2/14/15-Love Is All There Is

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Love is in the air, so to speak.  I love(d) Goliad and I love Georgetown.  I was happy in Goliad and I am happy here.  I was surrounded by wonderful earth angels in Goliad, and I am as equally blessed here, as I have always been everywhere.  Life is good, always, no matter what, where, how or who you’re with. It took me a long time to learn that; to really know it. I believe it, and now I get to practice living it.

The photo above is from my all time fav movie. The quote shown was actually a rhetorical question asked by William Holden’s character, David, while dancing with the lovely Sabrina, played by Audrey Hepburn.  To his question, “Oh, Sabrina, where have you been all my life?”  She whispers her answer perfectly, "Right over the garage."

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His response, “Right over my car.  Right up in that tree.  What a fool I was.”

That is the point of this post.
Love is all around.
Love is everywhere.
Love is everything.
Love is all there is.

We only need be aware, accept and allow that which already is.  A friend of mine recently wrote an article that describes this concept from a spiritual perspective - far better than I can try to emulate.  Think Agape instead of Love.  You can discover it (here).  Congratulations on your new website, by the way, David. Awesome!  Buy his book and CD peeps.  Your heart will smile.

Right now, in this moment, I am sitting outside writing this and I have tears of gratitude in my eyes and immense joy and peace in my heart.  At the risk of plagiarizing Karen Drucker’s song, I declare this, “I am so blessed and I am so grateful for all that I have.”  Here is a one-minute video of what I get to wake up to most days: http://youtu.be/T0EYuJhI52M

There was very little I longed for in Goliad, but one of the things I missed was being able to see water.  In Arlington, every park my furbabies and I frequented had a lake or a water feature, and in Dallas, my office had a magnificent view of water.  Here, we walk less than a football field to enjoy many splendid views with water as a backdrop.

Here’s the path we take to get to one of our favorite views.

And here’s a 2-minute video of what we see and hear when we get there: http://youtu.be/d8wkyMzg5lw

Last night there were deer across the way.  Can you see them?

One of Bentley’s favorite things to do in this world is to swim.  He gets to do just that in his senior years, anytime we want, right here in the mighty San Gabriel at a swimming hole carved out just for the Park.  Sweet!

We have a concrete patio on which to sit while I work or write outside.  Nonni and Bentley enjoy it as much as I do!

What does all of this have to do with love being all around and accessible no matter what?

Well, it’s pretty easy to “see” the things I love, but it would be just as easy for me to miss all of this beauty if I got caught up in “the dark side.”  Spiritual connection and expansion, friends and family, nature, my furbabies, writing and working are the priorities in my life.  As is my health.

Tuesday night I had a major seizure.  Prior to that, I enjoyed all of the above and had one of my best days ever.  I was seeing, hearing, smelling, thinking and feeling so many blessings far too infinite to count.  Days like that are priceless.  That evening, as I walked the dogs, I contemplated a quiet evening of writing once we got back home.  Then something began to change. The sensations were new for me but I knew something wasn’t right and I made a beeline for home.

It was all I could do to feed the dogs and secure the trailer before falling into bed.  I honestly believe that if I had not made it home, I would have crashed somewhere in the Park.  I was going to go to sleep no matter where I was or what I was doing.  Fortunately, blessedly, I made it safely home and I slept from 6:30P until 9:30A without a waking moment and seemingly without even stirring.  The only reason I woke up at 9:30A was because someone knocked on my door to do some maintenance outside my trailer.

I was grateful to realize that whatever “that” was, lifted with only the usual ‘after-seizure’ symptoms to deal with.  Wednesday and Thursday were like walking in mud but the point is, I was walking.  Wednesday night my friend Judy saw to it that I was able to get some groceries and my friend Leslie came by Thursday to help with a few other things.  Friday, yesterday, I had a conference with my life coach and Tuesday I see a doctor. I will also get to see two other friends next week and hopefully my cousin.  I am so grateful for the support of so many.

Friendship - My blessings multiply through true kinship and love. #DailyWord http://www.dailyword.com/dailyword/friendship-friday-february-13-2015

Is it comfortable knowing that this seizure came with brutal force and without any warning?  Of course not.  Nor does it meet my need for autonomy or independence to know that it evidently takes a village to keep me going.  Might there come a day I don’t wake up or a day that I’m not able to work or write?  Of course.  Isn’t that the same for everyone?

I can look at all of that and get bogged down in the muck and the mud of it, but I choose to stay in the flow of love.  I choose Agape.  In that, all is well, always.  In that, there is no fear.  In that, love is all there is.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

What do you mean this isn't my good side?

We'll sit in a moment Mom.  Maybe.

I think I'm going to run away if she takes one more picture.

Well, okay.  We'll stay.
We love you too mom.
Thank you for the treats Momma Leslie.
Happy Valentine's Day everybody.