What a joy to sit with the mountains,
Extra tall and crisp in suits of snow,
Cloud capes draping their shoulders,
Softening their stance into certain indigo.
Mountains, do you ever wish...
To glance at us, from a distance?
Through curtains and windows?
To have your space all alone?
You appear so remote, self-sufficient,
Unchangeable forever, or so we assume.
But you are constantly giving us
your room in the world.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Clocks: Ticking TIme
From January 5th
Clocks: ticking time
To the city lights, flickering.
Windows: reflecting the doors
That we pass through.
Beds: studios for dreams
To unfurl like smoke.
Sighs: signifying the good work
We know we did today.
Hope: when the heart still longs
To find a way.
Clocks: ticking time
To the city lights, flickering.
Windows: reflecting the doors
That we pass through.
Beds: studios for dreams
To unfurl like smoke.
Sighs: signifying the good work
We know we did today.
Hope: when the heart still longs
To find a way.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Deeper Than Indigo
Our touch,
Is Kelp,
Caressed by Ocean Waves.
Our embrace,
Is how a boat feels,
In the sea.
Our eyes meeting,
Is the tide,
Drawn toward shore.
The only direction,
Worth exploring,
Is deep.
Thank you for keeping,
My heart diving,
Alongside yours.
Alongside yours.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
The Journey
Descend during daylight?
Going unnoticed,
This side of Earth?
Not any less
Than commets in darkness,
When coyotes are calling,
Dogs to wildness.
You are trying your best,
To fight gravity.
Forgetting in your
Fancy of flight,
That eggs are laid,
In nests and ground,
And stars fall and shine
Regardless all around.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Inner Space
The end of one plane,
Receding into dreams,
Bringing the new.
Are you ready to lead?
Bicycle spokes, black books,
Feather pillows, keyboard strokes,
Writing notes to faraway folks,
What do you wish to know?
The drive inside,
Who is driving?
The snow outside,
Who is snowing?
The coming and going,
Of the muse.
Who is controlling?
Who is holding?
Just a brake please,
From the gas.
Just a breath please,
Between the last.
Just a moment please,
To trust the process,
To feel the track
Slow, not fast.
To see the footprints,
In the back,
And, ahead, emptiness,
From the pack.
To create universally,
From the stillness of mist,
To relate to starlight,
From the lava flow.
And bring the glow,
To warm the earth,
That is the tip,
Of what she asks.
(written dec 11)
Receding into dreams,
Bringing the new.
Are you ready to lead?
Bicycle spokes, black books,
Feather pillows, keyboard strokes,
Writing notes to faraway folks,
What do you wish to know?
The drive inside,
Who is driving?
The snow outside,
Who is snowing?
The coming and going,
Of the muse.
Who is controlling?
Who is holding?
Just a brake please,
From the gas.
Just a breath please,
Between the last.
Just a moment please,
To trust the process,
To feel the track
Slow, not fast.
To see the footprints,
In the back,
And, ahead, emptiness,
From the pack.
To create universally,
From the stillness of mist,
To relate to starlight,
From the lava flow.
And bring the glow,
To warm the earth,
That is the tip,
Of what she asks.
(written dec 11)
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Love and Gratitude Journal Notes from 9/9/12
More notes and reflections from "Calling in the One" book:
"Gratitude shifts our perception from what we don't have to what we do have"
"When getting to know new people, remain neutral yet receptive until you have all the information you need to see more clearly what they have to offer. You want to learn how much someone has to give by watching how they show up in life. Are they consistent? Do they share similar values and concerns? Do they balance and compliment you well? Are they available to love? Do they do what they say they are going to do? Are they sensitive and considerate toward you and others?
"Taking risks means taking actions that are outside of your comfort zone"
I love this quote:
"The way you have been living is what has produced the life you now have."
