april's affirmations

Monday, April 27, 2009

Posted by April at 10:03 PM

2 comments:

Elissa said...: is that what your sidewalk chalk said this morning??

That's cute!; 1:27 PM
Unknown said...: are you painting? I love Chay too. Is that ok?; 3:44 PM

being alive

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our inner most being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth.

"For just letting it go
Is what makes it stay."
~Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

create

in this life list...

mom beat cancer
return to brasil
have more children
record/publish my songs
hike the cascades again
write a book
get a nice camera
teach a college course
sit in the sacred grove
learn how to do mosiac art
find sister williams and pay her back
get a new guitar
beat chay at raquetball
kayak san juan islands
join a basketball team
graduate school
learn woodworking
join a drum circle club
serve mission with chay
get organized
paint a picture for the living room
find my 5th grade teacher and tell her thank you

cov·et

v. tr. 1. To wish for longingly.

whole again

I am reminded of the story of the teacher who tears to shreds a map of the world and, thinking it an impossible task, gives it to a recalcitrant student to put together • within ten minutes the boy is back, the task completed • astounded, the teacher asks him how he did it • the boy replies • "when I turned the pieces over, I found a torn-up man • I put him back together, and when I looked at the other side, the world was whole again. ~soozi holbeche

my loves

a good conversation
music
writing
sunsets
swimming
family
trees & leaves
psychology
children
general conference
dancing
mornings
a good sense of humor
chay's laugh
rivers
someone playing with my hair
kissing
reading
cuddle with kenzie
hike
being alone
sit in the car listening to music
piano

what I'm missing

coeur d 'alene river

familia

waiting

Now is the time, and we are the ones we have been waiting for.
~Hopi elders

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space

give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate • and if you have given sorrow the space its gentle origins demand, then you may truly say: life is beautiful and so rich • so beautiful and rich... ~etty hillesum

school house

look closely newman lakers

to live

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." ~Emily Dickinson

and they are coming from...

privates

whitnie
rachel
kelly
Jake and Elissa
heather
tonya & ryan
marne
keith & bev
tami & jeff
shari