Present Moment, Wonderful Moment

I see that I have written a good deal about pain. This is no coincidence. It may be different for others, but pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Each moment, taken alone, was always bearable. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right. Yesterday the marriage may have ended. Tomorrow the cat may die. The phone call from the lover, for all my waiting, may never come, but just at the moment, just now, that's all right. I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
- Julia Cameron

Go With the Flow

Like a drifting cloud
bound by nothing
I just let go,
giving myself up
to the whim of the wind.
Ryokan (1758-1831)

Life is Life

We are alive.  Be grateful for that.  I have 2 funerals to go to in one week.  June's and Helen's.  June was 84.  Helen, 61.  Tragic.  They were both my good friends.  Now, they're gone. 

I grieve.  For them.  For me.  For everyone.

Life is hard.  Shine the light on your JOY! 

Be grateful for all you have.

For it will all be over soon. 

As will you.

Einstein Quote

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

- Albert Einstein
interview, The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929

Start Your Day Right

"How you start your day is how you live your day."
"How you live your day is how you live your life."
Food for thought!

-Louise Hay
Founder of Hay House Publications

What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?

In the poem "Summer Day", Mary Oliver asks you:
"what is it you plan to do with your
one wild and precious life?"
What is your answer?

Love Springs Eternal

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. ~Terri Guillemets