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Emerging ~ Juicy Heart

Posted: September 19, 2011 in Challenge, Gratitude, Poetry, Reflections
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Emerging from the test on Friday. Today is Monday and I feel like I just woke up after a long sleep. All went well. I am curious to see where this flows to next.

My heart is open and clear. My heart leaps with JOY!

In Blackwater Woods

by Mary Oliver
 
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

Emerging ~ Juicy Heart at Easton Mountain Summer 2008

Thanks to Mary Oliver

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! ❤

The Light of the Moon – Juicy Heart

Posted: September 6, 2011 in Inspiration, Reflections, Trust
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Today is one step at a time.

I will not judge anything of the size, depth or length of each step. A step is a step. I am diligently moving ahead one step at a time.

This is actually difficult for me as I am usually dancing ahead of myself. Today is different and it seems that each step must be taken precisely, with assurance and determination.  I must constantly let myself know that this is actually dancing, simply to a different cadence and rhythm. The difference between doing the Watusi and Irish Step Dance, the difference between break dancing and a classical minuet.

Today I will love the dance and trust that my steps will be guided by the light of the moon. I will adore the dance as it unfolds.  I will surrender to life’s cadence. ❤

Dancing by the Light of the Moon - Easton June 2010

Fabric – Juicy Heart

Posted: September 4, 2011 in Gratitude, Learning, Reflections, Trust
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Weaving the Fabric of Life.

Today as I stretch and get ready for the day I see, feel and experience the depth and strength of the interconnections of life.

A wonderful letter from a man now living in China, a wonderful response to my website from a man in Manitoba, the ebb and flow of clients, the surety of friends, the depth and strength of my husband. All of these interpersonal elements and more unspoken threads weave together around me and form the fabric of my life.

 The fabric warms and shields and soothes me. The fabric is a brilliant colour and has a stimulating pattern, the fabric awakens me. The fabric is resilient and has untested strength, the fabric shields me.

Today I will fall into the depth of safety that the fabric of my life has brought to me. I will cherish the fabric and adore each individual thread. I will savour each fibre that reinforces each thread.

The fabric of life... ❤

Gratitude – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 31, 2011 in Gratitude, Inspiration, Learning, Reflections, Trust
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My Juicy Heart today…

Gratitude… ♥
I am grateful today for…
little things…
unspoken things…
the things I take for granted…
…for breath…
for much…
for dizzy and scared…
for brilliant and joyful…
for the really big gifts that life has given me…
for the small and tender memories…
for all the greatness of the all…
for every moment…
♥
 
Today I will be grateful over and over … never counting simply BEing ♥
 

Grateful for the caress of your lips

Possibilities – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 30, 2011 in Inspiration, Learning, Reflections
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Possibilities = a Juicy Heart!

I find that always knowing and searching for possibilities keeps me curious and Juicy.

Looking for the possibility. Seeing how something, anything really, could endlessly open into an astounding range of possibility is an enjoyable pursuit of mine. This to me is like problem solving or perhaps being optimistic. Possibilities keeps me cheerful and happy.

Today I will be open to the possibility… ❤

There is always possibility in shiney objects... especially jewellery

Magic – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 29, 2011 in Challenge, Inspiration, Random, Reflections
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This gave me pleasure watching, one might even say it stimulated the voyeur in me.

Quirky – Weird – Odd – I experienced it as a bit of Magic

Perfect with my state of mind… And exciting my heart…

Morning – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 28, 2011 in Inspiration, Joy, Reflections
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Pleasure again…

This morning up early with the wind and rain and rustling leaves. I, stealthily moved into the kitchen and made cheesy scones. The pleasure of rubbing butter into flour and grating cheese over dough. The pleasure of watching through the oven door as the scones rise and change colour, the cheese melting in. The pleasure as they are ready and moved onto a plate, they look and smell so yummy. The pleasure of melting jam and butter into the hot flakey surface. The pleasure of my mouth as the tastes move through me. The pleasure of nourishing desire.

YUM!

Warm and Yummy ❤

 

Find out more about nourishing desire… www.phillipcoupal.ca

 

A New Dawn… A New Day… – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 27, 2011 in Gratitude, Inspiration, Reflections
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It is a Nina Simone kind of day…

Slow and Deep and Resonant

The Juicy Heart is welcoming the day. ❤

Grateful today for the wonder of Nina Simone

 

Sustaining Pleasure – Juicy Heart

Posted: August 26, 2011 in Inspiration, Learning, Reflections
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Pleasure has been in the forefront for the past few days.

My great pleasure has actually been the meditative art of pressing Saris. Having cleaned these beautiful cloths that had adorned my body, they needed to be pressed. Doing this seeming chore was actually a meditative and delightful pursuit. Pressing the yards and yards of fabric woven, embroidered, painted and decorated allowed me to delve into an area where I had slowed down and there was little intrusion into my mind or other levels of my body.  Having brought my mind to rest, allowed for me to feel the pleasure that was there under the jumble of thoughts.

Pressing the Saris was a beautiful experience.

Today I will be in the simple beauty of restful pleasure.

Beauty Bestowed...

 

 

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