Love Songs (Heart album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
love is so desired
love sets us on fire
we forget the when, the where, the why
our molecules will do anything to feel that lie
we are lost in the wonder of it all
we hear nothing but the love call
it carries us to the beyond
and when it is lost…we cannot respond
our song dies
only tears linger in our eyes
we reach for the stars
but our heart is left ajar
we flounder through the rain
left stunned and in pain
This is such a tender story of family…of loss…of help…of love! It will touch your heart!
I’ m happy and grateful to have been nominated for the Liebster Blog Award 05/2013/01 by Ami Fidèle 
As usual there are several rules in accepting the Liebster Award– they are:
1. Accept the award, post the picture of the Liebster Award on the top of your post and say who nominated you for the award and list their blog site.
2. List 11 random facts about yourself.
3. Nominate 11 other bloggers for the Liebster Award and list their blog sites.
4. Notify the bloggers of their award.
5.Ask the award winners 11 questions to answer when they accept their Liebster Award.
6. Answer the questions left for you by the blogger who gave you the award.
My Nominations of 11 other bloggers for the Liebster Award and their blog sites:
[Please note: The chronological order has nothing to do with beauty–or wonder—each are BEAUTIFUL in their own way and should all be #1 ! I just wanted to be sure to follow the rules and award 11, so I numbered them! (smile)]
1. http://tuesdayswithlaurie.com Laurie’s blog offers helpful understandings of who you are and how to BE your best self as well as stories of the heart.
*
2. http://simonmussell.com Simon presents to us deep reflections about how we live, why we live, what we live, and how we can live better…choices.
*
*
3. http://daylighttune.wordpress.com Yoshiko and Hikari Yori have jointly written a beautiful blog of insightful reflections of daily life and the presence of Jesus in their lives by a husband and wife.
4. http://beebeesworld.wordpress.com Beebee is a versatile blogger, who writes poetry and weaves her family’s experiences in and our of her lovely postings! She writes about nature and real life. She is also a photographer with a keen eye for the subtleties of life.
5. http://sachemspeaks.wordpress.com This dear author, Sachem, shares with us his Native American heritage, specifically the Eastern Woodland American Traditional Native People. The stories he speaks of are so beautiful and take my heart to a simple way to live life, close to Mother Earth and to the heart of people. It also speaks of the harsh history of our ancestors and the horrible treatment of his people. This blog will give you an honest perspective into the lives of Sachem’s people and could only lead us all to more respect for the Native Americans and help us to all love one another.
6. http://davesjourneyandadventure.wordpress.com David Eugene’s blog provides useful information about healthy vegetables, nature and the world! He travels and is engaged in life…very interesting blog!
7. http://victoria-writes.com/ Victoria is an aspiring author for Young Adult literature (if I understood the YA correctly!) who is on the way to great success. Her blog is refreshing to read and her mood is light, ambitious and happy! Her joy is felt in her words and her determination is to be admired!
8. http://seraphim6.me This is a delightful blog of writing and photography, and in the author’s own words, “having fun.”
*
*
*
9. http://secret-cities.com/ OR http://inherit-the-earth.com Kieran Meeke presents a traveler’s heart’s delight without leaving the comfort of your home. He is the author of several sites and is a travel writer and editor….what more could we ask for?! The London blog presents us with photographs and a bit of history with each. The “Inherit the Earth” blog takes us to Africa, Australia, the Middle East—everywhere on the globe! Enjoy!
10. http://personsofpassion.wordpress.com This woman writes with such passion and heartfelt sensitivity towards so many! Her writings and poetry are beautiful and penetrate deep into your heart!
11. http://themovingsilent.wordpress.com Karzan Kardozi is a sensitive writer and photographer from Iraq. The first story of his that caught me deeply was Thalassemia: Shadow of Death. This story moved me because of the sensitivity in which it was written about the family that he came to know over time and the suffering of the family from the generic disease. Karzan writes with his heart! Karzan’s main focus is on films and cinema–his reviews are so interesting to read! But even more profound that all that he writes, is the documentary that he is working on and that should be known around the world: Halabja Documentary: Nasrin’s Story.
