I Feeeel Love!

I've had such a life full of treats and adventure recently!! There is just so much to do in life!!! I could do with re assesing my priorities...I haven't vacummed in over a week (think I've got that one about right) but plan on getting to it soon...I'm not huge on dusting and polishing...do not do ironing except for super fun...(fixing fabric paint, flattening pictures, melting crayons) reasons...but I'm beginning to feel that perhaps I might miss something a little more serious if I don't pay some attention to more mundane bits of life soonish. Definitely have a nagging sensation that I'm not taking my grown-up responsibilities seriously enough!

Here's some of the stuff I've been doing the last week or so....

Making Anime costumes for the London Anime Expo (photos to follow)
Shamanic Journeying with Eva Weaver through her WildWing Centre
Hanging out with my cousin Tom and discovering Tom's Bar in Brighton (photo's to follow)
And seeing the amazing Blue Man Group live at the Brighton Centre....Like This!::::

Such a gift on strange days

There are many distractions to use on strange days, eating, tidying drawing, laundry, clearing out cupboards...but these distractions are accompanied by the inescapable sensation of strange in my stomach.


There are fewer ways to untangle strange sensation, my favourite being Mark lovingly telling me that I am strange, so feeling it makes perfect sense, and something in that rings true enough for me to let it wonderfully be. Another way is to doodle , great big whatever colour happens doodles, until words and phrases spring to the page to let my strangeness be out there in front of me, wonderful, colourful, vibrant and beautiful truth. And lastly, the gift that is the internet...where people blog their own beautiful truth. Lale truth.


Today is one of those days, full of colour and feelings and I'm reminded of how lucky we are to have this wonderful web of possible connections...How lucky we are to find openess and gifts of everday shared.


I rarely watch television nowadays, I have the occasional day or three of immersing myself in it's light, channel hoping slouched on a sofa...passively letting in images, ideas and sometimes enriching stories... I find familiar faces there and amazing sights and scenery so many miles from myself that I'm likely to never see them in person...but on the internet I can chat and offer, and usually just by clicking a couple of extra links, find an open gate into someone's garden of thoughts and I feel a strong sensation of friendship, kinship.


I've been wondering whether over time this will translate more and more into our everyday world...in the same way that having a strong sense of foundation from home or family gives us confidence in life to go out and be involved, will our sense of connectedness and kin-ship from reading thoughts across not only physical distance but time, bring us eventually to the same confidence?


I no longer feel strange when I read the same senses of beauty and awe in other peoples words.

Lale

lale
noun pronounced lay-lee
1) The quality that gives a sense of pleasure, beauty and connection, to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as moments of epiphany, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality.
2) a sense of experiencing something innately true yet indeterminable about oneself, especially through external influence or environment.
3) something of (1 & 2) that has effect on several, many, or innumerable, often interlinked, levels.

Examples:

Much lale is found to be hiding in the sini of the world.

It was lale as she had never come across it before...

I was filled with a sense of lale

As an adverb: she danced lale; he wrote lale

And as an adjective: It was a lale moment; the bale was so lale

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