The Day after…

It would seem that elections give me headaches.

It must be all that line drawing, “I win, you lose” and battleground crap. I am so happy with the outcome, as I believe in Barack Obama. He is the only candidate that gives me any hope that we can ever get closer to living in that field that Rumi talks about.

I know it won’t happen in my life time, but there is always hope.

I have a horrible headache this morning and I have many things to accomplish today.

Tomorrow, I leave for a week long visit up north.

(Jessie on the right, with her mom, my sister, Natalie)

Number 1 is time with my niece Jessica, who is 21, and who really wanted to make a plan for some Aunt/Niece time when I saw her about a month ago. How could I refuse ??? So we are taking two days in a hotel in Mont Tremblant, to hang out and spend precious time together !!! We got a great deal on the hotel as it is kind of the dead season up there until the snow falls. I am so excited to be with that girl!

I will also see my mom, my two sisters and a friend or two, (there is never enough time to see everyone I would love to see !)

and then on Monday,

I head back down to VT to spend some time with e.b. !

It is bundle up time in VT in every sense of the word,

and I need to share some of that time with my amazing friend !

Off to pop some Advil and hope that this headache doesn’t slow me down too much.

Wishing you a happy Wednesday, Beautiful Ones !

The Circle of Love is a good place to be...

My lovely Canadian Chickie Friend, Dawn did a post this week called "What makes you Happy ?"
She asked us to tell her our answers and link back to her.

It took me a couple of days, but here is my latest journal page in response to her question :

(click to enlarge)

I have, of course, thought of a ton of other things that I love but didn't include on the page.

One of them is the poetry of Rumi.

Like this quote :

"Come out of the circle of time

And into the Circle of Love."

Have been spending too much time in the circle of time this week,

not to mention too much time in my own head !

This weekend, David and I are off to visit my sister Kristina and her gang in La Conception.

I will be getting me some sweet Love Therapy

from you know who !!!!

Can't wait !

I will be back Monday night !

Hope your weekend is full of what makes you happy !

Big love, Beautiful Ones !

Lost in Rainy Day Red Dreams

e.b. said to gather up red on this rainy day

so we did

"like birdsong inside the egg" - Rumi inspired art journal page

Played with contrast and saturation a little to gather the red a little more ...

the red doors open to the words from the Rumi poem

You know what goes perfectly with red and rain ?

A little Neil...

"if you follow every dream,

you might

get

lost..."

You can listen to some Neil here.

Gather some red and some dreams today...

Keep Walking...

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.

Don't try to see the distances.

That's not for human beings.

Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty & frightened.

Don't open the door to study and begin reading.

Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

- Rumi