I have seen things

In your arms

Every river that you try to cross

Some clear joy is coming

I choose  happiness today

I will breathe again

Today I took a day for me.  Sage will cleanse my space and I am going to heal the heart chakra.

I am hitting the reset button on my life. This means there will be a plethora of days I will take for myself in the future, because I am worth the time and worth the peace.
 

to someone careless...

Climbed up on a hilltop baby, see what I could see.

I heard this while driving in the mountains of New Mexico... so fitting at the moment.

"Pull myself together, put on a new face yeah,
Climb down off the hilltop baby,
Gonna get back in the race.
Cause I got dreams, I got my dreams
To remember, 

And I shall leave, like a thief in the night
to get
on a
Jet Plane.

no title needed

Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt weakened in a broth.
What you held in your hand,
What you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before your learn the tender gravity of kindness
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.


Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
Like a shadow or a friend.

Lost in the Light

All the hard things we gotta do...

We'll make 'em turn their heads every place we go.

Listening to the rain...

Shimmering on the ends of my memories

I had to repost this gem. 



I've been seeing you
In this house of mine
Got your arms away
From my strange disguise
All the things that you believe
Are still in me
As though you please

And they shimmer
On the ends of my memories
I could feel your ghost
In the breeze

I'm telling you this
So you won't have anything
But this to know
Our colours fade
All this remains

And they shimmer
On the ends of my memories
I could feel your ghost
In the breeze

It's not so much
That you should say
You had a love
Turn out this way
It covers your ears
And stops your heart
And holds you near

The shimmer
On the ends of my memories
I could feel your ghost
In the breeze

New Moon Solar Eclipse May 9

Time for this girl to turn the page!

 

This is an excerpt from 

www.mysticmamma.com/new-moon-solar-eclipse-in-taurus-may-9th-10th-2013/ 

After an intense two weeks of deep awareness and letting go of old patterns since the last Full Moon/ Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio,  we arrive at this Solar Eclipse and powerful New Moon in Taurus, ready to shed it off and begin again!  We have gathered deep insight and now strengthened from our experience, we can ground  down and take time to seed our intentions and let out our soul call!  Here are the Astral Insights for this cosmic window opening for us…

First from the wonderful Cathy Pagano and her Wisdom of Astrology:

“Eclipses mark times of cosmic redirection and energy shifts…Something we’ve imagined and dreamed about begins to manifest at a solar eclipse.”

“This Taurus solar eclipse on May 9-10^th marks a new beginning, an especially fertile new beginning as it takes place in the astrological sign of manifestation.  Taurus is the most earthy of earth signs, marking a season of fertility and growth, of beauty and sensuality.   It is the energy of building and making, of new possibilities and passions. “

“Solar eclipses mark the end of a 19-year cycle relating to the activities relevant to each astrological sign.  A Taurus solar eclipse brings up issues of self-worth and values.  Since this eclipse is near the South Node of the Moon, we might have to examine old value systems that no longer serve our lives.  Do you honor the talents you have? Do you know what values stand at the center of your life?  Take time to dig deep in the soils of Taurus and weed out any old negative behavior patterns entrenched there.  Prepare the soil for new growth.”

“When we know our own worth, we can also access to the archetypal realm of Beauty, Desire and Fertility which is ruled by Venus/Aphrodite.   Know what you value in this precious life we have, because why build something you don’t value?  …Plant the seed of that new desire during this potent New Moon.”

“Venus/Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, Beauty, Wisdom, Sexuality and Wholeness rules Taurus.  Just hours before the solar eclipse, Venus leaves her home in Taurus and moves into Gemini, the sign of the Mind….”

“What beliefs about your feminine Self need to die so that a new vision of Feminine Spirit can arise and live through you?”

“…It can be a time of healing, when you realize that your loneliness and isolation was an incubation, a time of preparation.  Be willing to ‘lose your familiar self for the promise of a greater, more encompassing reality’ where you can use your feminine gifts to change the world.”

