Wordless Wednesday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5c39PZFQ4&feature=player_embedded

(I'm not techo-savvy to embed this correctly into the blog. But I did want to give thanks to East Coast Wahine for bringing this to my attention.)

My Gift from the Sea

I confess - I pilfered a book bought as a stocking stuffer for my daughter. It's Gift from the Sea by Ann Morrow Lindbergh. I read this book over 25 years ago but still cherish her encouraging and self-reflecting meditations. Her passages brought me comfort while going through a painfully emotional divorce. Her words today bring inspiration and reminders of my life's priorities: "To live in grace" as Lindbergh defines "inner harmony, essential spirituality which can translate into outward harmony". Lessons learned from the shells of the beach - the art of shedding (physical, hypocrisy) and simplify. Ah, my mantra these days - 'less is more'. Simplification of my outward life is progressing - inwardly, well that's another chapter.


When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No Resolutions

except one. Mindfulness. I have been thinking how to celebrate the new year with something that resonates with me now and in the future. I thought about the words: reflection, patience, compassion. Although each connotes many emotions and actions which could be a topic of self-improvement, it was mindfulness that incapsulated the sentiment I was seeking. So, taking the time to notice things as they are or sometimes seeing things with a different lens is key for me in 2010.

May your new year be filled with all the wealth of happiness and healthiness you seek. Over and out for 2009.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra
Photo courtesy of internet.

A Mash Up

Family calls but I wanted to post for Wordless Wednesday and Gratitude Friday:

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -- George Elliot


Buon Natale and Mele Kalikimaki everyone in my blog world!

Though the weather outside is frightful

... It does make for a white christmas! (But it makes me miss Hawaii even more.)

PhotoHunt: Fast

as in fast food - Hawaiian style. I mentioned my love of signs - all kinds of signs. This neon sign seemed like a throwback to Old Hawaii when I saw it a few years ago. LikeLike is a highway in Oahu that traverses north to south, but the drive 'inn' is not on the Likelike and is not a drive through restaurant anymore. But, I do like the idea of this sign - saimin and all!

Gratitude Friday: Love

I am grateful for the love of family and friends. My life is overflowing with the warmth and care of these people in my life. Best to all my blogging friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new
world is born. ~ Anais Nin