Here is a note that my dear friend and fellow surreal poetess Kathryn sent me this week:
LJC!
I had a dream last night that you were getting married. You were moving out of one dwelling and into another, and I was helping you, but I didn’t realize you were getting married.
Should I buy a dress?
I wrote her back:
Buy the dress. We will find the guy to match the dream.
Kathryn is the kind of friend who not ...
I wash my glass in Palmolive dish soap in the kitchen at work and it very sweetly catapults me back 28 years to where my babies are babies and I am washing dishes very sweetly in the kitchen in upstate New York. Any moment one of them might come around the corner, all filled up with light, and the business of toys, and being-ness, and I will pick them up with my soap bubble hands, ...
Miranda July made this website a few years back for her book, "No One Belongs Here More Than You." The book, of course, is wonderful and amazing, as it would have to be with such a title and such an author. The website is seriously my favorite ever. I just wanted to add it here to my on-line scrapbook of wonder. This is a photo from the sequence in her website where she is dressing ...
My feeling is this: our bodies are complete miracles. And probably we are wise to feed our bodies more miracles, like plant-based nutrients that are as close to their natural state as possible. And when we think of feeding our bodies, we probably want to expand that notion to include everything that our bodies take in, whether through our mouths, or our skin, or our lungs. So we can, with great delight, think of what ...
This was a very different sunrise over corn. First it started flashing me its color behind the St. Louis arch.
Then over the Missouri River and into Illinois where the colors of the sun spreading across the enormous sky and the fields and the road were all I wanted in the world. Soundtrack to this particular wonder was Sun Kil Moon singing "the universe works on a math equation/never never never ending."
Send love into your body -- your heart, your cheekbones, your belly. Know that you are love in human form.
Beam out love to everyone you have ever met. This kind of love you will beam needs nothing back; it needs nothing more than to make its way from your heart out into the world.
There's a garden that grows in the backyard, sprouts coming up from seeds. Every morning, more loveliness. I wake, and walk out into the yard to see what the night rain has brought me.
There are radishes and onion and beets and carrots and edamame and cukes and squash and zucchini and peas that have grown from seed, first delightful little sprouts, then plants that take their place in the garden bed. Also, in the way ...
Hey now, a gathering of goddesses!! I am pretty sure we're all going to love the world these women are dreaming up for us.
Oprah on Stillness and Meditation - Oprah Visits Fairfield Iowa, a/k/a TM Town.
Posted by BrainPickings.com, "Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion" Just lovely. Be sure and vote for Marija and Ben in the RSA competition which ends 3/2/12: "Food Rules" by Michael Pollan - RSA/Nominet Trust competition from Marija Jacimovic on Vimeo.
And here is the book, just in case you haven't seen it. You can read it through in around 45 minutes and when you are done, the way you look at food is completely altered. ...
My dear and lovely friend Leah Lamb has launched My-Planet.org, and with it brings to life her dream of connecting people with our amazing planet -- and those who share it with us -- through stories. Let's join with her and start to tell beautiful stories of each other, of our oceans, our trees, our home.
There's enough awfulness pouring out of the television set to dash our hopes if we let it. If we focus ...
Here is a post from a few days ago I thought I had published... "Heading toward Sedona now. Just saw an elk jerky roadside stand. The sign said "really good." I believe them...."
You will note the radio silence since just before entering Sedona. Meet me there, all my beloveds reading this, in the beauty.
Walk into the place where you live and see if it is dark. See if the tv is on, if the dishes are stacked in the sink. Smile at the room, as though you are Aunt Bea from the Andy Griffith show and are about to fix everything.
If you have an apron, this would be an excellent time to put it on. If you don’t have one, and you think it may prove handy, get ...
Oh my goodness I am so in love with the lady in the truckstop where I just went in for ice and beef jerky. She has purple eyeshadow and pink lipstick and dark moviestar hair, staring off into the desert when I opened the glass door.
This is going in the movie.
When science bears witness to love. When Russell Brand narrates our enlightenment. When meditating alone brings us closer to everyone. That's what now is.
Your true home is where you live in your heart. The place where you are connected to love and the way it moves through the world, permeating everything, beaming out from toll booth ladies, impatient clerks, flat tires, cows mooing, people who interrupt you, redwood trees, sun setting on the water as you sit outside and breathe it in.
