van morrison is singing in my studio......

do you have a room in your house that ''centers" you? my studio does that for me. i frequently come here to just sit quietly...to just...be....

today was the first day i've actually worked in my studio in a long...long while.....and i must say....it felt good....

i'm working on a necklace ......

......for me...... a welcome home present.........

an attachment to sweetness

“the honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees…they do not plead with the bees to come. since they have tasted the sweetness…they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. they come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So…too…is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes…”

~ sri sathya sai baba

...a cosmic dance

"when we are alone on a starlit night... when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat...when we see children in a moment when they are really children... when we know love in our own hearts... or when... like the japanese poet... Basho... we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash ... at such times the awakening... the turning inside out of all values... the "newness"... the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident... all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance."

~Thomas Merton

....on this overcast spring saturday

i glimpsed my own "cosmic dance".....

....powerful beyond measure

"our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

it is our light... not our darkness... that most frightens us.

we ask ourselves... who am i to be brilliant... gorgeous... talented and fabulous?

actually... who are you not to be?

you are a child of God.

your playing small doesn't serve the world.

we were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

it's not just in some of us... it's in everyone.

and as we let our own light shine...

we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

as we are liberated from our own fear...

our presence automatically liberates others."

~Marianne Williamson

.................awesome!

i love not man less....but nature more

"there is pleasure in the pathless woods

there is rapture in the lonely shore

there is society where none intrudes

by the deep sea and music in its roar

i love not man the less

but nature more."

~ lord byron

....our hearts say we're friends.......

"our roots say we're sisters....our hearts say we're friends..."

~ unk

purple in my heart......

this spot of jackmanii in my yard gladdens my heart..........

there is a purple finch who has her nest here beneath the purple flowers...

i love that.........

happy mother's day mom

"my mom is a never ending song in my heart

of comfort, happiness, and being. i may sometimes

forget the words....but i always remember the tune."

~graycie harmon

happy mother's day mom

sending you hugs and kisses on the wind....

....like riding a bicycle

"life is like riding a bicycle...

in order to keep your balance...

you must keep moving."

~albert einstein

my apologies

i know i've been mia...

but...now...i think i'm ready

to climb back on life's bicycle

and keep moving...

they say...

once you learn to ride a bike

you never forget...

hoping it the same

with life...