(both blogs)
This will look great at Christmastime.
And in the snowy weather.
I love Crimson!
30 September 2008
New look for the double-seater
(both blogs)
This will look great at Christmastime.
And in the snowy weather.
I love Crimson!
(both blogs)
This will look great at Christmastime.
And in the snowy weather.
I love Crimson!
26 September 2008
The lines
of the rays
of the lowering sun wrote
"I love you" to me ~
Like sensory braille, I felt Divine Love
in the lines
of the rays
of the lowering sun.
The roundness
on the hills
of the burnishing trees
Spoke "I love you" ~
Like a voice made of winds
Soft on the air
spoke the roundness
of the trees
On the burnishing hills.
The birds in their ballets
joying overhead~
in the sweet swoop
of the tender tide
of the flight of wings
I saw "I love you"~
Like a love note, remembrance
A reminder, again
in the swoop
in the tide
in the art of birds.
"I love you," was said
In eloquent ways ~
in silence
and song
and mute design.
24 September 2008
Presents~
(both blogs)
A little before the wind storm came and took up all our brain cells, Bloggers' Mermaid in Residence, Carmen, sent me some lovely gifts:
Two cool blank journals (oh, you've got my number!), a wonderful tag, and a beautiful notecard filled with sweet kindness!
Don't you just love getting real mail? Like, nice mail? It's so cool!
I really loved the handmade ("mer-made") booktag, too~ at least, that's what I'm using it as~ a bookmark (can't have too many bookmarks, you know).
Mr. Cardinal is helping me show the mirrors on the purple journal...
I give it a thumbs up!
Thank you so much, Carmen! They were much appreciated!
(both blogs)
A little before the wind storm came and took up all our brain cells, Bloggers' Mermaid in Residence, Carmen, sent me some lovely gifts:
Two cool blank journals (oh, you've got my number!), a wonderful tag, and a beautiful notecard filled with sweet kindness!
Don't you just love getting real mail? Like, nice mail? It's so cool!
I really loved the handmade ("mer-made") booktag, too~ at least, that's what I'm using it as~ a bookmark (can't have too many bookmarks, you know).
Mr. Cardinal is helping me show the mirrors on the purple journal...
I give it a thumbs up!
Thank you so much, Carmen! They were much appreciated!
23 September 2008
The universe conspires
You remember I told you that I was in a mall when the wind storm hit, and the lights went out?
Well, before the lights went out, I was in the middle of a freakishly weird little flashback experience ...~
I should've been looking around for a souped-up Delorean time machine, like in "Back to the Future"!
Details
The mall we were in was the Florence Mall, and I'd grown up going there, and the store we were in was Deb, and I had shopped in it frequently, as a teenager.
It's on a different floor, now, but it's still Deb.
So, here I am, back again, only this time a mommy~
shopping at Deb, only this time with my teenagers.
And the clothes on the racks looked JUST LIKE the clothes I'd bought there, as a teen in the 80's!
And there was someone there who kept calling to her friend, who happened to be named Christine.
And there was another girl there who kept calling to her friend, who had my sister's name!
Calling back and forth, back and forth, "come look at this shirt!", "look at this belt!"
Just like we would've done, back in the day!
It was so weird! I felt like I'd gotten caught in a limbo~ the wind outside had swept in my lost years....!
And then the lights went out, and I was left with a whirl of nuances and feelings to sort through.~
I kept saying, "this is such an odd day..."
It called out to me
Anyway. While we were there, I saw this shirt, and fell in love with the graphic on it ~ so intricate, like something that would've been in the film "Enchanted"~ only rocked-0ut!
It wasn't till after I'd fallen for it that I even read what it said.... but it suits me fine.~
(See how it's hard to tell what those letters say? Very intricate design!)
Love that~
Rock on, y'all~
You remember I told you that I was in a mall when the wind storm hit, and the lights went out?
Well, before the lights went out, I was in the middle of a freakishly weird little flashback experience ...~
I should've been looking around for a souped-up Delorean time machine, like in "Back to the Future"!
