January 4, 2011 aros small stone for today

breath. our first gift. breathe little one, just breathe. and at the end of our lives we let go and give it back. our last gift.

Bucket List 2011

I'm doing a daily health challenge on FaceBook, and today we're challenged to come up with a bucket list: those things one wants to do before they die. The real challenge is, once you've finished writing the list of 5 or 10 things, to choose one you will focus on this year that you can make some headway on, or actually accomplish. So, here's my list:
Bucket list 2011

Visit Scotland for a month

Go to Bilbao to see the museum by Gehry

go back to my Italian language studies and become fluent enough for conversation

learn to read in French

Go to Paris for a month

Spend a year traveling the world on that condo ship The World as someone’s housesitter

Live in Tuscany after the kids are grown

Have The Godmother picked up by HBO as a long-running series with me as creator/head writer

Can you guess which one I've chosen to work on? If you can, post a comment and I'll let you know whether you're right and how I plan to proceed in 2011.

small stone for January 3, 2011 aros

sunbeam touches your feather, your beauty touches my heart, I rise to feed you and you fly away to someone who thought of your need without caring about your looks.

small stone for January 2, 2011

Fever burns through my head and body cleansing me of all negativity left over from the old year.

small stone for January 1, 2011

In-flu-enza, influence, affluence of gratitude in spite of pain or obstacles that
may show themselves in this river of life.

Happy Winter Solstice

This evening I will celebrate with an old friend who is in assisted living with Stage 4 Cancer having been diagnosed 4 or 5 years ago now. We will share an hour of no phones, no TV, meditate, light candles (LED candles as no fires of any kind are allowed in her place), maybe sing together. We'll drink some sparkling juice, eat traditional Scottish shortbread and welcome the coming light. In ten days I will go out and cut some forsythia branches and watch them come into bloom indoors as a sign that spring will soon be here -- even though today is the first day of winter. I hope you are all settling for the long winter's night, enjoying the dark time and looking forward to the coming light.

New Year is coming!

I'm going to participate in National Small Stones Month, in which I will write a "small stone" every day in January 2011. I will write it here in this blog, and will create some sort of river to start my new year. Will you join me? if you are interested, please visit pathofpossibility.com for more information.

love and peace in the world, peeps ...