Not missing the babble of how yesterday got left behind. Too busy watching where you’re walking and the road less traveled lays ahead. Something about serendipitous waterfalls humoring effervescent lifestyles makes you giggle. The path is lit by the violet flame of Archangel Zadkiel and only God knows where it will lead you.
Excitement rides the air like an iron giant and you are along for the ride. Chuckling, you get reminded of something you just can’t put your finger on. Past that and that it was and the time passes like your childhood. Once upon a dream of kindred spirits and rainbow masquerades keep hearts from getting broken.
If you can’t laugh at yourself where’s the fun in that? Something is bound to be funny. You just have to know where to look. A rhetorical question and the socratic method. How would Plato fend in the modern world and what corrections would his mistakes make?
The world most certainly gives you what you ask of it and be careful what you wish for. There is always an old adage about something and something is just where you left it. Sun shine qualitative kisses are plentiful and moon shadow hugs in the night help you sleep.
Sometimes you don’t need champagne to be overflowing with bubbly because you already are.
The world can be full of tests, trials and tribulations. Parts of your life can be perfect while other aspects can go awry with the drop of a hat. Irony can get the best of you and your imagination can take you on a wild goose chase. The world has a funny way of taking care of us sometimes. We don’t always get it. What we want isn’t always what we need and what we think we need isn’t always what we get. But at the end of the day everything always works itself out exactly as it’s supposed to. You just have to keep the faith, keep moving forward and remember, wherever you go there you are.
Here’s an exercise I posted when I first started down this path. It helps me get back to basics and to stop taking myself so seriously all the time. I hope it works for you too…
Let’s look in the mirror. Let’s just look into our own eyes and try to find the beauty there. Just keep staring, admiring, looking deep, looking pure, and then when you get enough courage together, smile. Smile big. Smile genuinely at the smile smiling back at you. A smile on your face, A chuckle in your throat, A giggle on your lips. The laughter that follows. This is the true you. The real you. The person who loves you and believes in you and thinks you are stunning. You are looking at the person who gets you out of bed in the morning. The person who no matter how many times they fail still gets up and try’s again. The smiling person looking back at you is who you really are. So take this smile into the world with you today. Share it with everyone you come in contact with. This is your free gift to the beauty of the planet and your simple yet tremendous contribution to society.
This smiling face is the representation of you and the world looks forward to embracing that smile. Your very smile can save someone’s life. Your sad neighbor uses it to brighten up their day. The child who fell off their bike uses your smile to encourage them to get back up and try again. The old lady who may be lonely holds on to that smile triggering happy memories of her life. The teenager who just broke up with his girlfriend embraces your smile as hope that his heart will heal. Your smile is the undeniable beauty of your true self and the world needs your smile. It starts with you. A smile will brighten up the darkest of days. If you smile it is impossible to be sad. If you start laughing a true real laugh will take it’s place and you will forget why you were sad. The power in a smile is huge. A random act of kindness that doesn’t cost anyone anything and yet it will shower you and those around you with the riches of happiness.
The best part of a smile is when it turns into a giggle. It’s subtle and you try to control it but why control it? Let it go! When you let go of it, it becomes contagious and when you look around everyone around you has the same expression as you. All you have to do is smile at someone and the face before you becomes somehow brighter and the energy that is transferred between you lifts you both up to a higher place of elation. It’s in this higher place of excitement that laughter follows. Because after all laughter is a smile that bursts.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mohandas Gandhi
It surprises me how many people are still replaying their old story instead of rising above it or letting it go. Maybe they don’t realize they’re doing it? But how can the ear not hear the sounds of the broken record? I’ve learned hard, long and loud and clear lessons that in order to let go, you must first forgive yourself. You must hug, hold and coddle the inner child that holds the stubborn traits. The hardest part? Knowing what needs to be exonerated.
The more I am made privy to peoples self inflicted limitations, the more I am reminded of how far I’ve come. There is always so far to go still but I realize today that my tears of yesterday have long since evaporated.
