2011

The year is slowly passing away … to say the least 2011 was an unsettling year for many of us. Yet, the essence of unsettled experiences is what brings us to some of the most rewarding conclusions, to the roads that are meant to be crooked. I’m standing at the beginning of a crooked road, longing for 2012 to get started, anxious to just follow the dots, shed the burdens of the past, lift up into timeless wonder. My bones tell me it’s the right way to go.
Tomorrow, I will burn sage to release all that has been in 2011 and  whisper prayers for courage, for love and support, for energy and guiding light in the coming year
We are all moving into change. Embrace it and move deep into your heart … peace and love, my friend!
~M.

2012 Drink to try … with Pendleton Whisky

Pendleton Sagebrush
3 parts Pendleton Whisky
1 part triple sec
1 part fresh squeezed oj
1 part fresh squeezed lime juice
Top off with ginger ale

Muddle sage leaf with orange slice in glass; add liquids; pour into old fashioned glass; garnish with an orange slice and a sage leaf.

 

Pendleton® Whisky Launches Pendleton 1910™100% Canadian Rye Whisky
Aged 12 years, limited release premium rye whisky offers smooth flavor profile

Love this …

Check out Hint Jewlery on her blog for some very unique and pretty jewlery.

Merry Christmas my friend!

The Vault …

For hours of uninterrupted fun and in honor of everything being interesting, follow this link to The Vault. The FBI has made thousands of files available in a new online resource called The Vault.

“The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. 
Included here are many new files that have been released to the public but never added to this website; dozens of records previously posted on our site but removed as requests diminished; files from our previous electronic reading room, and new, previously unreleased files.” ~~~ from the FBI website section The Vault

Being of unsound mind and having lived in New Mexico for many a year, of course, I chose the subject … - Unexplained Phenomenon 

Walt said …

“this is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
—
walt whitman

Good friends are really family!

I have wonderful friends who always remember me. Without them, my life would not be complete!

Thank you for the beautiful flowers … you know who you are …

Create anyway

Image by B Tal via Flickr

I am finding so many great quotes and sayings that I just want to share with you!!! Here's another ...

‎"People are often unreasonable, irrational and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you;
Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight;
Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten;
Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway." - Mother Teresa

Mr. Ritter said ...

Image by Coconino National Forest via Flickr

"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." 

~~ Prentice Ritter; From the 2006 motion picture Broken Trail.

Love

I found this on Tumblr. I don't know the origin in order to give credit for it's loveliness. It definitely brought a tears to my eyes. How beautiful a love. Enjoy ~M

Happy Thanksgiving

Image by carfull...farewell to summer via Flickr

I'll be away for about a week ... holidays, etc.


Happy Thanksgiving!

Wise words

"Unless you follow your own trail in life, you will be forced to follow the path of someone else
who did." ~~~ Wise words of a friend

Los Greigos

Count down

Day 221  ...

Count down to freedom!

Freedom from crowded streets

Freedom from bright lights

Freedom from unatural living

[reviewing] Rightful Places by Amy Hale Auker

I finished reading Rightful Places just a few days after I started it. I found it to be utterly interesting in it’s detail  and honesty of ranch life. It was a quick read.
… Quick to read but not soon forgotten. The beauty of Ms. Auker’s descriptions find a place in your soul and are easily branded into your memory.
The slim book with it’s captivating jacket is now sitting on the table beside my bed. I find myself opening it to a random page and being transported to a different place, entranced by the imagery and delighted by the poetry. This book will not spend much time slotted between other books on a shelf rarely visited … it will keep calling you.

Juni Fisher

Just listening to some good music ... Enjoy! ... and click on her website to hear Gone for Colorado



To hear Gone for Colorado

Heart aflutter

 

Not long ago I posted about tiny houses. I am indeed enamored of them. This morning my friend “J” sent my heart aflutter by sharing a design for a garden shed which I will stretch to say can be made into a tiny house or added onto a tiny house to make a medium house (see there I go).

This could be the tiny house of my dreams.

