The Road Not Taken: Memorial Day Memory

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Memorial Day Memory

This morning I was helping my friend Anita (Amalia's Blooming Bouquet) do some arrangements at the Altadena Country Club for her cousin's wedding. It was a gorgeous morning with a bright cheerful sun that had hidden behind some rainstorms for the past couple of days. Although it was hectic, it was still fun and exciting to see all the beautiful flowers make the room into a glorious occasion.

It reminded me briefly of another wedding several years before on a stunning Saturday evening during the Memorial Day weekend...

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To Live By These Rules...

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" -Robert Kennedy

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." - Buddha

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Marianne Williamson

As Jack Kerourac said, "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."

Alis volat propiis! ~She flies with her own wings!