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