Odd :)

"There is a great insight which our culture is deliberately designed to
suppress, distort, and ignore: that Nature is a minded entity; that Nature
is not simply the random flight of atoms through electro-magnetic fields;
that Nature is not the empty, despiritualized lumpen matter that we
inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind
of mind."
- Terence McKenna

One Love!!!

Wisdom

I loved the wisdom below...and hope you do too.
My friend, Anna sent it to Mark today.
We got some very generous gifts today from "Santa."
Thank you soooooo sooooo much Santa.
I do believe in Santa Claus.
Enjoy below.
Namaste,
Michele






This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!!

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.


My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and
parents will. Stay in touch..

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey
is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God
never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is
up to you and no one else

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for
an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.. Don't
save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26... Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will
this matter?'

27. Always choose life..

28. Forgive everyone for everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles..

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did
or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life.. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40.. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd
grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come....

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Merry Christmas.....our e-card :)

Mark, Michele, Mira, Macy, Marko and Mervin


We are doing e-mail cards this year.

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!


This end of the year has been a very stressful time.
I have learned to trust the universe from our mysterious friends
that left us numerous gifts just at the time I was ready to give up.

Below is my favorite Christmas quote!!!!!

Namaste,

Michele





“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,

stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons.
It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.

And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.

What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.

What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”


-Dr. Suess

The Art of the Possible

above is a picture of Mira and her friends that I really liked.


This afternoon Mark, Mira, Macy, my mom and I went to see the documentary "The Art of the Possible" at the Medina Performing Arts Center.

It was a beautiful documentary following five families through a diagnosis of pediatric cancer. It features Logan Boyd, a Medina High School student who battled cancer over 3 years and recently passed March 09.

Life is a gift.....isn't it????? I need to appreciate it more and fear less :)

Logan was a guy that learned to live life "with reckless abandon" as his doctor put it. He said if he had his life to live over again, he would still not change his cancer diagnosis because of how it changed him. He talked about becoming closer with his parents and having a greater appreciation for them. Towards the end, he was having a hard time letting go and kept asking everyone in the hospital to please take care of his mom. His mom was able to tell him it was okay to go and she would be okay and she would take care of his father and his potbellied pig :)

click on the link below and also hope you like the quote!!
Namaste,
Michele

"This is a perfect moment to take everything less seriously and less personally and less literally." -*PRONOIA*


http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com/2009/12/08/logan-boyd%e2%80%99s-legacy-lives/

My Stroke of Insight

I am reading a book called My Stroke of Insight right now. My friend Shirley gave it to me to read. Below is a short news segment on her....very cool!!!
Namaste,
Michele

Macy's Eclectic Wisdoms

This picture makes me smile......it is Macy being Macy. :)

Below are 10 Eclectic Wisdoms that Macy said I could share on here :)

Macy's Eclectic Wisdoms

1. Your younger sibling will always get his/her way.

2. Drama is never worth it.

3. When you have 100 reasons to cry, think of 1,000 reasons to smile.

4. Always make sure that there is a way out of a corn maze before entering!

5. It is not a good idea to honk your horn at a skunk.

6. If your friend turns his or her back on you then they weren't really your friend.

7. Enjoy being young while you can.

8. Make sure the iron is off before putting your hand on it.

9. Listen to your doctor or chiropractor.

10. Everything happens for a reason.

Pink Glove Dance

My friend Rick told me about this........it is awesome........in honor of breast cancer awareness.
I hope you enjoy it.
Namaste,
Michele

Life is a mystery

Above is a picture of us with Santa. We took that picture on vacation last summer. That is where Santa goes in the summer.

Today I have a smile on my face....and am realizing how good life is.
I was thinking about Saturday.
Mark took the kids to the mall on Saturday because our anonymous friends gave the kids gift cards to the mall.
They used them to buy gifts for their siblings and Mark. They were so excited to tell me what they bought each other in private.
Then, when I got home from work, we ate at Applebees because our friends left us Applebees gift certificates!!!

That is one of our favorite places to go as a family and we had not been out to eat since the first weekend in October related to finances.
We seemed to appreciate it all the more.