Details
The mall we were in was the Florence Mall, and I'd grown up going there, and the store we were in was Deb, and I had shopped in it frequently, as a teenager.
It's on a different floor, now, but it's still Deb.
So, here I am, back again, only this time a mommy~
shopping at Deb, only this time with my teenagers.
And the clothes on the racks looked JUST LIKE the clothes I'd bought there, as a teen in the 80's!
And there was someone there who kept calling to her friend, who happened to be named Christine.
And there was another girl there who kept calling to her friend, who had my sister's name!
Calling back and forth, back and forth, "come look at this shirt!", "look at this belt!"
Just like we would've done, back in the day!
It was so weird! I felt like I'd gotten caught in a limbo~ the wind outside had swept in my lost years....!
And then the lights went out, and I was left with a whirl of nuances and feelings to sort through.~
I kept saying, "this is such an odd day..."
It called out to me
Anyway. While we were there, I saw this shirt, and fell in love with the graphic on it ~ so intricate, like something that would've been in the film "Enchanted"~ only rocked-0ut!
It wasn't till after I'd fallen for it that I even read what it said.... but it suits me fine.~
(See how it's hard to tell what those letters say? Very intricate design!)
Love that~
Rock on, y'all~
16 September 2008
Learning to love yourself, as well as others
The more a person grows to love themselves, the more they value and are attracted to pure good, the 'clear, beautiful light' kind of purity, the kind of purity that has little to do with prudishness or prissiness, but has to do with 'what is good, noble, beautiful'...
When you learn to love yourself, you come to deeply value clarity and purity and wholeness, in yourself and in others.
This love has to come from learning to love and accept Divine Love~
the love that tries to build from the self, is self-based, paper-thin, superficial, inflated and full of lip-service to self-love ~ bragging, conceited talk.
(Which, by the way, doesn't help towards reaching real, true self-love.
It seems to do momentary, ephemeral good, and that's about it. It's one of the first, elementary tools to get there~ but not the main tool and not the most effective.)
In my own experience, it's best to keep a compliment to yourself, repeating it inside, till it sinks deep, where truth lives.
Once it's TRUE to you, it will rest quietly and serenely in you, a real support. It will come out only in belief, a belief that is REAL!
A confident person who also loves herself/himself shines that through when they show they have a loving opinion of themselves, as well as others. ~
That good opinion of self will show through like a gleam through the veil~ not blatant talk, not spotlighting.
It shines steadily and quietly through all that they do.
There is an acceptance of others, yet a refusal to be placed under anyone's flawed spell.
You are no longer a victim of any sort, free to stand firmly where you are, as you are, in all your imperfections and strengths~ free from the fragmenting pain of looking for your own wholeness in others, and in their opinions of you.
You are content to be you, improving; you, beautiful!
In this state of all-over-the-place loving, you don't need compliments from others to feel loving towards yourself and wonderful about yourself, because that love is deeply intact, already~ the self-appreciation is there, and the love is too general and generous and genuine to be arrogant or bragging.
The confidence comes from Divine Love, just as the love has. It shines out from you, radiates through you, and you feel good about yourself, about God, about others, about the world around you.
You dwell on good things, noble things, beautiful things~ you love.
You simply love.
The more a person grows to love themselves, the more they value and are attracted to pure good, the 'clear, beautiful light' kind of purity, the kind of purity that has little to do with prudishness or prissiness, but has to do with 'what is good, noble, beautiful'...
When you learn to love yourself, you come to deeply value clarity and purity and wholeness, in yourself and in others.
This love has to come from learning to love and accept Divine Love~
the love that tries to build from the self, is self-based, paper-thin, superficial, inflated and full of lip-service to self-love ~ bragging, conceited talk.
(Which, by the way, doesn't help towards reaching real, true self-love.
It seems to do momentary, ephemeral good, and that's about it. It's one of the first, elementary tools to get there~ but not the main tool and not the most effective.)
In my own experience, it's best to keep a compliment to yourself, repeating it inside, till it sinks deep, where truth lives.
Once it's TRUE to you, it will rest quietly and serenely in you, a real support. It will come out only in belief, a belief that is REAL!
