The Cure for Everything that Ails You!

What about dreams?

Dreamland

In the ethereal world

things have another dimension

and are so real!

Colors, depth, contrast,

texture, and feelings. All

is sharper and brilliant,

also translucent and fragile.

Images change fast,

situations, people...

and we don't try to make sense

of all things, like we do

in the material world.

Imagine you are looking out

the window and seeing your neighbor

walking on the sidewalk,

and suddenly you see now

flying tea pots, and right after that

you are collecting compost for your garden,

and a second later you are talking to a friend

who just appeared from nowhere!

You would probably be scared,

crazy, trying to make sense of all things.

Not in Dreamland! We don't need to make sense.

We don't even think we should.

We just absorb and live every single fact,

act, and situation that is around.

And everything is right –

because we think it is.

Is this a lesson from Dreamland, telling us

to enjoy life as we do when we are

in the fabulous World of Dreams?

En Route!

Sometimes we don't know where we are going. We just know we are living, or living again, when we find on the way situations and people that seem to wake us up from dead. So, we are en route, but where to?

I've found out that the answer doesn't really matter. The destination isn't the most important thing, because it usually means the end of a journey. When we are in a journey the most fun we have is related to the unknown, to the surprises, the challenges, the learning and discoveries that we have along the way. But when we get there... that's the end of all this.

Say you are experiencing a new romantic relationship, or an old one with a new take; or a new business or personal project – whatever new path you are in now, it must be amazing because of all the things, sensations, insights, etc that are bringing to you a new you. Just because of the inspiration that the new can cause. Just because you are engaged in something that you are passionate about, and that gives you pleasure.

And THAT is the point! The pleasure you have in the journey – not the end of the journey.  The destination, or where you are going to be tomorrow in your new relationship or projects, it's only what wraps up the package. The content of that neat package - the NOW -  is what matters the most.

When we enjoy the journey without focusing so much on the question “what will happen next?” we create the mental environment to be inspired, confident, and happy – in the now moment! This can only lead us to more inspiration, confidence, and happiness. Isn't this success?

If you are going to be bored and give up your new project tomorrow, you don't know yet! If your new flamed relationship is going to last until tomorrow... you don't know. Things happen! Not bad things or good things. Just things! How you take them is what makes the difference. So, embrace your new lover and your new project TODAY! Live fully today, without wasting precious time and energy worrying about tomorrow. Tomorrow hasn't been written yet! YOU are writing it, with what you are doing right now. So just do what brings out the best of you!

I make a point to not plan too much for tomorrow – just enough to keep myself going, but free to change courses whenever it seems appropriate. Flexibility in thinking. That is an important item to carry along in the journey.

Bon Voyage!

RCT

Smile!

What a nice flow!  This song makes me fly - and smile, too!

Have you noticed how things around us really change when we smile? 

Let's Smile... and enjoy, then! ;)



Funny how this video brings me memories of something wonderful ... that I haven't yet lived fully.  How's that possible???



Wanna sing along?  

Smile
by Uncle Kracker

You´re better then the best
I´m lucky just to linger in your light
Cooler then the flip side of my pillow

that´s right
Completely unaware
Nothing can compare to where you send me
Let me know that it´s ok
Yeah it´s ok
And the moments when my good time start to fade

You make me smile like the sun
Fall outta bed
Sing like a bird
Dizzy in my head
Spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night

You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold
Buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Oh, you make me smile

Even when you´re gone
Somehow you come along
Just like a flower poking through the sidewalk crack and just like that
You steal away the rain and just like that

You make me smile like the sun
Fall outta bed
Sing like a bird
Dizzy in my head
Spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night

You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold
buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Oh, you make me smile

Don´t know how I lived without you
'Cuz every time that I get around you
I see the best of me inside your eyes
You make me smile
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold
Buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild

You make me smile like the sun
Fall outta bed
Sing like bird
Dizzy in my head
Spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night

You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold
Buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Oh, you make me smile
Oh, you make me smile
Oh, you make me smile

Pansies & Love

"Amor-Perfeito" (Perfect-Love) in Portuguese

Perfect Love

I don't know if you are perfect
or imperfect -

in fact,
the way you act
makes my mind
so hectic
that I cannot find
sense or ethic
only magic.

Only your magic
breaks the ethic;
helps us find
each other's hectic
mind
in a crazy act
that, in fact
can be imperfect
and the most perfect,
Perfect Love!

Rosangela C. Taylor

Something Beyond

Beyond understanding

Beyond time

Beyond space.

You are something

beyond my mind

mind of lace.

Lace of grace

and flirting.

Flirting for years

years of absence.

Beyond chasing

Beyond the line

Beyond presence.

You are something

beyond decision

distant fusion.

Here and there

and nowhere.

Something beyond

our bodies' bond.

Intrinsic: pearl in the shell

Loosely belonging: pendulum in the bell.

Something beyond platonic.

Bionic

energy synergy,

moving

mental orgy.

Mind connection

Sensual affection

Digression.

by Rosangela C. Taylor

Communication

Today is April 1st. and  this is not a prank! 

April is the National Poetry Month and I am again taking this enriching challenge of writing one poem a day and post it on Poetic Asides, along with hundreds of other poets. 

It's fun and  we all can learn a lot with it!  Thanks Robert L. Brewer for Poetic Asides, and for these five years of "poeming"!  ;-)

I'll share my poems  here, too, since this is a passion! 

My first poem of April, based on the suggested prompt "communication":

Gerald the Herald

“Gents 'n Ladies,

I commute from Comunion

to communicate to this community

the coming-up of the eleventh commandment.

As per the Commander's command,

I shall commence the communication

with common sense and camaraderie.

Communes and commoners,

comrades and comedians,

compadres and con men,

collect your chimeras and commodities

combine them all, also the commodes

and all the countless conflicts.

Compromise and commit to common sense

come out of your coma!

What else do you need? A coach or a combustion?

Creatures of consumerism,

Stay conscious, c'mon!

Stop and think, consume less, conceive better.

Common sense is the commandment!

Comments or commendations,

convey to commander@communication.com ”

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Note: Comunion is a small town in Álava, Northern Spain.

Burden is determined by what you.............

How would you complete this phrase?


You have the capability of choosing your load, and deciding how heavy you want it to be.

Love Thou First....

"When it comes to love, you need not fall but rather surrender, surrender to the idea that you must love yourself before you can love another. You must absolutely trust yourself before you can absolutely trust another and most importantly you must accept your flaws before you can accept the flaws of another." 

I don't know who said that, but it's so true! And we surrender when we trust that everything will be all right, accepting whatever comes! 

March is coming!  Let's carry February's Valentine's feelings throughout the year and reinvent our love to ourselves!  :)