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Just Fix it…

broken-heart-mended

A slogan “Just Fix It” on a license plate frame on a mini truck that drove by … an automotive repair bodyshop advertising. I see.
If it were only so easy…and painless for humans needing a body shop, right? Practice, practice, practice was amiss during crazy vacay schedule so I am decaying. Time to restart.
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Restoration Software

Broken, shattered, torn, ripped, cracked, crushed, smashed … how many ways to express the
fragility … that turns to … resilient sparkles…of light so bright.
Broken dreams
Shattered lives Dashed hope
Broken promises
Broken Heart
Why put up with broken pieces when
there’s this whole organic breathing universe
It’s only a puzzle – not broken only that pieces are missing
or maybe it’s just our train of thought that’s broken
only the mood is broken
not our limbs not our bones
NOT our spirit

Fix it
She uttered the words
softly at first
then an octave higher
repeats
fix it
firmly and decidedly
FIX IT
Repair it; Restore it; Renew it
says she
If there’s 50 ways to leave your lover – Paul Simon – yes,
then, there’s surely 50 ways to … fix it.
I question,
what is perfection?
what is wholeness?
What is comfort and ease?
What is security and peace?
How do we find them?
Acceptance of what’s broken just as it is
Acceptance of the unbroken truth love honor
all there – in precious moment to moment as there’s no need to
fix it.
Broken the
Beautiful…
Life unfolding before our eyes piece by piece mending into whole
mysterious jigsaw puzzle we put together until it’s no longer
broken.You are broken and unbroken
You are full and empty
You are everything and nothing
It’s all there and
not.
Still stubbornly gripping and hanging on to the idea
…
Fix it.

as if

that’s
…
within grasp.

IMG_8060_smallNice array of props!
IMG_8061_small For your headaches… it works.
IMG_8337_small Love this bakery in Pt. Reyes … Bovine Bakery… nice touch if you are a regular, you can have your mug left there… lovely village.
IMG_8344_smallEnjoying the morning muffins…nice picnic area.

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“Tripping Over Joy”

Persian style tea beautifully served by a beautiful generous soul with a natural touch for impromptu entertaining, pulls together a full dinner at a moment’s notice – I wish I could be more like her … reminded Hafez too was … Persian. Thought provoking and so visual – Even in translation, his way with words are … magical.

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Tripping Over Joy

What is the difference
Between your experience of Existence
And that of a saint?

The saint knows
That the spiritual path
Is a sublime chess game with God

And that the Beloved
Has just made such a Fantastic Move

That the saint is now continually
Tripping over Joy
And bursting out in Laughter
And saying, “I Surrender!”

Whereas, my dear,
I am afraid you still think
You have a thousand serious moves.

― Hāfez, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

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Without a mat, my hands and bare feet kept on sliding on the dry leaves and twigs… flipping over joy? tripping over joy? Can you believe that maybe 10-ish years ago, during a period of time when I was “too busy to do yoga”, after a loooong international flight and an evening on a sofa bed in the living room stay as a guest in Tokyo, my lower back just gave up? Guess my lumbar spine was no longer able to take the abuse – Piercing pain with each step I took – luckily a medicine man with a magic touch fixed me as he thumbed his way up each vertebrae from my sacrum to lumbar spine… a quick fix – and now – To Urdhva Dhanurasana or to Camatkarasana (wild thing!) with ease ! That would have been unimaginable back then …Thank you Yoga:)

There’s a lot of “YOGA is …” yogaism out there …

Beyond the physical…

Yoga citta vritti nirodhah.

Yoga is the ending of disturbances of the mind.

—Yoga Sutra I.2

How? Through practice… not only of asana (poses) but with pranayama and meditation.

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Nature Girls in California

Image of California for many might be … beaches? Then, there are forests lining the coast … forest, creeks and river … all streaming down to … yes, flows into the ocean. The Pacific Ocean – It’s beautiful here.

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IMG_8196_small in the forest…oxygen cocktail for this light headed. Simply Delish …Feel the symbiotic relationship with the … trees… the earth … the air. We are one.