Missing You poem by Colleen Fitzsimmons

I stood by your bed last night, I came to have a peep.
I could see that you were crying, You found it hard to sleep.
I whined to you softly as you brushed away a tear,
"It's me, I haven't left you, I'm well, I'm fine, I'm here."

I was close to you at breakfast, I watched you pour the tea,
You were thinking of the many times, your hands reached down to me.
I was with you at the shops today, Your arms were getting sore.
I longed to take your parcels, I wish I could do more.

I was with you at my grave today, You tend it with such care.
I want to re-assure you, that I'm not lying there.
I walked with you towards the house, as you fumbled for your key.
I gently put my paw on you, I smiled and said " it's me."

You looked so very tired, and sank into a chair.
I tried so hard to let you know, that I was standing there.
It's possible for me, to be so near you everyday.
To say to you with certainty, "I never went away."
You sat there very quietly, then smiled, I think you knew...
In the stillness of that evening, I was very close to you.

The day is over... I smile and watch you yawning
and say "good-night, God bless, I'll see you in the morning."
And when the time is right for you to cross the brief divide,
I'll rush across to greet you and we'll stand, side by side.
I have so many things to show you, there is so much for you to see.

Be patient, live your journey out...then come home to be with me.

Author ~ Missing You poem By Colleen Fitzsimmons
Picture by artist Steve Sanderson

A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters.

some of my most fave words/images!

interesting commentary found 1/28/16  https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/river-runs

The Grandmother Blessing, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Dear Brave Souls: For this day, onto you all....

THE GRANDMOTHER BLESSING

We have trolled all day for shadows,
and now we sort our catch.

From far off one would think we are only
fisherwomen sorting our nets.

But we have caught our grandmothers’ shadows
which they molted as they died.

Years ago, morticians were trained to throw these away.
People did not know the use of these then.

We have worked hard and we have reclaimed many;
some shadows are small as a waist,
some are big around as apple baskets.

We hold them up to our breasts and hips,
assessing the fit.
We work, we wait,
till every woman finds a match.

Then we climb to the highest jetties,
and let ourselves tip and fall,
our grandmothers’ shadows
opening like fabulous fans.

We soar to secret
women’s ground, the place where there are
rules and instructions for wise skin

and white hair that lights the way. . .

and how, as the eyes grow dim,

they see far,

farther,

farthest.

with love,
dr. e

CODA
Published 1993, The New Censorship Literary Magazine, "The Grandmother Blessing" © by CP Estés, all rights reserved. From La Pasionaria.

This poem is from the series about trying to track the points of the journey when moving out of mid-age toward what I have come to call “the farthest encampment.”

This as I conceive it, is that place where goals, ideas and attitudes change from being contained in whatever tiny bindle bag you once had put them in, to a far more vast conveyance, one that has cognitive sturdiness and the transmission capacity to not only carry, but to broadcast the soul’s life to the self, --to others-- throughout the years yet to come.

This transition is tradition for many of us—although different descriptors might be used—a change in attitude and behavior that causes one to seek to follow the enormity of the soul’s sight and insights, rather than the often too-confining ego’s view alone

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-dimas/you-wont-remember-but-i-w_b_6357936.html

You Won't Remember, But I Will

 12/23/2014 04:08 pm ET | Updated Feb 22, 2015

• Jessica DimasAuthor, life coach

You won't remember the way I stood in the bathroom late that night in labor with you, fearfully and excitedly gazing up at the moon, knowing I was going to bring you into the world soon and whispering to you, "We can do this."

You won't remember the way you looked at me right after you were born, or the way I pulled you up next to my heart and marveled "Hi, baby" in your ear.

You won't remember the way you healed my broken spirit. The way you completed my heart. I was weak before I had you, and you made me whole again.

You won't remember the way I proudly watched you everywhere we went, you were always the most beautiful boy in the room to me.

You won't remember the way you made me laugh with all of the silly things you did. I saw how kind your heart was.

You won't remember the way I would brush the hair off of your forehead and the way you'd look up at me. Without any words, our souls could touch and say everything to each other that words couldn't.

You won't remember the tickle fests we had, and how I always cheated so I could hold you close and cover your salty little face in kisses.

You won't remember all the times I went to bed at night and felt such fear being your mother: Am I doing okay? Have I messed up too many times already? Can I be the kind of mother he needs?

