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08 Aug 2015

One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever. — Robert Holden

You see, people have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy. Love is by, for and about you, and it never had anything to do with another person. The love you bring to the table, is a way of living that you have been practicing in your life — and that love can be needy, controlling, selfish, conditional and desperate, or it can be confident, open, giving, unconditional, and secure. Your love capability is something you cultivate within yourself. Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness. This is why some relationships look so beautiful, and some look so tragic — beauty belongs to the thoughtful; tragedy to the neglectful.
– Bryant McGill

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19 Jul 2015

mediocrity…never…the battle is on!

Feeling empty and unstrung
I wake from my dream

warnings of being unwilling to change

of being stuck in one place

unwilling to do things different

I sit at my desk

afraid

because this dream was not about you

it was about me

and it scares the hell outta me

that it is what I will allow.
I know

the tractor beam of mediocrity is on –

will my shields hold?

Will I stay out of the pig pen,

or just give up and wallow in the stinky mud?

The comfortable parking space calls me..
All this,

and the glaring monotony,

the forced prison,

of my day

stares at me.

how will I break this day open?

how will I know I have

reached beyond my need for security?

how will I battle my own resistance?

how will I stay focused on my own need,

and not distract myself with yours?

I open poems by Mary Oliver

The Moths is all it takes!

I feel the door of freedom swing open wide.

I write

I post

I say ‘thank you’

for these, and all the other words.

Within the hour I get a comment from Oriah, whose poem,

The Invitation,

was a life changer

and I know life

has answered my need to know

that I am connected to the whole

I feast

on bacon

with a side of strawberries n cream & passion fruit Godiva truffles

knowing there is always

more goodness

than I could ever eat up

my cup is overfull and sticky

from all that honey

from all those

beauti-ous bees.

🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

AL (Oct 2013)

Listen to Willie Nelson sing This Face http://youtu.be/_79LW9_OIUA
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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The mind must

set itself up

wherever it goes

and it would be

most convenient

to impose its

old rooms—just

tack them up

like an interior

tent. Oh but

the new holes

aren’t where

the windows

went.

🏡🏠🏠🏡🏠🏡🏠🏡

New Rooms by Kay Ryan

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11 Jul 2015

what will you choose?

Just like everyone alive
Your days will be full of events –

threads, as it were,

weaving your life into a tapestry

There will be days of great joy and ones of overwhelming sorrow

Good days

Bad days

Medium days

Average days

Snow days

Hazy days

day after day after day

until they end

and you move on

All your days you will have circumstances to accept and embrace

or reject and avoid

to stay or leave

to fly or fear

Some to let go

some to overcome

some to enjoy

some to live through

Life is not about being fair

Life is about winning with the cards you hold

Winning doesn’t mean being rich, famous

or being born with a pedigree

Winning means living up to your own very unique, personal best

Winning means experiencing and inhabiting

love, peace and joy

You’ll be as happy as you decide to be

You will be as healthy as is possible based on what you decide to do

and the genes you were born with

You’ll choose to accept or reject what is offered

You’ll do what you want to do

Go where you want to go

Keep holding on to what is most important to you

– no matter if it makes you better –

or if it destroys you –

You’ll love who you love

Be who you are

You will be worth as much as you decide you are

You will judge others based on your own insecurities,

and your unchallenged beliefs

You will have as much love as you allow inside you

You will have as much of God as you seek to find

You will inhabit your life –

or not

All this will have nothing to do with your circumstances

It won’t matter how much money you have,

your gender,

or the color of your skin

It will all be about your choices

Always,

and only,

about your choices
AL

Listen to Misty Edwards sing Soul Cry http://youtu.be/b-IDAqxCZ7I
😇😈😇😈😇😈

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06 Jul 2015

questions that don’t go away…

Sometimes

if you move carefully

through the forest
breathing

like the ones

in the old stories
who could cross

a shimmering bed of dry leaves

without a sound,
you come

to a place

whose only task
is to trouble you

with tiny

but frightening requests
conceived out of nowhere

but in this place

beginning to lead everywhere.
requests to stop what

you are doing right now,

and
to stop what you

are becoming

while you do it,
questions

that can make

or unmake

a life,
questions

that have patiently

waited for you,
questions that have no right

to go away.

🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂

Sometimes by David Whyte

Listen to Norah Jones sing Things You Don’t Have to Do http://youtu.be/mdyQCRgtDhM
🍂🍃🍁🍃🍂🍁🍃🍂🍁🍃🍂🍁

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05 Jul 2015

today’s choice

Listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd sing Free Bird http://youtu.be/iEAn9dNavT4

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29 Jun 2015

unexpected Mondays are the best!

💞

Listen to Todd Rundgren sing Love is the Answer http://youtu.be/IjMKz0wCGmw

💞

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27 Jun 2015

amplified

You see, I want a lot.

Perhaps I want everything

the darkness that comes with every infinite fall

and the shivering blaze of every step up.

So many live on and want nothing

And are raised to the rank of prince

By the slippery ease of their light judgments

But what you love to see are faces

that do work and feel thirst.

You love most of all those who need you

as they need a crowbar or a hoe.

You have not grown old, and it is not too late

To dive into your increasing depths

where life calmly gives out its own secret.

💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

The Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke

On this day of your life I believe God wants you to know…
…that life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

You won’t find glory at the center of safety, but at its edge. You won’t find love at a place where you are covered, but in the space where you are naked.

You gotta take some risks. You have to not only pick up the dice, but roll ’em. So go ahead, take the gamble.

You have nothing to lose except the chance to win.

Life is not long enough to spend it on the sidelines. And you will not have to think but a second to know exactly why you received this message today.

💕💕💕💕💕💕💞💞💝💝💝💝

– Neale Donald Walsh

http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com