hooray for snowfall this week here in colorado! we SO needed it!!! we need a lot more, but the mountains got much more than we did in the city, and i’m grateful anyway. my roommate and i went out to snap a few fotos near the lake by the house, but it was seriously freezing {about 18 degrees}, so i didn’t stay out long. just long enough capture the mood and run back in 🙂
we didn’t get much – not even an inch. Continue reading
“you always buy the unique-looking produce… the ones no one else wants, the oddballs, the misfits!” — a coworker said to me.
it’s true.
i like anything out of the ordinary. because me?! – i’m out of the ordinary…… i mean we are all unique, just like everyone else, right?!
but i’m a very old soul… and i’ve seen a LOT in my some 10 thousand years… and in my current waking life, i often feel like some of the fruits and vegetables i buy – discarded, overlooked, passed-by, out-casted, and just plain weird. but dude, i’m totally still edible – and you know – some things get better with age… 😉
well… i found this potato particularly interesting because it kind of represented me. not only was it heart-shaped, as i obviously am, and which i find a lot of random things that find their way into my visual path are, but it is also kind of two different colours. it almost looks as if a garnet yam and a jewel yam are intertwined. it got me thinking about how i believe we all have a duality to us. i was having a conversation with a friend about all the changes going on in the world right now – the talk of 2012 doomsday, or the hope of a 2012 arising – in love and light, and consciousness, perhaps? and we were discussing how we all have a “dark side” — and some of us publicly show it with acts of violence or utter projection as to inflict sheer pain on the person receiving it, and some of us albeit perhaps not as violent, still keep it very much hidden, which can take a TON of conscious effort. Continue reading
let’s get out and share as much as we can, mmkay?! xxoo
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i was trying to quickly figure out what to blog about this morning. i have a fun day lined up but i also don’t have a ton of creative time left this morning. so – as i was scrolling through images, i found this one. it totally describes how i feel lately, so i found it perfect for today’s post. i have found myself being a little extra nit-picky lately. kind of pointing out things i don’t like about certain other people and kind of complaining a lot lately. no good. when i saw this image it was like a reminder :
i need to be still like the water and reflect – because whatever i DON’T LIKE in that person, is something i don’t like within myself. it is a reflection, we ALL represent that mirror for each other, and when i noticed my repetitive thoughts about this situation or person i didn’t like, it was a HUGE red flag for me to slow down and reflect… and meditate and let go 😉
have a great weekend, everyone! share a little love
i feel like KISSing today. Keeping It Seriously Simple.
i have a long weekend and week ahead of me. i am working straight through to my birthday, which coincidentally happens to be on thanksgiving this year. i plan to cook a feast for myself and meditate under my stars all night. i’m kind of weird… even though i work in the public and enjoy helping others, i’m actually quite a loner and am extremely introverted… so it’s totally okay 🙂
anyway… i feel really good lately and even though this is true, i do realize not everyone is so “zen” during the holidays, and therefore i’m trying to remember this simple truth over the next week :
i saw this on a building once when strolling through the lower east side of manhattan. i obviously had to take a picture. two days later i walked that same block and it had been painted over. i still have it as my screen saver on my phone and i try to live by this rule every day. it’s such a simple truth, and i find that when i react to situations with love, with only the highest version of myself, things are just better. the world needs more love. it’s part of our “job” here, to spread the love that we ARE… in fact, it’s the only reason we are here.
oNeLoVe.
a sweet message from my morning yogi tea – “let your heart guide you” — and this is why i drink yogi tea… it tastes amazing, they use organic ingredients, AND – they leave you little reminders for your spirit.
i am especially grateful for my morning tea today… and for all the love the universe showers me with. sometimes it’s hard to hear/feel your heart clearly speak to you amidst all the noise of every day life. but if you quiet the mind, and {as my spiritual guru would say} crack that chest open and inhale – it’s amazing how much love will flow right through you. i’m not saying it’s easy, i’m saying it takes lots of practice. the heart is the 4th chakra, right smack in the middle. it is the most neutral of our chakras. it is neutral because it has no opinion, it just is. the heart is the center, and it only knows love – and love has no opposite, it just IS. it accepts, it forgives, it doesn’t hold on, and it is free. so be good to you heart, and listen to it more – tell the brain to take the backseat… your heart got this!
and i – i believe in the power of love.
and ya’ll should, too! because… we ARE love.
oNeLoVe
hello you faithful readers, you.
so much is happening. a lot of energy is coming from everywhere.
i have been through some of the worst – i mean, the worst depression of my life… i’m comfortable in saying that i’m out of it now. i don’t want to think it has potential to ever surface again, but i’m a rational person – it might. however, i feel so completely different lately that i don’t know if it will ever have as much reign over me as it did this bout. i’m telling you, it was awful. be thankful i didn’t blog about it, even though sometimes i wanted to – just to get it out of my head.
whatever, i don’t want to waste too much energy even talking about the fact that i suffer{ed} from that horrible debilitating condition. well, it’s the human condition, actually. suffering, pain, fear, separation… we all deal with it, in some fashion. some of us talk about it, some of us take it out on others, some of us take it out with drugs, some of us live a secluded life avoiding interacting with anything or anyone at all…
i guess my point is, i have so much to write about lately because now that i’m out of that horrible dark tunnel, i see the light and it’s so incredibly bright i can hardly stand it. it’s like my favourite quote –
“our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. it is our light, not our darkness, which most frightens us.”
yeah. good stuff. and so, i’m feeling somewhat like that – only, less afraid, more excited. i’m like, “holy crap that light is so damn bright – i can’t wait to be sucked up in it and spitting it back out at everything i see!!!” Continue reading
“i’m starting with the man in the mirror, i’m asking him to change his ways – and no message could’ve been any clearer, if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make that CHANGE!”
— michael jackson, lyrical genius.
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well, it’s wordy wednesday. and i have a lot to say this time. it’s been quite a week. a HUGE full moon last wednesday and i’m not talking viewable by a telescope huge, i mean like – effect me on all levels huge. i have always talked about how i am a huge astrology buff. i follow zoe moon astrology, and you should too! she’s fantastic and always right on! astrology and horoscopes are NOT exactly the same. i’m not saying i follow my horoscope and freak out if “my crush” doesn’t ask me out even though my horoscope said it would. i’m talking about astrology – a study of the movements of the planets. it’s a very in-depth and fascinating field that i have studied more and more as time has gone on… also, i am very “in tune” with the planetary changes. and i FELT this last full moon like, with major force. it was intense!!! Continue reading
well, here it is – the official “end” i suppose.
{oh and by the way, this is one LONG AND WORDY POST! be forewarned.}
i made it 5 whole days {entering my 6th now} eating only raw or steamed organic fruits and vegetables, juice, water and kombucha. funny thing is, i don’t think i’m going to stop. i had absolutely no idea how this cleanse would effect me – i certainly didn’t fathom it effecting me more on an emotional level than physical. and i dare say – spiritual. it almost brings tears to my eyes {again} as i write this.
yesterday was rough. the worst day to date. so why the hell would i want to keep putting myself through this?! good question… Continue reading
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