December 2009
1 post
November 2009
11 posts
“what you put in you get out, what you give, you recieve. it is the same law for...”
– a forum post - unknown author
hug someone today
hugguru
this makes me want to go to an airport and sit and watch people hug
this makes me feel sorry for people who don’t have anyone to hug in their life
this makes me thankful for people who are good huggers
this makes me think about how incredibly lucky i am that whenever i want one…i can get one…and it’s the best kind of hug because i know there is love encircling...
“observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don’t claim them. Feel the...”
– rumi
read
lack of blogging = i’ve been reading up a storm lately…love it when i’m in this zone!
remember me? = i felt like a teenage girl reading it
the associate = very boring ending
still alice = really good
the alchemist = i’m just starting it….i’ve heard such good things it’s gotta be good
October 2009
43 posts
“i love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress,...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
today
as he kissed me goodbye this morning and headed off for his day away - we joked that today we’re getting a taste of real life. and ever since then i’ve been thinking about how lucky i am that life is what you make it + that i love the life we’re making together.
i want to keep making the choices that have brought us to this point together. i know that they are choices that will...
simple little things
leftover pizza for lunch - an empty dishwasher because my love unloaded it last night - taking a few extra minutes after a meeting to stop for a latte.
some days, it doesn’t take much :)
“La vita e bella; la vita e amore. Life is beautiful; life is love.”
– “Life Is Beautiful”
this day
it’s been a day of good eggs. fresh oj. cute puppy cuddles. long walk with friends. longer walk with my love. share your heart talking. green tea purchasing. pottery window shopping. book buying. hot chocolate sipping. free terra-cotta pots acquiring. chili prawn eating. dish washing. antarctica educating. candlelight bath relaxing. frozen gummy bear eating. cunucks win celebrating. coffee...
“if you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
– rumi
growth
i’ve met a new person lately. well, no, that’s not true, i’m just getting to know another little part of a person. so in a way that feels like meeting a new person. the thing is until this very moment i’ve found it easier to get frustrated with this person than to accept them. the other part of the person is so similar to me - it’s always been incredibly easy to spend time together. we jive. we’re...
“my head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. my heart is expanding a...”
– unknown (rumi?)
fears
they are something my love and i talk about often. we have for a long time. it was even in my vows to him on our wedding day. we’ve tried to help each other see where fear handicaps + paralyzes us + keeps us from being. that doesn’t mean that i’ve gotten very good at getting rid of that fear…but i’ve gotten better at recognizing when it pops up….and that has to...
“Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.”
– Karl A. Menninger
“we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
bal a nce
a visit last night with a friend had me thinking the rest of the night….maybe more on it later…i’m still kind of thinking about it right now in the back of my head.
i’ve had the quote above running through my head for a couple weeks. to me, it just seems like the perfect quote about balance. balancing our “unedited” true self - with who we want others to see -...
more to smile about
long weekends + short weeks make me smile. the fact that it’s already thursday evening makes me smile. spending extra moments with friends every day make me smile. the fact that for some reason i have this ‘holiday feeling’ every day lately makes me smile. reading a good book makes me smile. my love bringing home more candles makes me smile. the fact that there’s a pumkin...
“you simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously...”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
balancing thankfulness
canadian thanksgiving. it’s still kind of a new thing for me. i’m used to a holiday dedicated to thankfulness in november not october. and thus far, this canadian thanksgiving is pretty different than the one i used to know. it’s spent with 2 instead of 20. it’s spent quiet instead of busy. it’s spent slurping soup instead of stuffing turkey. the hard part was that it...
“don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along,...”
– A.A. Milne
another
this morning we had eggs, choo-it and coffee. we had it sitting sitting cross legged on pillows in front of our little fireplace. while we ate, we read, and while we read we had a chat about the idea of thinking with your mind vs thinking with your heart. i liked talking like that with my love. and it made me want to read my old college text books for some reason. afterwards my love quite happily...
“keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life”
– fourth proverb