You won't remember the way my heart broke and grew a little bigger each time you passed a milestone, watching the sand fall through the hourglass while feeling overjoyed witnessing you expand and grow.

You won't remember the way I would hold your little feet in my hands, imagining how much bigger than my own feet they will one day grow, and how I will have to let you go.

You won't remember, but I will... and I'll hold these memories in my heart for the both of us.

Children, grief, death, sites, handouts

http://www.thesharingplace.org/

is a grief support center in Salt Lake City where children come to learn about death

http://www.thesharingplace.org/images/grief/Myths_About_Grief.pdf\

http://www.thesharingplace.org/images/Concepts_of_Death.pdf

http://www.thesharingplace.org/images/grief/EXPLAINING_SUICIDE_TO_CHILDREN.doc.pdf

http://www.thesharingplace.org/images/grief/Tips_for_Teachers.pdf

http://www.thesharingplace.org/images/grief/Tips_for_Teachers.pdf

Websites

• www.thedougycenter.org
• www.theameliacenter.org
• www.bosplace.org
• www.bereavementacademy.org
• www.insightbooks.com
• www.centering.org
• www.compassionbooks.com
• www.bereavementresources.com
• www.everydaygrief.com
• www.legacy.com
• www.CarrieBears.com
• Twicelovedbears19@yahoo.com

- See more at: http://www.thesharingplace.org/services/resources#sthash.rXdfoBmm.dpuf

• http://www.whatsyourgrief.com/everything-to-know-about-holiday-grief/

aging quotes

“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done... you are fierce with reality.” Florida Scott-Maxwell  The Measure of My Days

Now I Become Myself          May Sarton

Now I become myself. It’s taken
Time, many years and places;
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people’s faces,
Run madly, as if Time were there,
Terribly old, crying a warning,
“Hurry, you will be dead before—”
(What? Before you reach the morning?
Or the end of the poem is clear?
Or love safe in the walled city?)
Now to stand still, to be here,
Feel my own weight and density!
The black shadow on the paper
Is my hand; the shadow of a word
As thought shapes the shaper
Falls heavy on the page, is heard.
All fuses now, falls into place
From wish to action, word to silence,
My work, my love, my time, my face
Gathered into one intense
Gesture of growing like a plant.
As slowly as the ripening fruit
Fertile, detached, and always spent,
Falls but does not exhaust the root,
So all the poem is, can give,
Grows in me to become the song;
Made so and rooted so by love.
Now there is time and Time is young.
O, in this single hour I live
All of myself and do not move.
I, the pursued, who madly ran,
Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun 

"God breaks the heart again and again until it stays open."

This quotation from the Sufi master Inayat Khan begins Laura Kelly Fanucci's lovely exploration into what it means to grapple with suffering, parenting, and the nature of love.

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
~ Edvard Munch

“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.”
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”
~ Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Sculpture from garden art located in Antwerp, Belgium. http://wassenaardailyphoto.blogspot.com/…/antwerp-garden-ar…

Revering the Universe. Caring for Nature. Celebrating Life.

diabesity, efgt info

 Steps to Optimize Your Cholesterol

If your doctor is concerned about your cholesterol, you will want to use these seven strategies to optimize lipid levels and your overall health:

