we only have to remember.

I spread myself out on a mossy spot beneath a towering oak and put in my ear buds. By the time the meditation was over, my hands were shaking and tears were in my eyes.


I only had to remember.

what i would like to remember about this day (well, yesterday)

The eye doctor turned to me and told me that my right eye was just a little blurry, that it really only depended on if I wanted the glasses or not. Or will you be disappointed if you don't get the glasses?

He wrote me the prescription. And I was so happy. I almost hugged him.

everything is already all right.

I suddenly found myself sitting by a bonfire beneath a summer's full moon, listening to Bob Marley on the guitar, shaking maracas in my favorite dress and making enormous efforts to introduce myself to strangers, and I wasn't able to stop smiling when I realized this was the life I was creating for myself.

She had changed the words to, "Every little thing is already all right."

sister date.

We decided on a sister date to the mall, complete with pizza and root beer from the food court and making fools of ourselves trying on silly hats.

I wish she could stay 11 forever.

and the light shall shine.

"Thou shalt decree a thing,

and it shall be established unto thee:

and the light shall shine upon thy ways."

~Job 22:28

the soul's duty.

"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."

~Rebecca West

what i would like to remember about this day.

This evening, I laid atop the grass and let the rain fall over me. It was cold, and wet, and refreshingly lovely.

summer skies.

These summer dusk-times, sun setting over the front yard and the street I grew up on,

 rain subsiding and driveway steaming and sunbeams appearing in gold and pink, 

these are what I want to keep imprinted on my heart forever.

seek within & find it.

"All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it."

~Eileen Caddy

loving my phone.....

.....and the new sense of on-the-spot, whip-my-phone-out-of-my-purse photography it's giving me. Hurray!

(And hurray! for no editing, too!)