Blank

I sit here at my desk with a blank mind and as a willing participant.

I have not a thought on what to share.  I am realizing that I am hopeful that it could be something fun, meaningful, helpful or all of the above.

I am noticing that I seem to be collecting a few ribbons because I find them too pretty to throw away; as they come from parcels I have ordered online.  

Here at my desk, I have a shimmery lime green.  On top of my refrigerator I have a shiny teal blue.  I just received a black and white silk and soft ribbon today and I ended up not throwing it away but putting it around my beautiful silver panther's neck... now that it is winter time.  Ha.

Seeing just a pop of color here and there makes me smile.  It feels good to smile.  Smiling produces feel good chemical messages from the brain and who doesn't like feel good things.  I have read that even just making a smile, whether there is a reason to or not, opens us up to many healthy benefits and I think a smile looks good on everyone.  Smiles are the contagions that, perhaps, could be fun, meaningful and helpful to us all.  

May you smile.

May you be open to realizing things, people and places that make and support your smile.

Smile.  It looks good on You.

Whether you have a reason to smile or just to have your face do a 'blank' smile, invite those happy hormones to flow.

Thank You.

Chill

In the northern hemisphere, winter is coming our way and the chill in the air begins.  Even here in tropical South Florida, USA, I can feel the chill even when it goes down to 60 deg. F.  

I am so used to the summer weather - hot and humid - hovering between 90 and 100 deg. F that 60 can feel somewhat cool.

The weather forecasters call it a 'cold front'.  Being originally from the north, real cold to me is 38 deg. F and below. 

However, with scleroderma, as it is for me, cold scared me.  My blood vessels constrict blood flow in the cold and numbness, pain and anguish can happen.  It was sometimes helpful if I allowed myself to stay 'chill' and honor my needs of staying warm and relaxed as much as possible.  I had a deep fear (a real fear) of cold.

Living here, the fear of the cold is gone (for the most part) because if it does get cold it is only for a few days and 'cold' is usually in the 60s.  It is not the real bitter cold and it doesn't last for months here.

For this I am grateful and less of a 'scaredy cat'.  It is close to Halloween..

I've always heard myself saying that 'we all have something we 'have' to live with and scleroderma is my something'.  

I still believe we all have our own 'stuff' that doesn't feel easy.  I also know that it is how I look at it, speak about it, feel about it and how I deal with it that creates my own experience of it.  I can create constant suffering or I can live in acceptance with love and there are many possibilities in between these two ways [or lack thereof] of living in it and with it.  Perhaps, even through it.

May you be aware of how You are looking at 'your something' (life), speaking about life, feeling about life and how You deal with life in each moment, in its fullness.  

How are you experiencing life just now...  Are you being true and loving or other... 

Are you chill and open to relaxing and doing your best to love yourself through...  Are you fired up, frustrated and angry at the unfairness of it...  Are you both...  Are you neither...   Are you somewhere in between...

Being aware of your own ways of dealing, coping and living is the first step in dealing, coping and living the way that feels best to You.

May you be aware of You and your responses/reactions to all that passes by, through and in. 

Fall Colors

The skies have been extra entertaining and deeply colorful recently.  I'm grateful to see pictures of all the beautiful colors from the fall leaves on the trees in the northern states.  It is a most beautiful time of year.  The reds, yellows, purples and oranges.  The bright vibrant colorful leaves 'snowing' and 'floating' down from the branches to the ground.  

When I lived up there, I found it so much fun to decorate with pumpkins, corn stalks, hay bales, mums and cabbages.  I really liked the purple ornamental cabbages and the combination of both orange and white pumpkins in all sizes.  The deer and squirrels would love to eat the ears of corn peeking through their peeled back covers as to add the yellow corn color to the full experience.  Then add ‘Indian corn’ with squash and gourds and the exhibition of fall colors and natural decoration was complete.    

Now, I live in the most southern USA state (on the east coast of Florida) and I was blessed to see beautiful fall colors like a natural painting in the sky and there was nothing I needed to do but notice it.  'Paradise' comes to mind for me.

May you know and believe that paradise is a state of mind and you can live in it any time you open to it and choose to let it be paradise for You. 

Ask yourself what makes you happy.  Ask yourself what makes you feel most whole.  Ask yourself what opens you up to feeling the magic of being You.  Ask yourself what uplifts you and brings you great joy.  To the point when you are in a zone of gratitude and completeness living in the moment with no thought or experience of anything outside of this being here now.  You are fully in this wondrous moment you are currently experiencing.   

