How to be Luminous
1) Look for adventure
2) Don't be afraid of the unknown....jump in feet first
3) Listen to the sounds of the universe
4) Be AWAKE
5) Embrace laughter
6) Run through mud puddles whenever possible
7) Dance in the rain
8) Create a soundtrack to your life
9) Live inspired
10) Set intention every day
11) Love without reservation or pretense
12) Look for heart smiles
13) Have a love affair with the moon
14) Live outside of the 5 senses
15) Dream when you're awake
16) Let the embers in your fire belly burn hot all the time
17) Let the tide chase you
18) Live inside the magic
19) Believe in fairies and ghosts
20) Laugh with your eyes and your soul
21) Let others in
22) Make friends with strangers...the good ones :)
23) Allow life to happen...every second...every day
24) Breathe
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
100 Thing Challenge.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau
And here is where my journey to rid my life of extraneous worldy possessions begins...
In my life up to this point...I've seen great success directly related to the amount of STUFF you have...how big your house is...what kind of car you have...and how many kitchen gadgets you can aquire.
In the last year or two...I've begun to realize that the way I started my life...was far closer related to spiritual growth and awareness than being able to purchase that enlightenment with the almighty buck.
I find myself becoming more comfortable in my world...the more stuff I give away and unburden myself with.
The things that are important to me now....are things that have no worth but are priceless to me.
And here is where my journey to rid my life of extraneous worldy possessions begins...
In my life up to this point...I've seen great success directly related to the amount of STUFF you have...how big your house is...what kind of car you have...and how many kitchen gadgets you can aquire.
In the last year or two...I've begun to realize that the way I started my life...was far closer related to spiritual growth and awareness than being able to purchase that enlightenment with the almighty buck.
I find myself becoming more comfortable in my world...the more stuff I give away and unburden myself with.
The things that are important to me now....are things that have no worth but are priceless to me.
Startlers.
Have you ever met someone whose energy startles you?
Whose very presence seems to jar your bones?
There's a woman at my work who I swear I can feel on a different level. Every time I am in contact with her my heart races and I feel dizzy and overwhelmed inside. As if...my energy was being compromised somehow.
I'm not sure if this has to do with my recent self discoveries of a paranormal nature...or if I'm just a little bit more attuned to the different frequencies.
All I know is that when I pass her in the hallway...or on the street...
I feel exposed and I can almost read her vibrations....
but I don't like it. They aren't beach boy good vibrations.
They are dark and scary... and a little bit...
invasive.
I think I'll start carrying the protective stones around me again...
and declare my own spiritual sovereignty just to be sure...
In case she's trying to get me ;)~
Whose very presence seems to jar your bones?
There's a woman at my work who I swear I can feel on a different level. Every time I am in contact with her my heart races and I feel dizzy and overwhelmed inside. As if...my energy was being compromised somehow.
I'm not sure if this has to do with my recent self discoveries of a paranormal nature...or if I'm just a little bit more attuned to the different frequencies.
All I know is that when I pass her in the hallway...or on the street...
I feel exposed and I can almost read her vibrations....
but I don't like it. They aren't beach boy good vibrations.
They are dark and scary... and a little bit...
invasive.
I think I'll start carrying the protective stones around me again...
and declare my own spiritual sovereignty just to be sure...
In case she's trying to get me ;)~
“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain”
I love that quote.
It's always been one of my favorites...but then again..so has dancing in the rain.
I guess I've always been a kid who loves a weather pattern. And oddly enough, I don't really like the sunshine.
I have friends (you know who you are) that LOVE the sun. In fact MOST of my friends complain about the rain and spend an endless amount of time simply LONGING for sunshine.
Not me. Rain and clouds...wind and storms...
they feel like comfort to me.
Snow is the best.
When I can reconnect with my long lost friend - snow angel.
There's just something about change. Dynamic. Flowing. Change.
Maybe it's not the weather...maybe it's the movement of time that I see in the clouds...or the future I see in the wind.
Whatever it is, it's why I live where I live now.
And why the places I am considering to live in the future....all have weather patterns similar to Seattle.
Give me a mud puddle and I'll jump in it for hours.
And there's almost nothing in the world that compares to the taste of a snowflake in your mouth.
Except maybe when they land on quiet eyelashes.
:)
It's always been one of my favorites...but then again..so has dancing in the rain.
I guess I've always been a kid who loves a weather pattern. And oddly enough, I don't really like the sunshine.
I have friends (you know who you are) that LOVE the sun. In fact MOST of my friends complain about the rain and spend an endless amount of time simply LONGING for sunshine.
Not me. Rain and clouds...wind and storms...
they feel like comfort to me.
Snow is the best.
When I can reconnect with my long lost friend - snow angel.
