As our beautiful fall waxes and wanes….I am never quite sure if I should go out and play in the leaves, or play with the leaves!…..peace and beauty to you all!. I am off to play with clay at a workshop today, and then I am coming home to carve my pumpkins! Tell me what you are up to ?
something for the week end…..
India.Arie and Idan Raichel…Open Door…….
I was at our gorgeous local theatre, the Flynn last night, listening to this..I feel so lucky in that I currently live in a teeny tiny place ( largest city is 34000) but we get gigantic talent passing thru all the time….a caveat, this TED video is 24 minutes long, but SO worth it…she talks about the roots of creativity, the difference between expression and expectation..its all about her personal journey to becoming the artist she is meant to be…and if you are not into creating, a beautiful message about finding your authentic voice…( we all have our purpose on this earth walk!) ..so sit yourself down with a cuppa of your favorite brew, and give a listen…you won’t be sorry…this woman is a gorgeous joyful gift!
wishing you a weekend full of whatever it is you want to be filled with! xox namaste, K
Henry…….!
Doing his version of Rodin’s ‘The Thinker”………oh, and he met one of ‘his kind’ a gorgeous Basset Hound named Izzy on his walk on Sunday….you should have seen the two of them rolling around…it was hysterical…unfortunately, everyone was moving too fast to get a decent photo! 
pommes…..
Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.”
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the Whole Sky.
-poem by Hafiz
-gifts from Mother earth
-reverence from me….xo namaste!
today’s work….
Today’s work was a moving meditation…change rustles in the leaves on the trees, beats in the veins of the forest floor, and whispers in my ears as I walk this familiar path to healing…again and again and again..
namaste…xo K
mixing it up a bit……
Iolite, smoky quartz, rhodolite garnet and labradorite ..oh my! My lucky charm pendant collection all in motion on 30″…yeah thirty! of hand wrapped semi-precious beads….I decided I needed to get some color into my life to fit with the fall season! These are just so much darn FUN!…they move with your body, stand alone like a delicate flower in a field , but also layer seamlessly with other necklaces you might love to wear…I just adore the way they swing and sway with your body when you wear them…held together with a small revolution circlet..pretty darn sensuous, if you ask me…..they will be in my shop in about 24 hours….
hoping your weekend was glorious….off to harvest the last of the herbs…
xo namaste
Mandala = circle = connection = cosmos…
The Human Mandala Project in Crestone from Josh Davis on Vimeo.
Such beauty….and featuring the beyond lovely Rising Appalachia. They say when mandalas are seen in a dream, they represent the dreamer’s search for completeness….some say we are never ‘complete’ …we are always searching for something ‘more’ and once we find that, there is another ‘thing on the list’ that feels necessary…others say that you can attain completeness when you want nothing… when you believe that the way things are is ‘exactly enough’, that everything is exactly as it ‘should be’…you can feel complete if you have a sense of rightness and fullness with exactly ‘what is’ in this very moment, this very breath…
I honestly cannot say that I do not sometimes believe the former definition, but I am striving so hard to believe the latter….I falter and fail and correct the language in my heart and mind…I keep trying….
What about you? What makes you feel complete?
Broken beauty…..
To be whole, let yourself break.To be straight, let yourself bend.
To be full, let yourself be empty.
To be new, let yourself wear out.
To have everything,
give everything up
~Tao Te Ching~
I found this piece of wisdom on a lovely blog that I have recently been reading….it aligns with another thoughtI had…and it is that we are at our most powerful and full of the greatest number of possibilities when we are at our most ‘broken’….think of it…when what you believed about yourself and your life disappears, almost anything is possible in the rebuilding
hopes, dreams, all of it can be born anew
anything is possible, when you are staring at a blank piece of paper
I have some new jewels to show you, but this I just had to share
always, beneath the surface of something broken
lies beauty
xo
candles lit and holding my breath…..
Holding my breath…more tears from the heavens are pouring down upon us…flash flood warnings tonight…the Seven African Powers and Good Luck candles are lit ….do your thing, send your prayers, please, really, for all of us…fires in Texas, tornado watch in the South…I feel as if the Earth is crying…..I worked all day collecting clothing for folks here who have lost all of theirs…this effort feels small and not enough…please count your blessings always, hold your loved ones close,don’t go to sleep angry, and walk lightly upon our Mother Earth….holding you in my heart….namaste….
The rain came down…….
and we are still here……….
