Haiku My Heart–The Words Said…

The pursuit wears on.

Strive, change, chase, never enough.

Just be happy NOW !

(Little Happy decked out for the day in the studio)

 

This morning I awoke with that striving mode, self-defeating monkey brain crap in my head.

“Yeah, you’re making changes but you have so much to change, you’ll never get there !”

“Other people have the answers and are applying them and having “success”. It must be you who is weak.”

“Weak.”

“Weak.”

Man, it sucks to wake up like that.

I got up, poured myself a cup of coffee and headed to the computer.

One of the first things I read on Facebook was this :

(SheRecovers image)

This morning, these were the exact words I needed to banish the monkey brain and those negative thoughts !

JUST BE HAPPY.

Those words started ringing in my mind like a sweet chime.

I took a bunch of deep breaths and thought “Yes.”

Felt “Yes.”

Phew…

Of course, monkey brain tried a few times to put up a fight, focused on what was “wrong” and “not enough”,

but the real me is finding the strength to tell that pain in the butt part of my brain to f-off !

So the plan for today is focusing on

just

being

happy.

And just maybe,

with a little help from my monkey brain banishing friends,

I can BE there for awhile.

 

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Happy Friday, Beautiful Ones !

For more haiku happiness, visit rebecca at recuerda mi corazon.

WIP on Wednesday…

Works

in

Progress…

This one is almost done. Just a little bit of metallic gold and a touch of black I think, to make it complete.

“Honey Drop” – 12X12” canvas, acrylic paints & collage

 

This one has a lot more work to be done. It is also much smaller, only 6X6”.

Like this, it looks like a clown mask or a skeleton face, don’t you think ?

I am in love with painting right now.

Tunes on, sitting my my awesome space with sunlight streaming in,

and losing myself in the color and the movement…

Artist Kim is a happy camper !

Feels so good !

Hope you’re doing stuff that makes you feel good, Beautiful Ones !

Big Love !

Haiku My Heart–Color Me Lime Green

My Lime Green Buddha,

Content where this life puts him.

Color me lime green.

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I am continuing to deepen my practice of belonging to myself.

My close to empty bucket wasn’t filled in one day.

But I am finding that this taking care of and loving on yourself stuff

really does feel pretty good.

Happy Friday, Beautiful Ones !

Love on your sweet Selves!

For more haiku and lots more heart, visit the remarkable and beautiful rebecca at recuerda mi corazon.

Today, I will be…

After a pretty rainy, extremely humid weekend,

it was a treat to wake up to dry air, cooler temps and this glorious morning light from the sun.

The first thing I noticed though, was that the sun is definitely heading into its end of summer, early fall position.

How can that be ?

August just began, right ?

Everyone I talk to remarks on how fast time is flying.

(artwork on the side of the general store in Charlotte, Vermont)

I feel it too, especially when I stop focusing on the moment in front of me, and look ahead to the future.

On this beautiful Monday morning in August,

I am going to try my best to be right here where I am,

and relish this one precious life, each and every moment of it.

(photo from Google images)

Happy Monday, Beautiful Ones !

Happy Peeps Day !

 

This made me smile this morning.

Love having these peeps here !

We’re headed back to the beach today !

And we are oh so happy about it !

Happy Wednesday !

Good Morning…

 

Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety –
best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light –
good morning, good morning, good morning.
Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

 

Believe it or not, I woke up a little “miserable” and “crotchety”.

(Man, I hate it when that happens. But there is a lot in this world to be miserable and crotchety about if that where you want to go !)

But then I remembered that I have a choice.

I can wallow in the “ever-darkness” all day.

Or I can CHOOSE to “start the day in happiness, in kindness”.

Which would you choose ?

Big Love to you, Beautiful Ones !