Sharing Thoughts

Movement and Stillness - New ideas, new avenues, different foods or cultures, we all experience as we travel on our path in life. We can instantly be quickly drawn toward words or creations that spark a place inside us and just as quickly be completely turned off by another. Our world and communication is moving at a faster rate than ever before. In some instances this is wonderful! We can find people quickly who need assistance, reach more humans with new innovations in health and science. My Great-Grandmother would find it challenging to believe some of the things we accept as commonplace today. We are becoming accustomed to this pace in some ways, and yet a part of us yearns for stillness, sitting, pausing and relishing the moments. Deep at our cellular core as humans we remember a slower pace of sitting around a fire, using our imaginations with storytelling, listening to Elders who challenged our new young minds with ancient questions. So different from the sound-bite world of quick answers, disposable things and even people. So necessary to have these times for our inner compass. Stillness brings us a relief from the fast pace. Even if we only find 10 minutes in our day to sit quietly and breathe, at our home, by a tree, in a park, in our car or our backyard. Welcoming in the beauty and simplicity of life with breath and quiet is a respite from the storms and chaos around us. Two Wings Observe the qualities of expansion and contraction in the fingers of your hand: surely after the closing of the fist comes the opening. If the fingers were always closed or always open, the owner would be crippled. Your movement is governed by these two qualities: they are as necessary to you as two wings are to a bird. RUMI Maybe you might wonder how you can find a place of quiet stillness from your movement, so that your Two Wings can fly in balance in your life! Blessings, Bobbe

As the world's current events happen around us, confusion, fear and inhumanity seem ever present. In these times my practice of seeing a larger picture of the universe I live in brings a perspective of hope, understanding and truth. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops in the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." Mahatma Ghandi Finding the silence within! Remembering with each breath the ocean/universe in which I exist includes so much more than my physical body. The rekindling of this deep connection brings me to balance and understanding beyond what my eyes and mind see. Gratitude is my guide, breath is my vehicle and Love is the fuel. May our continued practice of presence lead us to bringing more expansion to the whole and understanding to calm fears renewing Love in the hearts of those we touch each day and beyond. Blessings and Love, Bobbe

For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river--- Unbearable pain becomes its own cure. Travel far enough into sorrow, tears turn to sighing; In this way we learn how water can die into air. When, after heavy rain, the stormclouds disperse, Is it not that they've wept themselves clear to the end? If you want to know the miracle, how wind can polish a mirror, Look:the shining glass grows green in spring. It's the rose's unfolding, that creates the desire to see--- In every color and circumstance, may the eyes be open for what comes.          Ghalib (1797-1869) As I learn from the children in my life. The gift I see is them being the raindrop, moving through the tears, embracing the miracle and living in the moment.  Thank you for showing me the joy of living and feeling. I want to remember how easily I once also responded to life in that manner. Don't give up on me when I get stuck in my mind and the business of my "important" life and forget who I truly am!! Remind me gently to smile and breathe, sometimes I miss the sweetness of the simplicity of jumping, laughing and stomping in mud puddles. Blessings, Bobbe