Paper Follies ~ A Bit of Whimsy

{holding hope}

 

*i love the light. the way it dances on my heart,  even when it seems everything around me is dark*

{i hold out for hope. i am not an optimist ~ perhaps a hopefulist.}

{i seek out those places of light. i stand in them, no matter how small and believe others will join me when they see that being illuminated brings warmth, strength, joy.}

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Working Together

 

We shape our self

to fit this world

 

and by the world

are shaped again.

 

The visible

and the invisible

 

working together

in common cause,

 

to produce

the miraculous.

 

I am thinking of the way

the intangible air

 

passed at speed

round a shaped wing

 

easily

holds our weight.

 

So may we, in this life

trust

 

to those elements

we have yet to see

 

or imagine,

and look for the true

 

shape of our own self,

by forming it well

 

to the great

intangibles about us.

 

~David Whyte

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and a song that's making me smile. hope it will you too. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{recognizing creativity}

 

*i love to create little vignettes with my treasures ~ a tangible, changeable form of expressing my creative self*

{creativity takes many forms}

{is there something you do that you can bestow the lens of creativity upon; something that makes you realize that creativity does not have to be defined so traditionally?}

{indulging luxury}

 

*i love to read late at night, when everyone else has long dozed off ~ my midnight snack*

{indulging in luxuries is not a selfish act, it makes you more present for everything else}

{what are you loving reading right now?}

{being industrious}

 

*i love the feeling of accomplishment that comes when i wake up to meet the dawn and start checking off the list and having time to enjoy the little moments too.*

{being industrious brings such sweet honey}

{write a list, check things off as you go, enjoy the feeling of satisfaction as you tic the little boxes off - one by one.}

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today's list:

bake cake - check

take photos - check

try out new hot rollers for country-western star hairdo - check

peek in on sleeping teenager - check

pick up new chair - check

take more photos - check

pack for lake - check

love on dogs - check

go to grocery store - check

pick up an iced chai - check

go to bookstore - check

frost cake - check

love on cats - check

pick up teenager's contacts - check (freak out at price - double check)

text husband twice because he has my driver's license - check

birdwatch - check

fold laundry - check

blog  for the days i will be gone - quarter-check...

pack a camera, ipod, computer, gears k'nex kit - check

blog some more - half check...

and its only 2:43. yum ~ sweet honey!

 

 

 

 

 

 

{watching passion}

*i love watching someone who is obviously passionate*

{passion is contagious}

{live passionately today, see what happens}

What Begins with G?

 

Green!

Growth!

Garden!

Goodness!

(one of my favorite mother nature color combinations:

apple green and chocolate brown.)

{i love going out into the backyard and glimpsing these colors exploding over the back wall. and occassionally, i'll spy a tennis shoe or two and hear a giggle or three, and i am taken back to my tree climbing days. days when billy and i would sit in the branches pretending to be in a spaceship, stuffed monkeys by our sides,  headed to the moon. }

 

SwEet TrEaT

Fills you up, no extra calories.

If there's one thing you should do for yourself:

Squam Art Workshops (period)

*sweet bliss*

Do you remember those days?

Days of the sweet bliss of only the moment?

A stick,

some rainboots,

a hill to climb up

or roll down.

Days of the sweet bliss of only having to see

the two minutes in front of you?

A tree,

a hat,

a dandelion to pluck

or ponder.

Days of the sweet bliss of the pleasure in the

smallest details?

Each one happy with

whatever amount of  attention

you gave it.

Sweet 

{bliss ~ wish you were here}  

xoxo Sweet Loyalty xoxo

 

{I remember so well the day I went to the pound to pick out a puppy for our boy, our little family. You were the first puppy I asked to take out for a walk. They put a leash on you and handed you over to me. And you took off ~ down the dim concrete corridor, past the chain link gates, out into the sunshine of the courtyard, past the sunshine of the courtyard, straight to the exit sign. And I only stopped long enough to pay the fees and sign the paperwork. You had chosen me, us. And you have been a loyal girl for 14 years. You stand by me, us. A daily lesson in sweet loyalty and unconditional love.}

{{and a poem}}

*note to self: these sweet feet need a pedicure, both sets. *smile*

Sweet Little Only Lonely

 

one last little pansy

waiting for its dip in the soil

waiting for sunshine

waiting for rain

waiting for the sunny days of summer

when you won't be the lonely only

when nights on the patio will end every day

we'll join you

soon

{two more weeks of school...sweet.}

{{and i will be singing all the way}}