I hope you like the quote below from a Mary Oliver poem!!!
Namaste,
Michele

Take care you don’t know anything in this world too quickly or easily. Everything is also a mystery,
and has its own secret aura in the moonlight,
its private song.

-Mary Oliver

Love

Letting Go

We had another beautiful gift show up on our doorstep on Thanksgiving night. It was a pair of tie dye socks....each containing tons of gift cards. One with notes to the kids and one with notes to Mark and I.
It is so weird because it came at an exact moment when I was filled with self-pity and had been over focusing on the past. (the past meaning: a recent mean note that my aunt Nola had written me stating that she did not know who the real Michele was and did not know how I could post spiritual things on my blog... blahh...blahhh...blahhhh.)
Well that gift shot me out of my self-pity and my focusing on the past and how what one person can say to you in all of 5 minutes can ruin so many things in your life if you choose to let it.
so here I just wanted to thank our anonymous friends and let you know that your gift has pulled me back in to present time and I have a heart of gratitude. My promise is to keep this flowing out in the universe!!!!!
and I promise to not let small things bother me anymore.

I have been so blessed with so much support and I need to start living it.
I hope you enjoy the quotes below from Caroline Myss....this situation has reminded me of all of her work.
Namaste,
Michele

Below are wonderful quotes from Myss!!!!

' Unplug from the BS and let go of the steering wheel.'

'Never go to bed with a grudge inside you or beside you.'

‘ Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.’

Get bored with your past, it's over!

' Sacred Truth #1: All is one.'

' Sacred Truth #2: Honor one another.'

' Sacred Truth #3: Honor oneself.'

' Sacred Truth #4: Love is divine power.'

' Sacred Truth #5: Surrender personal will to divine will.'

' Sacred Truth #6: Seek only the truth.'

' Sacred Truth #7: Live in the present moment.'

' Release the need to know why things happen the way they do.'

' Change is constant. Learn to go with its flow, whether it's peaceful or difficult.'

' Never look to another person to make you happy--happiness is an internal, personal attitude and responsibility.'

' Life is essentially a learning experience. Every situation, challenge and relationship contains some message worth learning or teaching to others.'

' There are no coincidences.'

' Nothing empowers our ability to heal as much as our love and forgiveness.'

' The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.'

' Healing is a present-time experience. Don't look backwards or forward, focus only on the present.'

' Spiritual teachings encourage us to grow past and through painful experiences, each of which is a spiritual lesson.'

'I am forgiving not for you, but for me. I am forgiving because I want my power back.'

'Change can be terrifying, yet healing requires change.'

'Get over it.'

‘To the extent that we forgive others, we are forgiven ourselves.’

My job is to let this world transform me.

Law of the gods: get bitter or better.

A forgiving heart is an honest heart.

Blame is a form of energetic cancer.

Most empowered position is to have my energy in present time.

If a job were a life purpose, people without jobs would have no life purpose.

Perception

Retreat

We had such a nice time at the Conders on Saturday night.

We got out all kind of drums and other instruments...like Steve's wooden flutes and had a drum circle with the kids.

It was a nice retreat for me because I have been so stressed lately with all of the financial things going on........I am so thankful for the wonderful and unconditional friendships we have.......they give me hope to keep on growing.

Thank you Leslie and Steve!!!!

I hope you like the words below.
Namaste,

Michele


"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming
of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad
belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to
cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power
God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make
that Best a part of my life . . . No pessimist ever discovered the secret of
the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the
human spirit."

-Helen Keller

Surrender

Well, Macy's vision board worked. She is the one that wanted to do the vision boards and said she was going to put cats all over it....so she could manifest one. I told her to put as many cats on her board as she wanted, but she was not going to get one.

Then last Monday night, I was walking in the park (without my ipod) and I hear this "Meow." It turned out that it was a kitty stuck in a tree.....a very skinny and hungry kitty. I called Mark and Mira and they came down with a ladder. When I went to pick up Macy from dance, I told her what had happened and that the kitty was just staying with us until we found a home. She went tearing into the house and said " I can't wait to meet my new kitty."

Well, Jessie is still here and we are getting more and more attached to him....even Dusty seems to like him.

I hope you like the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele

"Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. You've been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender."
-Rumi