It is as if all the ends of your brain, nerve endings and senses are fired up when you liberate your mind.
Y5 – Day 110
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Y5 – Day 109 – Time
I remember growing up on the beaches of Long Island and time stopped as I idly played in the sun – the wet sand and glossy pebbles, hot between my toes. The shore lapping.
Time was still. Joy was mine.
The smell of sultry, humid heat peppered with salty seaweed baking on the beach. The warmth and taste of the briny water.
Seagulls squawking. Horseshoe crabs aground and dying on the shore. Fiddler crabs popping out of holes.
Wildlife scurrying amongst the brush on the dunes by the worn redwood fences. The grasses and reeds rustling. A summer breeze wafting through a corridor of beach below a cliff.
I wake up. I’m startled.
Time is just a blip – yet a continuum. But, only as long as it is held in your mind.
Y5 – Day 107 – Holy Friends
Our recent and long-term friendships keep us balanced, grounded and rejuvenated. Healthy relationships are holy alliances.
Y5 – Day 106 – small celebrations
It is heaven on earth to give and receive small celebrations, such as smiles, courtesies and embraces. They soothe and comfort us. It’s the tiny details, our loved ones’ voices that gladden and reassure.
Y5 – Day 105 – Reading
Imagination is lit and satisfies as we are lost in another’s space and time as readers.
READ today – anything- but hopefully something soul satisfying and healing.
Y5 – Day 103 – Happy New Year 2018!
Welcome 2018, welcome.
Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude.
Y5 – Day 102 – Selfies
Here are three SELFies:
1. Self – respect – it trains us to stay on our own path. It disciplines us to stay right-sized and in our own lane.
2. Self – care – it nurtures us into finding our purpose. It balances our decisions. We move towards our goals with passion.
3. Self – reflection – it reveals us to ourselves. Via quiet, intimate, meditative and solitary moments, we attain insight.
Ironically, these three selfies deepen our relationship with nature out of doors and the external universes.
Y5 – Day 101 – Winter
As we prepare our souls for winter, let us gather our spirits.
Wonders never cease to amaze when miracles abound.
Awakening to our true gifts – astound.
Y5 – Day 97 – Merry Christmas 2017
I haven’t been as enthused about much this year as the disintegration and demise of our democracy continues, slowly and surely- behind, around and right in front of our eyes and backs.
But, I have my Ayurveda classes or what I call, Yoga Plus, I have my daughter and her pirate, one black-eyed dog at home (both brighten my day) and my yoginis who inspire and reward me by attending my home studio. Of course, my husband, my other chickadees, Cindi, my few but tried and true friends, galpals and escaping up to the treehouse are also a goddessend.
Nonetheless, I miss my daily writing. I journal but cannot publicly post half the stuff that I feel in my bones about this administration and the fears that plague me. I have tried meditation, herbal remedies, distraction, eating, and mindlessness – but to no avail. The only true yet difficult solution for me is to get back to my practice and structure of penning the pain and disappointments, as well as the good and joyous moments, and returning back to gratitude as a perspective.
“Wake me up when the nightmare is over.” is no longer an option. I need to trudge through this like every other awful time. I must learn to thrive, not just survive. Otherwise, I become a shell of myself.
Write on. Love is hope. Hope is survival. Write your truth. Write your story. Write about the love, hope and your soul’s survival during this dark abyss. You will get to the other side of the moonless night because this too shall pass. Thankfully, expression through your art form, whatever it may be, can liberate your voice and make sense of the idiocracy that abounded in 2017.
Do it before it is outlawed.
Y5 – Day 96 – A New Day
And so, the detox begins, the movement starts and the mind disciplines the body.