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Eat the shrimp tempura

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 Eat the shrimp tempura eat the shrimp tempura dive into your life dive into the emotions on the horizon and deep within your heart learn to navigate your own road and ride the waves that come be fearless in your care for yourself take time to figure out what works for you, makes you happy, and meets your needs open up like the flower you are and feel your petals warming in the sun listen and dance dance dance to the rhythym only you have within you and share that delightful dance or song or story or idea with the world be ready for failures and learn most from them celebrate who you are and your success as you celebrate the identities and successes of others  be patient with everyone, including you delight in your own passions and interests watch the bees as they dance amongst the flowers rock this world with your energy and maybe even rock the boat, too help others through their difficult times and widen your circle of compassion a friend once described me as courageous, hon...
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Embodied

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 As I walked past the mirror today I gazed on myself and felt love for my body. Truly, over the years I have always appreciated my body for itself, for its weaknesses and strengths, for its own beauty as all bodies have. But today I felt love and connection, not wanting to improve a thing but to feel embodied in it, to be swallowed up in love for myself, to be thankful for how I am, no changes, no regrets. This body that has carried so much grief and loss, so much bewilderment and abandonment, so much worry and anxiety has been carrying more love and lightness, more softness and laughter, more ease and letting go these days. She's been a wonderful bearer, a bearer of life, though never a mother, one who births and will birth more, one who celebrates and takes delight in people and places. To my body I say an unabashed "Looking good" and she says back to me, Feeling good, too, my friend " 
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Soft Breezes Call to Me

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 laying lazy and free and taking in the breeze nowhere to be and no one to please listening to the wave of wind as it washes over my face delighted to be part of it as it is part of it i am invited to surrender to surrender my worry to surrender my inhibitions to surrender to the breezes let them carry my burdens  allow them to wash me clean and make me anew God is in the breeze
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Branches

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Branches Heading up and bowing down, Touching my heart and my chakra crown. Leading me on and never astray, Raising my vibration, held in your sway.  Bringing my eyes to look at your skies, Opening my heart to a much greater size. Telling me stories of wisdom and meaning, Showing me places where I have been leaning. Giving me courage to offer my song, Singing it for me when I feel forlorn. Touching my shoulder with gentle reminder, To greet each soul with a spirit that's kinder. Blending my spirit with bluejay and flower, Dancing with more joy, every second, each hour. Oh teacher, oh holy, oh wonders astounding, Bending your beauty to each one surrounding.  Darlene Brewer, Public Gardens, May 1, 2017
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Wanna Be Better Engaged? Try These:

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Greet Everyone on your path today  Serve the servers who serve YOU Do and say ALL of the right things - take it on the chin but just for today :-)    Find the opportunities Make time for tea - any kind and anyhow, be creative :-p  JUST listen(for a change  ) Be personal - don't have someone else send your messages Keep at least 1 car length away from the car in front of you - ya I know it's hard to do but well worth it Completely entrust yourself to sleep Less enclosed, more exposed Safe word TODAY? WHEEEEE Don't let them take you across the immutability line  START eating ice cream for breakfast  If you want them to know you - show them a childhood picture
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Deep Into Virtue - The Way of the Heroine/Hero

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Glenn: It's always a beautiful thing, to see individuals do good deeds. I often think about - each time I'm seeing it - what's in their minds, who they are, where they come from, what they've been through...what they are going through now! I know each is different so I look for, and try to find, the common thread(s) that link them. It's important to me - these virtuous...their virtues. Not a likely thing that I'll be interviewing them ha. But, if I turn inward, to what prompts ME, to do good things, (that I "sometimes" try to do ha), then I'm sure I'll find some reasonable answers.  We all know about "Heroines/Heroes". They're the ones who jump into the lake to save a drowning person, or rescue someone from a cliff, or emerge from the flames with a survivor. And there are many more heroic feats - all of the countless other heroes/heroines - NOT celebrated. We know them and we cite their virtues and we sing them in our songs. They ...
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Joyful Meanderings

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My brother in law brings great joy to my life, through our many conversations  much laughter, and positive energy that is generated between us when we are not even chatting online or in person. He s a light in my life and brings out the best in me, nurtures my spirit and creates an enthusiasm in my life for living. We are kindred spirits and so, we have created this blog. I want to write more, and we both do, and so here we are.  When I think about joy I think about sacred conversations and how sacred every conversation really is. I seek to honour every person with whom I am n dialogue; be it a stranger, a close friend, or my most loved and cherished ones. As a Christian I am called to live with joy each day. I believe Jesus lived his life on a foundation of love and joy and started a movement because of it. Joy is for everyone. We can all feel it easily and spontaneously.  One of my favourite writers, Leo Buscaglia, said this about living, " Too often we underestimate th...
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