1. Get the right cholesterol tests. You must check for particle size and particle number by asking your doctor to do a particle size test. Other cholesterol tests are outdated. A regular cholesterol test won’t reveal particle size. The tests to get are either an NMR Lipid Panel from LabCorp or the Cardio IQ Test from Quest Diagnostics. Insist on one of these tests. They are the only way to know what’s really going on with your cholesterol.  You want to see results that show lots of safe, light, fluffy, big cholesterol particles. You do not want to see small, dense, artery-damaging cholesterol particles.
2. Check for metabolic syndrome or diabesity. If you have small LDL and HDL particles or high triglycerides (over 100), you probably have metabolic syndrome. If your triglyceride-to-HDL ratio is over 2 you also likely have diabesity. Ask for a glucose-insulin challenge test or an insulin-response test. Most doctors don’t do this test for insulin; they only check glucose. It is performed by checking your glucose and insulin after fasting.  Then you drink a 75-gram glucose drink and your insulin and blood sugar are measured again at 1- and 2-hour intervals.  You should also ask your doctor to check your hemoglobin A1C, which is a measurement of your blood sugar control over the last six weeks. If it’s greater than 5.5 percent, you may have metabolic syndrome.
3. Eat a healthy diet with healthy fats. The good fats in foods like avocado, coconut oil, extra-virgin olive oil, wild-caught fish, nuts, and seeds can improve the type and quantity of cholesterol in your body.
4. Eat a low-glycemic load diet. Besides healthy fats, focus on a high-fiber, plant-based diet with lots of phytonutrients and omega 3 fats. That includes lots of non-starchy veggies.  Consume plenty of good-quality protein found in beans, seeds, nuts, and high-quality, sustainably raised or grass-fed animal protein.
5. Exercise regularly. Studies show consistent, regular exercise can optimize cholesterol levels. If you’re a newbie, even 30 minutes of walking will help. More advanced exercisers can incorporate weight training and high-intensity interval training.
6. Focus on quality sleep. Optimizing blood sugar is just one of the numerous benefits of eight hours of sleep every night. Practice good sleep practices: Turn off the TV and Internet a few hours before bedtime. Many patients like to unwind with my UltraCalm CD. Get 19 of my top sleep tips here. 
7. Take the right supplements. You can find high-quality supplements to optimize cholesterol in my store. These include:

• A multi-vitamin
• Fish oil or EPA/DHA
• Vitamin D3
• Niacin
• Glucomannan or PGX (a super fiber)
• Red rice yeast
• Low-dose statins (only if you’ve had a heart attack, heart disease or if you have multiple other risk factors while carefully monitoring for muscle and liver damage)

I hope you can see how the story of cholesterol is not black and white. It’s certainly not the enemy. Follow these seven strategies outlined above and you will be able to optimize your cholesterol levels and achieve optimal health.

To learn more, sign up for my free Fat Summit: Separating Fat from Fiction, where I interview top scientists, doctors, researchers, and other health experts that show us how to lose weight, stay healthy, and reverse chronic disease. Trust me, you don’t want to miss this groundbreaking, cutting-edge summit.

Share this information with all your family and friends and help me really transform lives.

Wishing you health and happiness,

Mark Hyman, M.D.http://drhyman.com/blog/2016/01/14/7-ways-to-optimize-cholesterol/

book lover

Psoas and hypermobility Liz Koch

This is an insightful article and one so necessary for the Yoga community to understand. As the author of The Psoas Book and Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance and I am writing because the Psoas plays a major role in joint hyper-mobility. When a person does not receive proprioceptive information within their joints the Psoas becomes involved. According to Chinese Five Element Theory ligaments are housed in the liver/ gallbladder and by nature define a range of motion. They are boundary markers. When a person does not have this information they over-reach. Over extending involves over doing which can eventually effect the kidney or Chi - life force, depleting their life force (i.e. exhausted adrenals). The Kidneys literally float on the Psoas tissue, which grows directly out of the midline (central nervous system) and so the two communicate and influence each other. The Psoas I call the messenger of the midline, it tell us whether we are moving from our core or compensating in some manner. The Psoas is involuntary tissue, what I refer to as bio-intelligent tissue that signals us when we are not moving from core integrity.   liz koch

.....ANUARY 11, 2016    BY BERNADETTE BIRNEY  in Yoga International

People with JHS often suffer from musculoskeletal and joint pain and soft tissue injuries like strains, sprains, tendonitis, and dislocations. Because our ligaments are unstable, we have an increased tendency to have scoliosis, TMJ, spinal disc problems, flat feet, and headaches.

Dr. Alan Pocinki, an MD who practices in Washington D.C.’s metro area, and who has written what is in my opinion a groundbreaking article about JHS, explains: “Because…the ligaments [are]…too loose and therefore cannot do their job well, the muscles…are forced to do more of the work…than they are meant to do, so they become strained.” 1

“We don’t really understand this condition yet,” my neurologist told me. “It may be caused by a mutation in collagen genes.”

People with JHS are prone to fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis (which occurs more rapidly in loose joints), and neuropathic pain or numbness.1 We often bruise easily, and have unusually elastic and velvety skin. We may be markedly uncomfortable standing for prolonged periods of time.

