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December 24 2015:
Love, fun love from Team TLC! …. As you gather with loved ones and family members for Christmas 2015, may you carry this thought with you … “Would you rather be right … Or happy?” Oceans of love to you!!!
And sometimes
It feels as if
The broken heart
Will never mend.
Lo, take heed.
The broken heart asdf
Lies patiently
in waiting.
For the glorious day
When compassion
And unconditional
Love return to
The broken-hearted.
For that glorious day
When all the the
Broken-hearted ….
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November 22 2017:
Solo walk this morning. Such beauty. No matter the weather. xoxo
**THROWBACK POST**
November 6 2013:
Lillian had a melt down a few mornings ago complete with she’s moving out, she hates it here and calling Thomas and I idiots. Once she calmed down, she asked in a different, quiet, deep and more mellow voice, “Camilla, will you please help Lillian get back to herself”.
I said, “Absolutely!”, and asked how I could help? Then I helped her get dressed. Later I asked who it was that asked me to help get her back to herself. She told me her name, which I forgot, and said that she was a professional ballet dancer. I said that it was very kind of her friend to come along and help her get through that rough moment …
Lillian has these melt downs about 1 to 4 times per week. Usually it’s when we are getting ready to leave for school or anywhere else. She does not like to be rushed and reminded to complete the next step of getting ready. I choose to mostly ignore her unkind comments as I know that’s not the true Lillian.
The more I do not acknowledge the melt down and the more I remain calm the sooner she is able to bring herself back to the true Lillian. I am so truly grateful for all that this beautiful little soul has taught me about myself and life! xoxo
November 22 2017:
I was feeling deeply down in the dump yesterday morning. Part of me wanted to sit and sulk and feel sorry myself. Yet, another part of me new that the time is now to start doing it different.
So I made a conscious decision to let myself feel this down moment, yet to also just do something …. anything. I’m purging the filing cabinet so as to pass it on, so I grabbed a folder and began going through it.
Rather than make a neat little pile of recycle items, I decided to do it different. I just threw them over my shoulder. Thomas and Lillian had a ball watching me as I was making faces and wild sounds while doing it.
I felt more like myself by the time I was finished, too. Feeling and release are so incredibly wonderful. Then Thomas and I went to Washoe Lake for our date day. Nature stepped in and helped to clear the remnants. As we drove home, I felt lighter, considerably different, and much better! xoxo
This was great! Of course, I didn’t think so at the time but it felt good to be bringing laughter to Thomas and Lillian at the same time as connecting with the heaviness I felt. xoxo
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November 6 2012:
Sunset walk adventures with Team Member T …. Spread your wings and fly … So in love with this place …
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November 6 2012:
Time to nourish the soul ….
As the butterfly swoops by, as the last remaining leaves rustle, as the sounds drift by, as the sun shares it’s warmth with me, as the soft breeze cools my face…
Pondering, accepting, releasing …. Soaking it in ….
As we choose to believe we must always be “doing” so hard and “doing” so much and choose to believe in lack and that we need something or someone to make us happy, the belief and obsession to have more and more ….
All we need do is return to nature so as to feel and see and know the abundance that surrounds us …. The abundance that is ours once we choose to live a true and authentic life.
Peace is ours once we discontinue to identify with what we have and what we accomplish. The search for this peace is a worthwhile quest. Knowing that we are valuable just because we ARE and not believing that we are valuable only when we have accomplished something … This is a concept that brings instant peace when we truly grasp it and live our life knowing this.
Add the ingredient of resilience …
Add the fortitude to stay true to this thought pattern when old negative thoughts and thought patterns rear their ugly head …. AND
Joy, Happiness, Contentment and Peace is YOURS.
November 21 2017:
Solo walk on this cloudy and cool morning.
This beauty caught my eye. Hanging out all alone while the other leaves are off playing in the distance.
On the one hand it displays beauty and confidence … and on the other, isolation and loneliness.
Speaks and mirrors how I have felt recently. Nature is so amazing. Nature also presented a beautiful heart shape too, yet I wanted this to have its own post. xoxoxo
“Whisperings of the Heart”
The heart whispers secrets
Try not to hear it you do.
Continuing to be in this life’s game
Following the rules, filling out the papers,
conforming to the this-is-the-way-it’s-done norms.
Too busy for interruption
to hear the gentle whisperings of the heart.
Yet, the whisperings never quiet fully.
They are there.
The whisperings are ever delivered
with love and gentleness.
The whisperings of the heart judge not.
The whisperings of the heart
are …..
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This moved me to the core when I read it recently. My eyes were sweating droplets of love as it spoke to my soul. I have never felt the way about trees, and Nature in general, that I feel now and the connection continues to deepen. Thank you Hermann Hesse … xoxo “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers … Go here to read more …
https://camilladowns.com/2017/11/15/trees-preach-the-ancient-laws-of-life/