quieting & opening now to all the new year will bring

the world waits

merry christmas & happy hanukkah

bedazzled

one of our sons was dazzled by colorful bulbs & lined them up & i followed suit by lining up the photo lense to capture something from this boy who dazzles me.

i love you

i recently discovered http://www.iloveyoucards.org/ & have loved spreading these cards around (here's a recent one i left in a store!).

i love my hands

i was with a new circle of women for a weekend & we were introducing ourselves, by saying our names & stating something special to us. one woman held her hands out for us to see, turning them right side up and down, stating she loves her hands...that they have held her child & beading & creating. this moment took my breath away. here's to the right side of all our beauty!

all the lights are on

don't you love beauty that comes from the inside?

we all have so much to offer

a dear neighbor asked if i'd like a taste of her curried black eyed peas with basmati rice.
thankful oh thankful. happy thanksgiving.

thankful

kindness found me

every once in a wonderful while, someone extends a great kindness just when i need it.

i wanna be like me

find these happy tees at www.geekfamily.com

there is a moon

so many beautiful souls sit here

...at my office.

these are the biggest leaves i ever found

my friend eva.

so fancy & tall

so fancy & tall
you are
in your
black shoes,
red overcoat,
& fur hat
& you are
almost ready
for church
but first,

you gather
oranges & bananas
& push this grocery cart
with weary eyes
that have
grown smaller
with time.

as you walk deeper
into the aisles
of this
store & church & world,
i call upon
orange peels
& banana trees
to touch your eyes
(please)
& to
refresh & free you
to be
the fullest
of the tall fruit
that you really are.

dream more

someone has beauty coming out of them in the form of signs...let's see more of these!!

a leaves jamboree

my husband took this picture in our backyard yesterday & said "look at this spot!"...
(happy halloween & to all that delights you this fall).

can doo

our eleven year old, sam, wants to be an electrocuted vampire for halloween and i think he might just pull it off!

listening chair

i want to live into my best gladness

i hear this deep desire in my clients, friends, & inside myself to live into our best gladness...& i send this out as an affirmation of yours!

beauty showed up at my door

beauty showed up at my door in the form of bracelets on a lovely friend's wrist recently! (gasp)

she wanted all things colorful

i was on the phone with my mother. she was telling me about classes she was thinking of taking. she said she noticed one about water and said she would never take that one.. she said she wanted all things colorful. ya see, beauty just comes plunking out of people's mouths.