A confident person who also loves herself/himself shines that through when they show they have a loving opinion of themselves, as well as others. ~
That good opinion of self will show through like a gleam through the veil~ not blatant talk, not spotlighting.
It shines steadily and quietly through all that they do.
There is an acceptance of others, yet a refusal to be placed under anyone's flawed spell.
You are no longer a victim of any sort, free to stand firmly where you are, as you are, in all your imperfections and strengths~ free from the fragmenting pain of looking for your own wholeness in others, and in their opinions of you.
You are content to be you, improving; you, beautiful!
In this state of all-over-the-place loving, you don't need compliments from others to feel loving towards yourself and wonderful about yourself, because that love is deeply intact, already~ the self-appreciation is there, and the love is too general and generous and genuine to be arrogant or bragging.
The confidence comes from Divine Love, just as the love has. It shines out from you, radiates through you, and you feel good about yourself, about God, about others, about the world around you.
You dwell on good things, noble things, beautiful things~ you love.
You simply love.
15 September 2008
High winds came through
(both blogs)
These photos were all taken just in my neighborhood! (We were taking my daughter's boyfriend home, and just snapped photos along the way to his house and back.)
There's much more damage throughout the Cincinnati ~ Northern Kentucky area, etc.
(I have more photos on my flickr pages ~ click on one of the photos to go there).
Shop till you suddenly can't see anything
We were at the Florence Mall when the lights went out~ I pretty much grew up going to the Florence Mall, and that's the first time I've seen that happen.
They shut all the stores down, and we navigated our way home~ the roads were all full of green debris from trees and shrubs, etc.
Grateful
When we got home, we thankfully found that the mature trees surrounding our house were still standing proud~ and we even had electricity and phone service, though I don't know HOW, because there were two different lines pulled down with fallen trees, on our road alone!
90% of the Cincinnati area is without power. I'm amazed that we had it!
At work this morning, there was no electricity in areas of the building that were not hooked to the generator~ that includes my space, so I've been working in the day's grey light, coming through the windows! They hooked up my computer, but the phones only worked briefly.
What an odd day!~ I'm so glad we're all ok!
Today's walk will be interesting
I can only imagine how the trail will look ~ it's prone to losing trees on windy days or during rainstorms.
I walked it yesterday morning, when the wind was merely "playful"~ I walked down the trail keeping an ear tuned for the warning sound of cracking tree, near me~ when I came back up, one tree had fallen across the trail~ a foretaste of how the day would be.
(both blogs)
These photos were all taken just in my neighborhood! (We were taking my daughter's boyfriend home, and just snapped photos along the way to his house and back.)
There's much more damage throughout the Cincinnati ~ Northern Kentucky area, etc.
(I have more photos on my flickr pages ~ click on one of the photos to go there).
Shop till you suddenly can't see anything
We were at the Florence Mall when the lights went out~ I pretty much grew up going to the Florence Mall, and that's the first time I've seen that happen.
They shut all the stores down, and we navigated our way home~ the roads were all full of green debris from trees and shrubs, etc.
Grateful
When we got home, we thankfully found that the mature trees surrounding our house were still standing proud~ and we even had electricity and phone service, though I don't know HOW, because there were two different lines pulled down with fallen trees, on our road alone!
90% of the Cincinnati area is without power. I'm amazed that we had it!
At work this morning, there was no electricity in areas of the building that were not hooked to the generator~ that includes my space, so I've been working in the day's grey light, coming through the windows! They hooked up my computer, but the phones only worked briefly.
What an odd day!~ I'm so glad we're all ok!
Today's walk will be interesting
I can only imagine how the trail will look ~ it's prone to losing trees on windy days or during rainstorms.
I walked it yesterday morning, when the wind was merely "playful"~ I walked down the trail keeping an ear tuned for the warning sound of cracking tree, near me~ when I came back up, one tree had fallen across the trail~ a foretaste of how the day would be.
08 September 2008
First visit to Delhi Gardens
First visit to Delhi Gardens
Originally uploaded by christine_el
Until then, I thought you'd like to share the garden with me!~
Have a seat, the weather is glorious!
