wild and untamed

Mira and her friends on the right side of the tracks???


"God is like a tsunami. We just never know what we're going to experience. We've turned Christianity into a dull, dry system, and it's as though we feel we have God in our pocket, sort of at our beck and call, and we can kind of pull him out as our little pet.
God isn’t like that.
God is wild.
God is definitely untamed."
- Tessa Bielecki

I am grateful to be alive!!

spreading the light

Our friend Logan Robertson took this picture when we were on vacation at Sunset Beach.
He gave me permission to post it here.
Isn't it beautiful???? He has a gift!!
Hope you like the quote below!!!
Namaste,
Michele

There are two ways of spreading the light:
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-Edith Wharton

Surrender

My dad took Macy to the Indian's game last night and she got to meet mustard.
They stayed after the game to get autographs from players.
hope you like the words below.
Namaste,
Michele



The door to the Divine Presence opens
when you no longer need to make reality fit your pictures of how it should be,
when you can surrender everything you think you know
and come to each moment empty of expectations.
When you are able to surrender in this way,
you realize that God is not some abstraction, but a living presence in your life.
It is the breath that animates all forms,
the ultimate inclusive understanding,
the quintessential blessing of love on all things.
-Paul Ferrini

Relationships

artwork and picture by Mira :)

Relationships are assignments.

They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment,

the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led

to greater awareness and expanded love.

Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which

He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time,

and then assigns them to each other.

Like a giant computer, He knows exactly what combination of energies,

in exactly what context, would do the most to further God's plan for salvation.

No meetings are accidental.

-Marianne Williamson

Letting Go

This a picture by one of my favorite people, Todd Parr. He makes me smile.

I think I am learning to let go :) love, Michele

"We must give up our will, give up control, and release our expectations about a specific result. This is where the going starts to get tough. We want what we want, and usually we want it yesterday. We need to open ourselves up to the possibility that we don't always know what's best for us." ~Kathy Cordova

LOVE

Admit something:

Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."

Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise

someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye

that is always saying, with that sweet moon language,

what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?

- Hafiz

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Sing!!!

This is a picture of my boyfriend, Bobby Weir. He is coming to see me in Columbus on July 5th and bringing his band RatDog. :)
hope you like the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele

"Dream of the sun dreaming its worlds.
Sing till the song throws out root, 
trunk, branches, birds, stars.
Sing until the dream engenders the spring at 
which you may drink and recognize yourself and recover."


-Octavio Paz

The Unknown

“It is this belief in a power larger than myself
and other than myself which allows me
to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.”
~Maya Angelou

Intention

Mira and Marko's guitar lessons are a respite for me.
I hope you like the quote below.....we are connected!!!
Namaste,
Michele


Our natural state of being is in relationship,
a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other.
Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space
and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other
... By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to
extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.
~ Lynne McTaggart
Quotes from The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

Happy Father's Day

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." ~Irish Proverb

letting it flow

How can a man's life keep its course
If he will not let it flow?
Those who flow as life flows know
They need no other force:
They feel no wear, they feel no wear,
They need no mending, no repair.

- Lao Tzu, translated by Witter Bynner

truth

I took this picture on Sunday in Berea. I love the metroparks.

hope you like the quote below.

Namaste,

Michele

Out in the desert of ten thousand distractions,

these ten words can be the path to get you back home:
"Stay the most true to what is the most you".

-Laura Teresa Marquez

empowerment

"Out of a shattered heart emerges a fiery fountain of sacred passion that never runs dry." --Rumi

who??????

One day, out of nowhere, you realize you don't know who you are, and none of the cards in your wallet provide the slightest clue to your real identity."
-Sam Keen

Art

Here is a picture of the puzzle we put together on vacation and then my attempt to draw it one evening. I think I would like to take some drawing lessons this summer and then maybe my tire won't look like it is falling off of the car. :)
have a great day and enjoy the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." -VanGogh

Blessings

My friend Traci took this picture.....the second trip to Sunset Beach was even more beautiful than the one 4 years earlier. hope you like the words below.
love,
Michele

Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings
of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed
to you personally.  Expect omens, epiphanies, casual
blessings, and teachers who unknowingly speak to your
condition.
~  Sam Keen, Hymns to an Unknown God

Playfulness

The pursuit of truth and
beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to
remain children all of our lives.
-Albert Einstein

Grace

This is a picture taken by Logan Robertson....it is a picture of his parents walking on Sunset Beach on Thursday. They did not know he was on the pier taking this picture.
Isn't it beautiful???????
hope you like the words below.
Namaste,
Michele

"He who learns must suffer.
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls,
drop by drop, upon the heart, and in our own despair,
against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
-Aeschylus

Some things just crack me up

love

Macy, Andie and Tiki-Tiki

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me. -Ram Dass

Freedom

Well we are almost done with our vacation.
Sunset Beach has to be one of the best kept secrets around.
Have a great day and enjoy the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele


If you want to be fee, you must have the courage to be yourself
even when others judge you or disagree with you.
and you must respect the right of others to be true to themselves,
even when they push your buttons.
You can't be free if you are allowing someone else to
be an authority for you.
or if you are trying to be an authority figure for someone else.

-Paul Ferrini

Leap of Faith :)

Peace

Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?

-A Course in Miracles

beauty

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

faith

What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens,
all events, past, present, and to come,
are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?
-A Course in Miracles

peace, love and :)

I love this poem....sometimes I see this world beyond....and sometimes I am in my ego and can't. Today I can. :)
have a beautiful day.
Namaste,
Michele


The Privileged Lovers
by Rumi
The moon has become a dancer at this festival of love.
This dance of light, This sacred blessing,
This divine love, beckons us to a world
beyond only lovers can see with their eyes of fiery passion.
They are the chosen ones who have surrendered.
Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun.
They have left behind the world of deceitful games.
They are the privileged lovers
who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.
From: Love Poems of Rumi - Deepak ChopraTranslated by: Fereydoun Kia Edited: Dr Deepak Chopra

Life

”On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” -Jules Renard

AAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

The Ocean is a beautiful place to recharge your soul.
Have a great day!!
love,
Michele




Seek out that particular mental attribute
which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive,
along with which comes the inner voice which says, '
This is the real me,'
and when you have found that attitude,
follow it.
--William James

I love the beach!!!!

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. --Ben Okri

Ahhhhhhhhh

Yesterday was the first day of summer break.
Marko had a cook out and homework burning party.
ahhhhhh little boy energy is so different from little girl energy.....
but oh so beautiful.
hope you like the words below.
Namaste,
Michele



Naming something as bad
causes an emotional contraction within you.
When you let it be, without naming it,
enormous power is suddenly available to you.
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks