Feliz Cumpleanos...Sunday is the day

Happy Birthday to me.
Tiny bits of grey getting more evident, laugh lines starting to show a bit, weary eyed from the ride...still kicking it for a while.

Spending my birthday in a different kind of way.

Going to include my daughter in a little gift I asked for 32 years ago and that was to go to the Jesus Bookstore.

This year I will bring my own girl just that same age as I was then.

My birthday, Sunday the 13th, as we are both born on the 13th of our birth month's, 32 years later, hand in hand.
 I remember still the excitement and absolute glory I was in that day in the passage through the isles. To this day I still have some of the treasures I found all those years ago.

I have been leading a more faithful, outspoken, and slightly rebellious lifestyle ever since I can remember, and in this growth over all of the sometimes painful years, I can honestly say that today, none of the hurting, the sorrow, the downness, none of it made me anything other than sad at the time I allowed it to matter. It does not hurt me anymore, now that I have come full circle. None of the heartaches would have ripped me apart had I continued to walk in this faith, with the eyes of the 6 year old, understanding what the LOVE that I had been given would mean, and that this LOVE will always be.

New things this year...

I have decided to go to church on my birthday, which is long overdue.
I am not a social being any longer and I need to bounce into a nurturing place to follow faithful living with others and help inspire with the beauty that only grows stronger inside of me.

The years add an aged wisdom that I cherish and I am nearing a big bash, decade, year next birthday. Let's just say between now and then there will be a lot on content and hopefully some contentment, a lot of writing and rambling. Growth...LOVE. Tunes, Art...all of it. The book is so close to finished I can almost smell the first print, waiting for everyone's soul healing. It's blossoming just as Spring has begun.

 

purchase this gorgeous photo here.

Enjoy this weekend folks and prepare for the glorious resurrection of the LOVE that is ever present in each of us and that which us connects us together where other things tear us apart.

Feel the presence of LOVE.

I'll be capturing photographs, soaking in familiar smells, sharing LOVE with my little sweetheart, tasting cakes, drinking my favorite tea, playing, praising, and breathing the freshness of loving myself the way that I am LOVED>

Cult of Personality

 Does this test give you an honest assessment of your personality? Take the 12 minutes and answer with thought.

Find out your personality type and a lot of really helpful information about each!

Love's in Need

Mumford and Sons

Have to say this is the best performance I have seen of these gentleman here on YouTube. They profess this may have been their best festival experience ever. I see it in their performance.

I have seen them live twice so far. I hope to make this year's Outside Lands Fest the 3rd!! The feeling of spirit is contagious and ever preset from first note to last. The bands they bring to their gigs and the fests they belong to are all magical.

Yay!!! 

I really look forward to these blokes continuing to do what they do best, which is connect folks and touch hearts.

February is a great month to Read!!

 

Do you love reading?

Tell us what you are reading now, in the comments below....

I'm reading to my daughter daily and marveling at her advancements in just a few short months. 

Very inspiring!

Currently we are reading,  Claude on the Slopes, by Alex T. Smith

 

Last night she read to me from, Mr. Putter and Tabby Take the Train, by Cynthia Rylant and Arthur Howard.

I am currently working on my book, 7 Steps to Inner Harmony, and reading for me is research and drafts, editing and collecting information for this blog. 

I'd love to know what is new (and old) out there that you think noteworthy.

Pass it On!

Sacral and Heart Chakra Healing

Chronic pain (updated)

After some very intense displacement of both hips and neck in my early youth, I have built up a fair amount of soft tissue damage and some residual scar tissue along with truly stuck spots that cause every day chronic pain for me. 

Some activities make it much worse and I try to avoid to much strain, and eating a diet with a low level of inflammatory items is a necessity to keep comfort at optimum. I don't like taking medicine for pain and choose to do some basic things only and then do a lot of stretching and moving to help release stuck spots and make movement less painful. Here is a great resource for some very beneficial stretches if you too have aches and pains that need some attention!

Let em Go!

Make Your Life Healthier: 36 Pictures to see which muscles you are stretching.


Part of the problem with chronic pain, particularly from injury, is that the stress of our lives tends to pin point and target the painful areas and it can cause an atrophy and blockage.

Here is a great page on how to release stress from the body specifically focusing on the Psoas muscle, and its importance in centered living.

Craniosacral Therapy is very helpful in healing chronic pain and I have personal experience both as a client and a student. It is amazing to see what our bodies are capable of doing when healing energy is present.

Our Friend Martin

Meditation: Change on a Cellular Level

Meditate, Don't Hate

 

 

   transhumanize

Very Hopeful and Informative report!! 

Study showing meditation changes cancer survivor cells

 

Simple Meditation Techniques

Roots

Roots

Either you have them or you grow them

Without them you are floating and not able to complete as much as one with roots

http://wakingupinwonder.com/first-chakra/

Without them you can be knocked down

Careful where you sprout your roots, for as they grow, so does the intention to which they are planted.

 

Heal your root connection to achieve your highest calling

  Become completely rooted in love to affect positive change. 

Out with the old...

The most recent 6 weeks have been growth oriented and I have come to a place that has me wanting to set free that which does not serve me. I do not wish to be unkind or unappreciative to that which is becoming merely a memory, simply lightening the load in order to move forward with purpose.

Don't be afraid to release connections, ideas, and situations that no longer serve you, in order to make more room for that which is meant for you.

Be brave.

Take the New Year by the reins and...BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU!!!

 

An adventure in dog sitting

Greetings!

It's been a while...

Presently, due to the mass amounts of unemployment and truly horrendous economic division, I find myself largely unemployed. I am a full time mother to an elementary school age child, which is a full time job, but lacking in the great pay department.

I keep at it and soon I will find something to compliment my now growing Dog Boarding/Sitting/Walking business. I began using www.rover.com in late August to bring in income and have an ever growing number of different canine guests, rather than my own pet, as they are costly!

I am able to engage my child in the care and feeding of the dogs, and we can enjoy having a rotating plethora of pets to keep us busy.

I have increased exponentially in the weeks I have been working with the dogs and I am pleased to say I have repeat business and a regular customer or two already! It's really been wonderful to do something I love and get paid to enjoy having a pet for a bit. Sometimes the dogs stay here, sometimes I go to their home. I do dog walking, check in and feeding visits, boarding and house sitting. So far it has been a great success, so easy to get started using, and for the cost, a percentage of your profits, provides access to resources, vet services, emergency assistance, insurance for the business, and materials to expand and grow. They help you market your business and all of it becomes an independent contracting gig that you manage from your phone. It's been a God sent welcome in my life and I look forward to the continued growth.

 

Hope you all enjoy your new year! It is set to be a good one for me and I wish the same for you.

#GivePeaceAChance