Blessed Be

This is such a beautiful day! After near-continuous rain all month, today is sunny and cool, bright blue sky with a soft breeze, truly a miracle for May in Ohio. My roses AND my peonies are both blooming--yellows, pinks, reds. My petunias, geraniums and violets are out, my baby strawberries are lifting their heavy heads...I'm so very lucky to be witness to this. Good weather and a simmering pot of green beans. When I think to complain, I must remember this. This is happiness! This is the good life.

Irie, Bri!

I'm glad that you're happy.

feelings. nothing more than feelings.

this quietude comes from within as much as without. as sight is half the seer and half the seen, so is contentment half the environment, and half the perceiver of the environ. wallow in joy as we've seen you wallow in misery, take this good, taste it, smell it, feel it. remember to remember it when it is needful.

or something

If you are in Ohio, then you are truly blessed. I'm from there, and miss it. :sniff:

Enjoy your day!

:) nice

lumberjim wrote:

feelings. nothing more than feelings.

this quietude comes from within as much as without. as sight is half the seer and half the seen, so is contentment half the environment, and half the perceiver of the environ. wallow in joy as we've seen you wallow in misery, take this good, taste it, smell it, feel it. remember to remember it when it is needful.

or something

I think LJ has been doing deep prajna paramita while he's waiting for the salesmen to close the deals.

footfootfoot wrote:

I think LJ has been doing deep prajna paramita while he's waiting for the salesmen to close the deals.

I know it was weirdly beautiful. Yesterday I was trying to , you know, merge the man with the similie. Too deep. I just went to work instead.

Nice stuff lj. :heart-on:

Just as in the sky above winds of various kinds are blowing:
Coming from the east or west, blowing from the north or south,
Some carry dust and others not, cold are some and others hot,
Some are fierce and others mild — their blowing is so different.

So also in this body here, feelings of different kind arise:
The pleasant feelings and the painful and the neutral ones.
-Akasha Sutta

skysidhe wrote:

I know it was weirdly beautiful. Yesterday I was trying to , you know, merge the man with the similie. Too deep. I just went to work instead.

Nice stuff lj. :heart-on:

He's a silver tongued devil, for sure.;)

:devil:devil being the operative word.:evil2:

Is that borrowed Jim? Or your own thoughts? Either way...food for thought.

Brianna wrote:

This is such a beautiful day! After near-continuous rain all month, today is sunny and cool, bright blue sky with a soft breeze, truly a miracle for May in Ohio. My roses AND my peonies are both blooming--yellows, pinks, reds. My petunias, geraniums and violets are out, my baby strawberries are lifting their heavy heads...I'm so very lucky to be witness to this. Good weather and a simmering pot of green beans. When I think to complain, I must remember this. This is happiness! This is the good life.

I am envious anyone peonies.

Yesterday was grand. After a warm thunderstorm last night the moisture evaporated in the warm spring sun. It felt like the earths sauna. The smell of warm earth, trees and the afternoon sun permerated the air. It was mellow and entrancing. I thought of you Brianna and hoped you were having some more of those beautiful spring days too.

:) thanks, sky! It is beautiful again here--Yipee!

I can't wait for Sunday.. should be mid 80's round here with a scattering of clouds.. perfect weather for kayaking in the local lake con mi novia!

farfromhome wrote:

Is that borrowed Jim? Or your own thoughts? Either way...food for thought.

no, no. that's all me. reminded me of this post from a couple years ago which i still reread to remind myself of this kind of feeling.

Am looking at the most gorgeous pink/purplish clouds above and in between the trees near my house... beautiful!

lumberjim wrote:

no, no. that's all me. reminded me of this post from a couple years ago which i still reread to remind myself of this kind of feeling.

Pre Cherry Hill, isn't it. ;)

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Pre Cherry Hill, isn't it. ;)

yes it was. almost exactly 2 years ago. now, my concern shifts from not having enough money, to not having enough time. The result is ultimately the same. It's not as though I had lots of free time when I worked at Family. I don't really think I'd see much more of my kids had I stayed, or taken that Lexus gig.... Still, the reminder is nice. I still feel lucky to have what I have. I'm too fat, and I need to quit smoking. I need to get my teeth fixed, and a few other things, but other than that, all's well. Roof doesn't leak, Jeep is running great, getting it regularly, so who can complain?

The point is to notice when things are good as well as when they aren't. That's all I'm sayin'

Hope all is well with you guys, too. Even Marisinkinchiko.

Point taken.
Although it's good to differentiate between having enough money and having enough money for everything you'd like to do or have.....or give. The last one can really make you nuts. :thumb:

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Point taken.
Although it's good to differentiate between having enough money and having enough money for everything you'd like to do or have.....or give. The last one can really make you nuts. :thumb:

woah,


--------- spot on

I keep thinking someday I'll catch up. Two jobs and 12 hour days don't make me feel I am making a headway.


I hope you find some time with the kids lj. Find some fun and when you find some, wish some this way.

Mem Day here was clear and bright with a California coastal yellow-lit sunset.

After the pot of beans, and waiting for the strawberries in the patch to ripen -- lemon meringue pie with scratchbuilt graham cracker crust. (See The Latest Recipe Thread... page or two down in Food & Drink)

Okay, This Is The Latest Recipe Thread -- scroll down on the first page.

Urbane Guerrilla wrote:

Mem Day here was clear and bright with a California coastal yellow-lit sunset.

After the pot of beans, and waiting for the strawberries in the patch to ripen -- lemon meringue pie with scratchbuilt graham cracker crust. (See The Latest Recipe Thread... page or two down in Food & Drink)

Okay, This Is The Latest Recipe Thread -- scroll down on the first page.

yum yum urbaneguerrilla



memorial day I bought flowers. Lobella,Alyssum,Nemesia,Salvia and SweetPea. Last years fucias are comming up and my mini rose has blossomed. There isn't anything that makes me feel better than planting flowers sometimes.

Working on one solitary chile pepper plant here. Looks like it's going to bear chiles de arbol this year. It had a dieback last year -- I suppose just a little too much benign neglect.