 

My friend “J” has a bead on how to make my brain buzz with ideas. Between yesterday and today, I must have had a zillion (well, maybe just 10 or 15) tabs open on my computer all related to something “J” posted on Facebook. From Farm to Market to Permaculture to Biodynamic French Intensive Gardening, “J” keeps it interesting. Then, of course, there is the whirl of ‘everything is interesting’ that sucks me in every time.

Tell me though, is this not the most enchanting design?

Helsinki architect Ville Hara and designer Linda Bergroth of Hel Yes! have produced this delight …

 

Dreams could only be perfect while sleeping in this tiny room. Sunrise and sunset, each a glorious moment. Even the pattering of rain would inspire.

Now picture the lovely tiny house I posted about last week …..

connected to  this incredible garden shed turned bedroom …

with plenty of containers to grow good, clean food …

                                                                                                                                                                                      

situated along this  beautiful strip of land beside the Rio Grande …

Can you picture it?

When you think about it, do any of us really need so much? Isn’t just a tiny place okay? I think so, all according to need. But having just what is needed does not mean it doesn’t have to be beautiful or be in a beautiful place. Of course, according to ones own aesthetic. It’s the beauty that is soaked up and which satisfies all the wants. Just like a fine meal satisfies your hunger.

See it with me! It’s a good daydream and well, anything can be possible you know …

A meditation for an auspicious day ...

Picture by Realm of Tranquility on Facebook

Make a wish ... carry it in your heart! Allow yourself to shift into grace.

Video by http://www.spiritvoyage.com

Grace knows no gender!

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[some] Alluring thoughts

• Rose colored mountains on a summer evening
• A certain young man who flows like a long cool drink of water
• The changing colors of adobe walls at dusk
• A rising sun over shinning waters
• Sea foam and seashells on glistening sand
• Hot coffee, a warm blanket, a rocking chair, a porch with a view
• A seagull’s song on a deserted beach
• Wild horses in the sun
• The sound spurs make on a slow walk
• Friends who care and remember, who hold out their arms to catch your heart each time
• The crow who calls out in the early morning and reminds us what can be done in the quiet of the early day
• Worn leather
• Fluffy tailed bunnies
• The feel of a hot tub on a snowy night under the stars, in the mountains
• A new book, a cozy chair, a rainy day
• The smell of green chile roasting
• The yip of Coyote in the dark, instinct awakened
• The smell of cut grass, the feel under your bare feet
• Facing the wind …
• A Taos Sunset
• Sunlight streaming in the doorway on a late summer afternoon
• Puppy hugs
• Icy cold lemonade in frosty glasses on a scorching day
• Baby toes and baby nose
• Free range animals
• Herbs drying from ceiling rafters, dust angels floating in the stream of sun filtering through old wavy glass panes
• Red checked blankets, straw baskets filled with fresh food, laughing children and sweet afternoon naps under the sun
• The smell of rain in the desert
• Fresh vegetables blooming in a beautiful container garden
• The squeak of a wood floor at 2AM
• Hay rolling off the back of old ranch trucks, cattle lining up like school children
• Fine bone china, elegant silverware, linen tablecloths, crystal glasses, dim light, soft laughter, demure smiles, shared glances
• Fresh Lavender scented sheets
• The view from high on Hermits Peak
• The scent of pluff mud
• The smell of cedar trees on a cold sunny morning deep in the forest
• Purring kitties
• The smell of piñon wood burning in the wood stove
• The sound of children splashing in the pool
• Apple picking on a cool morning
• Cottonwood fluff falling from the trees
• Pimento cheese sandwiches at the beach
• Spirit ceremonies
• Heat rising from loam on a hot afternoon
• Full moon halo shining on the canyon
• Margarita’s on the porch, friends sharing good times
• Hot air balloons floating
• Dusty roads
• The singular sound of a gas powered saw on the mountain
• Sandy feet on weatherworn floors, the sound of crashing waves in the salty air
• The feel of a horses muzzle
• The smell of burning sage
• A wooden pier over the marsh
• Ambrosia salad
• Sheets drying in the sun
• A colorful herb garden
• Houses lit up in the dark night
• The movement of the boat in calm water
• Land as far as the eye can see
• Sheep herding in Navajo land
• Happy dreams, sweet sleep