Peace to you,  JOY, LOVE, everything that makes your heart swell with grace beyond description and feelin awesome, your best, blessed, happy, healthy.

Let us go forth with the heart of a lion, the grace of a butterfly and the strength of a burning, blazing, beautiful star.

Joy & Pain

Joy is a jewel, a sparkly slice of life that smears smiles on people's faces. Joy warms the heart and nourishes the soul, it tugs on your heartstrings, can make you cry and laugh, giggle and feel good all over. Pain is raw and strikes indiscriminantly at the young and old, boys and girls, men and women of all ages, it can leave as quickly as it appears or linger and loiter in the body and mind oblivious to it's unwanted presence. Joy and Pain are opposites felt, seen and heard in obvious manner, sometimes invisible as it moves about with reckless abandon.

Pain bites hard, it punctures, the sting is sharp, also quick to come and go without warning, unannounced like an obnoxious uninvited guest. Emotional or mental pain can be silent or exude deafening screams as it runs rampant and out of control. Each hot tear begs for relief from the intruding tangles, tears, breaks, burns, blocks, ruptures.You scramble for ways to rid yourself of any pain or anguish.

The joy of seeing a child happy and healthy after surviving a life threatening illness, a therapist helping someone breakthrough a former limitation, someone being appreciated for their help, good news about long awaited test results or completing a job well done while improving the quality of someones life in the process. Joy is an elixar of life!

At the end of the day it is comfort, peace, big and little, subtle and spectacular things and moments that bring you joy, outweighs the pain and make life more livable, happier and healthy.

Fearless Warrior

As the world turns, burns, spins, shakes and bakes in it's own jams and juices, in it's own mad and marvelous self made messes and awesome inventions, intentions, conventions, creations and connections... we would do well to rise and shift, all of us who share this precious planet...Yes, a shift to make room for the betterment of one another. To seek-out opportunities to be a good reflection of everything we wish for, to live life with the intention of contributing to it's quality, to find a way to promote peace and justice for all, forever.

Let our cries, our tears our fears, frustrations, fantastic natural and electronically infused lives stem from a peaceful place, a place where life is good, resplendent with respect, where the young revere the old, where people take better care of plants, animals and the environment is given another chance at surviving humanity's hunger for progress, industry, mechanical, chemical & convenience-driven resources.

We move forward with the courage of a lion, the purpose and power of a budding flower, the resilience of a fearless warrior and the fragile preciousness of humanity. We look to the future with a clear view of our hopes and dreams as people with the capacity to be strong and sensitive, to encourage, care-for, cherish, lift-up and turn-on the light of the world. Yes it is well within our scope to diminish the darkness and refresh ourselves with the elements of love and peace.

Respite for The Weary

 Sending good vibrations, thoughts, prayers to the brethren weather beaten on the East Coast and other locations where people are displaced and defeated and depleated by the storms (which are not all that far away from here if your looking at the earth from a distance) in the hopes that resources find their way to the current lost tribe of people who are full of despair as to what, where and how.

Who can say when our lives turn upside down and why.  What on earth is a person to do when everything you hold dear, your most precious possessions and essential means of daily living, is gone, when even loved ones struggle to survive man made or natural disaster.  How can life be so cruel?

Like a child with outstretched arms longing for someone to rescue her, hold her, to comfort and warm him. I wish all lives in peril, in harms ways, in fear, isolated... Peace. That somehow deep in the core of your soul, there is respite for your weary hearts and bones.
I hope you have hope and the means to start over, to begin anew after recovering from the shock and reality of the devastation.

I wish I could take your pain away and offer consolation and recourse, a safe and warm place for you and your loved one's. I pray you have the strength and will to pick-up where you are forced to leave-off and leave behind from the disruption that shakes you to the core. I pray you find your way to a place where you can begin to rebuild your lives and leave the wreckage behind, able to start over, be well, strong and carry-on. 

Seasons

The change of season's calls on the sure-footed and the weary to settle the unsettled, lay down arms of anger, confusion and conflict. Gather ye hearts and souls with respect, resolve and repair. Love and peace beg to accompany you to the next experience, to explore everything, chase life, live to the fullest, freely, blessed and a blessing. May natures beauty and joy be yours to gather and share.

How special the season of change, the colors melt into the other, a masterful orchestration takes place with instruments made of air, the sky, earth, people, animals, birds, the vastness all sharing the same rhythm. Time tho' slow still a constant restless companion, never stopping and beckons the future, the possibilities, opportunities, challenges.

 

Fall's pallet with rich, fiery, exciting color combinations are fleeting as trees slip into something more comfortable in preparation of winter's visit. The composition is simple and elegant.

                                                                    

 

Superman

From Roswell, New Mexico and the crazy kind of courage and passion required of such an endeavor, Austrian, Felix Baumgartner takes a challenge to a whole nother level, in fact, out of this world. The licensed gas balloon, commercial helicopter and now Stratos pilot will be faster than a locomotive, stronger than a speeding bullet and real auronautical super man as he attempts to sail out into the stratosphere, by helium balloon some 23 plus miles above earth's atmosphere. He will stand on the capsule's ledge and free fall off, attempting to break the speed of sound (Mach 1), with his own body and a pressurized space suit, he will pass through a seemingly invisable sound barrier moving at supersonic speed, around 690 miles per hour.

With the financial backing of energy drink giant, Red Bull, state of the art technology has been designed and developed for this massive science project. No one can predict with 100% certainty, all of the possibilities, from a fatal outcome to fantastic, futuristic triumphant results.

This space exploration mission has been several years in the making with every imaginable possible aeronautical logistical detail considered, studied, tested and researched again from all angles. The physical risks include the possibility of "Fearless Felix's" spinning like a top, uncontrollably, causing his blood to boil among several other life threatening possibilities.

This is a story of amazing courage and uncommon determination, history in the making and as exciting and spectacular in scope as watching a man walk on the moon.  Humankind's desire to connect to the stars, to test the bounderies, boldly investigate the limitations of earth and discover what is to be discovered, learned, taught and shared for the betterment of all.
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Eternal Flame

May the eternal flame of peace, love and goodness endure. May compassion shine brighter everyday, until mankind distinguishes the furious fire raging among a humanity starving for respect and the essential necessities of life.

 

May you find quiet ports in your storms and may your hopes, dreams and prayers be lifted to an elevated place where you can share your blessings and lighten the burdens of those who do not know how or cannot lift themselves up, and may every drop of love and goodness that you receive flow freely from you into the broken hearts and spirits of those who can only imagine such riches.