The Celebration Continues

The Miracle of US

Thousands of things go right for you every day, beginning the moment you wake up. Through some magic you don't fully understand, you're still breathing and your heart is beating, even though you've been unconscious for many hours. The air is a mix of gases that's just right for your body's needs, as it was before you fell asleep.

You can see! Light of many colors floods into your eyes, registered by nerves that took God or evolution or some process millions of years to perfect.

The interesting gift of these vivid hues is furthermore made possible by an unimaginably immense globe of fire, the sun, which continually detonates nuclear explosions in order to convert its own body into light and heat and energy for your personal use.

Your hands work wonderfully well. Your heart circulates your blood all the way out to replenish the energy of the muscles and nerves in your fingers and palms and wrists. And after your blood has delivered its blessings, it finds its way back to your heart to be refreshed. This wondrous mystery recurs over and over again without stopping every minute of your life.

You can smell intoxicating aromas. You can hear provocative and soothing sounds. You can taste a thousand different tastes. How is any of this possible? You can think thoughts any time you want -- big, wide, colorful thoughts or tiny dark burrowing thoughts. You can revel and wallow in great oceans of emotion. What colossal secret intelligence or improbable series of fabulous accidents conspired to bestow these superpowers upon you?

Language is another stupendous marvel. Millions of souls have cooperated intricately for untold centuries to cultivate a system of communication that you understand very well. Your ability to speak and read and write makes you feel strong and dynamic. It connects you with the world. It allows you to indulge in one of your greatest pleasures, which is to hear and tell stories.

Maybe this is the best gift of all: You have a staggeringly potent creative tool: your imagination. You use it to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is the engine of your destiny, the catalyst with which you design your future.

Or maybe this is the best gift of all: You know that you are you. You are exultantly and extravagantly aware that you are alive and conscious and awake and unique. You have a million different feelings and fantasies about what it means to be you.

Do you remember when you were born? It was a difficult miracle that involved many people who worked very hard on your behalf. No less amazing is the fact that you have continued to grow ever since then, with new cells being born within you all the time to replace the old cells that are dying.

At this very moment, there are 50 trillion cells in your body, and each of them is really a sentient being in its own right. They all act together as a community, blessing you with their astonishing collaboration. It's just like magic.

The above  found at : - http://bit.ly/Pronoia

A Sweet Shortcut

Wedding Day in Italy

Today is the day of the wedding celebrations in Italy  for our daughter Aria and our son-in-law Daniele.  We wish them a most magical day and a lifetime of bliss.  Congratulations to Aria and Daniele! Tanti Auguri!

Positive Energy

Breathing is one of the simplest ways to transform energy.

This is an exercise you can do throughout your day:

Place your hands on your heart and feel your heart moving as you breathe.

This is calming, and feeds the energy of love, peace, and harmony in the world.

When I Am With You

Whick Witch Are You?

On Our Way

GOING

GOING

                                                                          GONE

                            CIAO, CIAO !!

Distant Sea

Image by Rommel Pecson

“All people dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the
morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous
people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come
true.” 
― D.H. Lawrence

Beatrice Wood

Ceramic artist Beatrice Wood worked on a potter's wheel 

every day until she was 103. Wood who said "My life is full 

of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road," 

died at age 105. 

Beatrice Wood bud pot c. 1960

Be The Dancing Queen

“And those who were seen dancing were thought

 to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche


"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that

 does everybody a great deal of good." - Edwin Denby

On A Day Like Today

Sail Away With Me

"Fantasy, it gets the best of me

When I'm sailing

All caught up in the reverie,

 every word is a symphony" -Christopher Cross

Look Up

Lucky Enough

No Time Like The Present

In My Museum Of Happiness We All Dance!

"While I dance I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life.  I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance." - Hans Bos

A Little Parenthesis in Eternity

Happy Wedding Day to Aria and Daniele!

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal.  We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment.  A little parenthesis in Eternity." - Paul Coelho

Summer Fun

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,

drink the wild air..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two Amusements

Life is the whim of several trillion cells to be you for a while

"Let us read,
and let us dance;
these two amusements
will never do any harm to the world."-Voltaire

 

Loving Directions

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”

― Anne-Sophie Swetchine

A Powerful Force

"Desire is a powerful force that can be used

to make things happen:"-Marcia Wieder

Love Is In The Air

Daniele and Aria, Lake Mendota Madison Wisconsin  2013