I learn slowly, but I learn eventually.
The mind and body creates the essence.
The way you look at things determines your happiness.
It takes a while to become proficient in your own inner wisdom and even then, not entirely.
I affirm and intend on being positive but sometimes I fail miserably.
Happy Anniversary to the Love of My Life!
Love is snapping a picture of the sunrise so your beloved (who said she didn’t want to miss a sunset or a sunrise) can sleep in, on vacation.
Love is taking your wife to see her favorite band, first row, ninety miles away and making all the arrangements at a romantic location.
Love is patient, kind and thoughtful. Love is understanding and encouraging.
Love is wanting the best for the other, no matter what.
Love is loyal, trustworthy and respectful.
Love deepens and mellows with time.
I love Paradise Point, well, I hope I still do.
Bringing books, notebooks, prompts, fun reads, magazines, snacks, too many clothes and make-up, laptop, camera, i-pad, phone, fitbit and chargers. Taking incense, perfume, enough toiletries for three women and money. All should be well.
Just in case, they have a cute, darling everything store on the grounds and you can buy clothes, drugstore goods, food or any last minute items you forgot.
There is a coffee kiosk, pool, spa, mini golf, tennis, restaurants and acres of gorgeous trails with bridges, ducks, ponds and exotic foliage encircled by a bay.
When the chickadees were little and older actually, we would vacay there at least once a year or so.
Bonfires on the beach, s’mores and sea shell collecting are some of the highlights for me. The Barefoot Cafe, the seagulls and the lights at Christmas are probably the high spots for the kids.
I imagine the love of my life considers the down time, naps by the shore and the laid back atmosphere of just parking and never having to leave is his fundamental dream come true.
This time we are traveling and rooming with Cindi. Hopefully, our plans will pan out and she will be dog sat while we are applauding at the The Cure concert, tomorrow night. This will be our third time in the first row for this infamously crazy good moody music.
Love that cat. And how appropriate it is on Friday. I’m in love so don’t cry boys. This love song is just like heaven. I think we will be underneath the stars on a night like this and I will take pictures of you.
HOW many references can you spy? Tune into tomorrow for the answer.
What are you resisting instead of assisting?
I don’t care how old you are, you can do it but you may have to change your temperament and add discipline to your routine. Devour that in its entirety.
The goal is your purpose and mission of your life. According to Iyanla Vanzant, your goal is the WHAT of your life, the purpose is the WHY and your mission is the HOW.
So, what is your goal? Why this? How does it serve you and others?
Here is some inspiration.
Monarch Beach, Dana Point, CA
Sunday, May 15, 2016
At the Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Gardens in Pasadena, May 6, 2016
As I recounted yesterday, it is a known fact nowadays that sound has wave movements, called vibrations. We oscillate all the time. We send out thoughts, we feel certain energies.
Questions I still have (which just creates more pondering):
What makes the dominoes fall in a row so perfectly? What I mean is, how can every snowflake be different yet be a perfect geometric equation? How can petals on a flower be perfectly numbered and how can a seed know what to do and who it is?
I know it’s genetics and DNA and we are Oh, so smart, but who or what or how or better yet, why?
I fear I will never know and that’s why religious or spiritually minded people say you have to believe, sight and answer unseen, unknown, respectively.
In my humble opinion, true faith is knowing that God (Good Orderly Direction) or whatever you want to call it, exists. Some sort of order makes sense to me but I must be too minuscule to comprehend or it is right under my nose kinda thing.
I have let’s say, for the sake of argument, the brain of an amoeba ( and no offense or disrespect intended to amoebas) and in relation to this GOD, maybe it is so expansive it would blow my mind up!
I hope when we die, our soul finds out.
And here is another question, where do I go when I am off daydreaming or spacing out? Where am I when I am meditating in the Theta range?
In Theta, we are in a waking dream, vivid imagery flashes before the mind’s eye and we are receptive to information beyond our normal conscious awareness. – Toolsforwellness.com
I have faith there is some sort of Higher Order, perhaps a Multi Universal Entity, one or many mathematical equations or some such that resolves, creates and completes everything.
The natural earth cycle seems to be circle like, spiraling.
We are arrogant to think the sun, moon and stars are just for us. There is so much more out there and around everywhere we can’t even see, but I am telling you, it exists. We only see 2% of electromagnetic waves and that is limited to color.
