Today's Reverb10 Prompt: 5 minutes. Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010. (Author: Patti Digh)
Summer bliss stars twinkly lights laughing Flora fairies garden flowers Kai Kaedon cancer shit hospitals clinics appointments driving crying being blessing asking helping being helped healing friends friends friends loss shifting every single day going within confirmations soul connections change swearing crying confusion pain stupidassmotherf**ker ignorance ego manipulation darkness hiding boundaries no boundaries loss alone letting go releasing surrendering love love love joy grilling farmers markets Michael Franti party hugs music dancing moonlight walking river water talking being beading creating experiencing life feeling God St Germaine Quan Yin transformation knowing sensing following intuition aligning with the flow being the flow time bringing in new energy out of whack discombobluated crying Grand Marais North Shore Lake Superior Atlanta Savannah Tybee Island Dubuque Rochester Eau Claire Park Rapids travelling parallel soul opening freedom Love Love Love.
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Reverb - Party!
Today's Reverb10 Prompt: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans. (Author: Shauna Reid)
Yes, catching up on Reverb10, the week got away from me. Nothing like the snowstorm of the decade to keep one writing!
Party!
I turned 40 in March.
It sucked.
I really wanted a big blow-out bash with all my dear friends, late night, party it up at some hip restaraunt bar. But nope. Life had other plans at the time. I did have a nice time out with a few friends, but most of them bailed early. Luckily it was not far to a friends place so we went there to have a glass of wine. That was the best part of the night.
By May I knew I had to have a bigger party anyhow. All the people I hold near and dear to my heart came for a casual garden party in late July. I wanted to honor them for being so supportive of me and my family during a very trying year. They were the folks that kept me sane and stable during so much chaos.
We all gathered (from near and far, was so honored that 2 friends from far out of town joined us!) on an absolutely perfect summer night. There was an abundance of food, twinkly lights in the garden, my favorite music, tons of laughter and sharing.
Candles burned, glitter was twinkling on the patio, and sure, there were some mosquitoes.
There was such a beautiful glow and flow to everyone, connections were made, hearts were open. If we'd sat together with the intent of manifesting or creating world peace (as opposed to just celebrating each other), we would have blown our socks off.
I was a happy hostess. Of course, I didn't get to chat with everyone for more than about 2 minutes each, but it didn't matter. My chicks were all gathered in my yard and I was a happy Mama Hen.
My heart was overflowing with peace and love for these people. My friends. And I still don't really think they know how much they mean to me. These are powerful, amazing, beautiful people and I am just amazed and honored to be their friend.
It was a great summer party.
Yes, catching up on Reverb10, the week got away from me. Nothing like the snowstorm of the decade to keep one writing!
Party!
I turned 40 in March.
It sucked.
I really wanted a big blow-out bash with all my dear friends, late night, party it up at some hip restaraunt bar. But nope. Life had other plans at the time. I did have a nice time out with a few friends, but most of them bailed early. Luckily it was not far to a friends place so we went there to have a glass of wine. That was the best part of the night.
By May I knew I had to have a bigger party anyhow. All the people I hold near and dear to my heart came for a casual garden party in late July. I wanted to honor them for being so supportive of me and my family during a very trying year. They were the folks that kept me sane and stable during so much chaos.
We all gathered (from near and far, was so honored that 2 friends from far out of town joined us!) on an absolutely perfect summer night. There was an abundance of food, twinkly lights in the garden, my favorite music, tons of laughter and sharing.
Candles burned, glitter was twinkling on the patio, and sure, there were some mosquitoes.
I was a happy hostess. Of course, I didn't get to chat with everyone for more than about 2 minutes each, but it didn't matter. My chicks were all gathered in my yard and I was a happy Mama Hen.
My heart was overflowing with peace and love for these people. My friends. And I still don't really think they know how much they mean to me. These are powerful, amazing, beautiful people and I am just amazed and honored to be their friend.
It was a great summer party.
Friday, December 03, 2010
Reverb - Moment
Day Three Reverb10 Prompt: Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors). (Author: Ali Edwards)
Just ONE?
I really did have a spectacular summer and have had some beautiful, amazing moments this year.
Visiting beautiful peaceful Savannah, Georgia, walking the streets, watching the people from all over the world, smelling coffee on one corner and seafood on the other. Walking on the beach at nearby Tybee Island, feeling nothing other than complete presence and peace, watching the waves flow in and out, and even feeling the sun beating so hard on your skin, knowing you're getting sunburned. Oh but forgetting the sunscreen and being beet red and in pain for days was so worth the moment of seeing my mom actually walk on the beach without falling and for miles even (when she can't walk more than a few hundred feet without tiring at home), and knowing the peacefulness it was bringing to her heart as well.