I intend to take actions and make choices based on my desire to continually push the envelope of who I know myself and the world to be. I dedicate myself to learning and cultivating the ability to give and receive love and to deepen my awareness. I want to give beauty to the world through the way I relate to the world and what/how I create in the world. I am committed to being the best I am capable of being. This means being loving: giving and receiving love to everyone I meet to the best of my ability in that moment - not because I expect, feel entitled to/demand or hope for anything in return but simply because that's the best that I can be. I intend to listen to my heart. I intend to be creative and create out of that space of love for myself and the world.
"You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there will be a time of consolidating before the next surge forward. Accept this as part of the process. And never become downtrodden." - Eileen Caddy
"Be. Then Do. Then Have."
"We have to "act as if" we love ourselves and love is abundantly fulfilled in our lives."
"99% of all creation takes place beneath the soil. As the farmer who has planted the crops does not go out into his garden in an effort to force them to grow, we wait. What is yours will come to you."
What are the qualities that you long for in a life partner?
I'm open. I don't want to define him and I don't want him to define me. Someone who is also sharing his intention to love and be loved. Who wants to be all that he can be. Whose beauty of spirit light up his beauty of being. Who is in love with life and shares that joy/infuses that joy in others. Who is in touch with himself and who has the courage to take risks and leaps and does what he talks of doing and is committed to deepening his awareness of himself. Someone for who I can be a launchpad for and someone who can be a launch pad for me when the time is right. We will meet when we have done all we can do on our solo self-growth paths and the next step can only be "we." Also, I commit to do date only those people who appear to have these traits and refrain from dating those who do not. For all those traits that I long for in another, I commit to cultivating them in myself first.
Affirmation: "Who I am is love. And I am attracting the love of my life in this very moment. I am already connected deeply to my life partner and I receive that partner now."
"Gratitude shifts our perception from what we don't have to what we do have"
"When getting to know new people, remain neutral yet receptive until you have all the information you need to see more clearly what they have to offer. You want to learn how much someone has to give by watching how they show up in life. Are they consistent? Do they share similar values and concerns? Do they balance and compliment you well? Are they available to love? Do they do what they say they are going to do? Are they sensitive and considerate toward you and others?
"Taking risks means taking actions that are outside of your comfort zone"
I love this quote:
"The way you have been living is what has produced the life you now have."
I intend to take actions and make choices based on my desire to continually push the envelope of who I know myself and the world to be. I dedicate myself to learning and cultivating the ability to give and receive love and to deepen my awareness. I want to give beauty to the world through the way I relate to the world and what/how I create in the world. I am committed to being the best I am capable of being. This means being loving: giving and receiving love to everyone I meet to the best of my ability in that moment - not because I expect, feel entitled to/demand or hope for anything in return but simply because that's the best that I can be. I intend to listen to my heart. I intend to be creative and create out of that space of love for myself and the world.
"You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there will be a time of consolidating before the next surge forward. Accept this as part of the process. And never become downtrodden." - Eileen Caddy
"Be. Then Do. Then Have."
"We have to "act as if" we love ourselves and love is abundantly fulfilled in our lives."
"99% of all creation takes place beneath the soil. As the farmer who has planted the crops does not go out into his garden in an effort to force them to grow, we wait. What is yours will come to you."
What are the qualities that you long for in a life partner?
I'm open. I don't want to define him and I don't want him to define me. Someone who is also sharing his intention to love and be loved. Who wants to be all that he can be. Whose beauty of spirit light up his beauty of being. Who is in love with life and shares that joy/infuses that joy in others. Who is in touch with himself and who has the courage to take risks and leaps and does what he talks of doing and is committed to deepening his awareness of himself. Someone for who I can be a launchpad for and someone who can be a launch pad for me when the time is right. We will meet when we have done all we can do on our solo self-growth paths and the next step can only be "we." Also, I commit to do date only those people who appear to have these traits and refrain from dating those who do not. For all those traits that I long for in another, I commit to cultivating them in myself first.
Affirmation: "Who I am is love. And I am attracting the love of my life in this very moment. I am already connected deeply to my life partner and I receive that partner now."
