encouraging, providing,
supporting, showing up
feeling bad when I don’t.
never missing a birthday greeting,
remembering every detail,
to prove my love.
Yes, I am listening…
Today, friendship found me;
my love was felt,
And, it was returned.
It felt like the way Love feels
without any need to prove
itself.
Full acceptance, Presence.
Today I didn’t have to chase
after friendship,
and show my toys,
Try to entice a friend
to stick around.
I’ll be real good to you!
You can tell me all your secrets!
You can trust me!
Today, friendship found me,
Simply because I wasn’t in need –
no one was,
in need of anything.
And, no one was trying to
confide in me, offer me their services,
or ask me to fix anything.
No one was trying to transact.
All was already provided.
Let’t just relax and enjoy ourselves..
**There was a goldendoodle who presented in the clinic last week (not the one who was being treated; the puppy gnawed on a chair but didn’t bark) but the owner brought in the puppy. Growing up, my first friend was my sister dog: Maggie. We were toddlers together.
“Damiel: It’s great to live by the spirit, to testify day by day for eternity, only what’s spiritual in people’s minds. But sometimes I’m fed up with my spiritual existence. Instead of forever hovering above I’d like to feel a weight grow in me to end the infinity and to tie me to earth. I’d like, at each step, each gust of wind, to be able to say “Now.” Now and now” and no longer “forever” and “for eternity.” To sit at an empty place at a card table and be greeted, even by a nod. Every time we participated, it was a pretense. Wrestling with one, allowing a hip to be put out in pretense, catching a fish in pretense, in pretense sitting at tables, drinking and eating in pretense. Having lambs roasted and wine served in the tents out there in the desert, only in pretense. No, I don’t have to beget a child or plant a tree but it would be rather nice coming home after a long day to feed the cat, like Philip Marlowe, to have a fever and blackended fingers from the newspaper, to be excited not only by the mind but, at last, by a meal, by the line of a neck by an ear. To lie! Through one’s teeth. As you’re walking, to feel your bones moving along. At last to guess, instead of always knowing. To be able to say “ah” and “oh” and “hey” instead of “yea” and “amen.”
Excerpt from the movie, Wings of Desire, directed by Wim Wenders. In the movie, the angel wants to experience the physical world.
The angel Damian falls in love with a lonely trapeze artist…
a single leaf falls
from autumn’s hour,
and decorates the parking lot floor,
from here we are swept into another world
Tracing the lines of the leaf to the contours of the wall,
a painted circle on the wall emerges.
We feel the universe begin to sparkle, and to share her secrets.
“gravity propagates at the speed of light”
Einstein was right!
I read it in a new article…
~
Purple and orange sunset swirl
the light goes down like a sunken pearl
oncoming night, fills us with delight
dreams, upon freer nite
as real as an untethered kite.
fantastic and true, as my maple spiced beverage!
Drowning in full chromatic hue…
When you notice that I am posting even more frequently in November (hopefully). You’ll see that you, too, can join in. I will be participating in Nano Poblano, “the World’s Least Official Blog-Everyday-November Challenge.” Nothing gets me motivated like something that isn’t officially official-official, and really has the spirit of community, teamdom, and freedom. We all want to have fun. Here’s the official link. Especially if you are already a regular every day blogger, and want to reach more people, and participate more as well – go sign up!
Nothing says “potential over-commitment” like Jupiter conjunct Sun in Scorpio – so I thought it’d be a great time (or worst time) to take a deep dive. You get it, folks, I decided to go for the swim! Isn’t it exciting!? That said, considering my away-from-the-blog work/life/family balance, it should be an equally busy season off-blog. My throat already feels scratchy and my lymph nodes feel swollen, so why don’t we do it?! I’m gonna enjoy this, or at least enjoy trying! Oh, and the self-care… that’ll happen. 🙂
Blogging, for me, brings together my favorite things art, celebration, exploration, empowerment, and meditation, and growing together. I need the calm to balance the excitement. I need the bland to balance the spicy. I need the deep-discussions to balance the light-hearted whimsy. I need my own commitment to my writing/art/astro/photography space getting out there, and I need it to be okay when I don’t make it out the gate, or I just hide under the blankets.
This is my home beyond me. This is where I live, and I intend to keep decorating, or louse it up, whatever is my choice. If you stick around for my posts, I thank you all in advance for supporting me and my self-expression, as it ebbs and flows, changes and grows.
This morning I found a list of quotes/aphorisms that I once thought were important; as I sip my tea, I’m appreciating the fact that I have been consistent in things.
1). don’t throw out the baby with the bath water 🙂
My original journal entry had 123 quotes/aphorisms, but I am relaying the ones that I starred then. I am wondering to myself, would I elevate the same ones in importance or choose others at this time?
Next I’ll list the ones that I put a star next to, way back when. Unfortunately, I do not know who all of them are attributed to, so i welcome your help in the comments section, if you are inclined to do things like this, in this way.
-> “truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion”
-> “neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them”
-> “necessity has been with great truth called the mother of invention. some of the noblest exertions of the human mind have been set in motion by the necessity of satisfying the wants of the body. T. Robert Malthus, 1798
-> “i may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.” Voltaire (1694-1778)
-> “you cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain
-> “i would rather be able to appreciate the things i cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. Elbert Hubbard
-> “access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.” – Plato
-> “do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. be not simply good; be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau
-> “memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary”
-> “half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not. – E.R. Beadle
-> “the course of true anything does not run smooth” – Samuel Butler
-> “most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
-> “never apologize for showing feeling, when you do so, you apologize for the truth.” -Benajmin Disraeli
-> “he who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
-> “the education of the will is the object of our existence” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
-> “time will explain it all. he is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks” – Euripides
-> “brevis esse laboro, obsurus fio.” (When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.) Horace from Ars Poetica.
-> “one cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
-> “you don’t understand anything, unless you learn it more than one way. – Marvin Minsky
Sheri Munce – Hide and Seek
-> “not everything is better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.” – Pindar
-> “we are never so happy or unhappy as we think.” -Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
-> “humor is the affectionate communication of insight” – Leo Rosten
-> “fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” – George Santayana
-> “everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world – Arthur Schopenhauer.
-> “the mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect” – Robert Louis Stevenson
-> “anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
-> “there is nothing so easy that becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
-> “if you build castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put that foundation under them.” Henry David Thoreau
**I typed all these quotes out. It’s an exercise in absorbing their wisdom**
May your day be filled with many moments that you can enjoy!
Recently I made a new blogger friend: Louise Gallagher. Her website is called, “Dare Boldly.” Please check out the link below that will take you to her artwork.
I will be away from my blogging helm for a short while to attend to celebrations and the finishing up of seasonal demands. Here’s a poem that I wrote, inspired by Louise’s post: #ShePersisted, where she references what has inspired her. Louise has some TED Talks, and immediately I recognized her as a kindred spirit. What follows is my poem, then her link. Remember to check out her artwork, and for those inclined/able, go visit her.
“For women”
For women,
we are women
born in these bodies
of fruit,
to become fruit
made of ‘he’
and she
protagonists in our
own stories
while the ones we read
as children, we were
the sidekicks,
the silent strength.
not a bad role.
in heroic stories –
i always identified as ‘he’
now we have
wonder woman.
and she showed up, why?
because of us.
because, we said: I need
a character, with strength
and beauty, and she will
represent these “masculine” – feminine
graces –
she will get the work done!
she will overcome evil.
she is mighty.
Tracing the lines of the leaf to the contours of the wall,
Photography: Ka Malana ©2017
Fiesta Estrellas 
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