05 September 2008
04 September 2008
Floating, sometimes flying in joy
It's so true~ focusing on happy thoughts and making the effort to be happier really works! I go through my day just amazed and so grateful at all the beautiful, grace-filled moments that come up~ they unfold at my feet, like so many blooms.
I didn't set out to "try new things or revisit past wonders", this Season, but may as well have!
I grew moonflowers again, this year (see photo above)~ I haven't grown them since 1999!
They are very definitely a flower I resonate with~ pure white, they are large, showy, yet elegant, I can really appreciate that, and they open in the evening, smelling wonderful on moonlit winds.~
I've had a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich for the very first time (♥♥♥ it!),
held buckeyes in my hand again for the first time in years~
I always loved buckeyes, they're so beautiful~ having them in my hand again led me to celebrate by going to the local Graeter's ice cream bakery shoppe, and get some of their "buckeyes" (chocolate covered peanut butter balls)...
And, of course, I recently welcomed my newest grandbaby!~ A great joy!
Rev it up
I keep my mood positive not by having a life devoid of problems or difficulties, but by focusing on positive things as much as possible, working on training myself not to be 'against' so many things, and surrounding myself with positive things~
books like "Absolute Beauty", which is an Auyervedic book of beauty (very informative),
or Valerie Bertinelli's autobiography, which had its bad moments, but shows a present-day woman who got where she is by envisioning the way she wanted to be, the life she wanted to have.
And I've been watching movies like, "Enchanted", and "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"~ movies that make me smile and feel good!
I've sought out as many joyful, inspiring things as possible, and by this time, after doing this for only a couple of weeks at most, I feel a huge, sparkling difference!
It's been an amazing experience~ each day, I feel a little bit closer to being that "connected" kind of person that Wayne Dyer writes of in "The Power of Intention".
I'm reaching for that goal~ and I know that merely by reaching for it, disregarding any time limit, willing to keep going till I get there, I'm doing the best thing possible to realize my dream of living a dream-come-true life!
The world is full of extraordinary beauties, just waiting to appear!
It's so true~ focusing on happy thoughts and making the effort to be happier really works! I go through my day just amazed and so grateful at all the beautiful, grace-filled moments that come up~ they unfold at my feet, like so many blooms.
I didn't set out to "try new things or revisit past wonders", this Season, but may as well have!
I grew moonflowers again, this year (see photo above)~ I haven't grown them since 1999!
They are very definitely a flower I resonate with~ pure white, they are large, showy, yet elegant, I can really appreciate that, and they open in the evening, smelling wonderful on moonlit winds.~
I've had a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich for the very first time (♥♥♥ it!),
held buckeyes in my hand again for the first time in years~
I always loved buckeyes, they're so beautiful~ having them in my hand again led me to celebrate by going to the local Graeter's ice cream bakery shoppe, and get some of their "buckeyes" (chocolate covered peanut butter balls)...
And, of course, I recently welcomed my newest grandbaby!~ A great joy!
Rev it up
I keep my mood positive not by having a life devoid of problems or difficulties, but by focusing on positive things as much as possible, working on training myself not to be 'against' so many things, and surrounding myself with positive things~
books like "Absolute Beauty", which is an Auyervedic book of beauty (very informative),
or Valerie Bertinelli's autobiography, which had its bad moments, but shows a present-day woman who got where she is by envisioning the way she wanted to be, the life she wanted to have.
And I've been watching movies like, "Enchanted", and "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"~ movies that make me smile and feel good!
I've sought out as many joyful, inspiring things as possible, and by this time, after doing this for only a couple of weeks at most, I feel a huge, sparkling difference!
It's been an amazing experience~ each day, I feel a little bit closer to being that "connected" kind of person that Wayne Dyer writes of in "The Power of Intention".
I'm reaching for that goal~ and I know that merely by reaching for it, disregarding any time limit, willing to keep going till I get there, I'm doing the best thing possible to realize my dream of living a dream-come-true life!
The world is full of extraordinary beauties, just waiting to appear!
03 September 2008
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