Wednesday Wish Prompt

This week's wish prompt via Jamie's blog asks:

What Do You Wish to Remember?

I wish to remember that I am a child of the Universe. I have everything I need. I am exactly where I need to be. I have nothing to fear. I wish to remember that I have a purpose. I wish to remember that no one else can do what I do. I wish to remember that there is joy in everything.

Especially these gorgeous sunflowers! I took these shots of my neighbor's sunflowers. She is in North Carolina and is missing their bloom. At least I will have pictures to show her. Everyday miracles!

Happy Birthday To Meeeee!

Yesterday we had some good friends over for brunch. I served a ham/cheddar quiche and a tomato/brie quiche, along with fresh fruit and bagels and Magic Marshmallow sweet rolls. The Magic Marshmallow sweet rolls are a recipe from the Pillsbury Bakeoff cookbook and they are a crowd pleaser every time, and oh so simple. We also had peach Sparkletinis, which is a takeoff on mimosas. Just pure yumminess! I wanted to take a picture of the food, but it got eaten too fast! It was a wonderful day.


And today is my birthday!!! Yay, I'm 41 today. That sounds so odd to say, but I'm happy and not really hung up about the age thing. I did get carded the other day at the grocery store. I was very flattered especially with the upcoming birthday, but c'mon, are you trying to say I don't look old enough to buy a bottle of Peach Sparkletini? Really? I think it was the Universe's way of saying, "You still got it, girl!" And as a matter of fact, I do feel like I still got it! Here's to living life authentically and seeing the miracles all around and loving as fully as possible and just soaking up the sunshine! I'm off to the hammock with a good book! Oh, and here's to CAKE!

What Do You Wish to Invite In?

I stumbled across this great blog that is just so positive and affirmative and inspiring. Check it out if you need a dose of goodness. And who doesn't? A recent prompt asks What Do You Wish to Invite In?

I am a firm believer in manifesting and creating and wishing and visualizing. I am realizing now that sometimes I have a little trouble in the allowing and receiving end of things. But, I AM a believer. I have experienced enough synchronicity in my life to KNOW. There is no doubt about it. I just need to get out of my own way sometimes. I ask the Universe for help with that. To remove from me whatever is blocking me from allowing. My current mantra is "I am ready to recieve." I am ready to recieve and hold on to it and experience the joy that was meant to be experienced from recieving." I am ready to recieve.

So what do I wish to invite in? At this moment in time I wish to invite in an abundance of money from an easy source. I have been reading Virginia Woolf's lecture "A Room of One's Own" and I highly recommend it to any woman creative. Basically, she says that to be creative one needs a space of their own and some money to do it. I find myself focusing on the making of money to maintain the lifestyle I want to live and sacrificing my creativity to do it. (And by lifestyle, I don't mean things and stuff. I have turned the corner on that path. I mean a home that I love and time with my family. I mean enough breathing room to soak in all the daily miracles around me.) I know that this will not always be the case. I know that there is an ebb and flow to life's experiences. I am just so ready for the flow. My heart is longing for some real "time" in the studio. Not just a few bleary-eyed stolen moments here and there, trying to catch all of the ideas I have swimming in my head.

I wish to invite in an abundance of money! I am ready to recieve freely. I am ready to give freely.

*An interesting thing happened today: While talking to my friend on the phone today about our financial issues, the doorbell rang. It was a couple of churchies. I stepped outside and they said where they were having their service and asked if I had anything to pray about. Why, yes! I do! I need a prayer for financial gain. So they said a prayer of multitude upon whatever I had in mind. It was quick and simple and heartfelt. I said "thank you" and that was it. No hardcore questions about faith and religion. Just do ya need a prayer, well, here it is. Nice. Hmmmm. Thank You.

Love is All Around

As long as we have HOPE, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths, and an infinity of dreams. - Author Unknown

I just love the part "a hundred alternatives and a thousand paths." Sometimes we humans tend to box ourselves in and see only very limited solutions to our challenges or limited outcomes to our lives. A thousand paths....is everything you dream of, on the path that you are on right now? FAITH tells me "Yes!"

For more inspiration: I have a new favorite song! You can hear it and see this awesome LOVE video by a Dancing Mermaid over here.

Faith

We're back from our annual vacation to Sanibel Island. We had a great time as always. Even though every year is different, every year is wonderful. There is something magical about crossing the bridge and breathing the salt air. It's a place where you easily can believe that dreams can come true. Every time I am there, I feel like I am in the right place at the right time.

This time it was evidenced by an amazing event. I can't even really come up with words to describe how cool it was. It just made me feel like the Universe was watching over us, giving us this treat, this gift. It strengthens my faith and my ability to believe....in dreams and miracles. It happened about the 4th day into our trip. Every year, as I said is different. One year was the Year of the Sand Dollars, and there was an abundance of sanddollars. One year was the Year of the Starfish, and there were starfish everywhere. This year was the Year of the Dolphin. We always catch glimpes of them swimming in the bay or when we cross the bridge, but this year was different. There were just so many of them. Every day we went to the beach, we would see groups of them. This one particular day, there were 3 of them. It looked to be 2 juveniles and 1 bigger dolphin. Well, unbelievably, the 2 smaller ones started to come in close to shore, playfully riding the waves, flapping their tails. There were about 5 of us standing in about waist-high water, and these dolphin just circled and played all around us, within 10 yards of us. One dolphin swam about 5 feet from Tim....that's how close they were. It was absolutely amazing! This went on for about 20 minutes. They older/bigger dolphin was about 50 yards away, when suddenly it swam right up to the others, and "charged" splashing and creating a wave, splashing us. I believe it was trying to warn the smaller ones not to get too close to humans. It was all so magical. I can't believe I didn't have my camera, but then it is something that unless you experienced it....just a once in a lifetime thing. See what I mean about believing?

Another really cool thing that happened was that on the way there, I had described the car that I wanted, my dream car! I was telling Tim how I didn't want a new car, if money were no object, I would prefer an old car, something could be fixed up, ideally an old VW Thing. They didn't make too many, and there aren't too many on the roads anymore. I would paint it turquoise to ride all over the island. Well, and this is where the Universe comes in again.....one day we went for a bike ride, the 3 of us. We came upon an Open House for sale. This is a great house and I've always wondered what it looked like inside, and I really just wanted to see. Well, turns out it is actually the Perfect House. I mean this house is everything that we have ever dreamed of in a beach house! I could totally picture us living there (I think that's what the Universe intended!) Anyway, we walked downstairs to the garage, and lo and behold, there is a friggin' turquoise blue VW Thing sitting right there!!! I am not kidding. I almost pushed the realtor like Elaine from Seinfeld would do. I know he thought I was nuts, but I couldn't contain how much I was tripping out. The Universe speaks and I listen.

Did I mention how magical the island is?