musings from the mountains: November 2008

Go Outside and Play!

“Go outside and play!” said God.
“I have given you Universes
as fields to run free in!
And here—take this and wrap yourself in it—It’s called:
LOVE
and It will always, always keep you warm.
And stars! The sun and the moon and the stars!
Look upon these often, for they will remind you
of your own light!
And eyes…oh, gaze into the eyes of every Lover.
Gaze into the eyes of every other
for they have given you their Universes
as fields to run free in.
There.
I have given you everything you need.
Now go, go, go outside and play!”

‘Go Outside and Play’ © 2007 Em Claire

Sunday, November 30, 2008

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND...

Thanks again Coleman for finding this great video!

Friday, November 28, 2008

STRETCHING THE SEASON...

As we begin the Christmas season let's begin by giving ourselves two gifts. We can continue our tradition of gratitude on Thanksgiving Day by beginning a Gratitude Journal. Reminding ourselves throughout the year of all our many gifts and blessings will help keep us healthy and happy. Our second gift is to create a plan that provides us with multiple opportunities to make giving a year round activity. May I make a suggestion? To help feed homeless animals go to: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ and at no cost to you provide six bowls of food for a needy animal. Let us know about your favorite way to give and we will help!

Thanks Tom for the heads up about this site.

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

A BIT OF HISTORY ON THIS HOLIDAY...

Mary Chilton Winslow was 12 years old and on her way to the New World...America. Legend has it that she raced John Alden to the front of the launch that was bringing the Mayflower passengers ashore. She won! and thus became the first woman to set foot on Plymouth Rock. Does that mean that she was also the first person?...history is not clear on this ... strongly suggesting to me that perhaps it was a woman who first set foot in the New World...Perhaps herstory would be different than history!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

OVERCOOKED OR JUST RIGHT?...

ANYONE FOR TURKEY? ENJOY!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2008

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Saturday, November 22, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

When autumn wind goes running
It does some magic things.
It gives the shadows dancing shoes
It gives the bright leaves wings
When autumn wind goes running

It curls the bonfire's tail of smoke
And shares a little whispered joke
With cornstalks who delight to prattle
It turns a seed pod into a rattle
When autumn wind goes running

~Unknown

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

BIRDS OF A FEATHER...

THERE'S A MOON OUT TONIGHT...

Thursday, November 6, 2008

WELCOME NOVEMBER...

Sunday, November 2, 2008

MOVING ON...

Goodbye October...

AGE OLD WISDOM...

If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
If you can overlook when people take things out on you when, through no fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

well...hell...you're probably a dog!
~Author unknown

LIVING THE WISDOM OF THE TAO...

One who would guide a leader of men in the uses of life will warn him against the use of arms for conquest. Weapons often turn upon the wielder.

Where armies settle, nature offers nothing but briars and thorns. After a great battle has been fought, the land is cursed, the crops fail, the earth lies stripped of its Motherhood.

After you have attained your purpose, you must not parade your success, you must not boast of your ability, you must not feel proud; you must rather regret that you had not been able to prevent the war.

You must never think of conquering others by force. Whatever strains with force will soon decay. It is not attued to the Way. Not being attuned to the Way, its end comes all too soon.
~Lao tzu
Tao Te Ching

PRAYER

Lord, make me an instrument of Your
Peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow
love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt,faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to
understand;
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we
receive;
It is in pardoning that we are
pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal
light.
St. Francis of
Assisi

(1182-1226)

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