"Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness."
"When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world."
"I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed."
"Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness."
All four of the above life-giving & inspiration-breathing quotes from the incomparable Mary Oliver.
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I have this wickedly fresh orange shower gel~the kind that when using it first thing in the morning upon awakening puts you in the gladdest of moods and opens those sleepy eyes right up. My goodness it is the favourite part of my day in all honesty; that and also at the end of the day when I'm all jammied up and cosied in the house for the evening. What that has to do with this post I haven't yet determined. All I know is there are some thoughts worth passing on & those were some of them. Here's a couple more:
I enjoyed turning 40 two days ago. It wasn't the big whooptiedoo I thought it would be. In fact, the significant lack of feeling any different gives me hope. I hope that I can feel this way when I'm 80. 90. 100.
Yes, I'm going for triple digits. So, I'm cutting cholesterol and meditating more.
Sound body+sound mind+willing heart=Longevity::happiness::laughter
It's my own formula so it can't be wrong. (It's the new dreaming math.)
I'm hooked on the Instagram app for iPhone right now. So much so. This cameraphone suits my "fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants" lifestyle so much and there are trillions of filters, retro cameras, and all around fun photography applications available to me, it is like having 475 cameras at my disposal at any given time.
Having a blast?
Yes, thank you. I am.
Annnnd speaking of photos, here's a link--------> Tara's Photography Blog. Enjoy her latest Nepal photos, she's a globetrotting wonder that Tara is.
xoxo
You don't look forty at all! Age is surely a feeling, not a number :) Very glad you don't feel so!
Posted by: Preeti Shenoy | January 08, 2011 at 02:24 PM
Yes, Tara is a wonder, beautiful photos. Love Mary Oliver and the quotes you shared.
Posted by: Marilyn | January 08, 2011 at 10:57 PM
I am in love with my lemon shower gel and lotion, I so look forward to their invigorating smell in the morning! You are a breath of fresh air my lovely, I love coming here.
Posted by: Donna | January 08, 2011 at 11:58 PM
I love the Satsuma shower gel from Body Shop. It smells not just like orange...but orange italian soda! How does it smell fizzy you ask? I know not...but it is a fresh invigorating miracle! Love those :)
Most beautiful quotes and wonderful thoughts. I LOOOOVE random. Hugs and hot chocolate to you dear one. (Although I know your prefer tea!)
Posted by: Tanya | January 09, 2011 at 02:51 PM
Oh Mary Oliver ~ she always makes me swoon.
Posted by: Swirly | January 11, 2011 at 10:17 AM