Archive for January, 2012

and on we GO! That word “ON” was very carefully chosen… Onward hoooo

Everything is full of contrast… light and dark, soft and hard, floating and still, fast and slow…

Finding the middle is a challenge and fun… The only thing that is not contrasted is the forward motion. I am moving ahead and there is nothing that indicates one step forward and two steps back.

ZOOM ZOOM

I can’t wait to see what happens with all of the movement.

Contrast + Motion - Rome 2009

Action = Passion + Energy – Fear ~ Juicy Heart

Today is all about motion and keeping the momentum going.

Just a few hours perhaps a day or two to mount a new website for the Swimming Club that I belong to. There seem to be so many small details and I know we can take care of all of them as we move along. There is a pleasure and a joy in me that burns brightly as I follow passion and energy…

There is something about the light and shadow in this picture that stirs me today. There is something about the story of the Chiesa di San Moise that intrigues me… a site so overloaded with “ostentatious Baroque stone decorations that several statues were removed in 1878” a site that is given over to the glorification of an old Venetian family … There seems to me to be beauty and redemption in the painting and eternal JOY in the facade.

There can only be REDEMPTION in the light - VeniceBeauty in florid JOY of carved stone ... Venice

 

JOY in the florid beauty of the Baroque - Venice 1668

Ingo Maurer and Zettel’z 5 are on their way to our dining room! YAY! Another poem in a delicious and delightful way!

The impulse turned to action and there was little judgement and little back and forth dithering and indecision. I look forward to the arrival of Zettle’z 5 the newest addition to home!

Zettel'z 5 it is Settled - January 2012

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Yesterday, was about the embodiment of touch… Today, will be about the embodiment of rejuvenation… Tomorrow, will be about the embodiment of …

em·bod·y

verb (used with object), -bod·ied, -bod·y·ing.

1. to give a concrete form to; express, personify, or exemplify in concrete form: to embody an idea in an allegorical painting.

2. to provide with a body; incarnate; make corporeal: to embody a spirit.

3. to collect into or include in a body; organize; incorporate.

4. to embrace or comprise.

I adore that I am able to live the life I choose and to be able to incorporate all that comes to me in the life I am given.

LIFE - Hawaii 2011

 
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Today I realized that I very often err on the side of ABUNDANCE. I very often make choices that fill my life with ABUNDANCE.

I often make more and make large and what I manifest can seem really HUGE
I don’t know or experience this as a BAD thing… very often many have a response to the bigness of this ABUNDANCE…
I don’t perceive this as anything bad… it is just a part of me.

Life is interesting, captivating and fun and filled with JOY when I am erring on the side of ABUNDANCE!
Today I will live in the largeness of ABUNDANCE and be JUICY and feel the JOY!

Today… Dancing…

Shiva Dance Dance Dance! Let Illusion Fall Away
Shiva Dance, Let Me See You …  Let Me BE You
Shiva Dance Dance Dance! I Am Total Freedom
Shiva Dance, I Am Total Love

or…

Shiva Dance Dance Dance! Let Illusion Fall Away
Shiva Dance, Let Me See You … Let Me BE You
Shiva Dance Dance Dance! I caught a glimpse of Freedom
Shiva Dance, I caught a glimpse of Peace

Today …  Shiva  …

“Lord Shiva is … In images, He is represented as a handsomeyoung manimmersed in deep meditation or dancing the Tandava upon Apasmara, the demon of ignorance in his manifestation of Nataraja, the Lord of the dance, goodness, humility, and every good quality a human should have. It is said that He looks like an eternal youth because of his authority over death, rebirth and immortality. He is also the father of Ganesha… “
 
 
 

Dancing on the Ecstatic Path …

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Lord Shiva Dancing for His Spouse Parvati

Moving AHEAD!

Knowing GOD… Playing in the Divine… Being a bright and shining BOY…

Moving Ahead... Toronto 2011

Coming soon more new for the Downtown Swim Club

 

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~Mary Oliver~
 
Travelling today…
 

The Journey ~ Diamond Head - Hawaii - May2011

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Spin – Juicy Heart

Posted: January 11, 2012 in Art, Random
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Which way to spin?

Doing administration and a lot of design in preparation for the Swim Club and their new website.

I think I will spin PINK!

Today I am UnWRAPPED

I usually carefully put myself together, wrapping myself up, making certain non of the loose ends are showing. There seems to be no wrapping today. I am full of all of my passions and full of all of my fears and full of all of the joys of my life.

I am particularly aware of how raw I feel when I hear, inconsistencies and unbalanced elements. Hearing imbalances, untruths, lies has me feel a little raw today. The world can be cruel and unkind. I will need to be extra generous with my own self care.

I will be sweet and kind and generous and finally extraordinarily gracious with myself in order to compensate for the: gas lighting, crazy making, unbalanced emotional response that takes place in me as I hear lies or untruths.

The sweetness and graciousness will allow me to glow. The glow will let me be safe and know that it is alright to be UnWRAPPED.

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I want a little sugar
in my bowl
I want a little sweetness
down in my soul
I could stand some lovin’


 

MMMMMMM YUM!