Carry Friends with You Wherever You Go

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A Soft Downy Vest of Friends a Good Life Makes!

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Carry your friends with you wherever you go.

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Keep your friends close to your heart.

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Feather your Soul with the love of friends.

Can you find all 8 birds in this picture?

Be a Fair-Feathered Friend~

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~Flocked-full of friends~

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~Swooping into the day on wings of love~

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~Lying down nightly enveloped in soft downy feelings of love and safety~

~Knowing You Are Loved. 

Song of the Open Road

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, 

Healthy, free, the world before me, 

The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose." 

"Still here I carry my old delicious burdens, 

I carry them~men and women~I carry them with me wherever I go, 

I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them, 

I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return." 

From Song of the Open Road

 Walt Whitman

What Do You Carry With You?

What would you find in your feathers upon closer look?

Underneath it all, are your feathers always ready to be

ruffled, or flocked full of friends?

Do you suit up in a soft downy vest of friends  

each day, or a suit of armor?

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About the Tufted Coquette

The tufted coquette (Lophornis ornatus) is a small, ornately-patterned hummingbird that breeds in eastern Venezuela, Trinidad, Guiana, and northern Brazil. The adult male Tufted Coquette has broad, rufous-and-black throat tufts as well as an orange crest that give this species its common name. 

Nepstad, L. (2011). Tufted Coquette (Lophornis ornatus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.tufcoq1.01

Credit and Thanks

**Credit and many thanks to Mukesh Ramdass for photographing the Tufted Coquette (a hummingbird) in Guyana, and to 'I Love Birdwatching' for posting it on Facebook for the world's enjoyment. 

I was so taken with the beauty of this little creature I was compelled to study the details of it by looking for and finding the hidden beings within it.  I found this Hummer full of love.

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Lightarted Living: For The Love of the World~Charlotte Tall Mountain: For the Love of the World By Charlotte Tall Mountain "For the love of a tree, She went out on a limb. For the l...

For The Love of the World~Charlotte Tall Mountain

For the Love of the World

By Charlotte Tall Mountain

"For the love of a tree,

She went out on a limb.

For the love of the sea,

She rocked the boat.

For the love of the earth,

She dug deeper.

For the love of community,

She mended fences.

For the love of stars,

She let her light shine.

For the love of spirit, 

She nurtured her soul."

"For the love of a good time,

She sowed seeds of happiness.

For the love of creativity,

She entertained new possibilities.

For love of herself,

She acknowledged her worth.

And the world was richer for her."

Charlotte Tall Mountain, U.S. artist and poet

1941 - 2006

Charlotte Tall Mountain is someone I would have loved to meet. She passed in 2006 so I missed my opportunity but that doesn't stop me from sitting with her wisdom.

I stumbled across this fabulous poem, "For the Love of the World", on Josie Moreno's Facebook post the other day (my usual path of discovery is "stumbling across'). She heard it at a memorial service and was compelled to share it (as I am too).

Stumbling Across Wisdom

Wisdom is all around us. Keep your eyes and ears open. There is always more available than what initially meets the eye. I was playing with the Barred-Eagle Owl and Butterfly pictures when Charlotte Tall Mountain's poem wafted into my consciousness. The poetry was a perfect fit for both winged images and stirred me to 'dig deeper'. 

Thanks to Ellen Dennis for posting the Barred-Eagle Owl and Chris Veloon for posting the butterfly--both captured my attention and encouraged me to open my vision to seeing more than is visible to the eye.

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NO FAREWELLS

"If tears could build a stairway, 

And memories were a lane, 

I would walk right up to Heaven to bring you home again. 

No farewells were spoken, 

No time for goodbye, 

You were gone before I knew it, 

And only God knows why. 

My heart still aches in sadness,

 And secret tears will flow, 

What is meant to me to lose you, 

No one will ever know."

Karen White

WHEN TOMORROW STARTS WITHOUT ME 

"When tomorrow starts without me,

 And I'm not there to see;

The sun will rise and find your eyes

All filled with tears for me.

I wish so much you wouldn't cry

The way you did today,

Remembering how I'd lay my head

In your lap that special way.

I know how much you love me,

As much as I love you,

And each time that you think of me,

I know you'll miss me too.

But when tomorrow starts without me.

