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Reading – Juicy Heart

Posted: September 15, 2011 in Challenge, Flowers, Inspiration, Learning
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Reading today.

Preparing for a diagnostic surgery tomorrow. I am preparing for what will happen tomorrow and creating some time over the weekend for recovery.

I am reading, “The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World”. Having read a few pages I have an inkling now that this read is going to be a valuable and informative journey. My first response… “I wish … that man who was my primary teacher and trainer while I was training to become a counsellor had read this… Perhaps he would have been more empathetic as a gay man working with other gay men…”

This is going to be a delightful ride, a ride and a read and a rest that I am looking forward to. I am sure this book will take my mind off of the fear and wondering about the surgical procedure taking place tomorrow, I have this thought that this read will sooth me and help me rejuvenate.

Today I will be happy and joyful and in the pleasure of being me… AS PINK AS THAT IS!

Furry PINK DICKS on my rampant Glads ❤

Rest – Juicy Heart

Posted: September 14, 2011 in Flowers, Gratitude, Inspiration, Learning, Reflections
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Rest has transformed the way I feel.

Yesterday I took care of many small detailed elements that were stressing me.

Today I feel well rested after a deep and undisturbed sleep. Last night was the first night in many that I felt no pain in the middle of the night. To wake up after a night of rest was delightful.

I feel energized and enriched by rest.

Today I will take care of a few more pieces, I will allow for the tranquility to flow. I will savour the delight of feeling rested and rejuvenated and unafraid.

GLAD for REST ~ September 2011

Glads are a delight! ❤

Inspiration – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 23, 2011 in Flowers, Inspiration, Joy, Reflections
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Inspiration today comes from:

The Summer Day

by Mary Oliver

 

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper I mean—

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

the soft animal of your body… The JUICY Heart August 2 2011

Posted: August 2, 2011 in Dreaming, Flowers, Inspiration, Poetry, Reflections, Trust
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Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

—— from Dream Work by Mary Oliver
published by Atlantic Monthly Press
© Mary Oliver

 

An inspiration for the day.

Today is a day of preparing . I adore: “You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves…”
 

 

 

Transitioning Rose July 2011

If you are interested in knowing more about inspiration and how being inspired might fire and awaken your heart contact me at: Phillip Coupal Counselling and Coaching

Gratitude… What is on the Table today? … July 28 2011

Posted: July 28, 2011 in Flowers, Gratitude, Reflections
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Today is about Gratitude.

Be Grateful. There is a simplicity to my practice for the day. Gratitude, no less, no more.

Today I will be grateful and today, I will express my gratitude. Today will be simple as I practice an Attitude of Gratitude.

The Grateful JUICY Heart ❤

Trumpet Vine – Blossoming despite adversity – July 27, 2011

If you have a question about Gratitude or have a wondering about what Expressions of Gratitude might bring to your life, contact me at http://www.phillipcoupal.ca/

Inspiring the JUICY Heart … July 25 2011

Posted: July 25, 2011 in Flowers, Inspiration, Poetry
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Today inspiration from

e.e. cummings

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you quite so new

 

A favorite…


thrilling flowers and man made an offering… Summer 2009

 

 

Circling… The JUICY Heart July 23 2011

Posted: July 23, 2011 in Flowers, Inspiration, Poetry
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I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?

—— Rainer Maria Rilke

An inspiration for the day.

Like the rose with petals circling the core… the tower… the center. Layer upon layer and eternally opening to the seed, the heart.  

 

Rose July 2011

If you are interested in knowing more about inspiration and how being inspired might fire and awaken your heart contact me at: Phillip Coupal Counselling and Coaching

Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place OPENING at the Toronto Fringe

Posted: July 8, 2011 in Announcement, Art, Flowers
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An Invitation across the Nation…

I am so happy to send this offering to you.

 

In sending you this invitation, I hope to help my husband Tony, ensure the great success of a wonderful piece of theatre that he is presenting at the Toronto Fringe, July 8th thru 17th. 

Don’t miss this! Opening Friday July 8th at 9:15 pm

 

Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place by Lesbian Feminist Avant-garde playwright Megan Terry

Prison Drama – 3 men in a jail cell exploring, discovering their sexual identity, tweaking their masculinity, experimenting with their femininity. Witness these three men as they figure out their relationship and who will come out on top.

Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place

Presented by Tony Dunn and Lift the Lid Theatre Company

Starring Guy Castonguay, Alastair Love and Adam Christie

Directed by Tony Dunn

Warning there is: Sexual Content, Graphic Violence and Mature Language

Opening at Theatre Passe Muraille  – 16 Ryerson Avenue – 9:15 pm Friday July 8th

The show continues:

Saturday July 9th at 4:00 pm

Sunday July 10th at 5:45 pm

Tuesday July 12th at 1:00 pm

Wednesday July 13th at 11:15 pm

Friday July 15th at 9:45 pm

Sunday July 17th at 2:45 pm

Tickets by phone at: 416-966-1062 or by the web at: http://www.fringetoronto.com or at the gate box-office at Theatre Passe Muraille Main space 16 Ryerson Avenue

www.keeptightlyclosed.com 

Check out what xtra Toronto has to say:Queer Prison Drama at the Toronto Fringe

Scroll down to Prisoner of Misogyny

Best Regards – I look forward to seeing you at the theatre

Phillip Coupal

a VERY Juicy Heart ❤

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