16/365: love is my word
my one little (enormous) word for 2012 is "love." simply. love is all around. love is god. love is all you need. love is blind. love makes the world go 'round. love. love. love. love. love.
open. deep. accepting. free. laughter. sharing. easy. soulful. sexy. satisfying. stories. seeing. being seen. just being. giving. receiving. emotional. connection. listening. spiritual. uninhibited. fun.
love. the opposite of fear. my mom's friend jerry jampolsky wrote a book, "love is letting go of fear."
love, i am not afraid of you! i enter open doors and windows, fully, with open heart. and when the fear comes, because it always slips its way inside, i remind myself to let go, to let love in anyway.
2012: the year of reminding myself. to love. just love.
15/365: love of place
from early morning mountain trails -- complete with redwoods and oaks and eucalypts and dirt and bicycles and dogs and red cheeks in cold air -- to beach by harbor -- complete with sailboats and sailors and paddle boards and dogs and palm trees ... this is the northern california i know and love. the northern california i praise in my quietest moments, and my happiest moments.
14/365: sisterjoy
i grew up with one brother. never had the pleasure of having sisters, until now. today, 12 of us shuttersisters from camp joined forces once more, in the glorious january sun, to be together, walk together, shoot together, but mostly, to smile ... because we were together.
13/365: winter blind
my new friend is holding my sunglasses hostage. won't give them back for fear i won't see him again. hey friend: i WILL see you again!
12/365: our separate ways
my cat roux will soon be making the great journey, to kitty heaven. i will miss him.
11/365: between there and here
transitions are important time frames. those moments just after there, before really arriving here. the essence of there still in my system. the longing to go back, to be there still, which makes it so much harder to really arrive and be here.
being here is the only true thing, the only thing that actually exists. yet i have an expert mind at replaying scenes. perhaps my mind will lose its capacity as i strengthen my capacity to be here. now.
10/365: delicate
washing my delicates makes me feel delicate. then i braid my hair for yoga, and power up for warrior II. ah, to be a modern woman!
9/365: rare sweet spot
tiptoeing along that rare sweet spot, when heart and body and soul and emotions and Life coincide, gracefully.