“Transmutation occurs from the inside out.  Let the light of your inner feminine Being shine into the world in conscious and conscientious ways.  ’Transmutation forces us to serve who we are becoming, beyond who we’ve been: ‘trans (beyond) mutate (change)’. Become intimate with yourself, so that you can be intimate with others.”

“This Venus-ruled solar eclipse asks us to look to the future: ‘personal power results from mastering the illusion of our fear through open-heartedness.’  When we open to our original blessings, we discover that the feminine values of Love, Wisdom and Beauty can help us through the darkest times.  Stop doing for a while and let your being shine through.”

The wind in my back

That's how I play

I'm going to New York City!

Happy Birthday to me. 

It's just an hour or two by airplane

saw this performed live.

sweeeet





This town surrounds another town we live beside
The highway exit change at random and the road divides
If you lose your way just ask a stranger they'll let you know
There's no way back to that house you knew so long ago

It has to go right this time.
It has to go right this time.
It has to go right this time.
It's got to go right .

A voice mail I received once

I've felt the coldness of my winter
I never thought it would ever go. I cursed the gloom that set upon us...
But I know that I love you so

A man from Birmingham

"I love all of you, each and every one of ya, to my death, but I swear you've all gone fucking mad!"
-Ozzy Osbourne

(he wanted to be a Beatle. Yeah, and I love him.)

Never again is a mighty long time

So beautiful. If you watch anything at all today. Watch this.

Artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s. When they felt the relationship was ending, they walked the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and then parting to not not see each other again.

At her 2010 Museum of Modern Art show, Marina shares a minute of silence with each stranger who sits in front of her. 

Ulay arrived without her knowing and this is what happened.

Watch: http://zengarage.com.au/2013/03/marina-abramovic-and-ulay/

Will you still be around?

Baby says she's dyin to meet you

...a howl of romance I'll get 

I have to post this cuz I dig the tune and I'm diggin the lyrics

Pedal to the Metal

I'm gettin' out of dodge. I'm heading for the border -- yeah, I'm headed out, far away from Assclown City limits. I'm going to keep on driving.

What will I find on my road trip? 

Readers: Send me your thoughts.

Will it ever happen again?

The Kiss

The following is a poem I wrote when I was in college at the tender age of 19. I have recently revised it as the romantic in me felt like giving it a refresher.

It was written to be read out loud

The Kiss

It stays with me,

the night we escaped
crowds and noise
that wouldn't leave

us

finally alone after
years of glances,

you felt it too
a perceptive yen

we

pretended we didn't
and knowing we shouldn't
you said you dreamt it

on a night like this

me

riding in your car,

you smiled without
meeting my eyes,
deeply aware of

me with you,

stealing away

high above the city

to a hidden place

a dream catcher find

us

in rooftop tryst

the night’s embrace

like a quiet blanket

only the foghorn knew

our presence

for only this occasion,

one pivotal point
a chance to be
and so you kissed

me

decades beyond it

fateful and true

the foghorn reminds

of rooftops and

you

 

Mourning, thoughts, and prayers

No words can describe the gravity of my emotions in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school tragedy.

Once upon a time, revisited

Once upon a time

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing
It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing

Roxy Music circa 1982

Bavarian Fruit Bread - Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions

Some days are better than others.
Some days I wonder why I even arose
It's a misty morning, and I am without compass or trustworthy friend.

But at the end of the day
I find my way home
And you wrap your love around me 

I am in your circle of light
And all that matters is you.
A bad day is forgotten.



Besos,

my Little Lovely Girl

Pema Chödrön, my new spiritual teacher

“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs down and holds on to the vines. Looking down, she sees that there are tigers below her as well. She then notices that a mouse is gnawing away at the vine to which she is clinging. She also sees a beautiful little bunch of strawberries close to her, growing out of a clump of grass. She looks up and she looks down. She looks at the mouse. Then she just takes a strawberry, puts it in her mouth, and enjoys it thoroughly. Tigers above, tigers below. This is actually the predicament that we are always in, in terms of our birth and death. Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we’ll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.” ― Pema Chödrön

The connection is real with someone new