Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. ~Richard Ben Sapi Quite true, don’t you think? This goes along with a question I have written on one of my homemade well being cards: Will it matter in a year from now? There are less than a handful of times I’ve come to that [...]
Archive for the ‘Happiness’ Category
Sad is Happy
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, tagged Emotions, Feelings, Happy, Holiday Blues, Sad on December 11, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Posted this almost exactly a year ago and stumbled on it again just the other day. I love my own sweet voice of wisdom here. It reminded me that though I had moments where I thought I had lost everything I know deep down, it was never really lost to begin with. It was right [...]
For Free
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Music, Poetry, tagged For Free, Joni Mitchell on December 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Joni Mitchell wrote a song “For Free” many years ago. It was the song about the sax (?) player, playing on a noisy street corner. A song of how everyone passed his music by. That song left an indelible imprint, a resolve in me to take less for granted. I wanted to notice, to appreciate [...]
Heart Desires
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Love, Music, Spirituality, tagged Heart's Desire, Passion, Spiritual Love on November 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What about love? Deeply, passionately enamored with something, anything Love will find you in the innocence of night and re-kindle that spark The very scent of desire wafts about your nose and beckons you to come hither Now from behind you, you hear the slow steady insistent beat of a rhythm You’ve heard [...]
What Would Love Do?
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Love, tagged May I Be Frank, Well Being, What Would Love Do on November 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Could there be a more powerful question?! What would love do? Those who read regularly know I make my own “well being cards”. I usually take different colored index cards and use brightly colored inks to write inspiring quotes. One of my favorites, inspired by A Course in Miracles, is – what would innocence [...]
Planet Autumn Wisdom
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Spirituality, tagged Autumn, Wisdom on November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
here on planet autumn every success and every seeming failure is applauded no bigger, no better, no smaller, no lesser you see, it is all life’s treasure expressing itself and even if a little seedling never quite pushes through to survive that is glorified and celebrated as life’s gift to us it is enough no [...]
Planet Autumn
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, tagged Autumn, Autumnal on November 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes I wish I could drive inside of autumn, not up to it, not to its borders, not by it, not near it, not walking through it, but *IN* it. I want to enter the autumnal world; surely it has its own planet. This world where there is only autumn and I just let it [...]