I love clean sheets, and Queen size beds;

I love hot baths, and crimson red...

A bowl filled with veggies, and salmon on the grill,

A conversation with my Mom who’s finally on the heal...

I love my friend Susan; swimming in her pool,

Playing tennis with my dear friend Mark, is way too cool...

Jenny called today; she is staying clean,

I love to hear her laugh; and experience her joy of being...

I love to meet new friends; I love the sky so blue;

I love it when a mystery’s solved; clue by clue...

When everything’s in sync; infinite moment free...

When it all fits together; when joy’s allowed to be...

When the band feels every note; the music moves the soul,

Energy is dancing...love into its whole...

I love it when there is no I...only Joy of Being...

I melts in Awareness as love completes its freeing...

Starlight Dancing...

 

Kissing, to me, is a very important part of an intimate relationship.  You can tell so much about another person just by how they kiss.  The kiss should never be rushed, in fact, I am a firm believer that the longer you linger with the kiss, explore the depth of it and it's infinite possibilities, and really involve your entire being in the kissing process, the better the entire experience of love-making is.  A good kiss is art...the actual act of creating an intimate love-making experience all begins with a passionate kiss that is felt from your head to your feet and everywhere in-between that you allow to take you to places you have never been.  So, yes, it is really in the kiss. 

What do you all think?

I have learned through experience, that sometimes it is best to mind my own business and keep my so-called truths to myself and my big mouth shut!  Once you speak these so-called 'honest truths', the words can never really be taken back, and so, the old biblical warning of being 'slow to speak and quick to listen' is very relevant here.  When you ring that bell of honesty, make sure it is a bell that really needs to be rung...you cannot un-ring it, and sometimes friendships and close family relationships can really suffer and even be destroyed, all for the sake of honesty, or for what might be true for the moment...better to live your truths instead of speak them...

When I was working the steps of recovery, in-particular step 9, which is the amends step, it became very clear that to be honest for the sake of soothing my own conscious was a very selfish and uncaring thing to do.   While it was very important to admit the hurtful things that I had done while using, it was more important to not cause more hurt to others by doing so.  While many might consider that not being completely honest, being completely considerate and caring far outweighs the former.  My family already knew what I was doing.  They did not need to know every single detail of every rotten thing I ever did, even if it did involve them in some way, it was not necessary to cause more pain by having them re-live hurtful experiences and create more misery for them by revealing every dishonesty I hid behind in addiction.

I am a pretty blunt person today, and say what I am moved to say, and believe firmly that we are responsible for our own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and actions, but I have learned to take the edge off it somewhat.  I try to listen with all of my senses, and not just to the words that are used.  Being right is over rated...I would rather have peace instead...so, I try and hear what someone is saying without getting 'hung-up' on the words and meanings, and that has helped me in my relationships,  and while I don't go around making up lies, or blowing smoke, and many times I do find it necessary to speak some hard truths, I am finding in many situations, that being completely honest is not always the correct action to take.  Sometimes hurting another's feelings is inescapable, but a very wise and loving person will try to find a way to be honest without being hurtful.  It's a process.  We can only gain wisdom of such things through experience, and life is filled with honest and painful experiences.  It is only through those experiences that we learn to be wise and loving...

Today I find that it is more important that I be honest with me...rigorously so...as far as my honesty with others, it is more compassionate to engage honesty of heart...more times than not, love is silent when it speaks, and so is wisdom...

Much love and joy, always, star...

Another loved one fallen...alive always in heart...

Remembering beginnings...new journeys now to start...

Timeless, ageless, limitless...wisdom through infinity...

Breathing now somewhere in time...breath that’s ever-free...

Tell me can you hear me...or do you feel my love...

More important I still feel, the essence you are of...

Gently whisper...light a candle...if it helps you...pray...

Shed those tears, release your pain...or dance free in the rain...

Can anyone really be gone...where does pure essence go?

Hold the memory of loved ones close within the soul...

Picture Angels floating...with wings that are their own...

Being dances freely now...and sings a bran-new song...

Every empty space now filled with Joy beyond compare...

Feel what we will always be...in Time already there...

Starlight Dancing...with Maxie...

Every instant there is so much compassion in this wonder-filled cosmic dance of energy we are graced with, we just don’t recognize it b/c we are usually so ‘caught up’ in whatever it is that we are focused on at the time.  

I am so grateful for so many things, and through recovery I have learned that  ‘Heaven’, is just a new pair of glasses...

When we begin to look at the infinite things we take for granted, it becomes quiet easy to be filled with gratitude, and impossible to be overtaken by discontent...so I begin my day with a gratitude list...

Compassion woke me up this morning...

Compassion is in the way the branches allow themselves to bend  in harmony with the gentle breeze that stirs the leaves and tickles our ears and skin...

Compassion is in the way the clouds break to allow the blue of the sky to sooth our eye, and light to flood our consciousness...and precious form to take place and dance in this Space and Time...

Compassion is in the night air that scatters the moon and the stars in their familiar patterns and allows us to view their majesty and take part in their magic...

Compassion is the butterfly that came to visit me when I was lonely and made me smile...

Compassion is the universe that unfolds itself before me and allows me access to infinite possibility...

Compassion is the road that rises up to meet me...and in ALL the beings that greet me...

Compassion is Joy of Being and part of ALL that IS the Magic of the Real...

Dance in compassion...be joy...

Starlight Dancing...

Scattered...

Like the leaves of fall, or clouds on a hot summer day...

Scattered...

Just like last nights jeans...left just where they lay...

Scattered...

Sheets and pillows...longing for your smell...

Scattered...

Memories everywhere...thoughts that wish you well...

Scattered...

Love...and torn up hearts...breaking now in two...

Scattered...

Lights in space and time...dancing around you...

Scattered...

Living...Now...Out Loud...grateful for the chance...

Scattered...

Sorrow...Joy...all is...included in this dance...

Starlight Dancing...