THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND

Today is my sister's birthday. She indeed is my best friend. We have so many memories and regularly share laughs. She is and has always been a blessing to our family. Her love has no boundaries. She is a peaceful and calm person. She loves black and white movies, musicals, broadway plays, baking and working in her art studio. The Golden Girls was one of my favorite TV sitcoms. Actually the theme song drew me to the show.

"Thank you for being a friend

Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant.

And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say thank you for being a friend."

Happy Birthday Sis!

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/goldengirlslyrics.html

LIVING FROM THE INSIDE OUT

For all of my life I've always focused on excellence and high achievement. My obsession with goals, objectives, benchmarks and outcomes guaranteed leadership positions at a young age. The goals grew larger as did the expectations of my supervisors. Everything was intense and the demands of marriage and parenting also required me to achieve outstanding outcomes. The honor roll child, top fund raiser, PTO meetings, field trips, and parent groups. Then came my commitment to church and community. My life became this huge cycle of meetings, responsibilities, commitments and accomplishments that never ended. My brain became a tickler tracking dates and appointments. I thought I loved the packed calendar and constant smart phone thumb typing. In reality I could not imagine my life any other way. Until I got off of the merry-go-round I was oblivious to the maddening pace I called my life. Today I get exhausted just thinking about how much of life I was not living. Today I love my life because I feel my life. I love my life because I am living my life. I love my life because I am living it from the inside out. The external bells and whistles that determined my every move have been silenced. Life is amazing!

IS YOUR WORLD LARGER THAN YOU?

Expansion requires us to embrace people and cultures that are dissimilar to our own. On yesterday, I wrote on creating a sacred space in your world. Today I decided to capture images of diverse people and cultures located in my home. We communicate a lot to others [especially children] when we embrace different cultures enough to display images of them in our home, work, and play spaces. Look around your spaces today and take inventory what do you see?

ARE YOU BLOCKING YOUR LIGHT ?

May the eyes of our pure understanding be opened. Our eyes have been wide shut far too long.

CREATE YOUR SACRED SPACE

Find a corner or two in your world and dedicate as your sacred space. The above picture depicts one of mine.

EVERYDAY IS A DAY OF THANKSGIVING

Late last evening as I was removing a pan from the oven the song EVERYDAY IS A DAY OF THANKSGIVING http://youtu.be/4ooK66xOpZg came to me. This song is one of my favorites; however, I had not thought about it in years. Thanksgiving is indeed a daily event and as is often stated the more we give thanks the more we have to be thankful for. It is my desire to approach each day with a thankful heart and not conjure up reasons to be thankful. I want to be thankful because everyday is a day of thanksgiving. Sending vibrations of love and gratitude, to each person reading this post today. 
God Bless!

LET IT FLOW

I recently tweeted how creative the mind becomes when it is not cluttered with nonsense. Becoming is probably not an appropriate word as it implies a level of manufacturing. Actually what already IS can never Become because it is. Therefore, could it be that we already are and our erroneous thoughts at becoming are just that erroneous. It is not a play on words. We are incredible beings with tremendous capacities; however, we have duped ourselves into believing that it is out there somewhere when in fact it is inside already. The creativity I referenced was there just waiting for enough inner silence to flow through me.