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19 Oct 2015

you get to choose

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

🌎

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

It’s all connected

All the love

All the loss

All the joy

All the pain

The world is made of God

We live in the ocean of his breath

Life is love is truth is love is Life

All connected

Everything I really needed to know

I learned from the ocean

and the trees.

The mountains

Introduced me to the angels.

Acorns were my very first teachers and the finest flock of seagulls

were my most recent.

We are the temple

‘We’ includes the universe

we find ourselves in

brothers and sisters

to stars and starships

🌎

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16 Oct 2015

As the density of night gives way to the bright song of the dawn, so your soul continually coaxes you to give way to the light and awaken. Longing is the voice of your soul, it constantly calls you to be fully present in your life: to live to the full the one life given to you. Rilke said to the young poet, “Live everything.” You are here on earth now, yet you forget so easily. You traveled a great distance to get here. The dream of your life has been dreamed from eternity. You belong within a great embrace that urges you to have the courage to honor the immensity that sleeps in your heart. When you learn to listen to and trust the wisdom of your soul’s longing, you will awaken to the invitation of graced belonging that inhabits the generous depths of your destiny. You will become aware of the miracle of presence within and around you.
– John O’Donohue

Like this ocean
Needs the moon

Like my coffee

Needs the cream

Like my music

Bleeds dark blue

So do I need you
Like the body

Water craves

Like the frugal

Money save

Like the artist

Must create

So do I need you
I need you

like breathe

Like food

Like rain

I need you

Right now

And every day

Like the waves

Must kiss the shore

So do I need you

Always

So do I need you

🔹

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14 Oct 2015

at the river

The mouth of the river may be beautiful.

It doesn’t remember the womb of its beginning.

It doesn’t look back to where it’s been

or wonder who ahead of it polished the rough stones.
It is following the way

in its fullness,

now like satin,

now cresting,

waters meeting, kindred

to travel gathered together,

all knowing it flows

one way, shining or in shadows.

And me, the animal

I ride wants to drive forward,

its longing not always my own,

overrunning its banks and bounds,

edgeless, spilling along the way
because, as I forget,

it knows everything

is before it.

🔹

Journey by Linda Hogan

It’s a beautiful, perfect day

Warm, with a shadow of cool

makes me know fall is coming

I do love me some October

I drove to Rocky Hill

to sing

spent way too much money

on not much of anything

coffee

filling up with gas

ordered a book for 46$

from Chenè in Africa,

Re-Authoring the World:

story narrative

changing our perceptions

changing our world

things are changing for me

it is time for me to begin again

time for readjusting the flow

time to take another step

time to make my choices

from a place of strength

from a place of determination

Freedom belongs to those who use it

🔹

you think you have time…

🔹

listen to Amy Grant & Vince Gill sing House of Love

2 bottom photos found at http://www.pinterest.com 

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Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It’s okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask Life Itself to lead you to your best outcome. There’s nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way. — Neale Donald Walsch

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11 Oct 2015

let it out

They Feel Your Love

Artist Shawna Erback

❤️

Curiosity, creativity, discovery and wonder; they aren’t traits of youth, they’re traits of learning. If you want to feel younger and you want to replicate the conditions of youth, do that.

– Unknown
Listen to Bellamy Brothers sing Let Your Love Flow

💞

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07 Oct 2015

a little help from our friends

photos by Fisherman Dan @ Branford, CT

listen to Jack Johnson sing Upside Down http://youtu.be/dqUdI4AIDF0

🍁

If you stand at the edge of the forest

and stare into it

every tree at the edge will blow a little extra

oxygen toward you
It has been proven

Leaves have admitted it
The pines I have known

have been especially candid
One said

that all breath in this world

is roped together
that breathing is

the most ancient language

🔹

Ancient Language by Hannah Stephenson

A bright gold canary diamond

In the middle of a row of emeralds

Light sparkles on brilliant color

Natures jewels glimmering in sunlight

Trees can’t help but be happy with who they are.

Beloved

Comfortable

Extravagantly, audaciously beautiful

Spectacularly themselves

Totally at home where they’re planted

Reaching for the sky

Content to be rooted and grounded

Letting their leaves come and go

As they see fit

watching all the dancing

as seasons come and go.

