Peace

Susan Cozzarin also made this picture. Isn't it beautiful??
I would love to have that one framed in my house!!!!
I hope you enjoy the quote below!!!
Namaste,
Michele

Forests and fields, sun and wind and sky, earth and water,
all speak the same language:
Peace, Solitude, Silence.
-Thomas Merton

not needing to know

This picture was made by my friends daughter, Susan Cozzarin.
She really has a gift. She made it with colored pencils and ink.
I thought it looked very cool.
I hope you like the words below.
Have a great day!!!
Namaste,
Michele



"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
-Gilda Radner

Peace

This tattoo is a graduation present that we got for our friend, Emily.
It says "live, love, laugh"....in Spanish........she had it put on the inside of her foot.
I thought it turned out pretty cool.
Now that is a gift that will last a lifetime!!!
Namaste,
Michele




Wilderness memories are ballast in my life but, to find peace in the human world, something more is needed. Peace comes from knowing what you want out of life, paring down, simplifying, focusing on a few important things. Do works of beauty. Serve something bigger than yourself. Pour yourself into satisfying work. Then, deep relaxation. Make an art form of deep relaxation.

Nurture your friendship with yourself, with your inner world. Minimize the extraneous. Minimize the number of moving parts. Be careful of who and what you let into your life. Protect your time. Do creative work. Be gentle on yourself. Make room for love in your life. Build close friendships with good people.

Read. Think. Spend time alone. "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone."

- James Baldwin

Love

Do you see "Love" planted in the flower box????
Let the deers try to eat that. :)
I hope your are having a great day and that you enjoy the words below!!!!
Love,
Michele


Father in Heaven!
When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts
let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay,
but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
-Soren Kirkegaard

Nothing left to do but just smile, smile, smile

This made my day today.
I hope it makes you smile.
love,
Michele

Letting Go

A view from Bud Preston's house....Mira and Marko's guitar teacher.

I hope you enjoy this poem below....it speaks to me :)

Namaste,

Michele

Woman with Flower

I wouldn't coax the plant if I were you.

Such watchful nurturing may do it harm.

Let the soil rest from so much digging.

And wait until it's dry before you water it.

The leaf's inclined to find its own direction;

Give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself.

Much growth is stunted by too much prodding,

Too eager tenderness.

The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.

Naomi Long Madgett

The Weather Report

Letting go

To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

-Mary Oliver

our connections

Baaa.....Baaaaa................Baaaaaaaaaa

"Happiness lies for those who cry,
those who hurt, those who have searched,
and those who tried,
for only they can appreciate
the importance
of people who have touched their lives."

Author Unknown 

Encouragement

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you."

William Arthur Ward

On Being Alive

These pictures were taken at the Olentangy Caverns.
I hope you enjoy the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't think that's what we're really seeking.
I think that what we're seeking
is an experience of being alive,
so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive."
-Joseph Campbell

Coming into your light

Very beautiful......hope you enjoy this!!!
Namaste,
Michele

Possibilities

Above are pictures from camping from this past weekend.
I love being out in nature :)
I hope you enjoy the words below.
Namaste,
Michele




"Possibilities for salvation do exist.
They are beyond our conventional
thinking patterns and our conventional forms of discussion
but they are
as real as a wireless Internet or a Hubble telescope in space.
All that is
possible for humankind to achieve
in the technological sphere is also
possible in the social, ecological and spiritual sphere.
The intelligence that
was capable of developing electronic weapons is equally capable
-- if
focused differently -- of developing systems

of non-violent co-habitation."


- Dieter Duhm

The mad ones :)

We went to the Coventry Street Fair last night.
lots of fun.
Hope you like the words below!!!
Namaste,
Michele



I've been doing all my life after people who interest me,
because the only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,
desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones that never yawn or say a common place thing,
but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding
like spiders across the stars
and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'


— Jack Kerouac