And in the end…

This is the last page in my Moleskine 12X8.5 watercolor journal.

I have worked and played in it on and off for about three years.

Lots of song lyrics were running through my head as this final page emerged…

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“We’re just two lost souls, living in a fish bowl, year after year.”

“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.”

In the end, I will just let the Beings speak for themselves.

Close the book on this chapter.

And get ready to move on to the new.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes…

Happy Friday, Beautiful Ones ! And to my American friends, Happy Fourth of July weekend ! Make merry and be safe !

Beginning with Bibitte

Bibitte Inspiration – Monday July 28, 2014

-blue jay feather, lavender sprig, duck bill lake drift wood and the vino du jour.

 

I have been away from regular blogging for such a long while now

that I feel like I don’t know where to jump back in.

I have decided to participate in Susannah Conway’s

August Break

“This is a community project that has no real rules –  the idea is to simply take a photograph every day for the whole of August. That’s it. Pause, look around you and shoot what you see. Live inside each moment. Pay attention to what’s there. If it’s the summer where you are it’s a lovely way to be present to the moments that will be gone before you know it. If it’s the winter, what better way to liven up your day than with a creative project to play with? :)”

 

I am not so great with sticking to things, but I really want to try and commit to this project.

I may or may not stick to the prompts that Susannah has provided.

I just want to see where inspiration guides me.

I have also decided to start early.

Monday.

A perfect day to begin.

Happy new beginnings, Beautiful Ones.

Morning Gifts

From where I stand this Monday morning, November 18, 2013.

New art doodles, new Rock Beings, new day…

 

Centering Thought : A gift resides in every moment.

(From Deepak Chopra)

 

May your Monday be full of light, Beautiful Ones !

Lucky New Beginnings

So I am hoping that the sweet synchronicity that I experienced this morning is going to lead to a whole bunch more...


We have this lucky bamboo plant. We bought it to bring us luck in the area of our finances. I kept in David's office, where the bills are paid, hoping that with this plant in our corner, things would stay on the right track.


Well, recently, the bamboo has been looking really poorly, kind of like our financial situation. Yellow leaves, yellow stems, dying pieces in the circles of stalks. I think I over watered it. I have kind of neglected my indoor plants a little this summer. Whatever, the lucky bamboo was in grave danger of becoming the dead bamboo.


So this morning, I took the whole thing apart...took off all the dead (and as I discovered rotten) stems and leaves and put the survivors into a new container. I need rocks to hold the stems straight, so I took out my pail of rinsed sea rocks that I use for my Rock My World Rocks. As I was positioning the rocks, I noticed that one of them had a world written on it. It was one of my rejects that had gotten tossed back in the pail because of messy hand writing.

The rock said "new beginnings". How cool is that ? And how synchronized with our lives right now, and the end of the summer and the beginning of the new fall cycle, etc...

My message from all of this ? Got some areas of your life that need some tending ? Getting rid of dead wood and excess, giving things a new perceptive and creating a new jumping off point, well that is just plain good...for growing your garden or for growing in your life... Here's to creating our own lucky new beginnings...

Our "new beginnings" lucky bamboo in my studio window, in my grandmother's crystal ice bucket, with a picture of me when I was 6 years old, holding play money...now how's that for an altar to some good change !

Hope your week is off to a good new beginning !