Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Poetry, tagged Joy, Poems on September 7, 2010| 6 Comments »
Posted in Abraham Hicks, Inspiration, Love, Mary Oliver, Spirituality, tagged G.K. Chesterton, Happy, Joy on August 9, 2010| 4 Comments »
“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight.”
~Mary Oliver~
What do you love? This was a question from the powerful weekly question. G. K. Chesterton wrote: praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. And I say — yes, yes, it totally could be!
Many years ago, I watched a soap opera, The Days of Our Lives. It had a tag line: like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. Today I would like to “bogart” that phrase and say — like sands through the hour glass, so are the Days of Our Love.
It’s a brand new shiny day stretched before you. What shall you fill it with? How about noticing what you love? What lights you up from the inside out? What delights you? What makes you smile? Notice and nurture it. This is the essence of animating this life we are living. And to feed and water what we love in life is to flow energy in the direction of that which feeds our heart and soul.
There was a book entitled Happy For No Reason. It speaks of giving out awards, not necessarily literally but noticing and praising, either out loud or silently. The best smile of the day. The most beautiful flower of the day. The most vocal bird of the day. The most engaging store clerk of the day. You get the idea, noticing the little, simple things.
While up in the Cascades I noticed there was a variety of pine that we don’t often see in the lower elevations. Their needles were inches upon inches long. One evening I watched as the sun went down, how the light hit the pines just so. How it glistened on the tips of the needles as a gentle breeze brought forth clusters of sparkles. I loved that moment of noticing just that and I’m still milking that one tiny moment.
It’s the simple things in life calling us to it. Some days we want to run and leap into its arms. Other days it calls us gently, softly with a whisper barely audible but always there, beckoning us forward.
Breathe deep and gather in the fragrance of all that lies before you today. For none of it means anything until, with our own unique brand of attention to it, we give it dimension and depth. Perhaps the richest discoveries of all lie in the simple, the trivial, the once easily overlooked.
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged Beauty, Joy, Poems, Prayer, Wendell Berry on October 2, 2009| 6 Comments »
If there is such a thing as poetic license, I am certainly taking it now. I have created what is known as a ‘found’ poem. Up until now, this poem has not existed. I have selected a couple of lines each from eight different poems and two different authors. I chose Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry for this creation. At the end of this found poem, I have cited the poems I used.
If you like to play with poetry, you can do this, too. I found it a wonderful exercise as something to just drop the day’s events and lose myself inside the soft belly of poetry. Enjoy…
* * *
I would like to write a poem about the world
that has in it, nothing fancy
Like our travels, our workdays
burned upon the world.
And forgetting everything I will leap to name it
as though for the first time
Turning always in my mind toward you,
your slopes, folds, gentle openings.
As a poem or a prayer, can also make
luminous any dark place on earth.
Maybe we’re necessary to each other,
and this vacant place has need of us both.
Calling us back to why, how and whence
such beauty and what the meaning.
To its joy we come together–the seer
and the seen, the eater and the eaten,
the lover and the loved.
* * *
Each verse was extracted from individual poems. The pattern begins with Mary Oliver, then Wendell Berry and continues to alternate authors and poems throughout, ending with Wendell Berry. The following references the poems used in the order that they appear:
Mary Oliver, This World
Wendell Berry, Horses
Mary Oliver, Tasting the Wild Grapes
Wendell Berry, Letter
Mary Oliver, May
Wendell Berry, A Music
Mary Oliver, First Snow
Wendell Berry, The Hidden Singer
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, tagged Heart, Inspire, Joy, Musings, Wisdom on August 18, 2009| Leave a Comment »
There are many things in life
that will catch your eye,
but only a few will catch your heart …
Pursue those.
~Anonymous~
What catches your heart today?
What if you did something every day
which catches your heart and makes
your heart sing?
What if you set aside time for just that
every day?
Does it sound like a recipe for inner joy?
It does just that for me. And I’m worth
feeling this inner joy and so are you.
Your heart, it has this enduring
voice that quietly beckons you to it.
Are you listening?
Posted in Abraham Hicks, Inspiration, Life, Spirituality, tagged Blessed, Inspire, Joy, Love, Wisdom, Youtube on June 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
May the light at the core of your being illuminate the world…
Posted in Abraham Hicks, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Music, tagged Joy, Well Being on April 11, 2009| 2 Comments »
Shout, shout, let it all out….
What a great song that was from Tears for Fears. The next line is:
these are the things I can do without, come on, I’m talking to you,
come on.
I’m changing it to:
shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I *can’t* do without,
come on, I’m talking to you, come on.
There’s enough talk in the world about what we are saying no to,
what we want to push away, what’s not right with our world.
Let’s start a new movement. Yes, let’s do it now.
Yes, I’m talking to you! :) What can’t you do without? What are you
saying yes, yes, yes to! What do you absolutely know is just so
rockin’ right with your world? These are the things you can’t do
without. This is what really turns you on. These are the things
you want to start a love affair with right now!
Shout it from the rooftops…shout, shout, shout, let it all out, these
are the things I can’t do without. Come on, come on, I’m talking to
you!