Knowing there will always be abundance

Giving us life giving oxygen with,

not even a whisper,

of quid pro quo

jealousy,

or manipulation.

Trees are magnificent.

I can’t help but admire

their character and integrity

Their deep wisdom and acceptance of life.

Their mystery and playfulness.

Their understanding and gracious giving hearts.

Even driving down the busiest of highways during rush hour

becomes a beautiful experience

when you spend the moments of the stop-n-go

looking out your car window

at the show being put on

right next to the roadway

🔹

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02 Oct 2015

what matters most

THE ANCIENT DREAM

She has come to sense the inner world goes deep, indeed deeper than the wounds and breakages that others inflict. The contemplative has broken through to that sanctuary in the soul where love dwells. Crucial to this contemplative journey is the trust and imagination to realize that regardless of how you have been damaged, there is within you a sanctuary of deep love, trust and belonging. This is the ancient dream, the masterpiece of divine creativity: the creation of the human heart. Before time – back in the winter of nothingness and then all through the infinite springtime of evolution – the dream was the birth of an intimate well of kindness, care and love in the world, dwelling in the tabernacle of the human heart.
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John O’Donohue

Excerpt from BEAUTY

dear lord in this time of darkness
help us see the darkness
dear lord help us to not pretend

no more pretending
dear lord may our gaze be defenseless

and unshardable
teach us the piety of the open eye
dear lord in this time of darkness

may we be unafraid to mourn and together and hugely
may dignity lose its scaffolding

faces crumble like bricks
dear lord let grief come to grief
and then o lord help us to see the bees yet in the lavender

the spokes of sunlight down through the oaks
and the sleep-opened face of the beloved

and the afternoon all around her

and her small freckled hands

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Prayer by Teddy Macker

Hearts out searching for a home
that one place where we belong

it’s a cold dark night here lately

but I have seen the light

home is your arms

holding me tight
deeper and deeper into the beautiful

waking my heart to sing this song

fly with me as flames grow higher

passion flaming deep desire

touching us on this dark night
There are times when life goes hazy

that place we all fall down

life can be so hard my baby

will you hold the line tonight?

open up your heart and fight
we can do it together

love’s the place where dreams come true

we can make it together

I believe we can make it

through
there is hope in this moment

there is hope in the sky

when days go dark and lonely baby

as long as stars are burning bright

there is hope

there is hope, ’cause

they burn for you

oh baby

we can make it through

🔹

Listen to Time of the Season by The Zombies http://youtu.be/wG5R7vyu-mA

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25 Sep 2015

a thousand more

You could pray for 1,000 nights, visualize for 1,000 days, and give thanks for 1,000 things, but it’s when you physically prepare the way no matter how silly, tiny, or futile your efforts may seem – that 1,000 miracles will find you.

Uga-chugga, Uga-chugga –

The Universe

Thoughts become things… choose the good ones! ®

#312 magic

The simplest things in life

Are the most extraordinary

Let them reveal themselves.

– Paulo Coelho
There is magic in every little thing.

Your very breath is magic

You, showing up on this tiny planet,

at this very time in history.

The way the sun glints off your hair.

The way the trees recognize you.

The way a child can turn their head

and plunge you into grief.

it’s all miraculous.

Einstein reminds us –

We have a choice in how we live.

One of two ways –

As if nothing

As if everything

Is miraculous.

I’m so glad I chose to see the enchanted pathway.

It’s always a fine day here.

No matter what circumstance I find myself in.

Magic abounds.

💞

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Listen to Christina Perri sing A Thousand Year http://youtu.be/rtOvBOTyX00

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24 Sep 2015

becoming one

The sojourning spirit is deep within each of us, if we’d listen, but it is not fundamentally about finding ‘the job’ or ‘the voice’ or ‘the degree’ or ‘the position’. The journey, at least as I know it, is a journey to union. It is a journey from fragmentation to wholeness, a journey from exile to home, a journey from attachment to union, a journey from hiding to “being hidden” in Christ, a journey from neurosis to theosis. – Chuck deGroat