Love and Forgiveness Journal Notes from 9/5/12
Notes, reflections and quotes from the book "calling in the One" by Katherine Woodward Thomas
Listening to my heart will in turn strengthen my ability to listen to others.
"Magic, syncronicities, connectedness only happen when one is fully present and available to what is so, and not preoccupied with what is not."
What do I think are the qualities of love?:
kindness, respect, generosity, giving, receiving, gratitude, openness, acceptance, flexibility, tolerance, compassion, unassumingness, non-judgmental, both/and thinking, appreciative, peace, in touch, grounded, joyful, patience, empathy, passion, aliveness, honesty, truth, attentiveness/listening, helpful, awareness, centered, playful/fun-loving, curious, child-like, inclusive/bringing together, creativity, richness/fullness, responsiveness, sharing
"When you do come across irritating situations, ask your heart what love would do. Stretch yourself to become the most loving version of yourself possible by doing that which you believe love would do in that moment"
"Explore the needs and wants of your partner and treat each other's needs as though they were your own"
"Must be a strong 'me' in order to be a strong 'we'"
"Functional families allow for the individuality of each member. People are free to express their needs, wants and feelings."
What is my attitude toward marriage?
Open
What is it about marriage that I might want?
To share the journey of deepening one's awareness of self with another and to be mutually challenged , supported, nurtured, respected, encouraged, helped in an intentionally sacred space and union where each of us feels safe enough to do that and to be vulnerable with one another. That we meet in the maybe zone as much as possible.
What is it about marriage that I might fear?
That it becomes too rigid, defined as yes and no. I don't really fear much actually. Maybe feeling limited to grow and deepen and express myself creatively. The fear of merging overly with the other to the extent of loosing myself and my creative focus.
"Deep wounds require more than 1 pass at forgiveness before they can be truly healed. Forgiveness is more of a process than an event. An ongoing practice. True forgiveness is an expression of the heart that must be arrived at honestly and organically. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life - to allow life to live through you. When it comes to forgiving ourselves, we must note that it is really our ego, our false and fragile self that becomes indignant by our mistakes."
"The wise forgive, but do not forget"
Listening to my heart will in turn strengthen my ability to listen to others.
"Magic, syncronicities, connectedness only happen when one is fully present and available to what is so, and not preoccupied with what is not."
What do I think are the qualities of love?:
kindness, respect, generosity, giving, receiving, gratitude, openness, acceptance, flexibility, tolerance, compassion, unassumingness, non-judgmental, both/and thinking, appreciative, peace, in touch, grounded, joyful, patience, empathy, passion, aliveness, honesty, truth, attentiveness/listening, helpful, awareness, centered, playful/fun-loving, curious, child-like, inclusive/bringing together, creativity, richness/fullness, responsiveness, sharing
"When you do come across irritating situations, ask your heart what love would do. Stretch yourself to become the most loving version of yourself possible by doing that which you believe love would do in that moment"
"Explore the needs and wants of your partner and treat each other's needs as though they were your own"
"Must be a strong 'me' in order to be a strong 'we'"
"Functional families allow for the individuality of each member. People are free to express their needs, wants and feelings."
What is my attitude toward marriage?
Open
What is it about marriage that I might want?
To share the journey of deepening one's awareness of self with another and to be mutually challenged , supported, nurtured, respected, encouraged, helped in an intentionally sacred space and union where each of us feels safe enough to do that and to be vulnerable with one another. That we meet in the maybe zone as much as possible.
What is it about marriage that I might fear?
That it becomes too rigid, defined as yes and no. I don't really fear much actually. Maybe feeling limited to grow and deepen and express myself creatively. The fear of merging overly with the other to the extent of loosing myself and my creative focus.
"Deep wounds require more than 1 pass at forgiveness before they can be truly healed. Forgiveness is more of a process than an event. An ongoing practice. True forgiveness is an expression of the heart that must be arrived at honestly and organically. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life - to allow life to live through you. When it comes to forgiving ourselves, we must note that it is really our ego, our false and fragile self that becomes indignant by our mistakes."
"The wise forgive, but do not forget"
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