M O V E - W I T H I N

"Keep walking though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distance.

That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the mirror gets clearer and cleaner."

Rumi (1207-1273)

H E A L I N G

There are some who would say that time heals all wounds. I'm not sure healing is ever attained when one loses a child, a friend, or a lover to a senseless act like the recent Boston Marathon bombings or the grievous sadness of 911, but time can lend a certain numbness to great losses or pain. 

As we get caught up in the continuous coverage of the recent events in Boston, we must be vigilant in keeping our perspectives intact. With each news update, interview, or photograph we are apt to let our emotions boil up, anger us, seek revenge. 

There are many who believe that giving that type of energy to such events makes their likelihood of recurrence stronger, while it makes us weaker. Revenge is the mask of fear, and fear is the weakening of the human spirit.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze too long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) 

REMEMBER - IN - YOUR - HEART

"Brief were my days among you, and briefer still the words I have spoken. And although death may hide me, and the greater silence enfold me, yet again will I seek your understanding.

It was but yesterday we met in a dream. But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer dawn. The noontide is upon us and our half-waking has turned to to fuller day, and we must part.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. 

And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.

Remember in your heart... 

A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind..."

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

May  recovery come quickly to the people of Boston.

B O S T O N

Heartfelt condolences to everyone in Boston who was affected by today's tragedy.  

With love, to my favorite city.

BETTY WHITE - RECIPROCATE

"When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, oh well she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street. If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness."

Betty White (1922 - )

Greatest Gift By Far

Greatest Gift

I look in their eyes

And delight to find

Only a love within

Even knowing no more

Of what’s in store

Than the moment they are in.

They host no prejudice

No grudge they hold

Their spirits untouched by pride

They are what they be

And all they know

Is that they, they love us so.

Whether rich or poor

They'd never care

As long as they with you are

See man's best friends

Will be true to the end

Creation’s best gift by far.

an original poem by Nancy Elizabeth Luz 

(c) 2011

This is Kayla 2008 

JUST FOR A LAUGH!

Today is my birthday, and so I am sending you a link to one of my favorite youtube videos. I've always considered dogs the Universe's greatest gift to mankind. Gotta love those crazy humans too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&gl=US&client=mv-google&v=EVwlMVYqMu4&nomobile=1

Okay, so maybe it's birds and the wonderful people who bring them to us. Thank you gents! Check this out too!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/REP4S0uqEOc

So many wonders to make us laugh in so many ways.