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Archive for the month “November, 2015”

04 Nov 2015

rewards

I made it. It was a rough day. Coukd have ended badly. Thankfully, it didn’t. I am grateful.

Now I lay in a deliciously squishy, soft bed, hoping my tired, aching body can unclench and go to sleep. I can’t help thinking, what if I had died today. Would anyone care? Many would say nice things, how much I’ve inspired them, how strong I was, that I made thwm feel good about themselves. But would anyone really care? Really miss me?

Thanks for being with me today. I didn’t feel so alone. 🙂

Good night

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04 Nov 2015

here in PA where nuthin’ comes easy…

Soooooooo I’ve been in PA for a while, needing a bathroom break from my earlier Starbucks stop. I always dread PA for this reason. I stopped and got gas and used the bathroom in NJ hoping to beat PA down, but no…

I’m also looking for adventure today so I just relaxed into it and looked for exits…Bethlehem seemed like destiny. I got off and followed the detour towards ‘Historic Downtown’ which, I must confess, I never found. The stable seems to have been replaced –

I saw Pennsylvania RR on both sides of the roads (no easy access bathrooms: ie McD’s, gas…)

found my way back to 78W and moved on…Allentown surely has handy bathrooms (no signage on highway besides a hospital sign) sure to be fast food there, right? nope…thankfully I found myself a country road! The wildlife at the sancuary respectfully stayed out of sight #thankGodimacountrygirl

I gratefully head on West when traffic comes to a stop and I happen to be right by an exit. I head off to find the swankiest Arby’s in the world.

Then I make my way outside with my roast beef with x-tra horsey sauce for a picnic with my new friend, Ginger (picture below). She’s gorgeous and we have a great talk.

http://youtu.be/FFqb1I-hiHE

Ok, back in the saddle…

😘

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04 Nov 2015

somewhere in New Jersey…

‘I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’

‘I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!’

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

this morning began at 4! I’ve been on my adventure for a couple hours now. This post is at my first Starbucks stop (chestnut praline latte, how I love thee) more posts and poetry as I go today… ❤️

http://youtu.be/dBN86y30Ufc

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03 Nov 2015

wherever you go

Now I understand that there are two melodies playing,

one below the other, one easier to hear, the other
lower, steady, perhaps more faithful for being less heard

yet always present.
When all other things seem lively and real,

this one fades. Yet the notes of it
touch as gently as fingertips, as the sound

of the names laid over each child at birth.
I want to stay in that music without striving or cover.

If the truth of our lives is what it is playing,
the telling is so soft

that this mortal time, this irrevocable change,
becomes beautiful. I stop and stop again

to hear the second music.
I hear the children in the yard, a train, then birds.

All this is in it and will be gone. I set my ear to it as I would to a heart.

💞

The Second Music by Annie Lighthart

God is my presence of mind
My anger

My passion

My resistance

God is my breathe

My movement

My flow

God is my present circumstance

My living

My future

My past

God is my water

My fire

My earth

My loving

My glory

My holy

God is my music

My melody

My harmony

My song

🎼

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03 Nov 2015

epic

Life is an epic journey

A pilgrimage

Not for the faint of heart

Without the challenging parts of the path

We grow weak

Without those things that can kill us

We grow bored

We need life to be interesting

challenging

changing

to feel alive

Yes, life is a crazy sort of journey

Welcome to the great adventure

💃🏻

Wild Mercy
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wildness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

– Terry Tempest Williams

Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert Dwellers