Another dip, turn, bend, slow decent on the roller coaster and it can seem to be never-ending. The vulnerability forgets what was said yesterday and you can’t seem to see the future. We have all had moments where in one fell-swoop the negativity comes and carries us away on it’s magic carpet. The stress of it all can find us physically ill as proof that, that which we don’t deal with emotionally will manifest itself physically.
But once we let go physically, comprehension follows.
Through the childlike sobs of my yesterday, I gave in to the cleansing that can only happen when ones gives them self over implicitly. And so can you. We all have stories that remind us of why are trying to get it right. This is one of mine.
The tears started falling as I pulled up to my street and as the car door closed behind me I knew I wasn’t going to be able to hold on. The depression was too much for me to handle and the sobs that followed would eventually make me laugh but not before they would have me surrender to my truths. Out loud I voiced my fears. I admitted what hurt. I confessed that some things were beyond my control. I let the tears take me. I let go.
I’ve had to walk on eggshells for most of my life. Tiptoeing around the possibility that one false move or breath would disrupt the quiet that often claimed our household. A brilliant but sometimes volatile entity at the helm of our clan taught me that I have no tolerance for bullies and yet they are everywhere. And no matter how hard we try, for some, nothing we do will ever be good enough.
With acknowledgment comes a lesson. We really do surround ourselves with that which we know and if we don’t figure out how to rise above the vibrational level of the pattern we will find ourselves stuck on the ride going around in circles.
There’s only so much we can do before we resign ourselves to the admission that a quest on principle alone will lead to disappointment. Some people will go to any lengths to win. Some people don’t know that not everything has to be a fight. I happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Again.
I have fought most of life just to survive and I don’t want to fight anymore. My tears have taught me well. I’m done fighting. It’s not even my fight anyway. If my self-preservation has taught me anything, it is that everything really does happen for a reason and this too shall pass.
That seems like a another life time now but it wasn’t that long ago. Gentle reminders can keep on us track. Humility can bore a strength in us parallel to no other. Use your strength of will to overcome your obstacles. Manipulate your story to fit who you are today. Don’t let the past dictate your nature. Put the past to rest and wake up to who you are meant to be now.
Early mornings remind me of how far we come. Don’t be fooled by what seems to happen overnight because chances are it didn’t. Anything worth having is worth waiting for. Anything worth waiting for is worth fighting for. There is significance in how much our dreams can change us. The choices we make set balls in motion. Do you follow them?
I woke up one day with no recollection of who I was supposed to be. A parents impervious inflictions that were intent on strangling me but I slipped away. I knew better. This was a battle against nature vs. nurture and I was deemed to win.
My choices find me living a different life now and I don’t regret it. Even when I get restless sometimes for my old ways or the uneasy feelings of my past come to render me awake. There’s no going back now. There’s too much at stake.
My life is taking another turn for the better, proof that our resilient natures will always help us come out on top and sometimes it’s even far more fantastic than even we could have ever imagined.
Feel privileged to be so supported but always honor the past. You never know when it might come back to surprise you.
It’s a Saturday morning on the coast and the marine layer prepares to leave. The smell of rain is in the air and the cleansing should come soon. Being the over thinker has my brain working overdrive and the off button seems to be stuck. The dryer bustles in the background and the smell of dryer sheets is instantly calming. The sound of a flute joining the piano soothes my indecisive temperament while the perilous nature of uncertainty makes it’s own assessment. Birds take flight in unison and my puppy let’s me love him. The to-do list grows a mind of it’s own and you wonder why everything takes so long. You go out of your way to make things right but the light won’t turn green and the traffic can get backed up for miles. No one can let you down if you don’t allow them to hold you up. Birthdays come and go and breakfast isn’t ready yet. The iambic pentameter tries to find me today and that’s okay. We have come a long way from pictograms and it’s just another day. The rise and fall of Empires comes again. History has a way of repeating itself if you let it in. While breaking the binds of pattern can release you from sin. A society based in what’s it all for and how far have we really come? Are you willing to join your mirror or are you still wondering where you’re from? Sometimes a self inflicted lullaby can set you free as if you were a new found miracle left out for the world to see. And you are a new found miracle.
