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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Enthusiastic Failure: or success by another name
I did not dance well today. Tight, sore, exhausted and off kilter, I seemed to careen from one misfire to the next. I just could not get into my groove…or any groove, for that matter. And all around me, beautiful … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged Dance, defeat, discouragement, enthusiasm, failure, human, Inspiration, Joy, mindful, perseverance, persistence, quotes, soulful, stumbling, success, zest
13 Comments
balm of beauty
when life’s rambunctious sea bounces relentlessly unseats these feet eddying confidence no grounding recompense, when the keening squalls darken and roil mind’s open waters so far from soil’s reassuring evidence what steadies, saves in waves bounteous is beauty all around us is … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged balm, Beauty, challenges, comfort, flowers, Inspiration, mindful, nature, Ocean, peaceful, poetry, sea, soul, soulful, storms
12 Comments
return of the dancing
I turn on music’s catalytic companion by the muse abandoned stand in the doubting corner I wait, hope hesitates, now hovers: will the hibernating bear my movement at last lope in? it has been a long time, and lonesome when, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged artistic, Choreography, Creative Process, Creativity, Dance, dancer, gratitude, hibernating, Inspiration, Joy, lonesome, muse, Music, soulful
25 Comments
valiant, you poets
What keeps poets going? I have just read several inspired works here in WordPress Wonderland, and my grateful and inspired heart wonders…. Wonders at the beauty and the generosity, of course. But also wonders at the (phenomenal) phenomenon: that so … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged adventure, artist, artistry, Beauty, blogging, Creative Process, Creativity, Generosity, hero, imagination, Inspiration, intrepid, nosedives, perseverance, poet, quotes, soulful, valiant, Wordpress
7 Comments
dazzled by generosity
autumn’s maple gem trumpets this priceless gift the new day’s dawn opens wide her spectacular arms splashing a generous symphony across eyes’ grateful sky unabashedly boisterous calls to us in ruby, emerald and gold: be wildly magnificent be astonishingly bold
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged alive, autumn, Beauty, boisterous, bold, gem, Generosity, grateful, Inspiration, magnificent, mindful, nature, poetry, possibility and expansiveness, soulful
22 Comments
love’s melody
(for my beautiful husband, and my beautiful friends, virtual and otherwise :))…. nothing makes me more joyous than to see your smile return glow restored
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, poetry, Soulful
Tagged friend, Friendship, Generosity, haiku, healing, heart, Inspiration, Joy, Kindness, Love, melody, poetry, restore, smile, soul
7 Comments
tea’s reveries
“Cozy” I sip in stillness tea’s rare silent solitude sweet, deep reverie **** “Swift Transition” Ev’ryone comes back! reverie? no! upheaval now, where was I, tea? **** “GAH! (epilogue)” sinking in too late how did it and I become so noisy, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Inspiration, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged family, grateful, haiku, Inspiration, Joy, motherhood, noisy, poetry, Quiet, reverie, ritual, silence, sipping, stillness, tea
12 Comments
Passion!… Magical Elixir
The secret to vibrancy, “success,” and hey, longevity? Seems a lot of it comes down to the not -so -secret ingredient: passion. That’s what I’ve had reinforced time and again, especially lately (including when I wrote about 64-year-old Diana Nyad’s … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged aging, alive, Dance, David Dorfman, elixir, enthusiasm, Gary Player, heroics, Inspiration, mindful, passion, Performance, soulful, vibrancy, vitality
7 Comments
imagination’s vastness
the dreamer sees seizes possibility an opening hovering a crevice unseen now gleams with breathtaking beauty, our imagination’s enormity births both the dreamer and the dream
Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged Beauty, Creativity, crevices, dream, dreamer, flowers, generous, imagination, Inspiration, mindful, nature, poetry, possibility and expansiveness, self, soul, vast
7 Comments
for the dreamers I
you pioneer alone not unknowing, to paths unknown sowing the glimmered dust of dreams on uncertain winds unseen by less adventurous minds, lifting up steadfast to your task: a mere inkling, you reach in to a twinkling reverie spinning filaments lustrous now drape on … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, poetry, Soulful
Tagged Beauty, Creativity, destiny, dreamers, dreams, Generosity, Inspiration, mindful, Ocean, path, pioneer, poetry, reverie, soul, soulful
18 Comments
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