Front Porch

Taking in the evening after a long day. Good dog, Buster sit's quietly by my side as we listen to the leaves sway back and forth in the brisk breeze. The night sounds seem different than the way the day sounds. Maybe because everything is not as clear so our other senses like sound and scent become more pronounce. 

The rustling leaves move so gracefully and are so comforting to listen to and watch the graceful natural dance. Each branch holds the leaves in perfect harmony as tree trunks stand stoically to facilitate the beautiful movement.

Dogs bark around the corner and someone is testing the maximum volume on their subwoofer down the street. Motorcycles growl and buzz down the boulevard as the aggressive sound of cars drag race toward their next speeding ticket suddenly someone yells something unrecognizable to someone in the distance. 

The night feels restless or maybe it's just me as the breeze turns to wind. The energy increases and the air whirls around with more rapid intention to fill the dark skies and air with perfectly orchestrated commotion. It's exciting in a low key way as nature shows it's wondrous ways. All of this from my front porch. Ain't it grand.  💨 

Better Life

One more day and many ways to make life better more beautiful for ourselves and others. A peaceful frame of mind is important and a good way to move forward into positive places. The world does not feel so hostile and cruel when I can be calm and lean into the spiritual realm. I am armed with elements beyond the limitations of this earthly plain. Internal peace is tucked away in our hearts and souls and accessible as needed. The trick is to pause and remember inward tools available to get a grip on things that seem slippery, out of balance and unreasonable. The world and the haters in it are part of life's obstacles. Peace, Love, Respect are absolutely the solution to the confusion and chaos that seems out of control as leaders forget how to lead with integrity and honor. 

Peace of mind seems easy enough but when stressors pop up and anxiety wants to run amuck it's not so simple to switch gears and pull yourself out of negative frame of mind. To focus on blessings, the things that bring us joy like people who love us, our precious pets and the many resources we have to make life comfortable, well, it's good to recall things that  make us happy. Even better when we can play our blessings forward in prayer, action and intention to make life better. God speed. 🏵️

With Love ♥

Dear Humanity,

I hope you are Ok, at least more so than not. You have been through a lot, more than anyone can imagine. You are loved so very loved and cherished in a special way among the twinkling stars and glistening galaxies. Dear and precious Humanity, you are a song of songs, the universe' magnum opus, you are all the astronomical things beyond common description and understanding. The asteroids and quasars, all the nebulas and planets, light and darkness, the void and vastness right here surrounding us revolving around us like a toddler would expect. Oh blessed, bewildered, beautiful people, enjoy the ride, dance, dash and ramble, nip, tuck, duck and roll through the cosmic highway to the best of your ability. 

Oh, precious planet, home to humankind so vulnerable, minuscule and marvelous. We share this magnificent, miserable, mysterious, magical marble, we share the heart and soul, the joy and pain. We share air, the sky and the best and worst of ourselves. 

We are blessed, burdened, humbled and enriched by one another. 
I am part of you, and you are part of me. 

Peace to you.

With Love,

mei

MAY

May your day's be merry, mild and mellow enough to recover from the chaotic stressful day's that leave you feeling dazed, cranky and confused. May your mother always hold a special place in your heart and soul and continue to be a beautiful part of your soul naturally referred to with reverence and love.

May goodness promptly follow the bad lands on your path and may mercury rise like hope to lift you up and out of cumbersome times, times that feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders. In giving and receiving may love light and lead the way always a part of your days and nights forever. 

HEYY! Hi!!

MOON! Over here! HEY, Looking good, great to see you! Your glow when the sun shines on you is such a wonderful thing. I am very grateful for your loyalty and friendship, Thank you for being there! I appreciate your quiet constant giant presence, beyond reach yet right there and always welcome. I like to think of you as a beautiful benevolent ball of light, a rising and falling astronomical entity barely there, often obscured from view, dim, bright brighter, brilliant. I am always happy to see you and feel the goodness created by that great glow in the dark, skylight of yours, it never gets old, nice and neat, no fuss no muss. From a slight sliver of light to a plump waxing happy moon, a stunning display of divine universal forces at work.  

*The remaining tree trunk and branches in the front yard look like the flailing arms of Zozobra (effegy/50' giant marionette, "Old Man Gloom") symbolic of burning down accumulated doom and gloom, the event kicks-off the annual Santa Fe Fiesta's.

 

Thank you again dear Moon for your perfectly orchestrated presence in earth's solar system so smooth accompanying us with your astute majestic swan dives, elegant and perfectly appointed with powerful potent energy and protective. You have a special place in my life. Please know I am eternally grateful to you, the light you share from the suns shine is a wonderous, mysterious, a marvel and blessing. "I like the way you move!" ☺♥

Search and Rescue

To seek and find, search and rescue as first responders of the planet, of the universe, of your corner of the world, rise! Rise, and shine like the beautiful life savers, you are. The one's on two legs, one or four! Know you are life's knights, mighty and gallant! Your gestures are perfectly timed for the one most in need of your presence like a masterful symphony with wisdom, courage, compassion, light, love, strength, laughter as the principal players of the grandest orchestra. The overcomers of darkness who whether they realize it or not, have put out the littlest campfire to raging out of control full-on fires, helped someone breathe better, somehow put into the position to lift-up another physically, emotionally, spiritually, you freed a captor of something maybe even him or herself. The awesome privilege of making life more livable, lovable and bearable, the greatest gifts known to earthbound inhabitants. OMG! The privilege to be a part of heavens grand scheme of things because of your presence making a minuscule or massive difference when you could. To search for and rescue who, what, when and where you could, you stood-up to the assignment and met and will meet the challenge of risking your own safety or peace, health or happiness. 

