Are you smiling on the inside?

I have this internal knowing that is very clear the moment I open my eyes in the morning and realize a new day has begun. In an instant, I know if my energy is high or low, humming or depleted. Today, I woke up somewhere in the middle; not exactly humming and not exactly low. I am always especially grateful for the humming days, as I feel like I must be "doing everything right" to be keeping my energy balanced and "humming." It occurs to me, where my newest learning is, is to be grateful that I have this instant energy gauge in my body at all. I also see this as an opportunity to release yet another layer of the continuum, "there is a wrong and a right" vs. there is no wrong and no right---only opportunities to love myself no matter what. Once again, it IS all about LOVE. So I breathe out, literally breathe out this statement; "there is something wrong with me" and I release it as far back as it connects to me.....even if it connects to great, great aunt Martha, who I never met. I inhale self-love from the Universe, from the Divine and I am ready to begin another grace-filled day.
This photo was taken about 30 years ago by Michael Wisniewski, using an SEM(scanning electron microscope) and these are the embryonic(newborn) leaves of a Sweetgum tree (Hamamelidaceae-- Liquidambar styraciflua). These guys are hiding out there in nature right now, under the bud scales at the tips of branches on the sweetgum trees. Once these leaves 'grow up', they look like a five pointed star.

knock, knock, who's there?

We are all searching for answers, searching for soulmates, searching for happiness...How will we ever know which path to take, which door to open? Step one, I call off the search . Then I start knocking. The initial door to knock on is your own; see if you are home first. Have you taken the time to get to know yourself? Have you made an appointment with 'me, myself and I' lately? Sometimes, I have five minutes for my "me" appointment and other times I have tons of time, like, 15 minutes. I sit in the silence, breathe, breathe some more, tune into how I feel; ...how I feel in my body,... how I feel in my life and how I feel in my heart. In the silence, I knock on my soul's door and I ask for support and I ask for love and I ask for help. In the silence, I asked to be filled with the light of the Divine so that I may again remember how to create another blessed day of joy and gratitude. This brings me back to neutral, I am opinion-free, ready to look at the world with fresh eyes and an open heart.

Birth of a Blog

I stand on the precipice of the unknown, this time consciously. Consciously incompetent, knowing now what it is that I don't know about; the land of the blogger. I take this leap of faith, content to be moving forward, moving at all, moving my moving. I welcome all to the land of my perception and hope that it tastes sweet before it tastes bitter.