Our nervous systems tend to be overly responsive. Dr. Pocinki writes that “In recent years, [JHS] has been associated with a variety of autonomic nervous system problems. (The autonomic nervous system regulates all body processes, such as heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, digestion, and immunity.)” 1 So we may have circulatory problems (for example, low blood pressure, light-headedness upon standing, cold hands and feet, heart palpitations, varicose veins, and in extreme cases blood vessels can even rupture. And we’re prone to digestive issues like acid reflux and irritable bowel disease. 1

According to Pocinki, “To compensate for stretchy blood vessels…most people with hypermobility appear to make extra adrenaline...”1 Over time, excessive adrenaline production can exhaust our adrenal glands, leading to fatigue, difficulty sleeping, anxiety, and depression. 2 Speaking from personal experience, being chronically achy and exhausted takes a major toll. 

My neurologist continued on to tell me that autoimmunity is also associated with the condition. That likely explains my Hashimoto’s disease, which is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. Hashimoto’s made me more likely to develop the thyroid cancer that resulted in surgical removal of my thyroid last February, hence meeting my insurance deductible, which is how I wound up in the neurologist’s office to begin with.

JHS and its similar but more severe sister condition, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, are thought to be genetic. Women are around three times more likely than men to have JHS. As children our extreme flexibility may have been considered cute and encouraged—especially if we were involved in activities like gymnastics and ballet.1

Obviously a conversation about JHS is relevant to yoga, yet I’ve never heard the condition referred to in any yoga class or publication. I have a hypothesis that, because flexibility is generally positively reinforced in yoga classes, there’s a good chance if we looked we’d find higher incidences of JHS among yogis than in the population at large.........

Yoga can still be great for people with JHS. Stabilizing the muscles around our joints by strengthening through light resistance is helpful.

It’s imperative, though, that we use good alignment when we practice asana and that we refrain from hyperextending our joints. Heavy lifting isn’t good for our joints either, so we may have to modify poses to decrease weight-bearing. For example, bringing our knees to the floor in chaturanga dandasana, or skipping chaturanga entirely. We might need to move more slowly if we become light-headed.

Obviously, restorative yoga, pranayama, and meditation are great support for our nervous systems.

At this time there is no cure for JHS. Right now we can treat the symptoms but not the underlying cause. That said, the confirmation a diagnosis brings could be a huge relief. It was for me.

When you’re tired, achy, and stressed for long enough, it’s easy to dismiss yourself as a complainer or hypochondriac. Understanding there are real physical reasons at play affirms I’m not nuts, emotionally frail, or crazy—at least, no more so than anyone else.

References:

1. Alan G. Pocinki, MD, PLLC, Joint Hypermobility and
Joint Hypermobility Syndrome, (2010).
2. William C. Sheil Jr., MD, FACP, FACR, Hypermobility Syndrome
(Joint Hypermobility Syndrome), (4/29/2015)

A blessing is John O"Donohue

"What is a blessing? A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.” ...“It is a gracious invocation where the human heart pleads with the divine heart. When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.”
-John O'Donohue

loving and appreciating ...something sacred Fred Rogers

Stand up and show your soul. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.

You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking. Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.

Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace? Don't you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.

Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours. They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

By Clarissa Pinkola Estes

American poet, post-trauma specialist and Jungian psychoanalyst, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.

 

Grief and waves

Grandma

a screaming song

quotes from Kahlil Gibran

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”

~

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

~

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

~

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

~

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”

~

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

~

“My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The “I” in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.”

~

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

~

“The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

~

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

~

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.”

~

“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

~

“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

~

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind,
you should not blame the wind for
revealing them to the trees.”

~

“We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.”

~

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

~

“For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”

~

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself…
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”

~

“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”

~

“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.”

~

“To measure you by your smallest deed
is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures
is to cast blame upon the seasons
for their inconsistencies.”

~

“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”

~

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”

~

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”

~

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/04/25-kahlil-gibran-quotes-to-leave-you-speechless/

~

A New Beginning JOD

hen the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
~ John O'Donohue - Excerpt from, 'A New Beginning'

New Year JOD from Anam Cara

Happy New Year !

"May the light of your soul guide you
May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart.

May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul.
May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work.

May your work never weary you.
May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement.

May you be present in what you do.
May you never become lost in the bland absences.

May the day never burden.

May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities and promises.
May evening find you gracious and fulfilled.
May you go into the night blessed, sheltered and protected.

May your soul calm, console and renew you."

~ John O'Donohue

Blessing:"Anam Cara - A Book of Celtic Wisdom", http://goo.gl/t2t4L8