There's just something about change. Dynamic. Flowing. Change.
Maybe it's not the weather...maybe it's the movement of time that I see in the clouds...or the future I see in the wind.
Whatever it is, it's why I live where I live now.
And why the places I am considering to live in the future....all have weather patterns similar to Seattle.
Give me a mud puddle and I'll jump in it for hours.
And there's almost nothing in the world that compares to the taste of a snowflake in your mouth.
Except maybe when they land on quiet eyelashes.
:)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Seas-eyed
My dream has always been to live on a boat again....
in reality I don't think my soul has ever really left that place.
It was almost as if I grew out of that phase...and right back in again.
As if I had to experience life on land again to truely appreciate the
magic of the ocean.....
Life is different on the sea. There must be something healing to be
a part of the tide...riding the swell of the waves and the ebb and flow
of the moon.
This time next year I'll be on our boat Seabiscuit with the love of my life...and who knows where the wind will take us.
But that's one of the very most beautiful things about living on a boat..
But that's one of the very most beautiful things about living on a boat..
it can take you anywhere...and you're always home.
Today is the first blog I've written in almost a year.
I feel a sense of betrayal..much like I do when I forget to write in my journal and the pages expose this huge gap of time ...
every page a week. A month.
A year.
There's something about the fall.
The energy is different. The air is brimming with ideas ... an overflow of words dancing against a blustery landscape.
And it's dark too.
That always makes for a good story.
That always makes for a good story.
Monday, April 6, 2009
The How of Now.
How did I get here?
Nine months ago I was just another girl living in Seattle...
going to work...
taking care of my kids...
having as much fun as humanly possible without getting in too much trouble..
(or at least getting caught).
Today the tears fall behind me...and I'm afraid to look back...
for fear the dam will break.
I want to say "I feel blessed for the experiences I've had" but that's not how I feel at all...
I feel angry and frustrated and resentful that I have been what I want yet I can't LIVE it.
I don't feel like me at all.
I feel disjointed and numb....
and sad.
I feel like the one who has left.
Being the one left behind is a miserable existence...but eventually you get your life back and go back to normal. The person who goes, leaves an indelible imprint that fills a gap and maintains a presence that lasts forever.
When you leave someone behind, you are making a conscious decision to walk away. With every passing mile on plane or train, you feel your closeness to them diminish. Every fiber in your body resists it...but there is nothing you can do with it.
You must go.
And then when you're back home, you feel so far away you would give anything to be back there for a minute. You would take back all of those hours sleeping or looking out the window...
or standing alone in a kitchen... and do sometime important and awe inspiring with that moment... something that wouldn't leave you left looking out a train window, wishing you had.
I know this experience is making me stronger....
love harder....
wish louder...
I just wish sometimes it didn't feel as if time were moving backwards pulling me into an alternate universe of stillness.
You've never felt truely alone until you've said goodbye to someone you love.
You can't hold them...or smell them...or look into their eyes...or feel their warmth or their hand in yours... their absense is like an echo in your heart.... reverberating a stillness in every chamber of your new quiet world.
So how do you live every day in the now...
without sacrificing who you are?
The you that wants to hold and touch and love and BE???
The you that must look past the moments captured in time that broke your heart beautiful and made you want it more than anything else in the world...
The you that wants to live inspired yet wants only to feel nothing...
the you that loves beyond words...but fears the isolation that vulnerability can bring....
HOW does one do it?
As near as I can tell....
and from what I've read....and what I've been told...
and from what I know...
there are really only three things....
1) You must always breathe....breathing is essential. It reminds us we are RIGHT NOW.
2) You must love with an open hand....control nothing. Expect nothing. Give as much as you can without surrendering all of you.
3) Love with all of your heart....but realize you can't make someone love you. The best they can do, is breathe and be, right along with you. Hopefully...beside you.
Most importantly, you have to keep your faith in front of you.
Knowing that whatever happens, is meant to happen. And whomever is meant to be beside you, will be there for good someday....
No distance. No timezones. No gaps.
But right now.
Nine months ago I was just another girl living in Seattle...
going to work...
taking care of my kids...
having as much fun as humanly possible without getting in too much trouble..
(or at least getting caught).
Today the tears fall behind me...and I'm afraid to look back...
for fear the dam will break.
I want to say "I feel blessed for the experiences I've had" but that's not how I feel at all...
I feel angry and frustrated and resentful that I have been what I want yet I can't LIVE it.
I don't feel like me at all.
I feel disjointed and numb....
and sad.
I feel like the one who has left.
Being the one left behind is a miserable existence...but eventually you get your life back and go back to normal. The person who goes, leaves an indelible imprint that fills a gap and maintains a presence that lasts forever.
