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.

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Forgive yourself.

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Forget yourself.

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Words that are short-and sweet: please, thanks, hi, excuse me, sorry, okay, no problem, allow me, take care, i love you.

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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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