Monday Becomes Eclectic (Late, Late Version)

{Dish It}

Summer Vegetable Curry via 101Cookbooks

{Eye Candy}

"Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her."
Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her

{Don't You Stop}

The most sophisticated people I know--
inside they are all children. - Jim Henson 

{Transcend}

{Go Ahead, Laugh}

Visit Hyperbole and a Half for the Source=More Laughs

{Cats, Of Course}

An Exercise in Forgiveness

Streets of New York by Justin Lee

On September 11, let’s gather for a big forgiveness exercise. Let’s forgive all of the characters and their underlings in our history who we know as haters of humanity. Let us forgive Lucifer and his crew that we may be released from the dark lie that has confused and enslaved all humanity.

Let’s gather in our hearts for 11 minutes of focused intention at 11:11 AM and at 11:11 PM on this day wherever you are. Take a few minutes to get comfortable, prepare yourself to be part of a big beautiful demonstration in FORGIVENESS. For the sake of LOVE!

Feel free to share this opportunity as your heart leads. Let's gather our friends and family to participate in an exercise of FORGIVENESS that encompasses the whole history of humanity and all of the vast array of personalities, forces, and purposes involved.

Visit An Exercise in Forgiveness to join.




 

Making Love Visible

... I cannot see The love you offer. —Emily Dickinson
How can we make love visible; how can we give it eyes? We can make love a present, wrap it carefully as if it were a beautiful thing.

We can make love a favor nobody foresaw; we can fill a cup, prepare a meal, run an errand with our love. We can make love out of real words - in a letter, a note, a simple unrhymed poem. And we can make our love visible with our eyes by making our eyes meet those of the people we love.

When we turn a feeling like love into an act, we share it with those around us, and they are encouraged to return the favor, and in this way, the world's storehouse of love increases. From Today's Gift on Hazelden.


{Image Credit: You've Won My Heart; Never Give Up}

The Way to Love

{The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -G.K. Chesterton}

Especially. Yourself.

Don't forget to love you, you, you. Because you won't always be here.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one WILD and PRECIOUS life?

Maybe I should try to answer that question myself.

(Image 1 by Amy Stein, from her collection, Domesticated. Image 2 )

To All My Loved Ones...

I love you more than I love Elvis Costello circa 1977. And you know that's a whole lot. Happy Valentine's Day. (You can find my addition to "I Love You More Than Blank" right here. Be good.

Papaya Art. So. Delicious & Juicy.

These amazing prints, calendars, canvas reproductions, file folders, magnets, and notepads, really make me feel like living a life I've always dreamed of. One that is colorful and warm and generous and sweet and certain. Check out more at the Papayalicious web site.