Like Dr. Seuss’s, Horton Hears a Who, there is a whole world in a speck of dust. I know a whole world exists under our feet, in the dirt that most of us never think about. It took horticultural classes for me to realize the magnitude of living organisms that call soil their home.
We have observed and dissected plant parts, theorized their evolution and studied their reproduction but where did it all start from?
Now scientists are discovering and measuring vibrations and waves of sound from plants – what every tree hugger, indigenous tribe, poet, metaphysical creative and ancient seer understood intuitively is that nature has its own sound, its own movement and now they are proving it true for the people who made fun of these sensitive, sentient beings.
I begin to believe in my own way, the truth really was always in me.
Click your heels three times, Cecilia.
Why can’t I be addicted to exercise, housekeeping/management and eating only whole foods in moderate quantities?
Instead I am addicted to sugar, carbs, reading, lounging, Bravo and HGTV.
Well, at least I am a moderate when I cook, garden and write.
Rare coloring in sweet peas, from SLO Botanical Gardens heirloom seed collection. Fragrance abounds in our front yard!
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ~e.e. cummings
Cinderella has always been my favorite tale of rags to riches and how love, kindness and “fairy” help can transform you. I consider the “fairy” character an allegory, part spiritual and part serendipity, for the awakening of aspiration and possibility.
My Fair Lady is also a Cinderella story, a woman transformed essentially, by love.
I love to take something and make it different, my own, perhaps better or brighter. That’s why I love to paint furniture, knick knacks and color in my coloring books with pencils and markers. There is transformation and satisfaction in taking a page and filling in the lines with your color palettes of your mind. This is why I love to frequently move furniture around, to my husband’s chagrin. I suppose it is why I like to write and read as the words play and dance, confirming, validating and expressing action, emotion and truths.
When I lived in Farmingdale, NY, straight out of college, in a WWII upper apartment on Main St, I painted and stenciled the claw foot bath tub with orange and yellow flower clusters so it would match the old wallpaper I wasn’t allowed to remove. I distressed the high ceiling walls’ millwork. I painted an old vanity table, I still have today, to match an antique rose pitcher and basin I owned.
Maybe today is a great day for moving ourselves closer to the change we want to see.
Affirm: I intend I vibrate with the many subtle hues of the sunset and exude the powerful energy of the sunrise. – Cecilia
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain
“Live by the trinity of what is good, true and beautiful.” – Alexandra Stoddard
Alexandra Stoddard is an accomplished author, speaker, philosopher and designer. She has written just under thirty books on everything from decor to memoir to lessons learned and shared for all mothers and daughters.
I would love to meet this unbelievable person. I just recently finished her Gracious Living book. She can get a bit pedantic and sophistic but I get the sense that is who she is and it is authentically revealed and shown through her literary voice.
I absolutely feel I could connect with her on a personal level, I certainly do via the pages I read. I am not as refined or learned but I am also not as well heeled or traveled either.
Alexandra had an idyllic childhood in Connecticut and an esteemed mentor, the infamous Mrs. Brown of style and interior design who took her under her wing at a very young and impressionable age. Alexandra parlayed her experiences and teachings into her own NY based design firm with hard work, loving staff and passionate dedication in a time when young women were expected to marry, not create a start-up.
She was blessed with Peter, a husband who not only shared her aesthetics ( he was a NY attorney specializing in ethics and a journalist ) but uplifted her further, always questioning and presenting new perspective. Together they shared forty years of blended family bliss (he was married before with children and together they had two daughters) until his peaceful passing two years ago, at the age of 92. She still holds her joyful get togethers they started at their cottage in Stonington, CT on Positive Thinking and Happiness.
Women with great attitude and lives inspire. Here is a woman who did it all with aplomb and documented the whole thing and every step of the way. She lives a fully and balanced existence and has never sacrificed the wisdom of a cozy, warm and serene homestead for any of her worldly accomplishments.
When I read her, I cannot believe how energetic she is. Focused and dedicated with a confidence, zeal and strategy that would make any president or CEO, swoon with admiration.
“To be your most creative self, you need to accept the responsibility of carving out your own niche. Search and seize activities best suited to your unique abilities and aspirations.” – Sue Patton Thoele
Affirmation for today: “I have the power to reframe my reality.” and ” I am worthy ” – Cecilia
” I search for the sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in my heart.”
– Sarah ban Breathnach
I know that gratitude and silence are gateways to reverence and grace for me, in my life, on a daily basis. – cecilia
I seek silence today.
May 1, 2016, Newport Beach at sunrise.