11 questions from me to respond to with your acceptance of the Liebster Award (or choose 5 of the 11):
1. What is the first thing you do in the morning?
2. What is your best quality and draw us a portrait of yourself in writing or a poem.
3. Which is your favorite meal of the day…breakfast? lunch? dinner? and describe it.
4. What do you enjoy most in life?
5. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
6. What do you “see” when you write? What is the your writing process?
7. Why are you a blogger?
8. What is the most important lesson you have learned in your life?
9. What is your greatest fear and how do you work through it?
10. If you could meet any person in the world, who would it be and why?
11. What do you imagine life to be like after death?
11 random facts about myself
1. I like coffee…5 cups throughout the day…even in the evening! I never drink decaffeinated coffee–because if one is going to drink coffee, then I feel it is coffee that must be drunk.
2. I am a gardener and only discovered it by accident! I began with one flower garden and now I have seven! No one told me about the weeds or the mosquitoes!
3. I once played Canasta for hours on end with my older sister, Barbara. She would beat me every time with a concealed hand, and me with a handful of half the deck! I miss not having her to play the game with.
4. When I was young, I would climb fully grown cedar trees to the highest branch and enjoy the freedom of the wind!
5. I doodle when I am listening to lectures—I am listening–I think it keeps me more focused than if I sat still and only appeared to be listening.I think I listen more than those who give that appearance! LOL
6. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day…and I enjoy morning coffee with a veggie omelet. If I only had breakfast each day, I would be content. Then I think of how many people in the world have nothing…it saddens me.
7. Recycling is very important to me and I get very upset with people who litter the environment. I am very concerned about Mother Earth.
8. I am totally against “Fracking!” It is going to ruin the 4 water basins that lie under the USA. Fracking ruins groundwater! It is so WRONG and is Corporations again who care nothing about Mother Earth or any of us. Without water, we are all dead.
9. I love to laugh! And look for opportunities to make others happy…I smile even if I am sad…and soon I am happy. What else can I do?
10. I wear socks to bed…my feet get cold…
11. I love chocolate…I guess everyone does! A day without a piece of chocolate, it like a day without breath!
Response to the questions left to me by Ami Fidele
1. Why do you write?I write to give voice to my feelings that are otherwise left unspoken. I write as a way to BE with others…to offer the best of myself…to offer my real self to others.
2. Do you play an instrument? If so, which one?I play the piano a little…not even to perform for anyone…but I love to play to amuse myself…and to soften my heart. I had three piano teachers…each five years apart…and each for only a year…the piano teachers kept leaving the countryside!
3. In what style do you prefer writing?I have no preference…the poetic form contributes to me being more succinct…and it leaves me happier, I guess. Essays allow me to vent…lol.
4. What music is playing on your speakers right now? I do not have any music on…just the silence of the day…sometimes I play music–Bach, Chopin, Susan Boyle, Adell, the Bee Gees, John Denver, Neil Diamond, the Beatles, Yanni, Nanny Mouskouri,
5. Do you think in pictures when you write? Great question! I will have to pay attention—I never thought of that—I “see” the person or idea in front of me…I “see” groups of words in my brain…clusters of feelings overpower me and the words just flow out (sometimes–lol) I think I am a spatial, visual thinker. Often when I am speaking, I look off into the empty space to gather my thoughts—I do not know WHY, but it works…even though, many people think I am not paying attention to them, I am…I just need to gather my thoughts “out there.”
