Let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. -1 JOHN 4:7 NIV

in the end the love you make is equal to the love you take. -JOHN/PAUL

M E T A M O R P H O S I S

celebrating all positive paths

What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -RALPH WALDO EMERSON

In a crack in a garden wall a flower Blooms, namelss, lowly and obsure. "Shame on this weed!" the plants tell each other. The Sun rises and calls, "Are you well, brother"? -RABINDRANATH TAGORE

This site is dedicated to all who strive to embrace tolerance, understanding, kindness, peace, and love. This is a small place to encourage all who wobble, roll, meander, run, stumble, fall, climb, slide, skip, crawl, sit, lie, see-saw, twirl,ricochet, waltz, boogie, and continue on the path. In other words, it is for everyone. As is the microcosm so is the macrocosm. Each grain of sand contributes to the shore, each drop of water to the sea....a ray of light is forever...this is simply a temporary place to reaquaint and re-illuminate what is always- yet easily forgotten in our mortal state. Peace and wonderment, Susan McKay slmckay.com

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life from aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain. -EMILY DICKINSON

Inside this great mystery that is we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then before we go, one at a time, through the same gate? -RUMI

happiness is the Blues

I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -WOODY ALLEN

CHOOSE The single clenched fist lifted and ready Or the open asking hand held out and waiting Choose For we meet by one or the other -CARL SANDBERG

TRY SMILING When the weather suits you not, Try smiling. When your coffee isn't hot, Try smiling. When your neighbors don't do right, Or your relatives all fight, Sure 'tis hard, but then you might Try smiling. Doesn't change the things, of course-- Just smiling. But it cannot make them worse-- Just smiling. And it seems to help your case, Brightens up a gloomy place, Then it sort o'rests your face-- Just smiling. -UNKNOWN

chocolate truffles and corn nuts can live in the same house but should never marry

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while A great wind is bearing me across the sky. -OJIBWA SAYING

THE RED WHEELBARROW so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens -WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

Mindfulness Meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn, M.D. If you have trouble "silencing the mind" this audio cassette tape presentation is worth contemplating. Kabat-Zinn has 20-plus years' experience as a doctor and stress-reduction specialist. Speaking candidly, often humorously, he shares ideas about meditation including misconceptions, techniques, and its fundamental place in everyday life. Pointing to his own clinical experiences as well as those of other well-know "meditators," like Einstein, he illustrates the simplicity and necessity of this truly natural state. Bottom line: meditation is your personal experience. It's about learning to pay attention to now, being conscious in and of this moment.

daffodils are the first rays of Spring's sun

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye. -ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.-TOM STOPPARD

red licorice is yummy!

~Sometimes I forget to smile. I'll try to remind myself, but would you smile at me to remind me, too? ~It's not hard to find honesty, just hang around kids and cats. ~Forgive yourself. ~Forget yourself. ~Words that are short-and sweet: please, thanks, hi, excuse me, sorry, okay, no problem, allow me, take care, i love you. ~Does stress evoke the beast in you? Well, the next time the pressure rises, count to 30--not 10. You'll probably decide to chill. If not, maybe you really do need to blow off a little steam. Either way, a few extra seconds may keep your foot on the ground instead of in your mouth

You Say Herb, I Say Erb, Let's Call The Whole Thing... Ginger Tonic: grate 1T ginger root, steep two minutes in a cup of boiling water.  Sip  3 cups a day for 3 days as part of body detox. Also helps soothe upset tummy.

To dreamscapes

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.  -TAGORE

life is eternally groovy

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. -SIMONE WEIL

Late, by myself, in a boat of myself no light and no land anywhere, cloud cover thick, I try to stay just above the surface yet I am already under and living within the ocean. -RUMI

METAMORPHOSIS

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