I'm listening to the new Alanis Morissette CD, and her new song Everything is just awesome. I totally relate, and it makes me so grateful and full of love for my husband.
So, today it's all about Dave.

You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here.
~ Alanis Morissette

Thought for the day:

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Courtesy of GrannyMoon's Morning Feast

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
~ Vi Putnam

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GrannyMoon's Morning Feast

A time will come when war will end.
Vesta and her companion Fides -
the sacred Goddess of Community
and her friend, faith - shall rule.
The War-God will relinquish his command,
the gates of his dreadful temple clanging shut.
His companion, Fury, shall be bound,
his hands held fast with brazen nails;
he'll stand screaming on a pile of weapons,
howls coming from his blood-stained mouth.
~Roman Poet Virgil, The Aeneid

Courtesy of GrannyMoon's Morning Feast

These are the faces of the war on terror? Terror against whom?
I just read 2 articles, and they both came up with photographs (seen below) that really blew me away.
War is an awful, ugly thing, and ought to be entered into with great reluctance and prudence, not with willful disregard for the true costs. I wonder if the people in these photographs believe this is a just war?


A soldier in Sadr City

Paper trail: Oma Abdullah and son Mustapha, holding a photo of his father who died in U.S. custody.
Read the full story

Thought for the day:

"Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
~ Morpheus, from The Matrix


I know, quoting a fictional character is a bit goofy. But, wisdom comes in all forms, right? This quote struck me when I first watched the movie, and every time since, so here it is.
I'm trying really hard to learn the path, as well as walk it. I'm taking baby steps, but one has to start somewhere!

Thoughts for today:

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.
~James Leo Herlihy

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~ Anais Nin

Courtesy of GrannyMoon's Morning Feast

Thought for the day:
You should know that all things in the world are impermanent; coming together inevitably means parting. Do not be troubled, for this is the nature of life. Diligently practicing right effort, you must seek liberation immediately. Within the light of wisdom, destroy the darkness of ignorance. Nothing is secure. Everything in this life is precarious.
~Buddha

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This really touched me today. It's always a good thing to be reminded not to take anything for granted.

Thought for the day:

Your search among books, sifting and shuffling through other people's words, may lead you to the depths of knowledge, but it cannot help you to see the reflection of your true Self. When you have thrown away all your conceptions of mind and body, the original person will appear.
~Dogen

courtesy of Granny Moon's Morning Feast

This comes at an interesting time. I'm currently on a quest for knowledge about Goddess traditions, and am trying to find my true path. This quote struck me as a reminder that ultimately I have to look within myself.

Remembering Me
By Fran Hafey/Mysti

Aye, the fairies they do laugh with me
And shed a thoughtful tear too
When I, as human have come so far
And then lose sight of my faith for a moment

I hear their laughter on the wings of the wind
They comfort me when I need to remember
They sing me to sleep if I ask them too
And angels surround me with kisses

The winds blow the scent of change
and I try to keep up and understand
My spirit is strong and gently allows itself
to bend not break

I but have to release these feelings I have buried deep within me
and know that all will be well and right once more
Soon when the winds blow another direction
I must pay attention and take quiet solitude
to find the answers that dwell deep in my heart

I never give up but some days come close
I frustrate myself when I act upon these harbored
negative feelings... I am working through this
flame, this fire of the unknown... or do I really
not remember? Aye, I remember well... I just
have to allow myself to float away from time to
time upon Spirits wings and remember.

I release this once more...

This too shall pass... I have heard this before
and I share with many others too
but for today, my heart feels heavy and I
am giving it all now to Spirit, my creator
the one that knows all...I reconnect in a much higher place

Aye the fairies they do laugh with me
and know the energy is changing around me
and within me
The angels delight when I smile and they whisper in my
ear that they love me so and no harm can ever come
to me...thus I allow it

I feel their touch even now and feel myself soaring
to the treetops
I listen to the music as it comforts my savage heart this day
and know... all will be well again soon

I have to remember who has walked this path, traveled
far and learned the lessons in this lifetime...
I am remembering....who I really am
It doesn't matter if all do not recognize me for
My spirit self... what matters is that I remember... me.

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About the Author: Fran Hafey is a Spiritual Counselor, Healer, Writer, Earth and Animal Activist and Teacher, living in the mountains of Virginia. She provides guidance and inspiration via her Website, groups and newsletter on the World Wide Web. To read more of her articles visit the Author's Website: http://Mystickblue.com or her Weekly inspiration group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SpiritualPathways/

Copyright: Mystickblue (c) June 5, 2004 All rights reserved.

I found this in a parenting newsletter, and it brought tears to my eyes.

"When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor's wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking--the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with.

The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, "Mama, I couldn't find a switch, but here's a rock that you can throw at me."

All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child's point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because violence begins in the nursery."

-- Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking

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