Heart to Heart ❤️

 

May your heart swell with joy, laughter, love, peace, contentment and may your heart heal when it feels broken, bent or bruised. May you find what you have lost and strength when you are weary and teary. May all of the disappointments transform into new ways to move forward with a different way of looking at things.

May everyday bring you the satisfaction of knowing you did your best 

My heart to yours 

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

Silent Night

 

A Child is born with a heart of gold but the way of the the world makes his heart turn cold. ~ Song writers: Marice White, Charles, Stepney, Verdine White

We hope for the best for a child, to grow up healthy, happy and learns how take-on life with respect and a good heart and mind. We hope there is someone or many who will be kind, nurture, care for and love them throughout their lives

We celebrate the birth of a child and wish every child in the world could be brought into a peaceful, fair and just place. We pray the day of birth is preceeded by a beautiful silent night. 

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. 

Sacred Places

Sacred places are places of the heart and soul the kind that reassure us of the presence of Holy Spirits, strong spirits so powerful as to make believers out of the most nonbelieving in miracles and things beyond the limits of human understanding. Things unfathomable misunderstood and mysterious, mighty and able to leap and bound into the hightest high and rescue one from the lowest of low places and times. There is holiness among us that involve vibrations and energy that stirs with the capacity to heal open wounds, comfort the unconsolable, mend broken hearts and bones and hold close those seeking shelter from the storms.  

Sacred places of peace, simple appointed and found in our core our very being with the ability to fortify ourselves share and emit elements of divinity. We can also contain corrosive toxic waist that clogs our consciousness, stymies our sensibilites while suffocating and squeezing the life out of you. 

What is believed is manifested in ways that can perpetuate self doubt and despair or present us with new and improved views that facilitate fresh ways of navigating forward finding the places deep inside that help us stand tall and feel better confident in our own strength and sacredness even with every little and big challenge in place. 

Wonder

To maintain the wonderful sense of wonder through the years, through the times when we do not feel much like wondering what, why, where and how unless those questions are a matter of life and death. Maybe we simply get complacent, bored, jaded or luke-warm about life the world at large and it's many wonderous people, places and things. To maintain that magical wonder of youth at any age seems to be the key to staying young at heart rather than developing a particular blindness, tone-deafness or disensitivy to the savory and sweetness,  surrounding us.

I wonder how people get along in life without faith in something more than what is seen on this earthly plane. I wonder why animals do not talk and maybe grateful they don't except with their eyes, hearts and souls. I wonder why things like how people everywhere, are not cared for with more equality and respect. I wonder how the earth and all of its inhabitants came into existence among the vastness of the universe. 
I wonder how gravity, astronomy, physics, science and art operates and does the amazing mind-expanding things each  does. 

Where, when, who started it all? My faith in the author and creator of life answers some questions with broad strokes and sometimes with detailed information. Still, I wonder about the intricate nature of things and the dynamics involved but I am satisfied and at peace with the understanding that some questions will remain unanswered and the mysteries and wonders of life will go on.

Music

What can you say about music that hasn't been said? From my point of view and from what I hear, music means so much to so many. It is taken personally as friend and a foe, a joy bringer and prompter of pain and energizer. With music an atmosphere is created, the mood is set, motivation on the ready. The emotional aspect of music brings one to tears as easily as the cheers, the quiet, calm memory to emotions of elation, excitation and exhilaration when it feels like your heart wants to jump out of your chest. Just as certain sad songs evoke sorrowful memories, longing, loneliness, the music, melody or lyrics recall the very moments of life we were living when the song came out. The stories told in song are powerful, poignant, corny and compelling as life itself. Lyrics dress-up the music to create such a compatible composition while the instruments add dimension and layers of texture to a song, throw in a great voice and magic takes place. Musical recordings are awesome gifts and a great companion through the years, an exciting place to go for quick sound bites or to take along on long road trips, to keep you company and facilitate inspiration.

Music is like a comforting blanket you wrap yourself in, you fill your head and your heart with the warmth of the sounds, the instruments and voice may be an irresistible chance encounter you hoped to get to know and remember forever. Music is like an old and new friend or member of the family, an entity, spirit, a thing that has always been there in good times and bad, the soundtrack of our own story plays on with a playlist that includes oldies, sentimental, festive, fancy, edgy, mellow and maniacal melodies. It's all there, the soulful, heart stopping, tear-jerking, dance-inducing, thought provoking, melodic, always laden with rhythm to get my attention.

I can not imagine a world without music even though there are times when my brain is on overload and does not know what to do with another note. The essence of music flows, softly or sternly bringing about overwhelming feelings, it can be too much as the sound saturates the air with a liquid type matter that makes me feel like I am drowning in it. The slightest sound of music can keep me awake or wake me up while a lullaby puts me to sleep, depending on the volume, the tune and if I am tired or not. Music is as reliable a relationship in my life as the moon, the sun and Holy Spirit. A matter of fact, emotional connection and partnership that I am happy to say; will always have a prominent place in my life.