6. What’s your writing process like? My feelings overwhelm me, as I am quite sensitive to my environment and the words of others…a gift but difficult at times also. When a particular idea attracts me, I cannot wait to get to the keyboard and it just pours out of me…then I return and make the grammatical corrections, etc (that is the difficult task and boring)…
7. Among your work, do you have favorite poem? If so which one and why? I guess this response is the same as the one I have for books…I did memorize STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING by Robert Frost—maybe that says something about being a favorite??? I love the first snowfall…the change of scenery that nature provides us…I love some time alone…I need it…and this is a “quiet” poem…and choice is involved in it–a choice to keep the promises…
8. What’s your favorite book and why? Different authors speak to me at different moments in my life. So the favorites continually change!
9. What season of the year is your favorite? I am fortunate to be in a climate of 4 seasons—I love each one for what it offers—I cannot say I love one more than the other!
10. Should you write to/about a specific person do your give the poem to them or do prefer to you keep it? When I write for someone in particular, I give it to them, ninety-nine per cent of the time.
11. Instead writing, what other art form can you imagine yourself expressing yourself through or already do express yourself through? I express myself very well in my oil paintings! I love to work in that medium! The colors are so rich and vibrant and I totally lose myself when I am painting—I become one with the brush or my hands…sometimes I use my hands to paint…lol.
A Woman of great courage! A Woman who has such deep strength…giving the best of herself everyday…Her determination to LIVE as fully as you and me…and then I dare to complain when I have a body that moves…Very Inspiring Woman!
a beautiful love story…real and deep…gifts of the heart…a real Knowing of one another…
FOR YOU LOVE PEACE ………. MAMITA SUFFER PAIN SKY ANGEL REMEMBER FOREVER REST …….. (Photo credit: LUZ-2011)
I feel overwhelmed today with the suffering of this world. With the death of Shane, a young, passionate writer on WordPress, it has struck me deeply again.
I once saw suffering only as tremendous pain and loss. While it certainly is that, it can be understood on another level. Since last evening, after my night at the Mindfulness Center and our meditation on “Suffering,” I have come to see it in a different light. Now I understand suffering refers to the impermanence of people, things, and events in our lives.
Change is the only permanent thing. Nothing ever stays the same…a concept that I am sure I heard in songs over the sixty some years of my life, but never really understood the depth of that idea of which I do now. Buddha is quoted as saying, “I teach one thing only–that is suffering and the end of suffering.” I am not sure if I grasp that fully, but I believe that one thing that it can mean, is that if we see suffering as impermanence…then the time it will cease, is when we leave this life. Then it will end.
Of course there is more to life than suffering…there is much love…that sustains us and keeps us going. Without love, the world would have ceased long ago. Love convinces me that there is something or Someone greater than ourselves. I firmly believe that all of life exists in the Heart of God…and that Heart is Universal Love. And I believe when we leave Mother Earth our energy is not destroyed but returns to the Creator of Love. It is inevitable that we each will die. Death is escaped by no one. We can run and hide from it…but it is going to happen to each of us…and I am thinking that in our Western society, we tend to run from it with all that we have. Because we are so busy running, we fail to live in the moment. We are running from our own mortality. And why do we fear what will happen eventually? Perhaps if we resisted it less, we could live the present in a more fuller sense. We would not be running, but we would be living in the NOW.
I believe that the Loving God has taken my young friend, Shane, into Loving Arms. I think death is not permanent…just another change…into greater becoming.
the heavens dipped down and snatched you from us
no more drinking from the sorrows of life’s chalice
Prometheus flown into the sky…
leaving us with tears in our eyes
the angels saw your light and took you home
peace and love are now your throne
we humans here below
were blessed with your angelic glow
you had passion deep within your heart
you gave your best right from the start
we will carry on your dream
the promise you left us in between
My heartfelt sympathy for the hearts that miss you and love you! Especially your Mother, your special friend, Melissa, and for Patty, his soul sister.
Sea Glass on Spectacle Island (Photo credit: herzogbr)
Norsk (bokmål)â¬: Amanter, stenslipt glass (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Fenway Day 006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cover of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
This conversation occurred while reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr and John Archambault, with Lois Ehlert as their Illustrator, with Nadia, my four year old granddaughter.
