It's a bit of a quandary to say the least when you are forced to broach subjects you would wish never to have to imagine. It seems I am heading down that path myself. Tumultuous. That's the word. How about tiresome too. How about the desire to go and not look back. I know it's all normal. I also know it doesn't make it any easier to take ( Read more... )

I was going to say I was seeking inspiration. But I do believe, unless I am mistaken (which is always possible)  that the seeking of inspiration has been done before. Many many times. By many, many people ( Read more... )

"Now I keep believing, don't know if there's a reason
I search under the pillow for the crumbs in the willow
Cause they got me here, and I'm not sure how
But I'm somewhere different now"

~GirlyMan

I wish I could be one of those people. You know. Those people. But, I am not. I have to think that at this stage of my life, I have to be happy not being one of those people. And if I think on it enough. Sort of pry it apart into bits and pieces even.  Then perhaps I will see that I am one of those people. Just not when it concerns certain things. ( Read more... )

"Is there something in your life that you have mixed feelings about?

What would it be like if you invited them in, and got to know them a little bit? All of them?

(There might be more room within you than you know.)"

~from Soul Sleuthing

Springs teasing ways have taken hold. Around here at least. And I took full advantage of the teasers she set out and went for a bike ride yesterday afternoon. I have a route I enjoy, which usually takes me through an old Catholic cemetery. But, the gates were closed when I pedaled there. I guess I will have to wait until they go back to their ( Read more... )

"Finding and embracing that place where we are all
simply, fully human … embracing and walking into the
differences without judgment, but with a child’s sense
of observation and wonder instead. That’s what is dying
to be born."

~Patti Digh

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Recovering from a friends CD release party last night. I haven't even begun to walk through the pictures I took of the show. I have her CD in front of me, with a picture I took of one of her performances gracing the back cover ... it's the second CD I have had my pictures used for. Oh but I do put the free in free lance photography. But, if it ( Read more... )

Man need only divert his attention from searching for the solution to external questions and pose the one, true inner question of how he should lead his life, and all the external questions will be resolved in the best possible way. - Leo Tolstoy