Beautiful Companion

How grateful I am for you in my life. THANK YOU for being the perfect creature you are, for your faithful companionship, your trust in me and the unconditional love you bless me with. I appreciate you so much and would be very sad without you. The joy you have brought into my life and continue to bring is as bright and beautiful as the sunniest day known to the world.

Your quiet, simple presence fills me with comfort and peace just as your humble heart and soul settles my storms. Even while you yourself are afraid of thunder and lightening we stay close to protect each other as I repeat to you; "It's OK, it's OK".  We manage to see each other through the chaotic moments that seem bigger than both of us. I take refuge in you dear dog. Time and time again you come around like a ship looking for the lighthouse to light your way. Don't you know it's you who lights my path just as all furry angels on four legs will do. 

No judgement ever, only what feels like pure love and loyalty defined. You give meaning to the whole point of having and caring for a pet. "A pet" seems like a mere word with only the slightest description of what you truly mean; which is an awesome being who blesses me everyday with your sweet, unassuming ways. To look into your precious eyes is like looking into a little bit of heaven where all creatures big, little, furry or bald, wet, wild, tame, domesticated and feral go when their lives are done here on earth. Your unpretentiousness has been a guiding light for me and a constant reminder to simply be true to myself taking one step at a time, one sip of water, one bite of food, one kiss, hug, bark, walk, run, nap, moment of fun at a time. My beautiful companion how very precious you are.

Something Good

The fire starts with a spark, the small light glows brightly then dims with the mundane the day in day out grind transitions into joy and excitement as glorious as the sound of a finely tuned grand piano. Another shift in time and space as the wind fans the flame with anticipation for something good a sweet stirring in a quiet heart beating with a powerful rhythm. The possibilities are spectacular in scope, the wondrous world, wild, wicked saturated in splendid beauty beyond our view yet within our reach.

We ponder life's mysteries, surprises, blindsided by bad news, overcome with grief then taken back by a story of humanity at it's finest, resilient, merciful, thoughtful with compassion for the innocent, neglected, abandoned. People and animals alike are rescued and rescue those divinely appointed in the name of mutually salvaging a broken heart, the injured and isolated spirit. The resilience of the hurt and heart sick resounds with heart stopping, joyful gratitude and humility with an appreciation for the ablity to move past the pitch blackness into a new light of a better and brighter day. ☼

Good Luck!

Luck, Goodness, Faith, Hope, Wishes, Prayers, Thoughts, thugs, mugs, Pugs on the rug you want to HUG.  It's a rambling ride more than a stroll, a hard rock, roll and rumble take it in stride. Travel well be prepared with respect and pride in doing right by life. Maintain a sense of awareness for the natural horsepower to run smoother on cleaner fuel and change the lackluster plugs that lose their spark.

We are given the tools to help fix a blown-out tired soul and change run down tread with simple encouraging words, to handle the world with care, kindness, compassion and rebuild with spirit-lifting, heart-healing light-casting lubrication. Restore the weary traveler, whenever possible lift the shroud of despair and doubt from the wounded road warrior in an uneven, unjust world, if only one weary traveler at a time.

To cherish life is to live with passion for love, peace, a place in the heart that makes sense to retreat to, rest, renew and recharge.  The battles, losses, victories, disappointments, life's delights, a good laugh or a good cry... days and nights, years, the lives and loves we experience make us who we are, who we were and who we will be.

Planet Peace ~

The physical, spiritual, emotional, psychological, tribe~oceanal, constitutional, trascendentional, conversational, irrational, sensational part of life- WoW! To live life as completely as possible, unbridled, undeniably joyful at least aware of life's goodness and it's grand scope of miraculousness.
 

!Yes, miracles are quite something and quite simple not always recognizable but constantly occurring all around us, out of this world and closer then our own heart beat. ~~~~♥~~~~~

Duality and beyond, this for that, yin-yang, Jeff & Mutt, Bonnie & Clyde, good, bad, ugly, beautiful, lover, hater, outrageously wonderful to the horrifying treatment of vulnerable humankind and other creatures to the scathing pain of mourning the loss of a child to disrespect in any form, to every single living being on this planet... peace ~ yes, we are connected, disconnected, searching, finding, regressing and evolving ~

Love and peace to you~



Heart & Soul

To say goodbye to someone you have known forever, someone who was a permanent fixture in your life even if there were years you saw each other almost never... it is a time when one reflects on the goodness, the love, respect, admiration and stories about the life that passes on to another realm.  The transition is sad but sacred as faith indicates after life on earth the spirit thrives in a perfectly peaceful place of existence.

The connection transcends time and space as the love is not diminished but remains in tact and in a state of grace, as if the connection is strengthened with the awareness that we now have greater access to the heavenly elements, powerful, unrecognizable to the human eye but felt with the heart and soul, spiritual connections we can not even fathom yet reveal themselves to us by way of abounding quiet and not so quiet blessings.

