Many times have I experienced pure Joy and Serenity- most memorable are road trip on back county highways, summer time and windows are down for a sweet breeze as smell of just cut alfalfa flows into the car. I’m enroute to visit my favorite older brother and sister-in-law whom I cherish who live in a very small town in Iowa.
I feel like I have so many times I could list. All the quiet mornings I spent going to the beach when we still lived in Charleston, watching the big orange sun come up over the ocean. But last September when we were still in WNC, we hiked a lot of mountains. All of them were beautiful, but my favorite was the hike up Glassy Mountain at the Carl Sandburg home in Flat Rock, NC. Carl Sandburg was a poet and his home is a historic site now open to visitors. It’s a great place with all kinds of trees, flowers, a goat farm where you can go play with the goats, and lots of trails around the property. The Glassy Mountain trail takes you about a mile up, and the view at the top is one I’ll never forget. The Blue Ridge Mountains are just gorgeous. I swear I felt some magic standing up there and looking out at it all. I could have stayed all day.
Serenity: clear; quite; calm; tranquil; peaceful; placid. Yesterday afternoon was just such a time. Walking along the head ditch to check the head gate for obstructions. The wind was up a bit to keep the mosquitos at bay. The lupines and purple vetch along the ditch. The red and white clover blossoms along with the purple flowers of errant alfalfa plants. A dandelion bloom here and there. The flower heads of 8 variety of grasses waving in the breeze. Some puffy cumulus clouds drifting by. Several types of winged beings occupied the space between. Namaste.
At this very moment using the meditation method that I have now practiced for 4 years already is making me feel happy and free. What is freedom? Almost the 4th of July for those in the USA. Freedom is having no human minds of longing, greed, anger, wants – it’s to have no worries, regrets, fears and anxieties. The way to going to Truth is amazing and it’s making me dance with gratitude.
Of course this meditation method is a step by step process of letting go of my false delusions and I need to actually be deliberate and show up! I have to want to throw out my garbage 🗑️ otherwise it will keep smelling the whole house and world 🌍 up. I’m so grateful and humbled by Truth that I can’t say thank enough.
Have a lovely day . Just live today and do your best today have no regrets about the outcome. 🙌🌱💯
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Many times have I experienced pure Joy and Serenity- most memorable are road trip on back county highways, summer time and windows are down for a sweet breeze as smell of just cut alfalfa flows into the car. I’m enroute to visit my favorite older brother and sister-in-law whom I cherish who live in a very small town in Iowa.
I feel like I have so many times I could list. All the quiet mornings I spent going to the beach when we still lived in Charleston, watching the big orange sun come up over the ocean. But last September when we were still in WNC, we hiked a lot of mountains. All of them were beautiful, but my favorite was the hike up Glassy Mountain at the Carl Sandburg home in Flat Rock, NC. Carl Sandburg was a poet and his home is a historic site now open to visitors. It’s a great place with all kinds of trees, flowers, a goat farm where you can go play with the goats, and lots of trails around the property. The Glassy Mountain trail takes you about a mile up, and the view at the top is one I’ll never forget. The Blue Ridge Mountains are just gorgeous. I swear I felt some magic standing up there and looking out at it all. I could have stayed all day.
Hills Creek State Park in the fall.
Serenity: clear; quite; calm; tranquil; peaceful; placid. Yesterday afternoon was just such a time. Walking along the head ditch to check the head gate for obstructions. The wind was up a bit to keep the mosquitos at bay. The lupines and purple vetch along the ditch. The red and white clover blossoms along with the purple flowers of errant alfalfa plants. A dandelion bloom here and there. The flower heads of 8 variety of grasses waving in the breeze. Some puffy cumulus clouds drifting by. Several types of winged beings occupied the space between. Namaste.
On the beach by the ocean with its salty air, gentle waves and sand between my toes……pure serenity.
At this very moment using the meditation method that I have now practiced for 4 years already is making me feel happy and free. What is freedom? Almost the 4th of July for those in the USA. Freedom is having no human minds of longing, greed, anger, wants – it’s to have no worries, regrets, fears and anxieties. The way to going to Truth is amazing and it’s making me dance with gratitude.
Of course this meditation method is a step by step process of letting go of my false delusions and I need to actually be deliberate and show up! I have to want to throw out my garbage 🗑️ otherwise it will keep smelling the whole house and world 🌍 up. I’m so grateful and humbled by Truth that I can’t say thank enough.
Have a lovely day . Just live today and do your best today have no regrets about the outcome. 🙌🌱💯