Thanksgiving

As I contemplate Thanksiving, I think to myself that the word alone means giving thanks.  There is always something to be thankful for.  

10 things Im thankful for are:

1.   Im warm when it is cold out.

2.   I have a nice, comfy bed. 

3.   I have a kind and caring family.

4.   My immediate family are supportive and we grow individually, together each day.

5.   I have wonderful and fun friends. 

6.   My health is as good as it is. 

7.   I'm surrounded by lovely things that I never tire looking at.

8.   I'm grateful for my oh so many adventures.  

9.   I'm grateful for my first paying client for Just 9Be U.

10. I'm grateful for all the pain I have known (or some of it anyway) because I never would've dug so deep and connect to so much inner knowing otherwise (most likely).

And, to add one more, Im grateful to you and for you, the reader, the human, the one that matters just because you are.  What you do in your life matters and ripples out into our world.  I'm grateful that you care and either love yourself completely now (and others) or are working towards loving yourself more and more (and others).  You are lovable. 

May you realize the things that you are thankful for and feel thankfulness.   

Life.  May you open your heart; your mind; your arms.   Embrace life from your loving and happy place as often as possible.  Embrace life from the truth of who you are and deeply want to be.  

I am Off

I am off to visit my lovely and precious sister for the week and help out with my beautiful niece's bridal shower!   I will be away a week.   !  I will be by myself without my dogs or my immediate family.  My husband will stay to 'hold down the fort' so to speak.

It has been a while since I traveled alone.   I am very excited and looking forward to the freedom it provides me.

I will miss my family immensely and my schedule that I am constantly looking to update and add to.

My dogs will miss me and they will be fine without me.  I still have a bit of an abandonment issue but I walk through it easier every time I go away knowing that I am not abandoning, I am going on a 'holiday', a 'vacation, a 'get-a-way'.  I will return.   I will return in fine form.

I am seeing a dear and my most long time friend (since we were 14) for Thanksgiving holiday.  I look forward to this as well.   She is not very close to where my sister lives and the two hour trip one way will be an adventure - Thanksgiving traffic and all.  Hugging her, and all my loves ones, is my goal. 

I am packing, planning and gathering everything and anything that I think I may need.   It is my thought not to take my vitamins (first time ever) to see how my body responds to same.   If it responds with negativity, I can always purchase vitamins in Pennsylvania, USA.

So, off I go.   I will be back.   I send you love, inner knowing, strength and the greatness of you.

I hope to meet you back here because you being here means something to me.  It means a lot to me.

With great gratitude and joyful cheer, I bid you adieu.

May you know and live the truth of YOU.  May you experience it as a 'holiday'; a 'vacation' from time to time; and a 'get-a-way'.   May you look at your life and let it be all about the freedom to be your best and most loving self; in towards yourself and out towards the world.

In this, we all win.   May we all win.

Wisdom

Wisdom     What is it...  Is it an inner knowing...  Is it a learned knowing...  Is it from memorization...  Is it something we were born with...  Is it something that we are taught...  Is it helpful...  Can it be hurtful...

Wisdom.  - to be wise

What makes a person wise...   Knowing questions to answers about matters and things...  Knowing insider information that only a few know...  Knowing answers on a test that gives us an 'A'...  Knowing what makes us happiest and knowing how to achieve same and live same...

Perhaps, there are all kinds of wisdoms.   I think the one(s) that makes us happiest is(are), perhaps, the most important and meaningful.

To achieve things we don't want to achieve...  is this necessary to achieve things we want to achieve...

Wisdom.

May you have the wisdom to your own happiness; walking through with the most amount of peace as possible; allowing joy to enter your veins.

There is only competition if you want it or think it is supposed to be so.   Many love competition and this is wisdom to compete if it brings one joy and peace.

There is internal competition - to be a better person than you were yesterday.   But, what if you were a pretty great person yesterday... is it wisdom to just be and allow and love on...

May you know the wisdom that completes you from the inside out and may you allow it to participate in the life that brings you the greatest peace, joy, and love.  When you are on your deathbed, may this wisdom that you choose, bring you the feeling of success, peace, accomplishment and fulfillment.  Will the people around you feel you and know your wisdom. 

This is the wisdom I wish for us all.   Let the wisdom that you seek and live, let it bring you your whole self; your whole-ness; your whole life into gratitude on your deathbed, which, in turn, will bring wholeness to you now.

Just what if...

May you know the wisdom I speak of...   if you want to.   If it feels right to you.  If it floats your boat.  If it brings you into fulfillment. 

Whatever wisdom fulfills you, I wish for you. 