Sitting in my garden at the height of summer, curled up in my purple chair, colored twinkly lights above me, a glass of wine in one hand, knowing that the only moment I had was right then and there. I didn't have to be a caregiver or a friend, I didn't have to even be ME, I could just melt into the starry sky and full moon above me, sing with my heart as I danced through the ethers, looking for my one true love, hearing his voice calling me home. There was no time, no space, and life just flowed in perfection.
See, I can't just pick one, I have to continue. I'm a rebel.
I also felt so alive when the journey was hard, as odd as that sounds. The days when I was exhausted to the core and I could not focus on more than getting dressed and getting food in my body. That's it. Couldn't even wash my face or brush my teeth, the thought just tired me out. I would just sit on the couch, try to breathe, and then the phone would ring. A friendly gentle voice would ask how I was, the tears would start to fall (as they are now again), and I would hear loving words of support that one never really feels or understands until there is no sense of hope left. And then life would move on to the next "thing." It was feeling vulnerable and lost and hopeless, which in turn becomes light and grace to carry me through.
There was a party I threw last summer. Invited my favorite friends, and we dined in the backyard and talked and laughed and laughed and laughed. Of all the beautiful faces and conversations, great food, and laughing, my favorite moment was standing in the garden with a friend who was admiring the flowers in my garden. Standing next to each other, having him ask what each one was, knowing there was higher "work" being done, the rest of the world disappeared. Then again I was caught up in the joy of being hostess, and in the moments when I did sit in the circle of my peeps, I knew I was loved, and my heart filled to bursting.
Moments with Flora, Kai & Kaedon and the rest of my family, with friends, on the North Shore, travelling, participating in a friends wedding, making art, walking around the lakes, eating great food and desserts .... life has swell moments, doesn't it?
Just ONE?
I really did have a spectacular summer and have had some beautiful, amazing moments this year.
Visiting beautiful peaceful Savannah, Georgia, walking the streets, watching the people from all over the world, smelling coffee on one corner and seafood on the other. Walking on the beach at nearby Tybee Island, feeling nothing other than complete presence and peace, watching the waves flow in and out, and even feeling the sun beating so hard on your skin, knowing you're getting sunburned. Oh but forgetting the sunscreen and being beet red and in pain for days was so worth the moment of seeing my mom actually walk on the beach without falling and for miles even (when she can't walk more than a few hundred feet without tiring at home), and knowing the peacefulness it was bringing to her heart as well.
Sitting in my garden at the height of summer, curled up in my purple chair, colored twinkly lights above me, a glass of wine in one hand, knowing that the only moment I had was right then and there. I didn't have to be a caregiver or a friend, I didn't have to even be ME, I could just melt into the starry sky and full moon above me, sing with my heart as I danced through the ethers, looking for my one true love, hearing his voice calling me home. There was no time, no space, and life just flowed in perfection.
See, I can't just pick one, I have to continue. I'm a rebel.
I also felt so alive when the journey was hard, as odd as that sounds. The days when I was exhausted to the core and I could not focus on more than getting dressed and getting food in my body. That's it. Couldn't even wash my face or brush my teeth, the thought just tired me out. I would just sit on the couch, try to breathe, and then the phone would ring. A friendly gentle voice would ask how I was, the tears would start to fall (as they are now again), and I would hear loving words of support that one never really feels or understands until there is no sense of hope left. And then life would move on to the next "thing." It was feeling vulnerable and lost and hopeless, which in turn becomes light and grace to carry me through.
There was a party I threw last summer. Invited my favorite friends, and we dined in the backyard and talked and laughed and laughed and laughed. Of all the beautiful faces and conversations, great food, and laughing, my favorite moment was standing in the garden with a friend who was admiring the flowers in my garden. Standing next to each other, having him ask what each one was, knowing there was higher "work" being done, the rest of the world disappeared. Then again I was caught up in the joy of being hostess, and in the moments when I did sit in the circle of my peeps, I knew I was loved, and my heart filled to bursting.
Moments with Flora, Kai & Kaedon and the rest of my family, with friends, on the North Shore, travelling, participating in a friends wedding, making art, walking around the lakes, eating great food and desserts .... life has swell moments, doesn't it?
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