We had just reached one of the last pages of the children’s book, when lower case “a” was left alone, climbing the tree trunk, and Nadia gently spoke, “Oh, she is so lonely!”
I replied, “Well, we can help her!”
Nadia the asked, “How, Nanny?”
I suggested, “Why don’t we gently pick her off the page, close our eyes and carry her into our hearts…then she will not be alone anymore.”
Nadia looked at me with wonder and a bit of disbelief, “Really, Nanny?”
To which I responded with, “Yes, let us try it. We can reach our hand towards the page, then close our eyes, and lift “little a” into our hearts! Let’s try! You only have to believe it to make it happen!”
So we tried. Unknown to me, but made aware of it by Nadia, we missed the “little a” on our first attempt! Then Nadia cheered us on, “Let’s try again, Nanny!”
So we did! This time we were successful!
Happily we cupped “little a” into our hands and carried her safely into our hearts…where she is now residing with great comfort and security.
Received from Patty of http://petitemagique.wordpress.com
May 20, 2013
Patty of http://petitemagique.wordpress.com created this award, and she wrote: “… because I wanted to do something special for my friends on WordPress.” Thank you, Patty, for this beautiful award and the extra special effort you invoked to create this beautiful, personalized award! You are so sweet! I am so touched by the uniqueness of your creation! You certainly took an important idea–love crystals–from my poems and crafted an exquisite award. I am so honored and touched by your insight and thoughtfulness!
This description was written by Patty of http://petitemagique.wordpress.com: Semper Fidelis is Latin and means Always Loyal. Loyalty means the world to me. I am very loyal myself, but I’ve got major trust issues as well. And I think trust is very important if you are sharing so much of yourself with people you meet through the internet. So I am working on that! 
Why the wolves? Because wolves have very strong ties with their pack. Like a family or a great group of friends. And I just love them! This award stands for the loyalty and love between friends.
The Rules:
I am very grateful to Patty of http://petitemagique.wordpress.com for her award to me!
My pack of wolves are:
* Celestine: http://readingpleasure@wordpress.com
I have nominated you for the SEMPER FIDELIS AWARD! I think the following should enable you to find the image of the award:
http://petitemagique.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/semper-fidelis-award.jpg
Celestine is the Queen of Haiku from the country of Ghana, on the West coast of Africa. She is now published! Celestine has a gentle heart that is filled with warmth and joy…reflected in her writings and her dear correspondence with me. I am so happy to know her! When I read the quote below, I thought of Celestine, because she is a courageous woman. She believes in her writing and she always goes forward. She finds a way to succeed!
*
*Gyslaine: http://lgyslaine.wordpress.com
I have nominated you for the SEMPER FIDELIS AWARD! I think the following should enable you to find the image of the award:
http://petitemagique.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/semper-fidelis-award.jpg
Gyslaine is a beautiful poet from France, whose gentle words have healed me. This quote makes me think of her because despite challenges in her life, she goes forward and towards life. She inspires me to do the same:
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anaïs Nin
*
* M Murali Mohan: http://advocatemmmohan@wordpress.com AND http://advocatemmmohanaksharaalu.wordpress.com
I have nominated you for the SEMPER FIDELIS AWARD! I think the following should enable you to find the image of the award:
http://petitemagique.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/semper-fidelis-award.jpg
M Murali Mohan, from India, cares about all of us! He shares his knowledge of the law on his blog. He shares his understanding of human life. He shares the deep wisdom of his beliefs. He is always a faithful reader of my writings–this encourages me so much to keep writing…and gives me purpose to live.
*
* Paul: http://poesypluspolemics.com
I have nominated you for the SEMPER FIDELIS AWARD! I think the following should enable you to find the image of the award:
http://petitemagique.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/semper-fidelis-award.jpg
Paul hails from the East Coast of the USA. His poetry delves into many different topics –it is profound! He encourages me by reading my blog. Seeing his icon there makes all the difference to my day of writing. He has taught me to write because it is important for me to express myself…not to impress my readers. He has taught me to write for myself through his own example.
