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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 ...
Into the mystic (VIDEO)
Ah, it's played at last. No road trip would be complete without it.
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.
Julie's Bollywood Dream Lives in Holly's Backyard [video]
When was living in the Bay area last summer and was homesick for my girls in Richmond, I just put this video on. Aren't they wondrous? Julie had always wanted to be in a Bollywood movie. Her dear friends saw no reason why this couldn't be so. So Heidi choreographed the dance moves, Holly hosted the location, and Katie arranged with her filmmaker husband James to film the whole thing. So now Julie's in a Bollywood ...
The Healthy Apple's Healthy Food Shopping List
This is a really thoughtful healthy food shopping list put together by Amie Valpone of The Healthy Apple: Your Guide to Clean Eating. I am a new fan! With a list like this, you and your shopping cart will feel so very beautiful. Image courtesy of Amie Valpone, The Healthy Apple.com.
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 ...
Airstreams are beautiful
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.
Remember your joy: being Aunt Bea
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 ...
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 ...
Oprah on Stillness and Meditation
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.
Hello Art Lovers!
Mary Poppins and Bert really had it going on, don't you think? There is nothing like jumping into a sidewalk chalk landscape to while away the day.
Ode to My Friend Kathryn (Speaking of Fun)
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 ...
A Chromatic Typewriter: For Re-Writing History
More loveliness from Making it Lovely. This is a conceptual art piece by Tyree Callahan. So dreamy. Image compilation by Making It Lovely. Art and Image by Tyree Callahan.
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 ...
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 known in these parts as Texas Beach. You depart ordinary reality slowly, via a path from a park near Maymont which seems initially rather ordinary. This is, as I'm sure you know, often true of portals. You walk down a dirt path, cross over the railroad tracks via a weirdly God-awful footbridge and set of ...
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.
The Happiness Project
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 ...
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.
EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database
Have you heard about this database of beauty products? You can look up the ones you use and see what kind of rating they get in terms of safety/toxicity. The lower the better. Image by EWG.org.
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. ...
Overhearing
A child, walking by my window: "Mmmm, nice little wind, wind!"
In the garden
Radish harvest morning. Also bunny spotting. Also gloriously beautiful. Also camera batteries passing out. Also astonishing growth from the plants in the recent night rain. Also a voice in me that says: receive. Breathe in. Receive. There is nothing to get, even as I ricochet, even as I list-make, even as I figure out, forage. There are bunnies, radishes, flowers. There is a woman in a robe drinking coffee, going back in the house for fresh cameras. ...
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.
Pretty Food and Electronic Geekery
You know, don't you, what it's like to want to eat pretty colors? This Fennel, Beet and Citrus Salad from BrooklynSupper.net is literally the prettiest food I've ever seen. No geekery there! Just pretty food -- Elizabeth Stark is a gifted photographer as well as a gifted cook. Pretty food has color to it. And color is a sign of nutrients. When a plant is grown in mineral-rich soil, it absorbs those nutrients, and is hardy ...
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
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 ...
A Primer on Nurturing Yourself | Apartment Therapy
Apartment Therapy has a nice little primer on nurturing yourself. It's stuff you know you want to do -- like eating healthy and doing some form of meditation -- with easy-as-pie ways to stitch them into the fabric of your days. Ways To Use Your Home To Manage Stress & Stay Healthy | Apartment Therapy.
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.
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."
Take Polaroids of Your TV Screen
Take Polaroids of your tv screen while Lucas dances, black eyes, black hair, black turtleneck, lanky Lucas, while he dances, no tripod, no vertical hold, no pause, just you leaning sweet into Lucas. Make 1,000 copies on photo glossy, staple gun each glossy to a telephone pole every mile from here to New York City. Arrive breathless. You may quibble, saying who is this Lucas, I don't know him? I'll say does it really matter, you ...

Take Polaroids of Your TV Screen

Take Polaroids of your tv screen while Lucas dances, black eyes, black hair, black turtleneck, lanky Lucas, while he dances, no tripod, no vertical hold, no pause, just you leaning sweet into Lucas. Make 1,000 copies on photo glossy, staple gun each glossy to a telephone pole every mile from here to New York City. Arrive breathless.

You may quibble, saying who is this Lucas, I don’t know him? I’ll say does it really matter, you know what I mean by black eyed boy, surely? The kind you slip into a diner with late, as you’re driving, and you’re covered with road? You’re stopping so you can see his hair in any kind of light but star? The kind of man takes you the long way? And you let him?

Photograph of Lucas in “Empire Records.” Prose poem by moi, written back in the days of Polaroids.

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Just Running Back

I made this with Wordle.net. You insert a batch of writing – your own, peut etre? And then Wordle magically creates these “beautiful word clouds.” Isn’t that divine?

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Airstreams are beautiful

Photograph by Ardean Miller

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.

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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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