Blessings

I wish you as much love and joy as your heart can handle, and then some. I wish you as much financial abundance as your bank account can handle, and then some. I wish you as many friends as you can handle, and then some. I wish an openness to life's miracles upon each of you. Maybe you be blessed beyond your wildest dreams, and then some.

Love, joy, laughter and light

I might...

I used to write poems quite often and then sometime around May, I was unable to write. This one came into my head the other night when I was SUPPOSED to be sleeping so I wrote it down to get it out of my head so that I COULD sleep. And now I'm sharing it with you.

I might

I might drive too fast. I might sing off key. I might eat too much sugar and stay up too late and dance around my living room to music that's turned up too loud. I might choose a yoga class to recenter myself over drinks with friends. I might love working out more for how alive it makes me feel than to fit into a certain dress size. I might be a really good cook but eat cereal for dinner. I might use coffee grounds to fertilize my roses. I might love frolicking in the ocean waves, even when the water is only 50 degrees. I might grow rosemary really well but have a black thumb when it comes to basil. But I might buy basil plants anyway. I might dance with joy every day for two weeks and then need a day to myself to rejuvenate. I might buy flowers for random people, just to thank them for doing a thankless job. I might spend too much on high heel shoes and organic farmer's market produce. I might wrote poems for a birthday, or no reason at all. I might horde the crossword puzzle on Sundays and jump in mud puddles and drink hot cocoa with 11 mini marshmallows in it. I might twirl around until I collapse with joy and dizziness, and I might cry at happy movies.

I might love too deeply and live too honestly and give too much to my favorite people.

But I am blissfully happy.

The Essence of Om

That I am a go-getter would surprise no one. I am learning to speak Italian, play the guitar, and bellydance. I am taking some cooking classes at Sur La Table this month (and I'm very excited about all of it). Everyone tends to make New Year's resolutions about things they think they should avoid, or other things they think they should do, but I find resolutions to be highly ineffective. Instead of actually propelling you to DO these things, it creates resistance and a feeling of obligation. If you really wanted to do what's on your list, you would just go out there and DO them and not wait for "someday."
What about TOday? Why wait for someday? And if the idea of doing it doesn't excite you and fill you with passion, why not cross it off your to-do list.

I told a friend of mine that i was taking these cooking classes and he said, "Neat. Someday, when I get a bigger kitchen, I want to learn to cook." I told him that he doesn't have to put it off and that the kitchen was just an excuse. If it were really important to him, he could do it NOW, and if it's not important to him, then that's okay, but to at least be honest with himself.

And in that spirit, I've been thinking about buying or starting up my own little spiritual/metaphysical store/healing center and I finally chose a name I think I really like, AND I registered it on the web (I now am the proud owner of 2 website domain names!) Now to figure out how to set up a website, and to get a logo, and write the business plan (which I've started) and get the investors/loans and find a location and start buying inventory...

Yes. I have a long road ahead of me, but it's something I am passionate about and am excited to be doing.

I'm sorry for the rambly, jumbly message, but I just wanted to put this all out there so you all could put some good mojo into the world for me. Thank you!

Love and Light!