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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

-Mahatma Ghandi

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Stand for welcome. #refugeeswelcome

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#truthbomb

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Love is a drug.

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“Not everyone you lose is a loss.... because if the door isn’t open, maybe you aren’t supposed to walk through it.” 

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I started making vision boards back in college as a part of my holistic health coursework. We were to create a vision board at the beginning of each semester about where we wanted to see ourselves by the end of the semester. It was an ungraded assignment and we were encouraged to just take them home and hang them somewhere as a reminder of our goals.

The only collages I had ever made were for art class in elementary school. The task felt juvenile to me and I resisted my creativity. I couldn't find the words I wanted or images that felt right and my final project was pretty bland. Over the years though, I've learned how not to over-think a fun exercise like this one.

It is important to begin with a magazine about something that interests you. I promise- I won't find what I'm looking for in my husband's American Hunter magazine. Instead, I choose natural living magazines, yoga and healthy eating publications that I know will have lots of powerful and inspiring words about self care or nature.

I look for pictures first; ones that speak to a 'theme' or 'scheme'. After I place my background, I start to look for words for the foreground- and if I can't find exactly the right word? I'll write it in using a pen. There are NO RULES to making a vision board as long as it inspires and motivates YOU.

I hang my yearly vision boards in the back of my closet where (ideally) I would see it at least once a day. I also have an art journal that I fill with more spontaneous creativity. It is a wonderful way to track my progress towards a certain goal or remind myself how many of my boards have come true- LOTS! I made a vision board about my ideal man before I met my husband, one about my ideal home right before we moved to Washington and one about my career right before I began my business.

I believe that vision boards are a integral tool for manifestation. If nothing else, they can be wonderful motivators towards a goal.

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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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The Greek word "amethystos" may be translated as "not drunken", from Greek a-, "not" + methustos, "intoxicated".Amethyst was considered to be a strong antidote against drunkenness,which is why wine goblets were often carved from it. In his poem "L'Amethyste, ou les Amours de Bacchus et d'Amethyste" (Amethyst or the loves of Bacchus and Amethyste), the French poet Remy Belleau (1528–1577) invented a myth in which Bacchus, the god of intoxication, of wine, and grapes was pursuing a maiden named Amethyste, who refused his affections. Amethyste prayed to the gods to remain chaste, a prayer which the chaste goddess Diana answered, transforming her into a white stone. Humbled by Amethyste's desire to remain chaste, Bacchus poured wine over the stone as an offering, dyeing the crystals purple.

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"Three thousand years ago I had a disagreement with Zeus about the Trojan War, and he’s been harassing me ever since." “You were alive three thousand years ago?” “All of us were.”

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I’m going to write all the darkness away. I’ll write until my fingerprints wear down and the only thing that’s left of me is my beating heart. I’ll fight like the devil until the poison is gone, and I won’t be afraid who sees me, and one day, when it’s over, I’ll be shiny and clean, and I’ll lay my head down on my soft bed, and finally rest.

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#Reading up on #old #remedies 📖 #holistic #nature #nativeamerican #herbalogy #medicine #healyourself

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Summer's End

The Fall Equniox passed for me without much revelry. I didn't remember to charge my crystals or dance under the moon topless. None the less, I look forward to a change of seasons. The physical and non-physical shifts in our lives that encourage us forward to a better future.

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A morning walk to Manito Park, through the conservatory and the English rose gardens. It was a lovely, peaceful day and I am grateful for small, beautiful things.

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Awareness of self

I've been kind of unhappy lately. I'm feeling unfulfilled and a little lost in regards to my career and life path. I have a lot of anxiety surrounding money and income. I feel that my rebellious spirit gets in the way of me being a successful, responsible person. The list could go on, but these worries are 'top of the pile'. Anyway, I've noticed myself acting out in public- at people, and even through social media. I don't like it. I don't like the way my irritations turn into issues, I become short tempered and rude. I don't want to be that person. It's contradictory to everything I believe in. And yet in that moment, I AM that person. I am the person tapping her foot in a long line, saying rude comments just within ear, rolling her eyes at the receptionist. I think it's important to recognize when your behavior is out of alignment with your Authentic Self. I know what kind of person I am meant to be. I was raised to be kind, patient and compassionate. I have learned to listen, trust and respect others but I am still striving to be my ideal self and I think we all should. It's not easy to always do the right thing. Sometimes its much easier to give in to anger or apathy. But it's never okay to take your "stuff" out on other people. It is not my place to tell anyone how they should live or how life should be. It is not in my control if lines are long and children are loud. I can't change anyone but myself and I should not pass judgements on other people. Today is a new day. I commit to only putting energies of kindness out into the world. I commit to dealing with my "stuff" on my own time. I commit to be a better person than I was yesterday.