Nature

Keep close to Nature's heart
... and break clear away, once in a while,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
--John Muir

WE'RE BACK......

Howdy, Howdy, Howdy.

We are back from camping and it was a lot of fun.

Very relaxing.

I have made a decision not to post on here everyday.

I think the last few weeks, I have been searching sometimes as to what to post here.

I don't want to search anymore, I want to wait for the right thing to come along and and really feel that it is just right
and then post it when it is the right time for me.

I hope you are having a great day.

Above is a picture from camping and below is a quote from one of my favorite books in the

whole wide world. I took it camping and read through it again.

lots of pearls of wisdom in there for me.

Namaste,

Michele

I want to have a lasting experience of God... Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I lose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time, but I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God.

-Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: Eat,Love, Pray: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia

Into the woods!!

gone camping!!!
be back next week.
love,
Michele

"In the woods is perpetual youth."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Make a list of people in your life in whose company you feel more alive,
happy, and optimistic. Make an effort to spend more time with them.
Our spiritual selves resonate with others, and that connection is a healing."
Andrew Weil

Patience

"He knows that you can't force an understanding. You have to let it happen. It has to coalesce, not unlike love or
pudding, he supposes. You stir and stir and watch the bubbles break the surface, you wait and keep the perfect heat underneath it and if you are very patient it finally, suddenly thickens up, silky shiny smooth as if to say, 'This is what I always meant to be. Thank you for waiting. You may now lick the spoon'."

-Unkown

Truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

--Sir Winston Churchill

Make Art, Not War!

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love.
All that I touch, I leave in love.
I move through this world consciously and creatively.
-Julia Cameron

walking through life

We are all too much inclined to walk through life
with our eyes shut. There are things all around us,
and right at our very feet, that we have never seen;
because we have never really looked.
--Alexander Graham Bell

the best things in life

"Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...
or your two legs..or your hands...or your hearing?
Add up what you do have,
and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world.
The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them."
--Dale Carnegie

You are what you perceive

"A verse from the Veda says,
'What you see, you become.'
In other words,
just the experience
of perceiving the world makes you what you are.
This
is a quite literal statement."

- Deepak Chopra

Zen CAt

The great Turning

this picture was taken at a technical rehearsal a few weeks ago.
Macy is the second one.
I thought it looked kinda cool.
Below is a beautiful poem that seemed to resonate with me.
I am so looking forward to camping and being in nature.....this poem reminds me of that.
have a great day!!
love,
Michele



PRAYER FOR THE GREAT TURNING

May the turning of the Earth save us.
May the turning of the seasons & the turning of the leaves save us.
May we be saved by the worms, the beetles & the microbes turning the soil.
May we be saved by the turning of vegetation into compost
& the turning of compost into rich soil.
May the turning of seeds into plants & the turning of flowers
into fruits save us.
May the grasses & weeds, the vines & mosses all conspire to save us.
May we be saved by the turning of sprouts into saplings, of saplings into trees,
& the trees into forests.
May the scurrying, foraging, pouncing & lumbering of the animals save us.

May the breath of heaven in the breezes & the stormy winds save us.
May the dance of the butterflies, & the musical flight & return
of the birds save us.
May we be saved by vapors turning into clouds & by the turning of
the ever-changing clouds into rain.
May the waters flowing from springs into the lakes save us.
May the streams flowing into rivers, the rivers into seas,
& the great heaving of the oceans save us.
May we be saved by the patient turning of the rocks, the hills,
the mountains, & the volcanoes.
May the metabolism of the climates of the Earth save us.
May the turnings of all Beings great & small move us to find wisdom in our own turnings.

May we be saved by our waking & sleeping, by the rhythms of our blood
& our appetites, by the cycles of birthing & nurturing, injury & healing,
mating & nesting, loss & discovery, joy & mourning.
May we find in time the grace to turn to one another, & may this turning
also become our salvation.
May we learn to benefit the life of Earth with peace, humble in our needs,
& generous in our giving.
May we learn to celebrate the abundance of life with gratitude, & to embrace
the Earth with our bodies in return.

-- Joanne Sunshower

love all, serve all

Love

A view from Macy's and her friend, Tessa's dorm room last week.
hope you love the beautiful quote below!!!
Namaste,
Michele


Love is an expression of the willingness to create space
in which something is allowed to change.
The change may be in terms of growth or decay, evolution, transformation,
integration, or other natural development
that is in accord with the intention of the creator.
-Harry Palmer

Our true wealth

Mira and Macy were at Orchestra camp all last week at Baldwin Wallace College.
We got to eat dinner with them on Friday and hear their performance in each of their
orchestras. Anyway, in the student union, there was this wall with all of these beautiful quotes. This is one of my favorites.
Hope you like the quote below too!!
love,
Michele



Our true wealth is the good we do in this world.
None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors
what we desire for ourselves.
--Mohammad