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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Ease, please
Ahhhhhh, yes. Ease. Isn’t it ironic that the right amount of intentional effort hums us and and our lives along gracefully? While too much effort can actually tauten and impede us? We kind of clog the flow when we push … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration
Tagged Art, Beauty, Dance, ease, elegance, flow, grace, husband, Inspiration, momentum, relax, release, rolling on the floor, stiffness
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thank you, all of you magnificents
I’ve been looking back gratefully over several days full of gorgeous dancing, being with lovely family and reading others’ wonderful blogs. Realizing how many people have inspired me with their luminous talent and spirit. This is for all of you, and … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, poetry
Tagged Artists, Beauty, bloggers, dancers, gratitude, humanity, Inspiration, luminous, poetry, unique spirits, writers
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at sea
Today set sail billowing promise of vast seas of possibility spilling onto sun soaked horizons. Should I have known we would land in testy waters again I am not certain I am seaman enough to steer to save us.
Posted in Inspiration, poetry
Tagged challenge, horizon, Inspiration, poetry, sailing, sea, seaman, self-doubt, testy waters
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LOVE Day: every day
I love love. I love thinking about it and feeling it and even saying the word. It is a caress in the mouth with its velvety “l” and “v” and welcoming “o.” As I also adore red and the passion … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity
Tagged Audrey Hepburn, Beauty, candle, cookies, cooking, dinner, diy, Home Depot tropical plant, Inspiration, inspiring quotes, Joy Project, Kindness, lifestyle, Love, Love Tree, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, red, smile, Valentine's Day
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ENTHUSIASM!! It’s POTENT! It’s MAGICAL! It’s INFECTIOUS!
Wow. Marveling at and diggin’ how a little enthusiasm can totally change my world around. No surprise there. After all, “[E]nthusiasm moves the world.” (Arthur Balfour) Yes, ma’am, “[e]nthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars…It … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity
Tagged Dale Carnegie, enthusiasm, Generosity, grateful, gusto, Henry Ford, Inspiration, inspiring quotations, jet pack, jump start, magic, positivity, potent, Ralph Waldo Emerson, support, tea
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letter from an old dancer: move (poem)
Old, who me? cannot see for the passion blinds truly burns all but its blazing, beauteous self. Body? Body sometimes, an aging mare lolling in pasture lazily raising dubious brow over skeptical haunch: we’re doing WHAT today? Still, always all ways … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, poetry
Tagged aging, colt, Dance, dance photo, grateful, gratitude, growth, lolling, mare, move, movement, old
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writing is a jacuzzi (poem)
If only there were a jacuzzi for the insides. Smoothing mind and soul languishing in neglect, tautened to opacity. Is that what writing is? Workout, yes, but also whirlpool tumbling rough stones, jumbled thought and emotion till they spill before me … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, poetry
Tagged Art, emotions, health, jacuzzi, literature, mind, polished, self-awareness, shimmering, soul, stones, translucence, writing
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the kindness of angels on a January day (poem)
Lost what, again? Wending, wrong turns, dead ends, stumbling detritus tumbled alleyways. Lost what, still? Snowflakes dreamily magically drift down, drape cold shouldering the wind, the world. Then, joy, seemingly out of nowhere, you appear. You the wee, parka-stuffed child making … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, poetry
Tagged Angels, cloak, Kindness, kindred spirits, lost, Love, love of my life, open, poetry, resplendence, snowflake, snowman
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