unravel and fly

 

she was all tangled up

in her history

until

she chose to be grateful.

she chose to let go

and the string unfurled

as it might

and the string now holds a kite

here's to your dreams

your hopes

and all of the history they're built on

It was winter when I found the ball of tight and knotted stories. 

I thought I'd be enmeshed for days and months. Then as I allowed the bits to loosen up I thought they'd spread across the floor - forever more. But a big sigh let out and picked them up and we tied some bows and painted red and now they fly out front of me a part of all my stories thread.

How's your winter? A delicious time to go in deep and bundle up the lost bits, the rejected bits, the denied or the remembered. Bring them home. Hug them close. Allow them, acknowledge and accept them. Find a way to love them up into their higher calling. A little practical alchemy.

If you get stuck - call on a friend or a mentor to show you the gold that's always shining somewhere.

What's the piece of gold right now that's keeping you afloat?

Share it and shine up my day . . .

in gratitude to my mentor Linda

Kaye :)

Thank YOu Thursday!

 

I want to start a Thank You Thursday

Well because really gratitude is the key

to all possibility.

If you can't be grateful completely

for where you are, who you are

and how you got here,

there's no space for the new to come.

There's too much clutter of good or bad or incomplete

claiming all your time.

Just say thank you

find a way

even if it isn't pretty.

That tiny gem

that glint of silver lining any cloud.

Watch it grow and even so a creaky smile

a hint of grin or maybe laugh out loud

feel the space inside and all around you

open up, spread out wide

and in flows the breeze of

potentiality.

. . . So Thank You today for:

Thursday for Thor's Day and the thunder

my favorite sound cooling me down

after this hot summer day.

For Gala Darling's Things I Love Thursdays

and all the things she is

bold, daring, colorful, full!

For Roy and HG's Throbbing Thursday.

The Dream and Fatso

I've been doing reruns -

for watching the Olympics

there's nothing like them ;)

And for the plums I filled my jumper with

out early walking the cobbled edges of Gordavio

and the breakfast of them stewed poured on rice

that reminded me of my mother

and our european combie camper vacation :)

What are you thankful for today

It grows the more you share!

:)   K

illustration friday - lost

that's been my favorite question these days

where do you lose yourself? . . .

poetry? - anyone can :)

So every day I read a Samantha poem

she writes one poem a day

the art of noticing your life

It's such a sensuous way

to focus

It moves me

I have a try

even though I stumble

I'm not so good and I can't help but rhyme

even if it's not the right time

Then the other day in class

when my mind falls in its regular fog

of swirling dative/akkusative der, die das ness

we turn to seite dreissig and

I wake up

They want us to write a poem - in German

yikes

but it's ok, it's easy, it's fun and there's a formula!

I do mine with Wendy and it comes out like this:

Ruhig

Der See

Aus dem Fenster

Wir vergessen unsere Ubung

Donnerstag

or this in English

Calm 

The lake

Out the window

We forget our lesson

Thursday

Ha Ha

Have a go, write one for yourself

It's called an Elfchen (little eleven)

11 words in 5 lines

1st = an adjective / a noun? (1 word)

2nd = what is / what is it? (2 words)

3rd = where is it / what does it? (3 words)

4th = something about yourself / the noun (4 words)

5th = conclusion word (1 word)

We read them out to each other and left the last line to guess. 

My German class just got funner.

Write yourself one.

share

I'd love to read it :) 

(yep that's the view out the window

pretty easy to drift off . . .)

listening