The snow is falling softly down from a white gray sky. As the snow blankets my surroundings, I stare out my window and just look at the world that lies outside my double sliding glass windows. Why does everything look perfect covered in snow? The white flakes hide the brown grass, the mud and muck...Everything that is exposed as its true being come Spring is right now in a word perfect...flawless...in fact it simply takes your breath away by the site that lies before your eyes...In this moment...I sit in Silence...for in this moment...I am in Peace...I am in a state of Grace...All the chaos, the stresses, the worries, the drama, the fears....have faded.
I am not sure what the connection Nature has on me...but I feel like it understands me...not only does it understand me...it understands life....it knows what truly matters...The beauty in nature is that its just not for me or for you...but for all of us...We can all find ourselves...Its in a perfect sunset with a mixture of blues, purples, reds, and oranges....Its in the crashing and constant beating of the waves hitting the shore....Its in softly falling snowflakes gently covering the ground....Its in a never ending crisp cold wind that never lets up....Its in a thunderstorm fuming thru the country side...Its in a raging sea tossing a ship back and forth....Its a bright colorful rainbow stretchin its arch across the land...Its in a perfectsunny day with its rays warming your skin....I have been places and have taken in nature sights that leave you paralyzed of speech...For taking in such sights is a moment when you know you aren't seening with your eyes but you with your soul....
I remember such things and places...The first time I felt the sand between my toes standing on one of Australia's many many amazing beaches....The first time I felt the cool ocean mist spray my face...The first time I stood at the Summit of Big Mountain and took in the view of the Flathead Mountain Range....The first time I saw a sky painted a shade of pink and purple over the Maine Coast...The first time my eyes took in the Great Barrier Reef waters, where I saw the blues and greens mix together to form a horizon I have never seen since....The first time I took in a sunset on the Coast of Oregon, that left me tryin to figure out where the ocean stopped and the sky started....The first time I saw the rushing streams that formed a waterfall....The first time I gazed at the stars under a midnight sky in Australia....knowing that I would never see those stars so bright and clear anywhere else....The first time I stood and looked up at a snowghost in the FiSH...The first time I got soaked by the pouring rain in Sydney but not wanting to be inside..I just walked around the Harbour-for the rain made the city even more amazing....The first time I chased after a thunderstorm to photograph the lightning striking the ground and just listening to the loud thunder roll....The first time...those are moments you want to last forever...for you stand there and you find your life in those sights...in those moments...and in a world that you seem you can never catch your breath...time even if its just for a second stops...You forget about everything and you are swept over with a blanket of peace.
The thing about nature is...its all around us...we just have to be willing to slow down long enough to take it in and really see it....For you see if you do...it could change you...no it will change you....life can be understood in such sites...your life...you can pour out your soul to nature without even a whisper having to be spoken....and better yet it might hold the answers you are in search for...but the key is you have to be willing to take the time to see the beauty not just in something flawless and perfect but especially in the imperfect, in the raging, in the ugly...Once you are able to do that...it will speak to your soul in a way that no words could ever describe and bring meaning to things you never thought could have meaning...it will wash out and cleanse your soul...it will refresh you...it will just get you to breathe..to try..to fight..to hold on..to not give in..to value..to see that the storms come but they also pass...the tide does turn...the imperfect will someday be perfect...Nature...its all around us...and its completely free...you don't have to venture off to the beaches of Australia or to the mountains of Montana...you simply have to go outside...its waiting to share...waiting to be seen...waiting to show you the answers....its just waiting....
"More than anything I want to trust in a journey that I don't understand."
"I write entirely to find out what I am thinking & feeling, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
"Loving you changed my life. It should come as no surprise that losing you has done the same."
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
LOVEthisLiFE
- Michelle
- "Life lies in the JOURNEY not the Destination." Everyday I awake to embrace the day I have been given. Thru times of struggle and in happiness--I find reasons each and everyday to LOVEthisLIFE.
Every story is one to be heard....
"You have been given the chance to live, so LIVE."
"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future. Therefore, you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go. But more importantly it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."
"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you are confused."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go - but I believe I have ended up where I needed to be."
My journey...My story...My words
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- Life just finds a way....
- Broken Open
- Have you ever wondered....
- fitting in a box
- the BISON HERD
- Sometimes I just don't know.
- O-BAMA
- Arlou
- We remember...
- Walking thru their lives...
- Let Go...
- What will they say...
- Morning Sunrises...
- Aunt Shelley
- I MISS YOUR FACE.
- 25 random facts, goals, habits...
- Grateful for 2008
- LIFE
- Nature...
- She's....
- the future...my future.
- i miss them a little more
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"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me - I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"Some people just live life in a way that well seems against the grain - never taking the paved way the easy way never living to the checklist of life...but maybe just maybe they are seeking a little bit more from life."
"All of your life is about growing into your personal best...all of your life is about growing into greatness."
"When something bad happens, you have three choices...you can either let it define you, let it destroy you OR you can let it strengthen you."
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
"Do one thing everyday that scares the complete shit out of you."
"Try to be like a turlte, at ease in your own shell."
"There is a great mystery that none of us will get until that last breath and EVERYTHING will become VERY CLEAR."
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
"Overcome the notion that you must be regular it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."
"Too much has been given much is required. You must do something for the greater good to show your gratefulness for the blessings in your life."
"The CHALLENGE of my LIFE is to see how far I can take it."
"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go."
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"
"Maybe mistakes are what makes our fate - without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we never veered off course we wouldn't be who we are now."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces will breake away. Sometimes life is like that. It tosses us down a hill. But when we reach the bottom and only the important things are left, that's when our vision clears. That's when we hold on tight to what we know, while hope stirs inside us. It's all a matter of perspective."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces - I would still plant my apple tree."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom and your mess into your message."
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
"When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door. The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice. The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes." -Choose your own journey even if it means taking a path no one ever has.
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer anwsers."
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