Summer Love

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” 

“Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”

“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”

“The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. 

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”

I am currently reading: Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

And I am listening to fabulous Italian Pop like this:




"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could." Anon


Here's to a fabulous Summer!

How To Feel Alive

In my previous post I mentioned the yearning to feel alive again, and last night it suddenly came to me that I experience special moments every day that make me feel alive.

These moments are nothing grand; they don't need to involve a holiday on a tropical island or passionate intimacy with a transient lover.

No, most of these moments I experience on my own, sometimes with family or friends.

The trick is to be more aware of them, mindfully going about my daily business and recognising those precious moments popping up like little miracles:

• that delicious cup of coffee after lunch warming my hands
• the robins building their nest in the ivy on the house wall again
• the next door neighbour's cat watching but thankfully forever out of reach
• the new exciting project I'm working on
• having great conversations with friends Friday night in the local pub
• the first warm days of Spring
• the brisk, solitary walk in the park
• making an apple crumble and mixing the dough with my hands
• I managed to crochet my first hat and it looks fab
• my son coming home from school in the afternoon
• candlelight in the evening while watching a great movie
• listening to the song Happy by Pharrell Williams on the radio - great song, awesome video:

Some of these moments repeat, and new ones are experienced every day. They may be ordinary, but they are also magical at the same time. It's just a matter of mindfulness and perception.

What are your ordinary magical moments that make you feel alive?