No Mourning the Morning!

Proclaim the Morn!
It brings the newness of each day
Announce this truth
as you begin your daily journey

Embrace the Morn!
for with it comes the sun
Rising in the East
Awakening your spirit

Herald the Morn!
Befreind this constant companion
It shall be with you
till you no longer....are

Live the Day!
That each morning brings
Is it not a fool
who argues morning's return
tomorrow?

Create the Day!
it is given to you in a circle
never ending
A natural resource

Allow the Morn!
And you will be taught
to honor the sun's
West setting......orange, red, pink

Welcome the Morn!
as it welcomes you
Relentless, it awaits you
Partner with it, make it

YOURS

All about the Journey......

These songs make me think of the journey Joe and I embarked upon our way back to Minnesota from California. We had moved to Northern California, San Francisco, actually to begin a new life.Our plans were short lived, though, and we were called back to Minnesota. The pain we felt about this unseen cog in the wheel that was our lives, was very difficult to release and transform. However, I realize today that we have actually done just that.....transformed the pain into a new future.

We have now been back here longer than we were gone. May 8th will mark 3 years since we returned to the place we had left in our rear view mirrors.
It has taken a long time, but we have healed from the experience of "impossible odds" we found ourselves held  against, and we have created a newer, refreshed life here this time around.

In the midst of a crisis, we only see what is in our sites to see. Our vision is narrowed by fear, anguish and frustration, often sadness.
I am thankful our sight has expanded, and we clearly see that home is not where you live, but who you live with. It is the people you love and the others you encounter along the way, the experiences you cherish and those you that would rather soon forget that pave the road home, no matter where you find yourself. Life is about living, and we certainly did that!

On our trip home again to the North, we stopped in Aspen and I played these songs as we drove into the city limits. Back then, I had no idea how important Dan's music was to become to the writing practice I was struggling to achieve. Danspirations were not yet in my field of inner vision......Peoria 2010 was the event that sparked this collaboration I so greatly welcome as a part of my everyday life now.

I could feel Dan there, in CO; in the very stone and ridges of the mountains that looked like they were formed by Giants pushing against them. I could imagine his misty breath in the cool, crisp air; and sense his joy at the Natural Beauty that surrounded us as we stood entranced at the view.

Little did I know I was heading back to a deeper, stronger connection to him, a very comforting reunion with my family, and my future awareness of the DanFam that was soon to be formed. What is in our sites to see NOW is endless possibilities, and limitless potential.......and we found these hidden treasures with a journey that began when we left CA in our rear view mirrors. Sigh.......

The Children We Were...

The children we were
Are the adults we become
When we realize this truth
We are set free

We can explore the people we wanted to be
then....

Because then....we knew our true selves
Then we trusted our feelings and our knowings
Until someone else told us.....
not to

When you get to the point in your life
Where you realize this simple truth
You can begin to be the you
The child always knew you could be

A child shall lead you
Back to your self
If you lead yourself back...
To the child you once were

Ode to the diet.....

I asked Dan for a light-hearted collaboration today, everything has been feeling so heavy lately.
Hard to Say came on, so let's see what we can do here to give a little levity to the message today!

Ode to my diet......

It may not last
This love affair with greens
I'm hoping to lessen the size of my ass
and fit it better in my jeans

It's such a chore
to eat the foods I'm sposed to eat
I find myself at times wanting more
and then the temptation comes to CHEAT

I have fantasies of sweet stuff
mixed with fat and salt
Can't say no, I'm not strong enough
yet I know it's not really my fault

The car broke down
or I'm feelin kinda funky
so my sorrows I drown
in a carton of  Chunky Monkey

Why does this cycle repeat and repeat ?
It's  just so damn hard to say
but I promise I'll be better and get back on my feet
if I can  have just one more CANDY BAR today

Empty Plate?

Our lives are like empty plates we wait for others to fill for us.
Perhaps THIS person will give us what we need to fill our plates, or the empty space in our souls. We want so much, we ask for it and then we turn away as it is presented.....maybe it's not cooked to our liking, or it has too many calories, or the crust is still on it! OMG, how could they leave the crust on?? I am NOT going to eat that, it shall be returned to the kitchen......"FIX THIS" we cry out.

Perhaps the Universe fills the "plates of our lives" with unexpected nourishment because we really need to eat that which is presented on the plate. Perhaps we are being asked to reach past our comfort zone and try the icky looking highly nutritious "entree" before we disregard it with a single fearful "I don't like that".

Is not an empty plate ready to be filled?
Could an empty plate be a receptacle for NEWNESS and OPPORTUNITY?
Take a moment and stare into the empty plate. As you see your own reflection staring back at you from the mirror of possibilities......
ask yourself; truthfully ask yourself.... "what the hell am I so AFRAID of"?

Impending Changes....

Change is a huge part of our lives. Often we get fearful around change or making a change or allowing a change. Think back to your child hood, change was a constant variable, almost daily, as you grew and explored and tested the waters, risked by stepping out of boundaries, receiving encouragement from peers along the way. When we were young, it seemed that adventure was a part of our gig.....skinned knees, first loves, the first time we accomplished something monumental.....wanting to accomplish more.

And then......as we headed off to college, or we get married, or we give away our youth.......something inside us died or hid deeply inside of us. We place all sorts of ideals on ourselves, or we allow society to do that for/to us.We have children, and work our jobs, buy our houses, pay our mortgage, because this what we are "supposed" to do. One day we pack away our adventurist gene, and often we forget it even existed.

Go look for that gene....dust it off.... it has been in a box for years among other memories of days past......let it be seen in the full light of day. Learn about your self now and who you have become.....who you want to become and what about yourself you are willing to be healed. Put on that pith helmet and explore in the dark recesses of your psyche, bring some of that youthful excitement back to your life.

If you find yourself fearing change, or dreading it.....perhaps you forgot to remember that you can CREATE it to look exactly the way you want it to look. You have a say in what happens to you!!!!

Let the loose ends teach you.......heal you and be a friend to you. For any thread that frays can be shored up with new thread. Any life worth living can be restored.....any change impending can be illuminated and transformed any way you want it to be.

You really ARE THAT POWERFUL !

Repeating messages....

Since I began my writing excursion with Dan's music, this song has come up many, many times! It is one of his songs that speaks most deeply to my soul.
So, it got me thinking about repeating messages that we receive in our lives.

Sometimes they are negative....
"I'm not worthy"
"I'm not enough"
"I'm not good enough"
Why is it that we are so quick to believe these messages that linger from our childhood?

Today, I ask you to rearrange the messages that are negative and make them positive.
When we remove one word from each thought above, they magically transform.

"I'M WORTHY"!
"I'M ENOUGH"!
"I'M GOOD ENOUGH"!

Say, allow to be true, repeat! Any questions?