Living in the Exhale....

(an unexpected photo taken by my husband~me on the back deck in deep reflection)

I'm living in the Exhale...

From deep with in me

A breathe arises

Warm with Wisdom

Wrought with Wounds

Wild with Wonderment

(early morning running companion Coyote hanging out under Eagles nest)

It leaves my body slowly

Expanding as it goes

Who knew?

So much could be inside

One Soul

So much Life

So much Death

It causes me to be still

To sleep

To sit in silence

As I welcome The Rains

For they allow me to stay slow

And as new life is seen

all around

I rest in the knowing...

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~Catherine Beerda-Basso

copyright 2012

I finished The Alchemist this week

ahhhhhh

a beautiful 

simple

fable 

about the Journey of Life.

In the book they call it the Personal Legend.

It is a story about a lowly shepherd who goes in search of a treasure that a king foretold, awaits him in the Egyptian desert.

Along the way he meets many a character who prove to be an intricate part of his own life's web.

It is a Journey of Dreams

a Journey of Faith

a Journey of Love

a Journey of Life.

but mostly

it is about Love

Divine Love

Love that makes up all things.

"This is what we call Love," the boy said, seeing that the wind was close to granting what he requested. "When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there is no need at all to understand what's happening because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind. As long as the wind helps, of course." pg 148-149

"Because it's not love to be static like the desert, not is it love to roam the world like the wind. And it's not love to see everything from a distance, like you do. Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. When I first reached through to it, I thought the Soul of the World was perfect. But later, I could see that it was like other aspects of creation, and had it'w own passions and wars. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of Love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are." pg 152

I really can't say much else as I think it is a book that ignites personal reflections

personal thought

one that must be read by the individual
to fully appreciate
it is a quick and easy read
like a sweet dessert on a warm summers day
while the breezes kiss your cheeks as you sit in the garden

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as for me

I borrowed this copy from a friend

but upon reading it

I will be purchasing my own 

to put upon my book shelf

where it will stay.

It will be one of the books I will read to my 9 year old this summer...

and a book that I will read again 

but this time 

I will be able to journal in the book

as I go.

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what is touching your souls my lovelies?

Love and Light