Talking and Listening

Some people think they are very wise 

Sensitive to themselves and others

Honest in their communication

They tell you everything currently happening in their lives

They talk on the phone with you for hours 

Write you lengthy e-mails and share their deepest emotions 

they voice their life disappointments, lost relationships 

heir fantasies, hidden desires and wishes 

PLEASE, try not to INTERRUPT them 

Or get them to STOP TALKING just so

they can LISTEN TO YOU 

What makes you think, 

“It’s your turn or It must be your turn to talk?”

Isn’t listening what real good friends do?

REMEMBER who called first

Who sent the initial e-mail

Feel reassured, they wanted to talk with you 

You’ll be all right, just hold on tight

your past, your present, your future

won’t suffer or be denied

Wait until they are through talking

allow their one more issue and emotion   

Breathe and listen as good friends do  

Realize, after all, they are the ones 

who first wrote or called YOU 

Appreciate the fact that next time

it might be you who’s writing or calling them  ...

The heart of the matter

Do what you mean

mean what you say

keep the heart of the matter

alive and strong

add awareness and trusting

mix in simple acts of kindness

allow love to flow

in the oneness of spirit

eternal flames burn

keeping us warm

as together

we journey

home ...

Inspirational Rain

Woke up this morning to the falling Spring rain
Wondering what this magnificent day will bring
Setting up how I will work and how I will give
Asking God’s blessings in this journey called life

I can today learn, understand and demonstrate
qualities in me harmonious with universal laws
I can today create and experience positive energy
that ultimately brings goodness for me and for others

Connecting, reflecting, correcting and respecting who I am
I welcome today’s goals, dreams and desires
while attentively listening to that small inspirational voice within
as I let go of past doubts and limiting beliefs

I get to choose today the feelings and the experiences
I will greet, meet and serve while actively deciding
which supportive people, places and actions I will attract
that will nourish and cherish me as I reach desired results

With an open mind and a compassionate heart I move forward today
With delight and appreciation I listen and watch as each falling rain  drop
adds its unique sound and substance to a water puddle forming outside

now enticing me to come out, get wet, step in, skip merely about and play

Gracious Spring

Joy is the feeling of warm sunshine touching my body
It’s the sight of friendly eyes smiling looking back at me
It’s the acknowledgement and the gratitude that a new day has begun
It’s the music of children’s voices at play outside my window
Joy is what’s free when I remember to seek it and discover it in and around me

Courage is taking action to decide today’s the day to bring change to my life
Awareness is the certainty that the energy in my decision making process
resonates and is welcomed by the universal energy that surrounds me
Allowing is the believing that I have and I can make the best decisions for myself
Adventure is moving forward no matter what changes these decisions bring me
Power is recognizing how my life’s getting better everyday because of my new actions

It’s glorious witnessing the vibrantly colored, fragrant flowers around me
feeling tiny flowers cushioning my every step as I walk, run, roam or play
in the meadow that was just recently covered with white crystal ice and snow
What a spectacular symphony of colors on bushes and trees, on ponds and in streams
Someone’s decision to change this landscape brings out the best in me
my Soul is happy and I feel free

Life is taking the complexity and the simplicity in all of this and more
It’s breathing it in and letting it breathe me
It’s giving myself, like nature itself, permission to decide, to create and to change
No matter the circumstance, the weather, the temperature, the landscape, like my life
it can and it will change because it’s time for new birth and a new season to begin

One way loving

What a way to spend my time
Thinking of things you did not write
Your responses to my e-mails
Were filled with more news about you

Perhaps, you missed a feelings here and there
Perhaps, you failed to realize I’m here too
It really does not matter much
I’m just grateful when it comes to you

Even if I dared to be honest and tell you
I love you
Might you hear these words as I mean them
Would you then stop your chatter and see me

See me in this life time
In this heart space
See the possibility of my being in love with YOU

And, what would it do should I talk of love to you
Would my current feelings and sentiments frighten you away
Would my loving you mean I’d forever lose your friendship
that you’d vanish from me completely
or would you quickly move away

Still I wish I had the guts to tell you
how much I believe that I’m in love with you

Loving you beyond infatuation
Cherishing a dream of you and me deep in my soul
hoping one day you might know
that I’d rather be talking with you than about You
And would rather have you listening to my heart
that’s forever whispering in silence
I LOVE YOU!

