dancing in yellow........

"whenever i wear yellow.......

i know why daffodils

dance........."

~ marjolein bastin

the daffodils around my cherry tree

have morphed into this new flower....

welcome...little one.....

the yin and the yang of life......

dark...light

strong...weak

sky...earth

water...land

the secret is balance

providence and destiny....

"we plan our lives according to a dream that came

to us in our childhood...and we find that life alters

our plans. and yet...at the end...from a rare height...

we also see that our dream was our fate. its just that

providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.

destiny plans a different route...or turns the dream around...

as if it were a riddle...and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't

have expected.

~ ben okri

stretching your soul

"your life is a sacred journey....

and it is about change...

growth...

discovery... movement... transformation...

continuously expanding your vision of what is possible...

stretching your soul...

learning to see clearly and deeply...

listening to your intuition...

taking courageous challenges at every step along the way.

you are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now...

and from here... you can only go forward...

shaping your life story

into a magnificent tale of triumph...

of healing ...

of courage...

of beauty...

of wisdom...

of power...

of dignity...

.....and of love."

~caroline adams

live your life in the manner of those

whose stories are told around campfires

by the teller of tales.......

.......rocks remember

"geologists have a saying.........rocks remember."

~neil armstrong

do you feel it?

the energy of the rocks.....

wouldn't you love to hear their story....

they whispered to me today......

"namaste: your spirit and my spirit

are one......"

....the highest fence

"fear is the highest fence."
~ dudley nichols

fear of failure

fear of success

fear of change

fear of stagnation

why do we fence ourselves off from the things we want?

my soul is from elsewhere....

"each has his past shut in him

like the leaves of a book

known to him by heart

and his friends can only

read the title."

~ virginia woolf

fragments gathered off the floor.....

mismatched pieces

glued….stapled….sewn

from fragments gathered off the floor

gently wrapped in thorns

by pierced…bleeding ….hands

to the sound of a closing door

faintly beating… with a limp

these fragile…. patched…. parts

safe within its shielding crown

………….my heart

the healing hands of nature.......

"if there is magic on this planet..........

it is contained in water."

~ loran eisely

i visit this place when i need

the healing hands of nature

the word "spiritual"

lays on my

tongue

the kindness of back roads.....

"the everyday kindness of the back roads more than

makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."

~ charles kuralt

reaching out........

"a true friend is someone who reaches for your hand

and touches your heart........."

~ unk

this statue reached out to me today.....

it now graces my garden

dreaming of spring.......

"a garden that never died eventually would weary.

robbed of springtime... unacquainted with the extraordinary

perfume that rises from the soil after it's had it's rest...

the garden that winter doesn't visit is a dull place.

the return every spring of earth's first freshness

would never be kept if not for the frosts and rot

and ripe deaths of fall. so when i go out from the

garden for the last time in autumn....

i leave the gate open behind me."

~ michael pollan

looking forward to saying goodbye to

my winter garden....

and dreaming

of spring......