Live, Love, Learn….A hundred and twenty days

There is a season for everything.

A time for every purpose under heaven.....

Peace and Love
collage, mixed media on canvas
12/12

Today is one hundred and twenty days since I started my clean eating again.  This time the stakes are higher because of health issues. 

I feel good.  I know I have to find the strength to keep my diet as clean and as simple as it is. 

My hair is a mess!!! Not really but I am not relaxing it and am two months in the transition process.  I can feel the new growth and it is weird to have two different textures on my head.  I love bobby pins and headbands.  They are saving my life right now.  I have looked at and read so many blogs about different women’s transition experience and began watching youtube videos.  It’s fun, enlightening and inspiring.  If I were writing a hair transitioning blog, my main statement would be to deep condition your hair once a week.  I think that is key.  Also I am learning not to mess with it.  It’s hard not to touch the little ringlets sprouting up on my head.

I am in a healing process. 

I am learning to love myself in a different way.  To just let the authentic me come out and embrace that woman.

My hair, my body, my mind all under renovation.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY 2013

Happy New Year!!!

Love,

Possibility

Fufill life's longing for itself,

step out of the  box

Hello Sexy

From Elle Magazine

I saw these shoes this fall and fell in love.  I have a shoe thing.  My only suggestion would be to make them kitten heels.  but the colors made me salivate. Then I couldn't find the magazine and was bereft.

Then I found it again.  This is sexy.  The dress I would wear it with?  A silk chemise, simple lines,

classic dress, I will find it and post it. Summer, Spring, not winter but beautiful.

Ahh, eye candy.

Lessons learned in 2012

Quan Yin
photographed at Ojai Foundation

People are who they are.

People will do what they are going to do.

I am in charge of myself.

I am in charge of what I put in my mouth.

God always gives you a warning.

Pay attention to the warning.

Pay very close attention to the warning.

Be grateful.

A grateful heart goes along way.

If it isn’t working, it can sometimes not be fixed no matter how much you love it or want it.  Let it go.

Let go of what does not work in life.

It is okay to cry.  Crying is good, it releases the tension, pain, heartache and anger.

Love.  Love.  Love.

 And continue keeping the heart open.

Time does heal all wounds. Cliché but true.

Time is time is time it

does make the pain go away

 and allow for healing to begin, that’s where the love comes into play. Don’t forget to love yourself as much as you

love others

People hurt other people, sometimes consciously,

sometimes unconsciously.

Be mindful.  As much as possible.  It is sometimes easy to let slip words that can change things with other people.

Appreciate the little things.  Have faith.  Have faith that what isn’t working will change.

Laugh.  Find the beauty, find the innocence, find a carefree attitude.  

Let go. 

Let go and let God.

Take very good care of oneself.  Surround oneself with loving, caring, gentle people.

Make art, make a lot of art. 

Enjoy the creative process. Getting one’s hands messy can be cathartic.

If I want it, I will work to make it happen.

Take time to let the people I love know I love them.

And remind myself to love myself tooooo.

“I untie my wings and step from the edge, 
away from the future, 
dropping the past 
and I carry the moment. ” .       ― Casey Haymes

peace,love,joy,faith

Purple Peace
watercolor on watercolor paper
2012

Staying centered – in the big picture

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

There are  10 more days to 2012.  10. 10. 10 more days.

Ten more days to this year that has been beautiful and challenging as all hell.  There I said it.

My focus and goal is to stay centered and grateful.

In the big picture  the world has so much going on in it.  I find myself overwrought at the events in connetticut.  We as Americans need to change our policies about weapons and who can have them.

Innocent children should not have fear brought into the safety of their school environments.

My heart goes out to each child that was lost and to each family that lost their baby.  Only time will heal those wounds and some new legislature that will prevent this from ever happening again.