Simplicity and clarity, the parents of joy.

An old picture of an awesome trail on the Oregon Coast

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”.  -Antoine de Saint Exupery

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Aloha Friday: ‘To Be Alive’ by Gregory Orr

Music everywhere echoing through glacial carved canyons. Photo by the one and only Matt Crawford.

To Be Alive

To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That’s crudely put, but…
If we’re not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?

~Gregory Orr

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One to carry, one to leave behind

To clear skies and flying high in 2014!

Welcome to the first day of 2014!

The beginning of the year can feel overwhelming.  We’re told to make resolutions, to start fresh, and to figure out how to make this year better than the last, and perhaps the best of our lives.

This year my intention is simple, instead of a list of resolutions or things, “I need to do in 2014”, I am choosing one thing from the last year to leave behind, and one thing from last year to carry with me into 2014.

I will leave behind worry and stress about money.  I will carry with me patience.

Clarity. Love. Abundance. Growth.

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Aloha Friday! Flying High

Some gifts take years to make, some take even longer to unwrap.

Some gifts come only when our mind and heart are open enough to accept them.

Be generous to give all you can, and humble enough, to receive what you can’t.

Clarity, Love, Abundance, Growth.

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Aloha Friday: Rise to the Sunrise

Sunrise over Canyonlands, Utah.

If you knew a way to bless the day, how soon would you wake to do it?

Early enough to prepare for the first glow of the sun?

To set a table for a feast that welcomed the sun’s light?

Would you stand, kneel, whisper or yell?

Would you face the day, or the exiting night?

-Alex Newport-Berra

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Aloha Friday!

I hope your Aloha Friday is full of good views, nature, some time to get out and move, yoga and friends! As depicted here from the little front porch of the cabin where Matt and I stayed in the Grand Teton National Park.  This is looking east, the mountains behind to the west.

Aloha Friday! And if you aren’t in Hawai’i right now, like me, or if you have no idea what Aloha Friday is all about, click this link to see my first post explaining it all.  A day to bask in the glory of the coming weekend, to relish the highlights of the work week and take stock and express gratitude in some way for all the amazing ways we experience the world!

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The eyes have it.

Spring in the Willamette Valley means many pots of gold to be found.

Perhaps without the ability to see color we would admire rainbows more for their shape and ethereal, momentary life-span.

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