Mira

The way it is

THE WAY IT IS

There's a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn't change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can't get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.
You don't ever let go of the thread.

- William Stafford

Happy Birthday Jerry

Happy Birthday Jerry.....and thanks for the music!!
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia
August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995


Jerry's speakers are for sale!!..click below:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4145184a4560.html

Your Fortune

On Knowing

picture from my parent's trip.....beautiful!!!


The more you know the less you understand.
-Tao Te Ching


.......and the less I need to know why......or to understand.....some days anyway.... I am working on letting go.
Love, Michele

On Truth

"But the Emperor has nothing on at all!" cried a little child.
-Hans Christian Andersen

Seekers

Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions,

preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted

with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later

does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn.

The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in

a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise.

After that day . . . we become seekers.

Peter Matthiessen

Bake Sale

Macy asked me to post this flyer below that she made....the bake sale is at our house noon to 5pm this Tuesday. Cassie and Macy decided to do this after we went to Ohio State on Sunday and they saw a homeless man holding a sign that he needed help. thanks in advance for helping them!!! love, Michele

Help Macy and Cassie Raise money for the homeless
When: Tuesday, July 31
Where: Macy's House
Where’s the money going: To the homeless
What will we sell: Brownies, cupcakes, Kool-Aid, cookies, water, muffins, rice crispy treats, and zucchini bread ☺
We will also be collecting small items to give to the homeless☺
Items: Hairbrush, Sweaters, Shampoo, Men’s Socks, Water Bottles,
Deodorant, Chap Stick, Band-Aids, Nail Clippers, Toothbrush and toothpaste

Expanding

As I struggled with the realities of losing my father at the age of 12.
I reveled in my heavenly father who would not disappoint me
as my earthly father had done. Without that firm anchor,
I do not know what would have happened to the fragile lad that I was.
It is one thing, however, to need a literal anchor
in a particular storm of life but quite another to cling to yesterday's anchor
because you can not grow up. Life changes, boundaries expound and spirits soar.
That is when one discovers that security is not the end goal of life
and that sometimes one has to risk, to let go, to venture
and to journey and when you do, you discover that
God is more than just a security anchor. God is a future hope,
a dream, and a reality beckoning you to live, to love and to be.
- John Shelby Spong

Taking the time to notice

Picture of Alyssa, Macy's dear friend......Mira took this picture...beautiful.....ehhh???


When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it,
it's your world for the moment.
I want to give that world to someone else.
Most people in the city rush around so,
they have no time to look at a flower.
I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
--Georgia O'Keefe

On being a mystic without a monastery

This for me is about random acts of kindness or the angels that walk the earth....what we all have in us to help another soul resurrect from darkness or hopelessness.......birthing new parts of ourselves.
love,
Michele

"The Divine has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours, no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which
the Divine compassion
is to look out to the world
Yours are the feet with which
he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands with which
he is to bless men now."
-St. Teresa of Avila

You can't always get what you want

"You can't always get what you want,
but if you try sometimes, you just might find,
you'll get what you need."
The Rolling Stones

Did you Know....

Elephants from my parents trip to Africa.....I guess one of their travel mates had an elephant stick his trunk in their hut......
Some bizarre facts from one of my favorites.....Rob Brezsny....
did you know that:

In the next 24 hours, 200 million people will make love
on this planet, as
they do every day of every year.

*Wired* magazine reports that vast supplies
of frozen natural gas lie
beneath the oceans, harboring more potential
energy than all of the
world's oil reserves.

China and India, which comprise one-third of
the earth's population, have
more than twice the wealth they had in 1989.

Rising rates of intermarriage are helping
to dissipate ethnic and religious
strife worldwide.

Death rates from cancer are shrinking.

Acreage devoted to organic farming is increasing rapidly.

Levels of literacy and education and political
freedom are steadily growing
all over the world.

If forced to decide between having a bigger
penis and living in a world
where there was no war, 90 percent of all men
would pick universal
peace.

With every dawn, when first light penetrates
the sea, many seahorse
colonies perform a dance to the sun.

An average cloud is the same weight as 100 elephants.

There are always so many fragments of spider
legs floating in the air that
you are constantly inhaling them wherever you go.

A river requires a million years to move
a grain of sand 100 miles.

Diamonds rain from the skies on the planets
Uranus and Neptune.

The five most beautiful words in the English
language are luminous,
crucible, melody, undulates, and gratitude.

http://FreeWillAstrology.com

Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

Above is a picture that my dad took on their trip to Africa.
They are back home safe now and had an outstanding time. My mom said it was a trip of a lifetime and she would do it all over again.
beautiful picture!!!
Love,
Michele

one of my favorite song lyrics below. I think it is a very spiritual song:

Circle of Life
Music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it's a lion]Nants ingonyama bagithi baba
Sithi uhhmm ingonyama
Ingonyama

Siyo Nqoba [We're going to conquer]
Ingonyama
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala [A lion and a leopard come to this open place]

[Chant repeats]

From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life