on the move....

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.” 
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

The world
it moves
it shifts
and
we
us 
humans
tiny specks that we are
get tired..
want
to stop...
rest 
a bit
...
rejuvenate we call it.

Trouble is
we spend all our time and energy
trying to find
that thing that brings us joy
and
we are so caught up in the midst
of 
what we are doing to find
IT
joy that is...
we miss IT..
breathtaking
moments
of incredible 
encounter 
of the 
awesome kind...
that
can
and
will
and 
does
fill us
with
joy
deep joy
that just for a moment
fills us up 
with hope and inspiration
and energy to
continue along the adventure.

.....
Perhaps
the
real 
adventure
does not come
by climbing mountains
though it is fun
and one day I would love
to hike along the Appalachian trail
where adventurer's have gone before
....
I hope to jump from 
the plane
and 
feel the wind against my face
as the world rushes by
just for a moment
to feel the incredible 
surge of energy and adrenaline.
....
I'd love to set my feet upon 
all seven continents 
or 
at least all 50 states
and experience the culture and life of others
....
but
if none 
of those 
things happen
I leave not the world
with
a feeling of unsettled peace 
or 
lack of fulfillment
....
My 
joy
...some days I've found it...
and
it happens
in tiny slivers
at rare moments
with
steaming coffee
in the midst of
deep conversation with my children
or 
strangers
in the touch 
of my husbands hand
or in the way 
he moves with joy as he cooks....

We humans
we are not stationary creators
we are on a huge adventure
called life...
don't miss it 
getting to another place...
breathe in the moment
capture the pictures in your memory bank
allow yourself to enjoy...

Life
it is moving along
it is a great adventure
...
it is
and
will be
...
what we decide to make it!!!
choose wisely

happy rainy Saturday

on this day...
I choose to
go back to bed and it is only 830...
ah...
JOY...

The radical rambler

What we wear.....

“If you want people to love you for who you are, take the mask off” 

― Martin Suarez

I watch
and
see
we 
people
in the vastness of 
diversity and creation
are so 
much 
more alike than different
We hide who we are
smother down that
individuality
bind up our gifts
and 
carry them around on
our back 
for fear of
appearing 
weird or different or
too awesome.

I stare into folks eyes
trying to figure out
and
every so often
I catch a glimmer
of the 
wonder of humanity...
see a ray of shining from
someone who stands in their own uniqueness
I love it when I do
for it 
invites
me to trust in
that thing
that IT
that created me...

Every last one of us 
does it
hides our truest of self
covers up the smile
or the warmth
wraps empathy in a blanket
continuing
to 
be a prisoner 
to the mask
we started wearing when we were oh so small
and
realized
the world expected us to be the same
or at least that is the story
we tell ourselves....

Wonder what would happen
if 
we began
just a few moments at a time
starting our day
with it all off---
do we even know how to do that anymore????
allow the light of the Divine IT
shine out from us
in the fullness
of 
who we were created to be....

Go on
just for today
don't be worrying about 
what so and so will say
how she will react
what his impression will be
....

Take off that persona
that he or she 
devil of a mask
you wear
sweat under
hide behind
and
allow
God
creative wonder
energy that flows
to shine forth from you...

Go on ...
Just be You.
Happy hump day...

The radical rambler....

Ordinary Heros and Sheros......

“[S/Heroes] didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; 

they didn't wear boots and capes. 

They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. 

[S/Heroes] were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, 

they could untangle someone else's. 

And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.” 
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

In a fragment of a second

it happens....

Change can come on tiptoe
Love is where it starts
It resides, often hides
Deep within our hearts
And just as
Pebbles make a mountain,
Raindrops make a sea,
One day at a time
Change begins with you and me,
Ordinary miracles
Happen all around,
Just by giving and receiving
Comes belonging and believing...

(ordinary miracles, barbra streisand)

....

I watched them

sure they had no intent for me to see

they were just being..

two ordinary older women--both very wise women indeed-

walked toward each other

only having know each other 

for a short period 

of time

...

and

I watched as they walked.

down the aisle toward

one another

no words spoken

eyes glued to each other

both smiled

and

then with no words being said

they stopped

body to body

arms outreached

stopped and embraced.

no agenda

no reason

just love...

perhaps

that 

right there

meeting with no agenda

seeing past "me" in my eyes

touching with no intent other than to love...

perhaps

that

is how we save each other

and

then save the world

...

one smile

one meeting

one

little embrace

at a time

....

for 

whatever reason

I was privy

to 

a lesson in love

and

it saved me from myself

for 

just a moment in time.

Thanks to two 

wise women---my sheros--

for modeling how it is done.

Happy Monday...

perhaps

among all the ways 

we color our self up

perhaps

we really are more alike than different....

and when we realize it

we can really see.

The Radical Rambler