10/24/14 Entry (Loving Ourselves)

Lately, I’ve been thinking about self love and this quote attributed to Lucille Ball. And then yesterday, I saw the following words (attributed to “Unknown”) that made up part of a larger quote: “It takes a level of self-love, of dedication and determination to live your greatest life.” Seeing it, I thought back to Lucy’s quote and came to the following conclusion/reminder: everything we live—the sum of all our thoughts & actions speaks volumes about how much we love ourselves. How much we love ourselves to think more on and do more of what is healing and nurturing. How much we love ourselves to have faith in and champion our ability to be well adjusted come what may. How much we love ourselves to be aware of when we’re entertaining fear thoughts or making fear based decisions masquerading as love. I can look at my life and much of the current energetic space I inhabit and see that the changes I desire underneath it all comes down to consciously choosing more self love.

So I choose more self love. I choose to ask myself if I’m thinking and acting from a place of love or a place of fear masquerading as love. And how might one know the difference? I think one feels it—predicated upon the conscious desire to know/genuinely care where one is coming from.

I’m going to work on it. Maybe you’ll join me. I wouldn't mind the company.  Good luck out there♥

I Ask for Your Help

I ask for your help
Sometimes I do things and I know better than to do these things
I ask for your help
Sometimes I'm jealous and I know better than to be jealous
I ask for your help
Sometimes I take things too personally and I know better than to do that
Human Frailty♫
I guess it comes with the territory
The quicksand of these emotions
But I want to overcome gravity
Or at the very least,
Help me to stand in the rain without getting wet
Maybe it's my raincoat that's drenched
And I'm confusing it with skin

10/8/14 Entry (Three Things of Note Before 8 AM)

Three things of note (to me) before 8 AM this morning:

Wearing a brand new pair of socks--fresh out the package. Don't know why, but makes me smile grin emoticon

Watching a little boy, probably around 9/10/11 years of age envelope his father (or guardian) in a deep heartfelt hug this morning as we stood on the subway platform waiting for the train. I could see the little boy's smiling face and could feel the love radiating from the hug. It was just especially touching to me because the boy initiated it and held on for so long and the older gentleman just smiled and let himself be held on to smile emoticon

Connecting with a lady I haven't spoke to in-depth for sometime and in the connecting learning of the trials she's been weathering over the last few weeks. I was grateful to have been able to lend a listening ear. Goodness knows I've been in that place where experiencing the feeling of being heard--the feeling that someone "randomly" cared to just listen and empathize-- has been invaluable.

Hoping you make the best of your adventures today smile emoticon Good luck out there heart emoticon

10/6/14 Entry (Have a Good Day)

Here's to a week filled with magic, adventures (big and small), compassion (for ourselves as well as for others), side splitting laughter (metaphorically, cause literally would just be messy wink emoticon ), heartfelt understanding, seized opportunities that allow healing, forgiveness and extraordinary (or delightfully simple) gatherings of love smile emoticon Why not ? grin emoticon

Good luck out there heart emoticon

10/3/14 Entry (Break Dancing)

Sometimes, I wish I could break dance. Or at the very least, do that one move where one ends up balancing on one hand and freezing in position for a few seconds. I think it'd be a fun thing to do--once I'd mastered it, of course wink emoticon Why? For the pure sense of fun and glee that I get from just thinking about it grin emoticon