Allowing ourselves to do what we want, when we want, with who we want and how we want can be the most freeing and one of the greatest invitations for the rising up of the glory that is within us.  

When you see me living in my glory, perhaps, the easier it is for the glory inside of You to engulf you.  And vice versa.  

Choose kindness.  It seems to work best for all to share our truth (our best way) through kindness.  

Oh, when we trust our instinct and desire with no harm rendering forth, paradise lives on and through us.  It surrounds us.  It embodies us.

May you create what is 'paradise' to You.  No harm done; through your truth, trust and wisdom.  Let it be an adventure to live the truth of the life that is within You to live out loud, openly and free.

May you let your true colors snow, float and revel in and on by living in the reality of your experiences through consideration, acceptance, honor, wholeness and assuredness.  

May you honor your own and others' true colors.  

Together, may our true colors [and paradise] fall into place especially now when we are watching, witnessing, questioning and experiencing so much in life that has taken the 'normal' away.

From what many of us considered 'normal' to humanity being unique and allowing love to ride and drive us forward into all new experiences and creations of paradise for You, for Me, for Us.

Just look at the colors.  They are magical and miraculously beautiful.  They are a part of us.  We are a part of them.  To me, they feel like a promise of beauty to always be available. to You, Me, Us.

Learn.  Teach.  Let go.  Grow Anew.  Invite Paradise.  Thank You.

Lifeline

Lifeline - “A vital line of access or communication”

I have needed/wanted many lifelines through my lifetime thus far.

Friends, family, work, play, love, faith, nature have blessed me, many times, with great pleasures.   

My connections and connected to my feelings have driven me and uplifted me wondrously and gratefully.  

My experiences and beliefs have given me strength.   My learning and lessons have taught me magic and consistency. 

My desire for survival has shown me my way through and forward.    

Love shines from within me and connects me to love outside of myself.  Same with kindness, genuineness, vulnerability and empowerment.   

Animals have been wonderful companions to me.   Dogs, cats, birds, fish, horses, bunnies, guinea hens, hamsters and even hermit crabs.   

Everything I have connection with is my teacher and I graciously believe and hope there have been students too.  

Outside my window from the 21st floor overseeing the intracoastal and the ocean, in line with the sky and the clouds - as I call it my ‘live entertainment’ - I am constantly reminded of the certainty of miracles, togetherness, magic, and in flowing with and in just being me is the most productive/real way of life.   The ever present promise of grace and trust in the divine [not always knowing the way but allowing our loving truth] opens the very best ways through and forward.

May you be present in what ever entertains and feels like the promise of ‘Just Being You’ is the most valuable, uplifting and empowering wisdom and gift that You are.   

Perhaps, the greatest belief is knowing that there is nothing that is already meant for You that can be stopped from happening for You.  There is everything within You that makes your whole life possible, doable, beautiful and, perhaps, already written.  The most true and self trusting You are, the more fulfilling and ‘wow’ your life can be.  

Let You and Your feelings, imperfections, questions, openness, trust and truth happen.

May you let You happen.  May you connect to the lifelines that uplift, show up and restore and replenish You being You; whatever they are for You.  

Funny

What is fun or funny to one is not always fun or funny to others. While visiting my beautiful, precious, wonderful daughter I saw something I would have never ever thought of and these people’s creativity gave me laughter and a hoot every time I passed their mailbox.  

With creativity, even mailboxes can be fun(ny).

Bravo on their creativity and their funny.   

May you let your own creativity free.   It’s the ‘(he)art’ of You that matters.   

Be free.  Be wild.  Don’t hold back.   Let whatever brings you joy bring you joy.   

We don’t all have to feel the same to support each other in our creativity.  

Make a snow angel.   Build a sandcastle.  Tell a joke.  Smile.  Write or sing a song.  Write a poem.  Write a blog.  Dance.  Draw.   Act.  Surf the waves.  Create something or work a plan that comes from and through You.   Take pictures.  Help others.  Help yourself.  Build a business.  

May you let your creativity flow.  No outcome.  No judgement.  Just freedom to honor what is uniquely inside of You.   

If it makes you happy and does no harm, we all win.  

May so many bills not make it to You.  Bahahaha   

Ch Ch Ch Changes

Changes.  Changes here.  Changes there.  Changes Changes everywhere.  Serious stuff.  Great stuff.  Trying stuff.  Difficult stuff.  Big stuff.  Little Stuff.  Sometimes tons of little stuff.  Open to stuff.   Let go of stuff.  Create stuff.

