Sensory Delights

"There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, 

which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise it lifts us 

above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy."

 - Albert Schweitzer

"Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, But it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with magic". - Herman Melville

Find ways to stay present in frustration and access joy. Move beyond the abstract words to define situations with metaphor or sensory imagery.

Follow the curls and drops on leaves.

Listen for sounds in hearts of yellow.

Smell the harmony of green.

Express the rain's nourishment without the use of the word, beauty.

Express music with the trumpets of daffodils.










Enjoy your sensory delights.

Two Animals Predict Spring

Punxsutawney Phil, the furry forecaster, predicted an early spring for 2019. Phil delivered the welcomed news by failing to see his shadow this morning.

If Phil sees cloudy skies, he will leave his burrow, signifying that winter will end soon. If sunshine prevails, the groundhog will become frightened by seeing his shadow and retreat to his burrow. Then winter drags on for six more weeks.
 
A German superstition says if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on Feb. 2, the Christian holiday of Candlemas, winter will last six more weeks.

The California counterpart of Punxsutawney Phil is a desert tortoise named Mojave Maxine. Her claim to season-predicting fame doesn't involve her shadow. Forty-one-year-old Maxine emerged from brumation (reptilian hibernation) on January 29 at 8:38 a.m.) 

Maxine's tenth year of prediction involved awakening and toddling out of her burrow. Her body knows when to sleep based on the outside temperatures and the change in daylight hours. 

At the Living Desert Animal Park in Palm Desert, visitors watched her trundle out.

Each year a contest is held for students to guess the date and time Maxine will make appearance of the year.







Student prediction contest:  http://www.livingdesert.org/mojave-maxine/

Hurrah for two early predictions of spring.

The Fire Life

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." - Rumi

Drop fixed ideas of what is possible and what is not.

Focus and wander into the frontiers.

Take a stand on behalf of your ideals and truths.


Explore the experimental life that fills with uncertainty.

Stay perched to take flight into potential.
        
With a shiver and a swoosh - launch your creativity.

Delve into the power you have been storing.

How can you enhance what's valuable about you?

What do others admire?

 

Supercharge your powers.

     If at first you don't succeed, alter the definition of s success.

              Start a new trend that will serve your goals for the year.

Use a telescope and a microscope to expand and explore new ideas. Search for other metaphors for insight.

Listen to your body to uncover secrets your mind has not considered.


What do you need the most right now?


Go get it!