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Love, Just Love…. February 14, 2010

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Love is a huge subject. Perhaps, the biggest. There are so many different kinds of love, yet they’re all the same. Love has been written about, sung about, talked about, quoted about, rumored about & on and on. Is there anything new that can be said of love? I feel inadequate even attempting this particular subject, though, I do think I know just a bit about love. I’ve been blessed with a tremendous amount of it in my life and one thing I know for sure (and this took a lifetime to learn)…never, ever take it for granted. It’s the gift of all gifts.

     “That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love” ~ Emily Dickinson

I would like to think everyone out there in this great big, beautiful world knows love,  feels love, has love in their lives. Sadly, I know this isn’t true. There are so many people who not only don’t have a special someone but they don’t feel they have anyone on their team. No one who’s got their back. No one who really loves them, not even a beloved pet. This seems unfathomable and it hurts my heart to think of this as even being possible, but it is.

So, today, Valentine’s Day, Universal Love Day ~ let’s reach out to someone, anyone who we think might be one of these people. You know who they are. Perhaps, this is a sibling who has strayed from the pack or neighbor who locks herself away from the world or an elder who has lost touch with family and friends. Maybe it’s a child who feels excluded and alone because of family circumstance. Oh, and let’s not forget the many homeless and abused animals.

If you’re blessed to have love in your life, share it. Love outrageously. Give it all you’ve got or just do one kind, loving thing. Love without rules. There are so many opportunities to love, don’t miss your chance!

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”~Antoine De Saint Exupery

Wonder is a noun and a verb. February 7, 2010

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Don’t you just love words that do double duty? I love a word that can get up off the page and move or simply lie there and be. Funny, words are like people that way. Ahh, that makes me wonder about the secret life of words. What do they do when we are not looking? Do they dance among themselves or just couch it and watch a little tv? Or do they sit around and gossip about other words?

Love  is another word that performs a multitude of tasks. Laugh and dream are also multi-taskers. I think I’ll proclaim today as National Wondrous Word Day!                                                                                                                      

Wonder (n) – 1. Astonishment, amazement, wonderment, awe, fascination, enchantment, surprise 2. marvel, miracle, phenomenon, spectacle, curiosity, rarity.

Wonder (v) – 1. marvel, be awestruck, be fascinated, gawk, gape, disbelieve one’s eyes, be amazed, be astonished, be stunned. 2. to be curious, question, ponder, think about, speculate, doubt, deliberate, puzzle over, meditate.

“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ahh, the wonder of aging… February 2, 2010

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  That’s not me in the photo but I wish it were. Yes, I would love to be sitting on the beach, letting it all hang out (literally), gazing at the wondrous ocean, soaking up the warm sun and calling in the dolphins but more important than all that, I wish I were that courageous, that bodacious!

Part of aging is accepting and I guess I’m just not there yet. Part of becoming a messenger of wonder is rejecting fear, not caring what others think of you and being who you really are. I’m working on it but I admit I’m not there. I’m still way to self-conscious. I’m just a big ol scaredy-cat, much too concerned with how I look, how others view me. What a waste of time.

If today were my last day on this magnificent earth, how sad it would be that I had frivolously squandered precious time worrying about such things. Even worse … realizing I had not done some of the things I had really wanted to do for fear of being judged for my appearance.

I would rather spend whatever time I have left feeling joy, loving and accepting who I am and fearlessly enjoying my beautiful life and my perfectly imperfect body. I don’t know if I’ll ever wear a bathing suit again but I will try to embrace the wrinkles (after all, I earned them), the fuzzy face, the junk in my trunk, the gray hair, the flab, the…well…you get the picture.

The upside of aging… wisdom (even if you can’t remember what it is you have learned), an appreciation for the little things in life and finally having a legitimate excuse for being just a bit (or a lot) loony.

We’ve earned the right… so let’s go forth and be the wise, old, outrageous crones we were meant to be!

“Life is a not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather, arriving in a skid-in-broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out body and loudly proclaiming, “Wow, what a ride!” ~unknown

 

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one… February 1, 2010

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Thank you, John Lennon.

Yes, I am a dreamer. And, no, I am not the only one. I’m actually in very good company… many wonder-full  authors, actors, artists, musicians and even some of us extraordinarily ordinary people dare to dream.

What is the alternative, I ask? For me anyway,there is none ~  to live without dreams is to live without hope and without hope, there is no living going on, merely existing.

A few words from some delicious dreamers:

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” ~ Anais Nin

“For my part, I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” ~ Marsha Norman

“The speed with which any dream may be realized is always a function of how small the miracles have to be in order not to freak out the dreamer.” ~ Mike Dooley ( I do love me some Mike Dooley)

“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” ~ Langston Hughes

What is your dream? Are you living it? Why not start now, in this moment? Just take one baby step toward it. Just one. Then another. I dare you!

Overcome fear…behold wonder! January 28, 2010

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Another wonder-licious quote… this one from one of my favorite authors, Richard Bach.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: overcome fear, behold wonder!

Wonder-licious quote… January 27, 2010

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“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast” ~ Lewis Carroll

Good morning.  Have a wonderlicious kind-of day!