Your light shines through my bones.
~Rumi
Monthly Archives: May 2012
time to be
Photo by Lisa Tate
One look at this photo by my friend Lisa, and I was catapulted back through time, years flying by like so many roadside fenceposts. I landed decades in the past at my Granny Rogers’ house at the edge of a small North Carolina town named Creedmoor. The property to the south side of the house sloped down towards a wooded area, and at the bottom of the slope was an old shed (the woodshed, if I remember correctly), but what was in the shed wasn’t important. Continue reading
grateful for peanuts :)
Image from Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schultz
blushing and shuffling of feet…
It never even crossed my mind when I started a blog that awards might be a part of it, so I was completely unprepared the first time one of my fellow bloggers kindly nominated me for one. The idea still makes me a little uncomfortable. Surprising, perhaps, in light of my theatre and dance background…I shouldn’t mind a little attention, right? But the fact is that I’ve never been good at blowing my own horn. I’ve always danced or sung or designed or written mostly because I love it, and the doing of those things is a reward in itself. I love creating beauty and bringing joy and making magic and shining a little light in the world, and if others like what I do, that’s great. Just knowing that makes me happy enough.
Although I do talk about myself and about things that happen to me in some of my blog posts, I don’t really see pathwriter as being about me. Continue reading
all the true vows ~david whyte
Photo by Lisa Tate
All the true vows
are secret vows
the ones we speak out loud
are the ones we break.
There is only one life
you can call your own
and a thousand others
you can call by any name you want.
Hold to Continue reading
quote du jour ~huxley – it is a bit…
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than “try to be a little kinder.”
~Aldous Huxley
i need a lot of love to get me through...
I knew it was gonna be bad. Lucy's beloved kindergarten teacher (the one that totally gets her), Mrs. Hines blew a disc in her back. This poor magical teacher soldiered on for weeks trying shots and meds but in the end she needed surgery. She was going to be out for 4 weeks.
Lucy did surprisingly well the first 3 weeks, the substitutes were rough but she stretched herself.
kindness girl and her daughter give us a lesson in asking for what we need....
quote du jour ~woollcott
There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
~Alexander Woollcott
quote du jour ~tolle – be at least…
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
~Eckhart Tolle
quote du jour ~asana journal
No matter what, love ourselves. When it feels like the journey has stopped, the magic is gone and we’ve been left on the curb, love ourselves. When we’re confused and angry about how things are going or how they’ve gone, love ourselves. No matter what happens or where we are, love ourselves. No matter if we aren’t certain where we’re going or if there’s any place left to go, love ourselves.
~Posted on the Asana Journal Facebook page
quote du jour ~july – look at the sky…
Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you… Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing.
~Miranda July
a legacy of heart
Tonight I learned that a friend of mine passed away last week. We did theatre together a million years ago and probably hadn’t seen each other in a couple of decades, but I had reconnected with him, as I had with many of my old theatre friends, through Facebook. I enjoyed reading his posts, including one from a few weeks ago, the clip of Dixie Carter as Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women delivering “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” speech.
Bob had an amazing voice and a wicked sense of humor, but what comes to me as I think back is his kindness. Continue reading