And so we say our sad goodbyes to prima Marian Romero, good woman, salt of the earth with a big heart and generous nature, funny, sassy and a safe place for me to land when I was bouncing off the wall with youthful exuberance and mom allowed me to hang out with. We were good paleez.

Love you Marian, rest in peace.

Rules & Reg's

At what point does one disconnect? The light of the spirit shines brilliantly, flickers and fades with every step of life. Every moment determines the strength or weakness of the glow. The purveyors of peace pray the light never goes completely out. The heart thrives and shrivels as the rules change in the name of love, harmony, order, self preservation or in the name of hate, cold, reckless malevolence. What was once considered cruel, crazy, harmful behavior suddenly becomes acceptable for those whose mind has been emptied of reason and respect for life and the safety of others.

One does not always regulate owns own conscience be it by choice or other influences. The vulnerable fall prey and acquire a taste for hostility and aggression, detachment from a kinder, softer, peace-loving existence to a harsh, bitter, belligerent mentality. It is based on much exposure to malice, anger, frustration and unrest. Fear mongers attempt to choke the goodness out of life and seize the sweetness of the soul.

There is a strange and dark tolerance for disrespect. At times it feels like the whole world has gone mad. I don't remember it always being like this or are there simply more people which makes it more pronounce? Haters look for trouble, someone to disturb, instill worry, doubt and despair. As the sting and scars of disrespect become the order of the day this precious planet must feel every ache and pain. The collective pulse and heartbeat of mother earth longs for Love, Respect, Kindness and Compassion and in the end, must prevail.

Miracles Abound ♥

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You and Me

Yes, I want to tell how much I love you, I want to tell you how much I need your presence however measured in my life and in fact accept open heartedly, humbly and with profound gratitude. I thank you for your love, the lessons you have taught me, the sound of your voice, your scent, the bright slight glint, hint of sadness in your mysterious eye's, your very vibration and connection. I can not thank you enough for what you have done to and for me. I guess I will never be the same as the song goes.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Mark Allen Joseph & Mary Ellen!! Wow, what a ride it has been! To think about Mark's physical life, running it's course, at 37.  Now at 55, with most of my life lived, I am older and I hope wiser than years ago or even yesterday.  I used to think people in ther 30s, 40s, 50s & so on, were ancient, now, well, not so much.  Although it is true, there are day's I feel like I am 5 and sometimes 500. For today and the next 365 days & nights, I will be 55, still wondering when I am going to feel like an adult.!

It has been a sweet birthday with love and blessings at the helm. I am humbled, honored, lifted-up and left filled with huge appreciation for such kindness. My heart spills over, all over the ever loving place, it bounces off the walls and skips along the fireplace mantle, it runs up along the wall, up the ceiling and back down again, it dances and prances like a drum major in the Rose Bowl Parade. My heart and it's contents ooze with life's goodness and beautiful vibration.

Thank you good people who make my heart swell so, like the colossal wave as it rises up in the sky further than seagulls fly.  I have enjoyed a deluxe day filled with wonderful surprises and make-me-melt messages. I love each one like a duck loves every duckling. All my love and gratitude precious one's. God bless you now and forever. ~ 

Out Of Harm's Way

Wish I could keep you from harm, any hurt, ache or pain. Wish I could keep you safe, protect you, out of any trouble, offer you shelter from lifes storms.  Wish I could carry you on my back and make sure no one ever breaks your heart or your spirit. I wish for you love, health, happiness and all that is good for you. My wish then, is my prayer for you now ~

¡Viva La Vida!

~  LIFE  ~

Heart wrenching, deliriously happy, humbling, excruciatingly painful, triumphant, spirit crushing, new, old, fantastic, unfathomable and beyond... that is LIFE.  One experience after the other... life squashes, squanders, scornful and full of despair. Alas,  divine forces harken and heal, mend and comfort, bless the discouraged with encouragement, reverence, respect, peace, love and hope.
Emotions run high and deep,
from the best and worst to the most powerful and pitiful.
It all occurs one moment, one day and one night at a time.

Positivity

"The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised." — Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking)                                                                Too good to be true, too corny, silly, a waste of time. The truth is; finding the right attitude and thinking positively saved my life over thirty years ago, at a point when I struggled with the meaning of life and my purpose in it. Positive thinking and prayer go hand in hand, one leads to the other and amazing Grace takes place. It is quite simple, often challenging and well worth the effort to "get your head right"... rest assured, a happy heart will follow.

Here




Here I am, take my hand & a little piece of my heart. Hold-on tight, loosely, or let-go... accordingly. Take my good stuff, take what you need, chew-up the meat, spit out the bones. There is always a place for you here in my heart and soul where only sacredness, peace and love live. An anchor is here, a refuge from the storm, that corner of the world where you are safe and cared for ~