You should be dancing, yeah! Put on your platform heels, turn the music up, and check out these awesome dance moves and gorgeous clothes. I love Soul Train! And who doesn’t love a little Bee Gees, Aretha, and the King of Pop to make Saturday just a little bit better. Make your own Soul Train dance lane at home and Continue reading
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The Kind of Stuff You Don’t Hang on the Wall
Stuff that Works . . . This is a GREAT song by Guy Clark. It inspires me to appreciate the “stuff that works” in my life . . . “the kind of stuff you don’t hang on the wall.” Take a listen. It is a really beautiful song.
I read a great affirmation yesterday: “Where there is light there are shadows.”
Living in the Pacific Northwest, we experience a lot of gray days. The sort of days where the horizon line blurs the sky and water into one waterscape. On these days, there are no shadows and there is an etheral feel to the day — akin to floating. The lack of contrast lends itself to getting lost in daydreams. Some find these days extraordinarily gloomy. Drizzle, fog, and low-hanging clouds cast a mood of Waiting. Waiting for the sun to return. When we do get a blue day and the sun is shining, the shadows emerge as well.
It sometimes feels as if the times that have made me the happiest have also cast the darkest shadows. The brightness creates an awareness that life is both awesome and fragile.
Living in the Pacific Northwest, the clouds can, and most likely will, soon return and obscure the sunlight. As I put things into perspective each morning, afternoon, and night, this song reminds me of the truly important things . . . the stuff that works. And there is a LOT of stuff that does work. 
So today? I am focusing on the stuff that works.
Tend your Believe.
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How to germinate hope:
- Select your seeds.
- Prepare your soil. Make it rich.
- Learn about the ideal growing conditions for your seeds.
- Create this ideal environment.
- Plant your seeds.
- Water your seeds regularly.
- Keep your seeds warm to aid in germination.
- Move your seeds to natural light once they have sprouted.
- Maintain and watch your sprouted plants.
- Harden off your growing plants and get them used to fluctuating conditions.
- Transplant your seedlings outdoors.
- Enjoy the growing process.
- Tend your Believe. Believe in yourself.
Here are some inspiring videos for you . . . from sunflowers dancing to jazz . . . to monarch butterflies making their entry into the world . . . to inspiring words that dare us to be great . . . take some time today to be inspired and then start planting.
This is so cool. Sunflowers feeling the beat . . .
Arise & Whistle
Greetings to everyone on this very lovely Saturday morning. What a perfect day for music and journaling!
Below is a youtube of “Blackbird” by Eddie Vedder. I have heard many covers of this song, but what makes this one so special is the participation from the audience and the appreciation that Eddie Vedder expresses for their beautiful whistling. I just love it! I don’t know about you, but this song was so sweet I had to listen to it twice.
There are clearly days when it seems as if my life’s level of Whistling Participation is at a pretty low low. I find myself wrapped up within the cocoon of my work, my family, my laundry list of concerns, my creativity, my chores and to-dos. I keep things close and don’t stretch in any extraordinary directions, really. I am like a little embodied capsule of Me that doesn’t live much beyond what is required of me or what pops up in the way of obligatory energy requirements.
“You were only waiting for this moment to arise . . .”
This is not to say that I am slumping through daily life with my head down and my eyes on the ground. I do keep my eyes and my heart open. But still. I know that there are “moments” when I feel prompted to “arise” and I consciously choose to ignore or sidestep the opportunities that call me to action. I realize that we can’t be “on” all of the time . . . yet today I am thinking that, perhaps with a little conscious and sub-conscious awareness on my part, I could be making a significant difference in random moments that could do with a little bit of “arising.” How about you? Do you ever feel this way?
If you click on the link below, you will find a journaling prompt for today . . . one that encourages you to participate and to support in a wee small way today.
Arise and Whistle. journaling prompt
Live is a lively event. Here’s your moment. What’s stopping you?
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