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