Fact or Fiction?

“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.”

What draws the line between pretend and what is?  What is fact or fiction?  I think fact and fiction are subjective and based upon one's chosen point of view.

In that light, what I elect to elucidate may be a compilation of such sharings, so I apologize in advance if things get confusing ... ;)

This month has been about inviting oooo and ahhhhs. In doing so, I've learned along the way: Whatever you seek shall come to you provided you have faith and get out of your own way. It's been fun and precarious.

On All Hallows' Eve, when the veil between the worlds was at it's thinnest, I broke my own rule and kissed what I deemed forbidden ... Though the intellect inspired much trepidation, I decided to make an exception to the rule after sifting through what I felt ... The day following, I was gifted with a wondrous bouquet of flowers, radiating colors of pinks, purples and lots of pretty!

Trying to find a place to re-nest, I've relocated my blog, choosing to currently replace the one with the below icon with this "Wonderfully at Large" blog.

I'm going through one of my newest book purchases called "Inner Excavation." It doesn't have new concepts, it just has an inviting quality that inspires me to want to be more diligent with exploring myself through photography, poetry and mixed media.

Who are you? I'm someone attached to my Pollyanna glasses ;P

How do I nurture myself? With chocolate, music and dance.

Who or what inspires you? Love; friends; sunny and soft breezy days; books and movies

How did you find your creative voice? Journaling and being pleasantly surprised by some of what surfaces.

I live in an eternal present filled with an everlasting good

I’m aggravated by feeling bottled up with stagnation. I’m not moving forward or so it seems. I need to paint a picture of how I would like to see my life.

I want love to surround and permeate my whole being. I want it permanently that way with no cares. The only emotions I want to feel are excitement, eagerness, happiness, buoyancy ... I want to wake up and say yes to life, to living, to coloring me and all I see as happy. To relinquish any thoughts of separation toward anything or anyone.

I want all to love me and I want to see the love in all.

I want to bathe in the glory of wonder, of how wonderful life is, people are.
　
I read this (I can't recall where) and want to put it here for future reference:

Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not arrived, and I live in an eternal present filled with an everlasting good. There is nothing unhappy or morbid in my consciousness. I have no fear of yesterday, nor do I anticipate tomorrow with anything other than enthusiastic expectation. Everything good in my experience shall create my future. I have no fear in looking backward or forward, but realize the eternal day in which I now live. Today is big with hope fulfilled, with love and life well lived. Tomorrow will provide its own blessings.

If ever

I’ve continued my morning pages, and sometimes wonder if blogging here also is simply redundant ... or worth it ... ( ...?)

[edited via omissions]

Zip-A-Dee Doo Da

I could never understand why some enjoy cooking ... not saying I do now, especially when the chore of clean-up follows. But when a special taste clicks with my tongue and there's no other way to satisfy it, motivation comes knocking. I'm stuck on the grilled eggplant and portobello recipe.

The newest books I've come across are about focusing on the positive, always ... I guess in a way it's about disciplining the mind to focus on what you want, always -- not want you don't, or you'll get more of the same ... I wish it were easier when hormones and pain are afoot, when energy levels are low, when traumatic events occur and when adverse thoughts dominate. Like passing up certain foods, I will endeavor to pass on unsavory thoughts and only pick the best; the ones that feel good.

"Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you."

In this eternal, unfolding moment I am filled with an expectancy of good things.

I've spent a good deal of my weekend watching DVD's. Anyway, this pic is of me watching several amusing scenes. I spent all day in my jammies, clean-faced and happy.

I have also spent a great deal of my time reading.  The novel I'm reading now is called "The Sugar Queen."  One character has someone living at the bottom of her closet who tries to give her good advice.  Another character is followed around by books.  LOL!  Anytime she turns around a pertinent book will be next to her.  When she tries to ignore or get rid of it, it continues to show up different places like coming out of her cereal box in the morning.  She now has a whole storage of books that have "showed up" through the years.   Ah, if that were only me... imagine how much money I could save, since books are such a love of mine, lol. 

Ahhhh, just heard the pleasing sound of nearby wildlife: a limpkin; yet when I look to see where it's at, I instead see a green heron and a great blue heron =) ... I so love where I live!

I have started drawing again, a little at a time so as not to strain anything. The inevitability of the drawing's completion is proportionate to the desire that spawned it. Don't mind the last sentence; more like a footnote to myself.

Ahhh to the dawning of a new day as I looked out my back door earlier this morning:

Lookie what I found, with lyrics even ... come sing with me! You just must ;P

In-between

... Stuff on Youtube has continued to induce, laughter, tears and the in-between ...

"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.  Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness.  I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it."  ~ Soren Kierkegaard

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

p.s. Comments unnecessary ... just marking time in my blog :)

To know

Reading Creative Mind by Ernest Holmes, the Science of Mind guy ... very empowering messages. Just think and know, and the Universe will match what you truly think and know.

I know today will be filled with happiness and empowering excitement and filled with beauty and love. I’m surrounded by all that is uplifting and I have loving connections. I live an easy, free-spirited life, filled with creative endeavors. I am dripping with talent in art like drawing and watercolor, and my writing skills are my most prized. ☺

Faith forward ...

Within the safe and lonely confines of my version of a romantically set boidoir, I fell emotionally. Luckily my huggable bears, Theodore and Sedgwick were there to soften the blow.

Perhaps if I were flourishing in my art the way I intended, I’d feel better; but for now, I’m stuck in passivity. I'm wanting to blame victim-hood of wrist pain, or energetic issues ... but ultimately all are excuses.

I’m lowering the bar of what it takes to feel content and that is to simply choose to be happy with what is.

I thought of Bri and wondered what if any, loneliness befell him. Which made me dream of him. I dreamt he wanted me to read him bedtime stories to make up for lost time.

Perhaps its all growing pains as I get acclimated to yet another job and the changes of truly being solo ... I’m very much thankful to my friends who fill in the gaps and make me feel like I matter.

I would really love to go abroad ... particularly Europe ... specifically Florence and Tuscany. Desperately, in need of a change in scenery. Although, during my drive to work this morning, I drove past looming columns of overhanging trees that framed the road.  This offered a very scenic and relaxing tone to the day ... It made me appreciate where I am right now, in my home-based paradise.

I have to remember not to resist the flow of change.   Faith forward ...