Welcome to a new found freedom!

There’s nothing I have to do right now
I KNOW luxury in my life
I feel freedom in my SOUL
Elements of peace and inspiration grace my days

My body, my mind, my heart, my soul are well
For this, I am so very grateful
For past years in learning and discovery
for present days and those to come, I am grateful

Grateful knowing how very much I have accomplished
Grateful seeing what more I would enjoy doing for myself and others
Grateful in the awareness that I am loved by All That Is
Grateful for choices I get to make on any given day

I’ve paid my dues, “done” my time
Got myself through college and graduate school
I raised a family, became a professional
Got to love my family, my friends, my students, my clients

I have loved my life and it has loved me back
I’ve been touched by Grace and Blessed by God
forever finding meaning and miracles in my path
I have learned to cherish each new sunrise and each new breath

Today, I can travel to far away places
Make plans to lunch with friends near and far
Choose how much to do, when to relax, how long to sleep
Eat what and when I like, create and live my possible dreams

Figuring out how to grow and love myself in this new found freedom
is a challenging experience I welcome and respect
Realizing how precious and delicious every decision I make can be
is a richness I’m appreciating and learning to accept

Who could have imagined I’d be writing of these things
Desiring to share and expose them with the world
You’d think I’d have enough to do basking in the sunshine
attending my garden, painting, knitting, singing, dancing, making new friends

Yet passion for writing in and about this newly found freedom
stirs a deep soul inspiration in me to voice and to share the richness and the blessings
present in newly discovered feelings of joy and gratitude that come with living, owning
and making each new day and night uniquely mine in this journey of time called LIFE!

Happy Birthday, my friend!

A God sent in many ways
to family and friends you brighten days
to social / emotional / political causes
you give of your time, your love and your money
what an amazingly wonderful human being
you've gotten to be
So proud to call you friend
forever inspiring me and all those around you
to womanhood, motherhood and brotherhood
to all that is good and kind and just
How very special it is to honor you today
my closest friend and confidant
the one I count on to add to me
her strength, her love, her honesty
In grief, in pain, in celebration
I cherish YOU completely
THANKING YOU for journeying forth with me
through what’s been, what is and what has yet to be!

My Love

Lay down
Lay down and rest with Me
Rest with me, my love

See things
See things you want to see
Feel our loving energy
Rest and dream with me, my love

Lay down
Lay down close to me
Hold me
Let me hold on to you
Be with me
Rest with me, my love

And you know it’s not easy
This gift of life has it’s moments
Days and nights without end

Everyday challenges and opportunities
filling reality with beauty, joy, woes and pain
swept away in wildest dreams and imaginings
So very nice going through life with you, my love

Lay Down
Lay Down and Rest with me
Feel my love
your love, our love

You
You are my eternity
All I want and all I want to see

Be here
Be here and dream with me

Close your eyes
Feel with me
Rest with me
Lay down beside me, MY LOVE ... 

Message from Beyond

She came as a bird when I opened the front door
She showed up when reaching in the cabinet to get the dog dish,
her spaghetti strainer rolled out and hit the floor 
She spoke, when “by chance,” I placed in that strainer
the container to the courage cup I recently bought my husband

She got through to me yesterday there’s no doubt
after I had strongly told her to stay away, let me work things out
She got through showing me what else I could feel
reminding me of what she told me before she died

Courage, get into your courage, I “heard” her say
Get yourself a lawyer and fight for what’s right
Like the strainer, the bad stuff passes through
while the good stuff collates on top

My mother made her way into my home yesterday
with the help of animals and significant innate objects
she got my attention and offered me a message
she helped me to open up my mind and my heart

Today, over and over, I’m experiencing her saying
I‘m here and supporting you, I’m not going away
I’m here, sorry for your pain, know I’m helping you through
I’m here stronger and closer than ever because I love you ...