Peace

Goofy Girls!!!


"It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common
knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his
enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two
more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all
the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all."
-- Dalai Lama

Peace

In my next life, I am coming back as a cat!!!!


If we want world peace, we must let go of our attachments and truly live like nomads. That's where I no mad at you and you no mad at me. That way there will surely be nomadness on the planet. Peace begins with each of us. A little peace here, a little peace there. Pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere. -Swami Beyondananda

Life

Macy made the coolest collage last night!!!! and NO! We don't own the game, COD!!!


Life is a gift...if you don't value your gift, nobody else will!!

One Day

Rich Doyle (my friend from highschool) wrote this poem.....and I am pretty sure that these are my friend, Matt Platz's photos.
Very Beautiful and made me smile.


Rich is also a watercolor artist. He has done so many beautiful pictures of various scenes in ohio such as Medina, Ohio State, Ashtabula, Sharon Center.....below is his website:
http://doylearts.com/

Matt is a photographer and takes beautiful pictures in nature!!!!
Here is Matt's Website:
http://mplatz.zenfolio.com/

Do you want to go for a ride?????

Today is Dusty's 7th Birthday!!! We just sang to him and gave him Turkey Stuffing as a treat. He did not like the singing.....he just kept woofing for the treat.
Namaste,
Michele


You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you...............

Fly!!!

Set Yourself Free!

Bitty Kitty likes our tree!!!


It ain't no mystery,
you know the words
to set you free
There for all the world to see
When you got it on your side
There's no reason left to hide
You've got to give it to receive

Al Green

Kindness

On Beauty in the world

Be miserable or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. If we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives. When You Change the Way You Look at Things the Things You Look at Change!"

Dr. Wayne Dyer

Thanks!~!!

We got to make our annual beer tonight.
There is sooooooo much beauty in the world....please don't let it go.
Find it and give thanks to the universe for getting to notice it!!!!
The universe is unfolding just as it should!!!!
Namaste,
Michele

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. ~unknown

I know that I used it before.....and here is another favorite.....
‎"This is a perfect moment to take everything less seriously and less personally and less literally." -*PRONOIA*

On Beauty

a view from Cincinnati's riverfront


You may live or work around a bunch of weeds,
but don’t let that stop you from blooming.
Realize that your environment
does not prevent you from being happy.
...Some people spend all their time
trying to pull up all the weeds.
Meanwhile, they miss much of their lives.
Don’t worry about things you can’t change.
You can’t change the traffic in the morning.
You can’t fix everybody at work..
But you shouldn’t let that
keep you from being happy.
Bloom anyway and focus on
the things that you can change.
You can change your own attitude.
You can choose to be happy right where you are.


Joel Osteen

How do you greet the day???

These are drawings that I made on the WALL of our old psychiatric unit. I loved coloring on the walls!!! That was before we moved off of the main campus. There are some things that I miss about our old unit.....mostly certain people.....some of which I will never see again....sigh.
Sometimes I wish I could treat everyone as though I will never see them again.
I would be a lot happier to see them and probably go out of my way to be kinder.
I guess that is how we should greet everyone!!!!
Anyway, I hope enjoy the words below!!!
Namaste,
Michele

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a
different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter
of paying attention to this miracle.
- Paulo Coelho

Strength

Macy just got back from her class trip to Washington DC....I think eating at Medievil times was her favorite. She and Emily bought lightsabers.
Namaste,
Michele



This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- Swami Vivekananda

Faith

On Having a Grateful Day!!!

Mark and I went on the Further tour in Cincinnati on Sunday!!!
What a fun time!!!
Namaste,
Michele

Thousands of things go right for you every single day, beginning the
moment you wake up. Through some magic you don't fully understand,
you're still breathing and your heart is beating, even though you've been
unconscious for many hours. -Rob Brezny

Um Yeah.

Helen is going to get it for posting this picture from 1985.!!!!
Who wears short shorts?????
Namaste,
Michele


Forgive me my nonsense
as I forgive the nonsense of those
who think they talk sense.
-Robert Frost

Letting Go

I was thinking about my old friend Reed today. He is pictured above from a picture that my friend recently posted on facebook. I met Reed when I was 16 and working at McDonalds. He would come in and eat all alone and so I adopted him....and he adopted me and my friends. I think this was a picture during winter break from college my sophomore year.
I hope you enjoy the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele


There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.” – Unknown

Where is Spirit??????

Above is a picture of our back porch......a place of peace for me.
I hope you enjoy Ken Wilbur's essay below. :)
Namaste,
Michele


"Where is Spirit located?"

Here's a simple thought experiment. Picture the following men (or make them women if you like), and then tell me which you think are probably the
most spiritual?

1. A man in an Armani suit.
2. A man driving a red Ferrari.
3. A man pitching baseball in the major leagues.
4. A professional comedian.
5. A mathematician.
6. A man in a tank top lifting weights.
7. An Olympic swimmer.
8. A college professor.
9. A model.
10. A sexual surrogate.

Which do you think is the most spiritual? Which do you think is the least spiritual?

It's funny, isn't it, the things we think are not spiritual? Why do we picture most of these people as not being very spiritual? Or conversely, why do we
have such a hard time seeing them as being spiritual? Aren't we actually just giving our own prejudices about where we think spirit is or is not to be
found?

Or worse: aren't we really just announcing how old and fragmented and NOT INTEGRAL our ideas about spirit are? Why is telling jokes not spiritual?
Why is something beautiful – a car, a suit – not spiritual? Why is physical excellence not spiritual? Why is sex not spiritual? Why is…

It's a new world, it's a new spirituality, it's a new time, it's a new man, it's a new woman. All of the above categories are deeply spiritual. Mostly all
that list is, is a list of things we are afraid to allow spirituality to touch.

Dead from the neck down, with no humor, no sex, no aesthetic sensibility whatsoever, wasting away, spending one's days and nights ignoring the
world and lost in prayer…what a strange God that is.

on just being

Meow!

In honor of having our cat Jessie for almost a year, I will post this. :)
He is such an affectionate kitty!!!
This picture is hanging in Bud's studio (our guitar teacher.)
I hope you enjoy the quote below!!!
Namaste,
Michele



“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.” ~ Martin Delany

Amazing video....I own it :)

wow!!!!

Our friend, Steve just bought a teepee.
Isn't it cool?
He said he is getting a fire pit in the middle and we are invited over for a drum circle!!! Sounds like fun!!!
Hope you enjoy the words below!!!
Namaste,
Michele


“Before you speak,
think -Is it necessary?
Is it true?
Is it kind?
Will it hurt anyone?
Will it improve on the silence?”
-Sai Baba

true colors

Friendship

Today has been awesome so far.....got to have breakfast with my highschool friends.....then went to a book reading with them.
My friend Katie is in town for a book reading.......She wrote a memoir about finding her birthmother. She is pictured above with her birthmother.
I hope you enjoy the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele


Kate's book link

‎"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusio...n, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the [perceived] reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

Allowing

Mark's pumpkin doesn't feel very good.




Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world, Same world.

-Dr. Wayne Dyer

Love, Love, Love this