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Feeding Myself Healthy Food
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 ...
Breathing
You know about breathing. Breathing in and out. So what I am saying to you is breathe in air. Let that be one of the things you do, and build cities around it, countries. Breathe in Boise, Idaho, the church in London, the flowers from your father’s birthday, your daughter’s first laugh. Breathe in a tree somewhere, birds, a circle of rabbits moving through the yard. Then breathe out. Add your own air to the world.
What if?
What if no job or house or car or ideal weight or ideal husband is what is going to make you shine? What if there’s a bucket of magic in your secret heart and everything you witness stands transfixed, watching you, awaiting that moment when you smile and start flinging that sparkle everywhere. What if everything simply waits for the love of you? What if there are places in you waiting for you to love them. To love them anyway. And if you ...
Animal, you, animal, me
These images by Gregory Colbert in his exhibit, Ashes and Snow, make me feel completely weepy. Just go look. Feel all the peace pouring from the animals, from the you and the me? This is what we're meant for, my dear ones. This is where we're going. Right...about...now. Image by Gregory Colbert, Ashes and Snow
Quantum Physics and the fundamental unity of life
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.
Stories
I have things to tell you, you know. It won't take long. Or it may take a hundred years. And I will be listening, because you have things to say, too. We have stories to put together like bubbles, bumping lazily into each other, fusing, popping, suddenly boundaryless, suddenly all the stories ever told. And we will keep telling. Because we are sayers. And seers. And smellers. And breathers. We shop at Price Club. We grow ...
Illinois [video]
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."
Get High Now
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 ...
Where is it, this true home of yours?
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.
Wyoming, further
The land flattens out, stretches further. Yarrow grows at the roadside. Treeless, here where you'd have to go so deep for water. Scattered cattle ranches, the continental divide. Ethereal, butter-colored place.
Loving Kindness
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.
Being Happy and Being Inspired Makes Happy Inspired Art
My dear friend and amazing human being Liz Sheehan is the director of Partners in the Arts, a program that supports arts integration at local schools here in RVA. We know, of course, that art feeds our soul. Our spirits. And kids know this already and way better than we do, but sometimes we just math them and english them to distraction so the part that they know at a deep level -- the language ...
Stranger than Fiction
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.
Sound Healing - Crystal Singing Bowls
This is quite an amazing album of sound recordings by Jonathan Goldman, sound healer, using luminous Crystal Tones singing bowls. I promise this will change the very nature of your day when you listen. Leave it playing on repeat and see if you suddenly realize you are in theta state.
Brackets
I have never really been a sports-watcher, unless it's U.S. Open Tennis matches between Nadal and Federer or possibly Italian and French men playing soccer. Talk about beauty being everywhere. When I was little and the entire family was watching sports and yelling at the teams on the television, drinking Tab and eating grilled cheese sandwiches -- all activities which were foreign to my sensitive little self -- I pretty much assumed I was adopted. I ...
The definition of happiness
Happy Sunday, you beautiful world. Today we meditate on happiness, here at TheBeautyThatIsEverywhere.com. Play this lovely little video montage of "Roman Holiday" put together by RavewoodLamenti for her sister's birthday. When you see Audrey Hepburn sleeping happily on the bench, drowsily say these words for her: "SO O O O HAPPY..." And then, perhaps, pay a visit to the incredibly lovely Wordswarm.net and look up the definition of happiness....here are a couple of excerpts from Wordswarm ...
The Foxfire Books: How to Make Moonshine, Rain and Fiddles
My friend Katie, who grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, mentioned the "hippy Foxfire Books" at our book club today. Our conversation was around self-sufficiency and being attuned to the earth and the land around us, and she said that she grew up with these books and loved to read through them when she was back home. As you can see from the cover, you can learn such intriguing things as hog dressing, ...
Little Miss Sunshine
I just had my Little Miss Sunshine moment with some lovely adobe colored overpasses in Albuquerque. My camera was busy playing the perfect song (Bob Dylan and the Band singing "Too Much of Nothing") so I didn't try to take a picture with it too.
Let the Mystery Be - Iris Dement (VIDEO)
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."
Link Love: Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated (VIDEO)
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. ...
Radio silence (Sedona/beauty/road trip)
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.
How to clear your space energetically
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. ...
Into the mystic (VIDEO)
Ah, it's played at last. No road trip would be complete without it.
Purple
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.
On Grocery Stores
To me, the true test of an excellent grocery store is this: if you walked in smiling (and I hope you were), were you smiling when you came out? If you’re all frustrated when you come out then conjure up a lovely grocery store to go to. It will very likely have the following: an enormous produce section. with lots of pretty colors. wax bags iron-on patchettes (assorted) bottle brushes Rit dye shoe laces (variety) Duraflame Long Stem Matches (ideal for lighting birthday ...
I Love You Anyway
This was on the sidewalk in San Francisco near Kenny's house. What an excellent idea: to love everyone and every thing, no matter what, even though, anyway.
The Mother of Language
I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station and got her train fairly started on one of those horizonless transcontinental sentences of hers, it was borne in upon me that I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the German Language. I was so impressed with this that sometimes when she began to empty one of these sentences ...
Kenny in that Grand Canyon [video]
Here is a video of Kenny Crowley, beauty-walker, singer-songwriter, son of mine, singing his anthem to the Grand Canyon and to all of earth. Last summer he retrofitted his pickup truck so it would be a camper/home on wheels and did a big loop during July and August. He left San Francisco and headed straight to the Grand Canyon. Then traveled up to Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, over to Washington and down to Oregon, then California ...
Clean: The Beginning of a Four-Week Detox
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 ...
Ordinary Life
A quote from Jan Frazier, "When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening" --What do I want for myself? I want to learn how to pare from my consciousness all that is not gratitude. I want to cease praying for anything I do not already have, but pray only to say thank you, and pray to learn how to hold more gratitude. What do I want for myself? I want to put on ...

One Way Station at the Boom Boom Room! August 16th

One Way Station is playing Tuesday, August 16th at the Boom Boom Room!! 8:30 p.m. – 2 a.m. My son Kenny Crowley is the gorgeous crooner. Here’s the band’s website: One Way Station.

Come on out and dance.

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Feeding Myself Healthy Food
My feeling is this: our bodies are complete miracles. And probably we are…
EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database
Have you heard about this database of beauty products? You can look up the…
Quantum Physics and the fundamental unity of life
When science bears witness to love. When Russell Brand narrates our…
Breathing
You know about breathing. Breathing in and out. So what I am saying to…
Loving Kindness
Send love into your body -- your heart, your cheekbones, your belly. Know…

Clean: The Beginning of a Four-Week Detox
This week, I've started a cleanse, after going back to this book Clean, by Alejandro Junger.…
The Foxfire Books: How to Make Moonshine, Rain and Fiddles
My friend Katie, who grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, mentioned the "hippy Foxfire…
The Happiness Project
And while we are on the subject of happiness this week, let's give a shout out to The Happiness…
Link Love: Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated (VIDEO)
Posted by BrainPickings.com, "Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion" Just lovely. …
Get High Now
This is rather a wondrous book by James Nestor, filled with practical and often hilarious advice on…
Expecting Adam
This is one of those books that filled me with light. Martha Beck writes about her pregnancy with…
Ordinary Life
A quote from Jan Frazier, "When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening" --What do I want…
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July made this website a few years back for her book, "No One Belongs Here More Than You."…
"Glad No Matter What:" A Book by SARK
I am reading this really lovely book by Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (aka SARK), called Glad No…

Stranger than Fiction
Do you ever feel as though your life is being narrated? Or as though you may…
Darjeeling Limited
Pretty, pretty movie, the Darjeeling Limited. That's just how Wes Anderson…
It was always about the dance
You know that, don't you, Scott Hastings? Maybe the Ballroom Dancing…
Take Polaroids of Your TV Screen
Take Polaroids of your tv screen while Lucas dances, black eyes, black hair,…
Little Miss Sunshine
I just had my Little Miss Sunshine moment with some lovely adobe colored…

In the garden
Radish harvest morning. Also bunny spotting. Also gloriously beautiful. Also camera batteries…
Sprouts
There's a garden that grows in the backyard, sprouts coming up from seeds. Every morning, more…
How about awesome?
Awesome people hanging out together: an awesome Tumblr blog. This will cheer you up if you need…
Little Portals
Sometimes I want to give you everything. Yes, you, reading this now. I sit in the morning darkened…
Being Happy and Being Inspired Makes Happy Inspired Art
My dear friend and amazing human being Liz Sheehan is the director of Partners in the Arts, a…
Being Grateful
I've started to notice that there is something about being grateful that seems to change my way of…
Angels in plain sight
Imagine that everywhere you go, there are angels in plain sight. Your waiter, for…
What if?
What if no job or house or car or ideal weight or ideal husband is what is going to make you…
Loving Kindness
Send love into your body -- your heart, your cheekbones, your belly. Know that you are love in…
Take a train
Take a train in the morning. Sit on the side where the sun is and watch it light the trees, the…

Yesterday On the River
My darling son Kenny was in town this weekend and we went to the James River, by way of what's…
My Planet: Healing with Whales and Other Stories
My dear and lovely friend Leah Lamb has launched My-Planet.org, and with it brings to life her…
Animal, you, animal, me
These images by Gregory Colbert in his exhibit, Ashes and Snow, make me feel completely weepy. Just…
Link Love: Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated (VIDEO)
Posted by BrainPickings.com, "Michael Pollan's Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion" Just lovely. …
Being Tree-like
You may not seem to be doing anything much in the way of production, like clocking work hours or…
Still
I was walking by the ocean today with some dear and lovely friends and found myself thinking of…
One Love, One Heart (VIDEO)
This video, a compilation piece performed by musicians all around adding their part, had me…
Aurora Borealis in Finnish Lapland 2011
I found this on laughingsquid.com. Such a lovely place to find delight. Aurora Borealis in…
Utah's salt flats
Just surreal. That white you see is…
This makes me want to learn how to knit. For real this time...
...and to learn more about these fabulous people at Fibershed. Here's an excerpt from the Etsy…

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