recuerda mi corazon

haiku my heart

 

when haiku arrives

i rise up from quiet dreams

drink deep from small cups

 

 

 

dear friends,

aren't haiku such perfect cups of soul nourishment?

how i love fridays knowing we will

be together once more,

haiku by haiku;

drinking each other in.

your presence, opens me like summer flowers,

so full of life, so rich in meaning,

so generously colouring our world. 

i rise up with such eagerness to welcome you

again and again.

 

ready for a cup of virtual tea?

 

please link back to

haiku my heart

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at

recuerda mi corazon

recuerda mi corazon links back to this haiku post)

so more may join us.

 

morning prayers, finding our voice

 to paint...

 

we are to

simply

bravely

courageously

 

show up

and have a

conversation

 with our

soul

on canvas.

 

it is so

mystical and holy

this

conversation.

morning

after

morning

being willing to sing out

fiercely

without judgment

or reproach.

 

being willing to reveal our

hearts,

layer by layer

to listen, to

watch

 sacred unfold.

 

the challenge;

to allow

our conversation to be so authentic,

so unabashed and passionate

that the "touchstone";

this skin canvas of our heart,

becomes a song that is 

holy

ours,

layer by layer.

morning prayers

each unique voice a painting in progress,

a song of blooming

from the women in the courtyard of san miguel.

 

 

postcards from paradise, holy ground

 

this is what i am drawn to

seeker that i am

 to the heart of each moment 

the sacred 

 hidden somewhere in the ordinary

 

 the eternal conviction

 
 

that we are all inextricably bound to one another 

 the belief that divinity resides in each of us

and the honest desire 

to coax it out of each fleeting moment.

    

 
come away with me

 San Miguel de Allende

Semana Santa

march 30- april 9. 2012

 

if san miguel has ever called to you

i hope you will join us for one of the most

mystical times of the year

to walk the ancient cobblestones.

 

please use the words

recuerda mi corazon 

as your link back to this post

now dear friends....

where has paradise taken you?

haiku my heart holy

tiny holy wings

fanning bright dreams of water

bring me close to god

***

 

here we are, 

paring down our winter hearts

hungry for spring.

yesterday morning, i took the long drive to the studio,

ponds in the rear mirror,  frozen whispers catching pieces of sky.

one long cartwheel of a day...

until i turned toward a setting sun and home.

as i opened my door 

one hundred water birds raked the surface of the ponds, 

filling the air with the conversion of wings and water.

the frozen slate of morning

now a shimmering faceted dance of light.

everything changes....

one moment you are turning cartwheels across the shores of youth

the next; you turn around and hardly

recognize yourself in the passing mirror.

all the more reason to move in kindness,

choose with compassion,

be a part of something 

larger than merely

waiting.

 

***

welcome to haiku my heart.

please visit each other and leave warm words of encouragment.

it's been a long winter and people 

are hungry for light.

please link with love back to

haiku my heart

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at

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anatomy of a brave heart, flora bowley

papel picados

flora bowley

san miguel de allende january 2012

 

anatomy of a brave heart

papel picados, one canvas, seven days.

15 brave hearts astounded

one maestro

intuitive, bold, generous and true.

thank you flora 

for being the creative gift of a life time

xoxoxoxoxoxo

 

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

"love is the voice under all silences

the hope that has no opposite in fear;

the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:

 

the truth more first than sun,

more last than star."

e.e. cummings

 

wishing you the sun and stars,

with the love of radiant hearts

filling everything 

inbetween.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

collecting your love

sharing your hearts

 

postcards from paradise the art of seeing

 

postcards from paradise

on sundays we gather from far and wide at

recuerda mi corazon

for chance to share snippets of heaven and earth

a visual feast of our world

up close and personal.

some of us.... with the most rudimentary of cameras

all of us 

with a willingness

to walk mindfully, eyes wide open,

with a heart for the 

 sacred ordinary

waiting in all days.

a chance to practice our intuition,

to exult beauty

to  behold the holy of what each of us holds dear

to expand our love 

by together walking the world

labyrinth

in the art of seeing.

 

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now show me dear friends,

lovers of life

sentinels of sacred ordinary

pilgrims in the art of seeing

where has your paradise taken you?