Reaching up to the sky…

Somewhere in Virginia, USA. 2008

I am casting my dreams and hopes into the unknown, with full force and hope, knowing that everything is already mine. I stretch and I reach, for I know that within me lies the power of accomplishing anything and becoming better and better during the process.  I keep my faith strong because the unseen is always stronger than the visible. I share with you all the beautiful things that surround me because they are a source of joy for us all. I give thanks and I pray!

What you do have

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.

Ken Keyes

Love!

 

2 chairs hand in hand in Waynesboro, Virginia, at a friends’ house. August, 2008.

I had this entire post written on the endurance and magnitude of love, beautifully and philosophically written, when just before I wanted to post it, it all went blanc. Call it the moody Monday, that comes after a deboucherous weekend, that does not want to work after my own will.

So, here’s the next best thing:

May you always find someone to share your closest chair with, may you choose your solitude but not your loneliness, and even if that is the case, that you should still find love. In your loved ones, a good friend, your pet or a good book. May you find it in all the unexpected places but mostly in your heart. All day, every day! make it your daily credo and manifesto. To love because it’s your choice, because you can, because it is your ultimate freedom.

Because in truth, nothing and no one can stop you from loving, even though that love may not be reciprocated. Love still, in spite of that. The rewards will come, in ways magnified thousands of times, way beyond your comprehension. Just try! try it for 21 days, or 3o days. Make it your habit :) to just love and give unconditionally to all there is and lives around you. Birds, trees, cars, streets, people, neighbours, cafe shops, work places and coworkers, bosses and exes. Because this capacity it’s in you and to love is a verb, an attitude and an action.

So there you go, you can still love even though you may not be in the perfect relationship, or even with a partner, or with your kids near, or parents, or whatever and whoever else you think you need to love in order to be happy and feel loved back. You are love and love is already within you!

Happy Love Day, every day!

Happily ever after..

If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.

Abraham-Hicks

New Year

Ahhhh, a new year! :) Don’t you just love the alluring tone of a new beginning? That prompts you into all these wonderful possibilities that you want for yourself? So many new things to change/do/accomplish! And doesn’t that just make you feel all giddy and joyous all of the sudden? Like you just can reinvent yourself truly this time, make the trip around  the sun really worth the while and during the process, become more and more like… yourself, maybe? :)

Oh, I am such a sucker for happy endings, beginnings, hugs, frosty mornings, books and chocolate. All in one and all together if possible. Shared with good friends and loved ones.

Looking back, 2010 was a glorious year. I moved to a new country, to a new home. To a new job. I learned to live simply and pack my life in just 2 luggages and be fine with that. Okay, 3, huge, and excruciatingly heavy. But no matter. I fell in love, again, and stayed in love. I traveled to unexpected places realizing afterwards that I always dreamed about them even though I never knew they were there. I ached and felt lonely, just like a single Parisian dove on a rooftop. But I never lost hope and bounced back a bit more stronger, a bit more wiser…

I hold tight, then I let go. I got excited and I got frantic. I broke down. I moved on and took the chance, just to meet even more wonderful people along the way, unexpected blessings, coming back to the same point.

(My) Life is Wonderful and Amazing just as it is!

When this year ends, I will have 130+ people to love and keep in my mind and heart forever. And many more adventures, many more travels, many more challenges…

I feel incredibly blessed and grateful!

Eternal Summer

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxter

May’s poppy. Near Gherla, Cluj County, Romania. 2010

Focus on…

Focusing on what we already have and being grateful for right now is one of the most powerful things we can do to alter our life in a positive way.

Mike Robbins

Getting better..

I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I’m going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

John Wooden

The Gift

Every year of your life has been a gift. Every year ahead is also given, not earned. Treat the years as gifts – with daily thanks and reverence. Give yourself to the Giver. Then the final letting go will be but a gentle passage back into God’s hands.

Carol Ann Morrow “Getting older, growing wiser”, 2000. Illustrated by R.W. Alley

Photo taken somewhere around Sibiu, Romania. September 2007