I am stuffed.  Ha.

Throughout the day, I am realizing the stuff that is different in many of our every day lives and ways of life.  The stuff people are feeling.  The stuff people are experiencing.  The demands.  The frustrations.  The joy.  The new.  The old but still different.  Every.  Day.  Changes.  

Great change is upon us.

I started with the word 'change' thinking about the big change in weather in many places.  I know my body feels the big change in temperatures and it takes a bit (days) for my body to acclimate.  I feel it.  There is an achiness and discomfort with my body's inability, just now, to easily adapt and keep going.  It is a process for me.  I am still learning to honor it.  I'm honoring it better than I ever have (I think) and it is still a process and a prayer.

Whatever changes you are experiencing, may you know that you are still and always will be You.  You can always choose You.  It is ok to still care for others and care for yourself through everything.  

We can fight it.  We can ignore it.  We can embrace it.  We can (fill in the blank).  

I find myself having a conversation with myself to find the best and easiest way/reaction to make it as gentle on myself as possible.  To flow.  To trust.  

May you flow with what is.  Trust the process of life.  Trust yourself that when there is something you need to do, you will know what it is and be able to do it.

Notice now in this moment, what is the truth.  100% for certain; for sure truth.  What is happening in this moment.  How are you feeling...  What do you need...  Is there one thing you feel or think to do and want to and can...   Does the most productivity come from doing nothing just now...

Are you okay...  Are you okay even if you don't feel okay...  Are you really being You...  Are you doing your best with what you know and with what is going on...  Are you living in your truth...  Are you letting your love participate...

These are my best ways of dealing with change(s) that may feel not so easy to deal with.  

When it's a happy change, we don't often question it.  When it is a no fun at all change, we often question and challenge it; not wanting to accept it.

Just what if the change is closing one door to make room for others to open.  If this is happening, walk as honestly, open, trusting and true through your own love as possible.

Y Y Yes UUUU Cc Cc Can.  I believe in You.  

Your great wisdom is always with You.  Invite it up and out.  

Carry it through any and all Ch Ch Ch Changes.

You are worth it.  Our world is worth it to let it change and bring our openness to ride with it.  As we ride with it supporting each other and ourselves, the best doors to change open up.  

Just what if on the other side of change, some of your greatest ever experiences await You...  You being You as often and as much as possible is what we are being asked (forced) to do just now.  Maybe 'this' is the greatest show on earth.  

May it be so.  It is so.  If we open to participating for it to be so.

Boom.  Bam.  Pow.  May we do this together helping each other out.  Amen.

Colors Blue

Colors matter.  A color palette can show the meaning and vibrations around and in each color.

Some colors can pick us up and invigorate us, like yellow and red.

Green is the healing color to include balance and peace.  Gold can be about wisdom, enlightenment and the greatest healing of all - love.

Blues can be about a number of things depending on the shade.  Many of us know that to 'feel blue' is to feel down.  Light blue can represent friendly and refreshing.  Dark blues are strong and reliable.  There is a calmness that can come from blue as well.  Maybe, feeling down is necessary for some wonderful and/or real reasons... May you love yourself honestly through.  

If you are drawn to a color or even drawn to a piece of clothing to wear that is a certain color, go for it.  Honor it.  Wear it.  Play with it.  It just may be your innate wisdom helping you out; taking you forward.

There were many blues in the sky and sea today.  The clouds were multiple colors of blues and whites.  The water was showing me many contrasts of the color blue.

Today I found myself emotionally experiencing much of what blue can represent.  Yet, I was wearing brown.  Brown can be about reliability and strength.  It can be about loneliness and isolation.  It often represents Earth and Nature; it can be grounding.   

When you find yourself 'blue', may you be open to noticing the beauty that may be present also; within You and around You; through You.  

It is not often that we have a whole bad day, perhaps.  It is often that we can have bad moments.  Yet, how is it that the same type of moment for one of us can feel 'bad'.  And for another of us, the same situation can feel 'good'.

May you be aware of what you are really feeling and experiencing.  May you notice that we can stay stuck in a feeling.  In awareness, perhaps, we can feel many things in one moment as we allow our feelings to flow through us.  May you notice if you are able to 'watch' your feelings come and go.

May you color your life.  May you live your true colors.  May you accept what is as your truth rises and is called into play.

Your life is full of color.  You are full of color.  There are so many colors between black and white.  

May you explore and experience all the colors that life has to offer.

May you notice what is beautiful inside of You and for You when you experience 'the blues'.