i make my journey...
what are your glimmers?
this month i am working with the yama, aparigraha (non-possessiveness, non-attachment). daily i am reading & digesting these j*u*i*c*y words about aparigraha (words shared with me by the kripalu center/karma yoga department, where i studied/practiced/served for 4 months in 2003):
"As I trust that there is more than enough for me, I create a spacious world for everyone. When I am safe and taken care of, I can provide that for others. When there is plenty of room for me to shine, I am willing to let you shine, be powerful, and be wonderful. Then the world is more beautiful. We begin to live in a world where life is full, we all have all we could possibly want, and all there is left to do is relax into that awareness and extend that generous spirit to others."
yes to this: trust, enough, spacious-ness, world, safe, plenty o' room, shine, be, powerful, wonderful, beautiful, live, full, relax, awareness, extend, generous!
what are you practicing or working with this month? what are you a "yes!" to?
here we are in november. some bloggie lights (bloggers who inspire me) are posting daily for NaBloPoMo. in particular, i'm loving visiting here and here. i love the use of the word "glimmer" and the question, "What do you want to take note of this November?" in this post. although i am not participating in NaBloPoMo, in each of my posts for the month of november i will be noting glimmers, the sparks/flashes of light for which i am grate-full.
glimmers:
*a tasty, ease-full, & connecting/reconnecting saturday evening/night visit with my bro.
*this fairy wisdom: "Your inner truth is your guiding light."
*the call to explore elephants (symbolizing, among other things: strength, ancient wisdom, commitment, power & patience) and Guan Yin (the bodhisattva of compassion). do you ever have the experience of something/someone showing up again & again & again in the most magical & mysterious ways? elephants and Guan Yin are the ones showing up for me these days. they are offering themselves to me as guides, teachers & companions as i make my journey...
what are your glimmers?
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