When you leave someone behind, you are making a conscious decision to walk away. With every passing mile on plane or train, you feel your closeness to them diminish. Every fiber in your body resists it...but there is nothing you can do with it.
You must go.
And then when you're back home, you feel so far away you would give anything to be back there for a minute. You would take back all of those hours sleeping or looking out the window...
or standing alone in a kitchen... and do sometime important and awe inspiring with that moment... something that wouldn't leave you left looking out a train window, wishing you had.
I know this experience is making me stronger....
love harder....
wish louder...
I just wish sometimes it didn't feel as if time were moving backwards pulling me into an alternate universe of stillness.
You've never felt truely alone until you've said goodbye to someone you love.
You can't hold them...or smell them...or look into their eyes...or feel their warmth or their hand in yours... their absense is like an echo in your heart.... reverberating a stillness in every chamber of your new quiet world.
So how do you live every day in the now...
without sacrificing who you are?
The you that wants to hold and touch and love and BE???
The you that must look past the moments captured in time that broke your heart beautiful and made you want it more than anything else in the world...
The you that wants to live inspired yet wants only to feel nothing...
the you that loves beyond words...but fears the isolation that vulnerability can bring....
HOW does one do it?
As near as I can tell....
and from what I've read....and what I've been told...
and from what I know...
there are really only three things....
1) You must always breathe....breathing is essential. It reminds us we are RIGHT NOW.
2) You must love with an open hand....control nothing. Expect nothing. Give as much as you can without surrendering all of you.
3) Love with all of your heart....but realize you can't make someone love you. The best they can do, is breathe and be, right along with you. Hopefully...beside you.
Most importantly, you have to keep your faith in front of you.
Knowing that whatever happens, is meant to happen. And whomever is meant to be beside you, will be there for good someday....
No distance. No timezones. No gaps.
But right now.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Soul Receives From Soul- Rumi
Soul receives from soul
that knowledge,
therefore not by book
nor from tongue.
If knowledge of mysteries
come after emptiness of mind,
that is illumination of heart.
that knowledge,
therefore not by book
nor from tongue.
If knowledge of mysteries
come after emptiness of mind,
that is illumination of heart.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Lulin
There are some magical things happening in our universe right now.
There is a beautiful comet "Lulin", otherwise known as C2007/N3 making what we can only guess is it's first orbit in our solar system.
Tomorrow, Feb. 24, 2009, it may be possible to see it with the naked eye.
What makes this comet so unusual is that it moves in the opposite direction of the planets...so...backwards.
It's taken on a greenish haze due to the poisoness gasses surrounding it...
and it has a evident twist in its comet "tail"....
The propulsion of it creates an optical illusion appearing as if the tail is in the front when there is one in the back as well.
There are many facets of this comet that resonate with me. But probably the most fascinating of all is that this is a once in a lifetime show. This comet won't appear again for over a million years.
For some reason...this is compelling to me.
If you look back at history you will read various concepts about what comets travelling within our solar system mark the beginning (or end) of.
I feel connected to this strange little comet....
as I feel there are important things happening in my life too....
sometimes I"m moving forward in a strange and backward propulsion...
and my orbit is just as velocitious....
despite the twists in my own tail.
I like this comet. I think it's a sign of amazing and magical things....
so tomorrow I'm going to look up at the sky and look for Lulin...
and celebrate the dance of this backwards green twisted comet...
I'll toast to the wonder and the awe and the unknown....
and to all of us who move backwards to get to where we need to go.
There is a beautiful comet "Lulin", otherwise known as C2007/N3 making what we can only guess is it's first orbit in our solar system.
Tomorrow, Feb. 24, 2009, it may be possible to see it with the naked eye.
What makes this comet so unusual is that it moves in the opposite direction of the planets...so...backwards.
It's taken on a greenish haze due to the poisoness gasses surrounding it...
and it has a evident twist in its comet "tail"....
The propulsion of it creates an optical illusion appearing as if the tail is in the front when there is one in the back as well.
There are many facets of this comet that resonate with me. But probably the most fascinating of all is that this is a once in a lifetime show. This comet won't appear again for over a million years.
For some reason...this is compelling to me.
If you look back at history you will read various concepts about what comets travelling within our solar system mark the beginning (or end) of.
I feel connected to this strange little comet....
as I feel there are important things happening in my life too....
sometimes I"m moving forward in a strange and backward propulsion...
and my orbit is just as velocitious....
despite the twists in my own tail.
I like this comet. I think it's a sign of amazing and magical things....
so tomorrow I'm going to look up at the sky and look for Lulin...
and celebrate the dance of this backwards green twisted comet...
I'll toast to the wonder and the awe and the unknown....
and to all of us who move backwards to get to where we need to go.
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