More Camping

Appreciate everything and everyone. Look upon every experience you've ever had, and everyone who's ever played any role in your life, as having been sent to you for your benefit. In this universe, which was created by a divine, organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents. - Wayne Dyer

Guitars and Camping (Macy and Emily aren't too bad....and never had a guitar lesson)

Camping

If  I had my choice, I would camp in our orange bus all summer long!!!!
I hope you enjoy the words below.

Namaste,
Michele



Don’t worry about what people think of you. Think about what people experience through you.

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others
in regard to your competence in retaining
information. You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more
marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one
already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness
in the center of the chest. This other intelligence
does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid,
and it doesn't move from outside to inside
through conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.

— Rumi

Diversity

 This saddens me (see link)....wish I could have had one more conversation with her.  I keep sending her love whenever she comes to mind.  http://morningjournal.com/articles/2012/05/23/news/doc4fbcd718afb9c177781089.txt 
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2012/05/24/vermilion-teen-killed-by-train-in-apparent-suicide-2/
 This poem below comes to mind now.  I hope you enjoy it.
Love,
Michele




Words For It
By Julia Camron
I wish I could take language
And fold it like cool, moist rags.
I would lay words on your forehead.
I would wrap words on your wrists.
“There, there,” my words would say–
Or something better.
I would murmur,
“Hush” and “Shh, shhh, it’s all right.”
I would ask them to hold you all night.
I wish I could take language
And daub and soothe and cool
Where fever blisters and burns,
Where fever turns yourself against you.
I wish I could take language
And heal the words that were the wounds
You have no names for.

I have no clue how Mira even danced in this dance on Sunday after 2 hours sleep, but they did really well.  If you have facebook, could you go to this link  https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=10150864523732983and vote by liking the video.  This dance got picked as a facebook selection and Mira and Macy's team are trying to win a contest.  Thanks in advance!!! 
Namaste,
Michele

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything, but happy...

Mira's boyfriend's mom is a professional photographer, so I wanted to post these pictures on here.  She does such nice work!!!!  Here is her website:  http://www.traceysart.com/
 I hope you enjoy the quote below.


We're all in the same elevator, we're just stopping on different floors.
-Markk

“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Mira and her childhood bestfriend, Ellie still like to dress alike!!!!!
Have a great day!!  I hope you enjoy the poem below!!

Namaste,
Michele



Reason, Season, or Lifetime

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is,
you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON,
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty;
to provide you with guidance and support;
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend, and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON,
because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it. It is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons;
things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person,
and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
— Unknown

After we saw Mira off to prom.....we went off to the Hessler Street Fair.
Marko wanted to stay home and do baseball stuff with his grandpa :)
I hope you enjoy the pictures and the quotes.
Namaste,
Michele


Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
-Gary Allan

Saturday was very busy.........Prom weekend and after prom......
Mira had a great time and everyone looked beautiful.  My parents volunteered their backyard for pictures.  I hope you enjoy the quote below!!!!
Love,
Michele

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination." 

- Don Williams

I went right from the campout with Marko to the Chalk festival with Macy

 I made the one above and below

 A 15 year old made the one above....she is amazing.....

 Macy and Cassie had fun drawing on the sidewalk....Macy made stay away sweet misery

invincible....power word by Macy



I loved spending time with the girls...and they are such wise girls.....wiser than me that is for sure!!!!
I hope you enjoy the quote below....the John Lennon reminded me of this quote.
Peace,
Michele

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
― John Lennon