Childhood memories can rear their head just when you least expect it. But this is where the lessons lie. This is when you’re given the chance to be humble and admit you just don’t know it all. Trust is hard when all you knew was backed up into a corner. The defense mechanisms build over the years so they can’t break through your wall. Then one day you wake up and you realize parts of you got trapped behind it. Your sensibilities go array and your defensive disposition can get in your way.
As people we can be fragile. So far from perfect. Everyone has room for improvement. We’re no different in that regard. Even the most beautiful china cup can get a chip. But you can still drink from it.
Trust is scary. But people do care. You don’t always have to be your mothers daughter or your fathers son. You can come out from behind the shadows and know that your humility can set you free. We can’t be afraid to grow. We can’t be intimidated by who we used to be. Vulnerability isn’t weakness. There’s no need to be defensive. Practice makes perfect, tears can bring rainbows and promises to yourself can set you back on the right path.
A leap of faith and I join you in an epic adventure. An autonomous decree that if I miss, the stars will catch me. I become one with you and the world is an illumination. Me the shadow dancer being beckoned to embrace the splendor. The flight of an angel. Protected from the fears of adolescence. Guided through clouds of promises. Gratitude holds us high. Traveling the summit of our consciousness. Only the inner wonderment of a child shall find us airborne. Defying gravity. Immersed in the blue moon. The beauty of natures charms open her arms to us. Below the grass green and untouched. Stop and smell the flowers. Not a wrinkle in their stems or a pedal out of place. The light breeze sings for them, as they dance for me. My leap of joy. I believe. The awareness has made me one with the energy fields around me and so I ascend in harmony. I am set free. I shall rise to the occasion. Choose life. An answered prayer, a silent lullaby, a dream come true. Help me stay on course. Help me live like a butterfly. Help me glide. Help me love. Help me belong. Help me trust. Help me keep my promise.
Today is a great day for a romance and for skipping no matter who is watching. Today is the first day of the rest of your life and absolutely anything is possible. Today is a day unlike any other and where it leads really is up to you.
Cast no judgements, they will only hold you back. Hold no grudges, they will only hinder your growth. Do not take part in discriminations for what you put out you will get back ten fold.
Karma is a boomerang and only you have the ability to control your own outcome. Always be accountable.
Being human brings great responsibility and responsibility is not without consequence. If Mike Dooley is right and I do think he is, then thoughts become things and we really do write our own story. Do know that every great story goes through many rewrites. We can talk ourselves out of bad decisions and we can talk ourselves right into a room.
Reminders always come in handy so keep them close. You never know when you’re going to need them…
Love yourself and you will know hope. Hope for the best and you will know faith. Have faith and you will know your truth. Your truth will release the sun from behind the darkest clouds.
Love is the light that will lead the way. Consider love your conduit to long lasting relationships. It illuminates your innate desires and feeds your passions. Loves benevolence will open windows, doors and hearts everywhere.
Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel. Consider hope your inner flashlight. You control the switch and your batteries are solar powered. It helps you keep striving, pursuing, and seeing the bigger picture.
Faith is where the light is. Consider faith your adhesive to keep you in your strength. Hold on tight and let it hold onto you. The optimism will stir your senses and motivate your aspirations.
Truth is to walk in the light. Consider it your path to freedom from the darkness. The assimilation of truth will enlighten your spirit and purify your humanity. Embracing it shall truly set you free.
Love yourself and you will know hope. Hope for the best and you will know faith. Have faith and you will know your truth. Your truth will release the sun from behind the darkest clouds.
Not missing the babble of how yesterday got left behind. Too busy watching where you’re walking and the road less traveled lays ahead. Something about serendipitous waterfalls humoring effervescent lifestyles makes you giggle. The path is lit by the violet flame of Archangel Zadkiel and only God knows where it will lead you.
Early mornings remind me of how far we come. Don’t be fooled by what seems to happen overnight because chances are it didn’t. 