Suzanne Vinson is a wonder of love and vitality being expressed through creativity. To walk in to her studio in the Ginter Park Community Center in the north side of RVA is to walk in to a place where ALL THE LIGHTS ARE ON. I am grateful for her and people like her. Here's a post from her blog: life in motherhood, ministry, and the arts: bloom :: the creative process.
Image by Suzanne Vinson
Do you ever feel as though your life is being narrated? Or as though you may want to turn to Dustin Hoffman for metaphysical advice? Then this little gem of a movie is one of your new best friends. The luminous beings that appear in this movie are: Will Farrell, Tony Hale, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Queen Latifah!! I mean. And another major character of the luminous being variety? Sixties architecture. Yum.
You may not seem to be doing anything much in the way of production, like clocking work hours or acquiring goods, or writing Pulitzer Prize winning books. Imagine, though, that there are qualities in you that are very tree-like. You stand with roots deep in the ground, soaking up water, soaking up earth energy, with your branches spread out and taking in light. You are producing oxygen that others need in order to take in ...
And while we are on the subject of happiness this week, let's give a shout out to The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin's memoir about her year-long study of happiness. Her website is a lovely place to spend time, and meditate on what happiness is for you.
Be sure and report back what you find. Or tell me about other people and places of beauty and happiness that are near and dear to your heart, and should ...
You know that, don't you, Scott Hastings?
Maybe the Ballroom Dancing Federation doesn't have any new moves.
And you're bored with the old ones. Aren't you, Scott?
Wouldn't you rather dance your own dance now? Wherever your feet want to go?
Here are some things that might be fun. Or might not. You decide.
Research memory. Or Joseph Campbell. Or the workings of the brain. Or the Shakers, or Diane Arbus, or Walker Evans.
Wallpaper the bathroom with Bazooka bubblegum comics.
Plan a weird ass party.
Make yourself some paper mache birds and let them tell you their stories.
Give your time to something without any attachment. Help build a house or read poetry to children or feed people or anything ...
This week, I've started a cleanse, after going back to this book Clean, by Alejandro Junger. Gwyneth Paltrow recommends it on GOOP, and since I do everything Gwyneth says to do, I got the book and went through it last spring. This spring I'm actually doing the cleanse. In fact, my mom and I are doing it together. Though the website offers lots of products to use in case you are so busy you don't ...
I use lots of tools for clearing my space and my body energetically, just depending on what feels right at the time. Here are some of them:
Lemons. Another healer taught me to cut up a couple of lemons and add them to the bath to immediately clear my energetic field of any energies that are no longer serving my highest good. I also drink a lot of water with lemons in it.
Dried white sage smudge sticks. ...
I could listen to this forever. "Everybody is wondering what and where they all came from. Everybody's worrying where they're going to go when the whole thing's done. No one knows for certain, so if it's all the same to me, I think I'll just let the mystery be."
Imagine that everywhere you go, there are angels in plain sight. Your waiter, for example.
Here is what happened to me one day several years back when I sat in one of my favorite coffee shops, writing, brainstorming, considering what my next move in life would be. I looked up from my notebook and was suddenly attuned to the waiter, moving across the room in all his glory, as though sent by the universe to illustrate ...
They just seem to match out here, something glimmering back the color of everything as it drives through, just a little more saturated, just a little more certain of its light.
I am at Silver Diner for the first time, having a delightful Saturday morning. I've helped my Dad shovel two truckloads of mulch and, after my Belgian waffles, Amish eggs and nitrate-free bacon, I am going over to lounge around with my beautiful sister and talk of anything/everything.
A lovely young father walks by, carrying his two year old blonde son from the table. The boy is crying in a rather overwhelmed sort of way and ...
This is rather a wondrous book by James Nestor, filled with practical and often hilarious advice on being-ness. The full title of the book is "Get High Now *without drugs" and has, according to the book cover, "over 175 sensory trips and tricks for visual stimulation, compressing time, lucid dreaming, meditation and more." I am getting a copy for all of the dreamers I love. I should mention that the book's website offers an extravaganza ...
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