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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Glorious gifts of God not tossed aside ...

Here are the roadposts directing me on this journey, falling before my feet. A change in careers, a change in residence, a change in my perspective on relationships and life.

Megan and I had a most fun girl-filled weekend. Self-pedicures and manicures and facials. Model posing pictures. Walks along the danforth in the pouring rain. Dancing and singing to music in the dining room.

I am beginning to see and feel and experience all that has been missing in my life for the past few years. Though thankful for the experience I am also grateful for the opportunity to break free of those chains that bound me.

Received a phone call yesterday morning to 'check my mailbox'. In it was a single white envelope with my name written on the front. Opening it up I felt that blooming giddiness that's been absent for so long. Inside the most tender poem and a tiny little flower from the trip we took to the forest last week. My connection with him is so effortless. I adore and admire his strength, independence and compassion. His grace in life and commitment to life. Our week together has been most magical ...

Comments on "Glorious gifts of God not tossed aside ..."

 

Blogger CE said ... (1:26 PM) : 

Nice to hear from you again. In love, are you? I don't blame you. I guess that's what life is all about.
I should read all your previous post. I'm curious. Don't worry, I'm in love too. But I won't tell you with whom.
Does love ever leave? I'm not sure about that. It depends on what kind of love you have. I guess if it is true love, then it wouldn't leave you. At 17 I fell in love for the first time, but stopped it from blossoming because I felt she wasn't the one for me. She was 16 and extremely beautiful; she was a missionary kid. I found a photo of hers on internet, a school photo during her stay at the international school in Manila. She's probably married now and with lots of kids. But I can't locate her. I'm hoping they will have a reunion in Europe someday so I could see her again. Also I have had many girl friends when I was younger, and I'm still in love with them. Sadly they're probably all married now.

 

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