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Not All Who Wander (or Wonder!) Are Lost

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Wandering and wondering.  Two compelling ways of spending some good quality time.

Some sweet breathing time.  Some simple pleasures time. Some deepening into all of who you are time.

Go out with nothing more to do than to be present with wonder, and wander freely, with open heart and mind.  Sustaining and fulfilling this wandering and wondering…

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“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.  From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Middle of Nowhere

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“I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than anywhere else on earth.”

– Steve McQueen
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I sort of live in the middle of no-where… at least many people may think so.  And I’ve thought a lot about that.

But it’s always someone’s somewhere isn’t it?  These woods with the tall trees are home to fox, elk, ravens, bear, coyote, wolf, and myriad wild Daisy Aloneflowers.  Life comes and goes in its natural cycle. The days too are in sweet rhythm… the whole of this living system together is  complete and vibrant and I feel that way amongst this radiant Life.

Living in the middle of nowhere to me is much like the concept that the Native Americans and this land were “discovered” by Christopher Columbus.  As if they didn’t exist until they were told who they were by the newcomers. Forest Greens with Lady Slippers

Yes, nowhere is always somebody’s somewhere. Somewhere special and unique and valued.

This particular No Where is my greatest gift.

Its quiet and wholeness help me find the essence of who I am.

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 “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.”

-Sheryl Crow

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

– Joseph Joubert

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Music is the Mediator & The Medicine

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“Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.”

-Beethoven

“The medicine of the future will be music and sound.”

-Edgar Cayce

“If you look deep enough you will see music;  the heart of nature being everywhere music.”

-Thomas Carlyle

Water music below – definitely a healer…

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Moonbeams & Rainbows – A Gallery of Photos

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Some Kiss We Want

There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
 
spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.
 
And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling! At
 
night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its
 
face against mine. Breathe into
me. Close the language-door and
 
open the love window. The moon
won’t use the door, only the window.
 
From Soul of Rumi
by Coleman Barks

 

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Celebrating Freedom

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How better to celebrate the freedoms we have then to be alive in each moment, with every molecule of our singular unique self brought to fruition.  What a huge gift this freedom!  To be able to live our highest truth without involvement from imposing powers not our own.  Huge sacrifices have been made for these gifts.

Evolved and evolving, present, aware living are the fruits of this free life.  Letting our being creatively express on the palette of the vibrant planet.  Feeling deep gratitude. And yes! bringing to being all of our singular unique selves.

Yes, we are truly free.

Know it.  Live it.

And may the creatures be wild and free!

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Freedom lies in being bold.

–Robert Frost

Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.

–Walt Whitman

Resolve and thou art free.

–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Glacier National Park Wonders – A Gallery of Photos

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“Wander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God’s wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go uncounted.

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If you are business-tangled, and so burdened with duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy laden year, then go to the Flathead Reserve; for it easily and quickly reached by the Great Northern Railroad. Get off the track at Belton Station, and in a few minutes you will find yourself in the midst of what you are sure to say is the best care-killing scenery on the continent – beautiful lakes derived straight from glaciers, lofty mountains steeped in lovely nemophila-blue skies and clad with forests and glaciers, mossy ferny waterfalls in their hollows, nameless and numberless, and meadowy gardens abounding in the best of everything …. ”   John Muir

Glacier National Park – just a few photos of the wonders there…

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Fox

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Wiley, curious, handsome/beautiful, loyal, these creatures cross my path often.  Fox seem like the perfect combination of cat and dog – a wild and free version.  I’ve read that they keep the same den for multiple generations – roots are important to their tribe.

We have a den nearby and a red fox that passes through often. I hope he enjoys his home here near ours.

The photos in the gallery above are all of red fox even though their colors are in a range from black to beige, with a nice red in between too!

Love when these curious, intelligent, four legged, grace my day with their wildness and questioning faces…

“Men have forgotten this truth”, said the fox.  “But you must not forget it.  You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Music of the Earth’s Breathing

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“We have fallen
into the place where
Everything is music”
~Rumi

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“I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breath?”

-Kate Chopin

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“The earth has music for those who listen.”

-George Santayana

Absorbed and immersed in the music, greens, life energy, breath of the earth’s longest day among 365.  Solstice!  A sweet celebration to breath into…

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Green Goodness

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The earth is rich and vibrant with carpets and curtains of myriad greens after June’s nurturing rain and snow showers.  Radiantly emanating a strong life force.  Sweetly breathing in, while we breath out.  Cleansing. Deeply satisfying. Feeding the soul and our primitive need for the solace and the promise of what a green environment brings – food and water, sustenance for body and soul.

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From “Psychological Properties of Color”:

“GREEN. Balance
Positive: Harmony, balance, refreshment, universal love, rest, restoration, reassurance, environmental awareness, equilibrium, peace.
Green strikes the eye in such a way as to require no adjustment whatever and is, therefore, restful. Being in the centre of the spectrum, it is the color of balance – a more important concept than many people realize. When the world about us contains plenty of green, this indicates the presence of water, and little danger of famine, so we are reassured by green, on a primitive level.”

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“And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.”
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“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises”

-Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Life’s Energy

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Deepening into a simple life can help expand the complexity of the inner world exponentially.  Creative juices flow freely.  Self dialogue is more limited and the experience of life’s energy more pronounced.  Frequency and vibration are elevated. A quiet, calm, attentive, absorptive state of being prevails.

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Take a moment, a long sweet breathing moment, and feel the energy moving and becoming, spreading beyond all boundaries.  Feel the interplay.  Divine!

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“Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”

-Sister Corita Kent

 

“And what is man without energy?  Nothing – nothing at all.”

-Mark Twain

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

-Nikola Tesla