The moment angelic forces move is the moment life defines itself as a living breathing presence, entity, thing, place creature, the whole enchilada, entire pie a place in time and space as mysterious as the miracles that sustain it's sacred, scared, scorched, sad, magnificent, full, aching,round beautiful body. 

From the beginning we are led by traces of sunlight and evenings sweetly-lit by the moon. We come from each other, we are every age we've ever been with the capacity to recall the most fleeting moment, terrifying or fantastic that left us speechless and humble that we lived though something so overwhelming.

The memory bank inherently grateful for certain experiences that can only be described as breath taking miracles. The very fact of our existence and wondrous nature of every blessed thing taking place simultaneously, individually, in sync or out of but still by happenstance or at the precise moment, no one saw coming. Turns out each one of us is part of the Search and Rescue squad. *How cool is that!       Here's to you! XO     

The Human Condition

Behold, humankind! Evolving toward the best versions of ourselves at the same time regressing into dark places, places that represents the worst in humankind, cold and cruel. Given the chance to start all over again how long can the human race sustain the beautiful harmonious notes of peace and respect, fairness and justice for all. We become rewired and advance to the point of the inability to think or behave in any negative or destructive way toward ourselves or anybody else. In Buddhism the ultimate goal of a good life is to live a simple existence, giving and receiving compassion, love, and respect, the very basics to enjoy peace of mind and contentment, happy and healthy.

Children, elders, others with little or no voice are only treated kindly and patiently. The world has elevated itself to a place that thrives on everything good, resources are equally distributed and everyone is grateful for every little and big thing. Every color, culture and every nation goes about life in peace. There are no exceptions in a utopia-type world order where humans are now conditioned to cherish and respect every inhabitant of this precious place in the universe.

We want to think positively with a fresh attitude toward our own place in the world, to believe it is a new time in life and a good time to be alive. In the whole scheme of things we experience moments and fragments of perfection. Possibilities and probabilities go their own way in reality. We hope and hold on to better days, better ways to think and be happy and share what we can to cultivate a good life for each other. We pray for peace and hope for miracles and changes that need to be made to create all of the things that transform heartache to happiness and emptiness to fullness, sadness to joy.
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WORD ~

Beautiful, big, broken, bent, bruised, full, swollen, bearing the brunt of whatever it is you are going through, getting over or feeling at any given moment, the heart takes it for the team. Every part of the whole is counting on the heart to beat in time with all matters of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual concerns. The inner chambers driven by strength and goodness as each dashing and dangling moment whether mundane, predictable, triumphant or tragic, the heart beats to the sound of it's own movements.

Beautiful, blue, big, bountiful, bright, overcast, angry, awesome, absent, hazy, dark and obscured the sky covers our lives like a massive dome that never closes even at night as the stars and the heavens sparkle from their places in the universe.

Beautiful, prayerful, mysterious, mind blowing, heart wrenching and heart warming pearls of wisdom found in collections of words. They are dangerous, disgusting and distinguished, meaningful and meaningless. Singular or strung together potentially powerful at once puny, raw, realistic, fantastic, fancy, passionate, painful and priceless. Words from thought to articulation are lovely and hateful, revolutionary and archaic, concise, convoluted and crystal clear. Communication with words that create sentences and dialog can be outdated, timeless, thought provoking and inspiring.

Words are like little puddles that turn into ponds and streams that turn into lakes and rivers and breathtaking oceans filled with every symbol and sound, letter, word, emotion and expression ever expressed. The mighty sea also swallows it's own salty tears with no words to convey what is beyond adequate description. A simple message reveals ignorance, intelligence,  hopelessness and hope. The string of sentences as fine as a fishing line tangle and untangle, constantly changing direction and right on course navigating through the sea of thought, one word at a time.

Simple

Oh c'mon, this has got to be the best of the best commercials ever, simply brilliant! 

This video is currently my all time favorite, it is world class kooky, crazy, fun. The ensemble cast of creatures  blend in purrfect harmony to create a colossal progrum and make beautiful music together.

This is the stuff sweet dreams are made of and might perhps offer a glimpse of heaven.

Hope 2013 is strong, healthy, happy and full of really good stuff!

 

Moonlit Night

You are so cool, so big and beautiful.

Your light makes me feel good as you shine like crystal, everything seems clean and clear. You cast a bright silver glow on the concrete, even Boxer girl, Sunni Marie with her gold furry back glistens as you cover her with your shiny brilliance. Music sounds better, the air is fresh and you seem to be at the center of it all.

Thank you!

Thank you for blessing me with your radiance still, after all these years.

I simply never get tired of seeing you and reaching out through you to everyone- to emit love and blessings, prayers for peace within everyone and for everyone without it, to far reaching areas in need of light and goodness.