*
* Shaun: http://prayingforoneday.wordpress.com
I have nominated you for the SEMPER FIDELIS AWARD! I think the following should enable you to find the image of the award:
http://petitemagique.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/semper-fidelis-award.jpg
Shaun, a writer from Scotland, is a man who faces each day with courage despite the constant pain his body gives him. He is a brave man, caring husband to his wife and a wise father to his children. He thinks deeply about the world and all of us in it. He goes beyond the walls of his home and is open to all people and encourages us along the way to keep writing, to continue to be our best selves, and to never ever give up.
* Rebecca Budd: http://clanmother.wordpress.com …. http://chasingart.com/ ….http://takingthekitchen.com/
I have nominated you for the SEMPER FIDELIS AWARD! I think the following should enable you to find the image of the award:
http://petitemagique.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/semper-fidelis-award.jpg
Clanmother, from Vancouver, impresses me because her blog shows that she appreciates the beauty of the world in which she has found herself. Her blog is filled with the beauty of so many artists –she appreciates the creativity she finds around herself. Her writing moves me to think beyond myself and her presence is often found on my blogs, giving my writing her confirmation…which is so encouraging to me. She seems to be a person who is constantly engaged with life and goes forward into it with joy. Recently, she jumped into recycling and is asking us to join in her conversation about sharing food with each other in her blog, “taking the kitchen.” Her openness to transitions in life encourages me to go forward in my own life.
*
* Sheri DeGrom http://sheridegrom.wordpress.com
I have nominated you for the SEMPER FIDELIS AWARD! I think the following should enable you to find the image of the award:
http://petitemagique.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/semper-fidelis-award.jpg
Sheri, from the USA, is a woman who goes the extra mile…hundred miles…thousands of miles! When I read of her support to her husband and how she bravely fights for him and his health…how she willing faces those who would deny him help…I see her inner strength and unconditional love for the man she married. She is a woman of great determination and courage. In between all of that, she still takes time to read others’ blogs and give her comments…all of which takes precious time. Sheri is a person who genuinely cares about all of us.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
*
Patty: http://petitemagique.wordpress.com
YES—you have just been nominated for the award you created! I have nominated you for the SEMPER FIDELIS AWARD! I think the following should enable you to find the image of the award:
http://petitemagique.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/semper-fidelis-award.jpg
Patty, from Holland, impresses me because she is herself in her writing and on her blog. When she is happy, we know it. When she is struggling, we know it. She is fully human and is not afraid to be who she is…she writes who she is. Patty’s total honesty encourages me to be honest in my writing. On top of all that, as busy as she is, working on her new publication, her triology on dragons…she still has time to visit and encourage me in my writing. She also is my sister of the universe–Patty encourages me to be strong and to continue to live each day! Patty lives the quote despite any obstacles in her way–and helps me to do the same!
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Art using the mediums: Charcoal, Pen & Ink, Acrylic, Watercolour; Earth colour; Mixed Media and Photography.
Culture and Communities at the Heart Of India
Anita Blogue
Where The Eagles Fly . . . . Art Science Poetry Music & Ideas
Blogging about Culture, Equity, and the Arts since 2013
Simple Vegetarian Cooking
Karen Molenaar Terrell
Sharing the beauty and joy of Bellingham Bay
Molenaar-Terrell Photography
A Fun Way to Learn Chinese
...because that's all relationships really are
A Walkers' Journal...Talking Our Walk
Johannisthinking. Poetry.Essays on Life
The It Gets Better Project exists to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ+ youth around the globe.
Gayle Polansky Photography in Albuquerque New Mexico
Blogging about Photography and Travel
Author Website and Blog
हिन्दी कविताएँ एवं कहानियाँ
Footprints of Thoughts 
You must be logged in to post a comment.