Please try to understand,

That an angel came and called my name

And petted me with her hand.

She said my place was ready,

In Heaven far above,

And that I'd have to leave behind

All those I dearly love.

But, as I turned to heel away,

A tear fell from my eye,

For all my life I never thought

That I would have to die.

I had so much to live for,

So many sits and downs to do,

It seemed almost impossible,

That I was leaving you.

I thought about our lives together,

I know you must be sad,

I thought of all the love we shared,

And all the fun we had.

Remember how I'd nudge your hand,

And poke you with my nose?

The frisbee I would gladly chase,

The bad guy, I'd "bark and hold".

If I could relive yesterday,

Just even for awhile,

I'd wag my tail and kiss you,

Just so I could see you smile.

But, then I fully realized,

That this could never be;

For emptiness and memories

Will take the place of me.

And when I thought of treats and toys,

I might miss come tomorrow,

I thought of you and when I did,

My dog-heart filled with sorrow.

But then I walked through Heaven's gate,

And felt so much at home;

As God looked down and smiled at me,

From His beautiful golden throne.

He said, "This is eternity,

And now we welcome you,

Today your life on earth is past,

But here it starts anew.

I promise no tomorrow,

But today will always last;

For you see, each days's the same day,

There's no longing for the past.

Now you have been so faithful,

So trusting, loyal and true;

Though there were times you did things,

You knew you shouldn't do.

But good dogs are forgiven,

And now at last you're free;

So won't you sit here by my side,

And wait right here with me?"

So when tomorrow starts without me,

Don't think we're far apart.

For every time you think of me,

I'm right there, in your heart. "

David M Romano

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The Rhythm and Flow of Life

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There Was a Time

"There was a time, 

When life was a dance, 

It was a song, it was music, 

Each step, another chance, 

Each breath, a thousand muses."

Mirela Athanas 

𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯 Wherever breath flows there is song 𝆕𝆕

Lovin Roche

𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯 Fall into the Wide-Open Embrace of Life 𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯

Lovin Roche

𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯 Wherever Breath Flows there is Song 

Hear its Whisper 𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯

Lovin Roche

𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯 Wherever Breath Flows there is Song.

Hear its Whisper 

Touching Behind the Face,

Singing in the Throat...𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯

Lovin Roche

...Dancing Spirals in the Sanctuary of Your Heart𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯

Lovin Roche

𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯You are the Instrument Breath is Playing𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯

Lovin Roche

You Are the Instrument Breath is Playing

𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯 Strong or Soft,

Wild or Serene,

Wherever Breath Flows there is Song.

Hear its Whisper 

Touching Behind the Face,

Singing in the Throat,

Dancing Spirals in the Sanctuary of Your Heart.

Fall into the Wide-Open Embrace of Life.

You are the Instrument Breath is Playing. 𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯

The Radiance Sutras 

By Lovin Roche, Ph. D.

CREDITS AND ADMIRATION

Lee Bryant sent me Lovin Roche's piece out of The Radiance Sutras. She got it from Leslie Schwartz, her dream workshop leader. Wondrous works have a way of floating into my view that inspire me to create. This was one.

I stumbled on Mirela Athanas' 'There Was a Time' while searching for information on Lovin Roche. I immediately fell in love with Mirela's poem and way with words. The snippet used here fit perfectly with Lovin's Radiance Sutras.

To view complete 'There was a Time' poem by Mirela Athanas  check it out on Poem Hunter:

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-was-a-time-33/

The tufted coquette used as the background for creating the picture is a tiny hummingbird. Credit for the photo of the tufted coquette goes to Mukesh Ramdass in Guyana (one of the places the hummer can be found) and to I Love Birdwatching page on Facebook for posting it.

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Show Up~Speak Up~Be Seen

Look into my Eyes

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I See You

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You were put on this earth 

to make a difference

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You Belong Here~Today

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Why are you hiding in plain sight?

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Be Brave.

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Be Bold. 

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Choose to be Seen.

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Show Up

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Speak Up

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Be Seen

Practice Being Seen Daily

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Look into Other's Eyes 

Say, 'I'm Here to be Seen'

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You'll be Welcomed by the Universe

to Fully Engage

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'I See You'

'I See You'

Is the Universe's Reply

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Show Up

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Speak Up

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Be Seen

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You Are Most Welcome to this Day

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