Namaste.

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Weather

The weather here in sunny South Florida, USA, has been beautiful with no humidity, light cool breezes and warm sunshine. 

I just want to stay outside and so do my dogs.  We go for extra long walks and breathing is such a delight.

My body gets energized from the perfect composition of 'happy' weather. 

It is not cold and it is not hot.   It is comfortable.

How we, as humans, love comfort.  Whatever it means to you, I'm thinking you find solace, peace and even enchantment in comfort.

I think we are most comfortable when we don't question what is; when we allow what is; when we accept what is and bring our fair self to same.  Comfort - it is a beautiful thing.

May you balance out comfort, joy, your inner knowledge with your outer doing.  May you create balance in the comfort of just being you.

Allow not guilt.   Allow not engaging in discomfort.  Allow balance.   Allow comfort in all that you know and do; as much and as often as you possibly can.

Even when the weather is rainy, dreary, dull and/or uncomfortable, allow yourself to find comfort in experiencing and opening to what makes you most you; what makes you warmer/what makes you cooler/what makes you comfortable.

Give yourself permission without anything attached to open up to comfort as it feels so to/for you.

Comfort on.  Try it, you just might really like it.  And, I'm thinking you know when you are comfortable--your whole body and being feels relaxed and safe.

May you feel relaxed and safe.

I await

One week from today I am going back to my hometown to see my family.  My beautiful niece is getting married and we are having a shower for her as the bride-to-be.   My sister is the mother-of-the-bride-to-be.

Oh great fun.   !

They are going all out.  I do hope that I will be able to keep up and go from morning til night non-stop as this is how it is being done just now.   And, the excitement and anticipation of same feels happy to me.  I trust myself to find my best and most honest way to walk through the celebration of celebrating!

I wonder how the cold - if it is even cold - will affect me.   I've gotten so spoiled here in this tropical weather.   To live unafraid of the weather is a pretty freeing thing for me.  I enjoy it and am grateful for it.

Wherever we go; whatever we do; whoever we see - there is always good and not so good to it.  If we focus on the good, the not so good takes care of it self.

May you focus on the good in your life and may it grow and help you to know completeness and fulfillment.

May you celebrate your life just because you can.   You are special.  Your life is special.  The people in your life are special.

You have the power to make your life what you want it to be.  Connect to what is inside of you and bring it out.

In this, fulfillment and completeness are met.

Sun day

I come to you on a Sunday morning.  I was raised and taught that to go to church and family time is what a Sunday makes.

A quiet, reflective time is what I grew into it to be.

A sunny day a Sunday can bring.

A day of light, reflection, love, calm and openness.  A day to be together with my family and a more leisurely day, perhaps, than any other of the days.

'They' say it is a day of rest. 

What is a Sunday to you...  Is it what you want it to be...

What is a sunny day to you...  Are you experiencing what you want to experience...

May you create your days to be what you want them to be.  Perhaps, start with minutes or even seconds of 'you time' and grow into days, months, years and your lifetime.

We win most when we live the life as it is inside of us to live.  The people around us win most when we do this, as well, because this helps us to be happy and 'sunny'.

Life cannot always be happy and/or sunny, perhaps.  It can always be fulfilled as you learn to let these seconds, minutes, days, etc. be true from inside of you out.

You were born with everything that you need for this lifetime within you.  The ability to live out your life is inside of you.  

May you open up to it; flow with it; allow it; feel it; be it.

I wish you to be fulfilled in the sunny days and the not so sunny days.  They are all a part of life and our own growth.  They all matter.  They all touch us.

May we touch back with our truth; our love and let the reflection of yourself be what you feel best in it being...

I wish you fulfillment in the you that you are.  It is inside of you.  May you tap in.

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I awake

I awake earlier these days with the time change.  It is daylight one hour early.  I stir.   I lay in bed for an hour or more reading and 'playing' on social media.

I sit out back for a few moments watching nature rise to the day.  A little bird flutters from tree to tree.  The silence is much appreciated.  The temperature is welcomed.  My breath is honored.

I come to my computer and I feel, see and hear the fountain with the water spout dancing with its natural flow.

I feel the chair underneath me supporting me.  I feel the ground at my feet holding me. 

I am.   I just am.

It is moments like these where I know ease, I believe in ease.   I believe in life and I believe in myself.

There is nothing I need to do in this moment and I am grateful for this special and precious moment.

I breathe.   I relax my shoulders.  I let go of any tension that I become aware of in my body.  I breathe.

May you notice the moments that are yours that you allow yourself to just be.  May you be one with them, appreciate them and know 'easy'.