Abundance.

Life feels so good and full right now. Love, beauty, joy, seasonal fruits, genuine friendship, helping, healing, singing, learning, giving, receiving, art, pure truth and magic... what else is there? Want some?

where did August go?

I was busy living the real life and couldn't capture any of it here. Which is great, I suppose. Also mixed with a little bit of not wanting to admit things going on in my heart and mind. I want to be honest. As honest and real as possible... on here and everywhere. So, I signed THIS pledge. and promise YOU that I will always type honestly and give credits where credits is due. Also, with a "New Nows Resolution"... I will type more often. To let an entire month go by unexpressed is just a bit unacceptable. Especially the month where Burningman and, thus, my 5 year anniversary went by... all beautifully and romantic like. Because it will take a while to type and I don't have that while right now, I will leave you with a teaser clue as to what it was all about... the Heat of Passion. 

Love.

just sweet, pure love... all day. Thought's of gentle, careful, kindness. Hearts handeled with kid gloves.

stuff and things...

Hello out there. It's me. The textual me. The representation of that Michelle lady in cyberspace. In this box on this screen where I can take all these words I have learned to think with over all these years and scramble them up and put them in funny combinations that maybe, perhaps, just might strike a familiar chord in you... light up some long forgotten journal entry in your heart. Hello. Thanks for reading, which allows me access to your insides. You should know that I love you. I will not judge or misconstrue... only love you and share. Let's play "add things to each other's worlds" (it's fun)... It goes like this: first, you think of someone, anyone, or pick a stranger, then you think of a cool way to touch their life in a beautiful, special, different sort of way (that's the tricky part), then you do it and keep it to yourself. I'll start... there. I loved you with all of my heart. Now, it's your turn.

something...

just a note (yes, at about one in the morning) to tell you where I'm at. My head is a swirly whirl of kind, caring gentleness and a little dust. Ghosts of christmass past dancing with the girl who's always in there. Everywhere. Lot's of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy in there these days... and nights. Right now, in fact, on in the background..."may it always be" Don't know if it's his crackly words that resonate so much as the longing in his voice. Tonight I'll fall asleep with love and profound peace in my heart. That much I know. Wishing you the same...

In my life...

There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends, I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I'll love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I'll love you more 


-John Lennon

Free to change... and grateful!

So, as you can see by the date of that last post, this project has been just a bit of a roadblock. I love, love, love the relationships of this life of mine, and while I do feel that describing them, these people, is really what my heart is about, it isn't making me type. I need to type. The type that needs to type. So, without further ado... WoooHOOO... I'm typing, and it feels so good. I am grateful for brainstorms and ideas that hit so hard you have to get up out of bed at night to write them down before they leave you. Muses that are so seductive you are helpless against their song. Also, though, I am grateful that you can just stop when it isn't working anymore, do something different with equal fervor. I am officially in love with this life. A huge part of it, for me, is about making lists of everyone I care about, even lists of everyone I've ever known (have you ever tried to do this?), and thinking of all of them often and deeply. And while I'll still, once in a while, dedicate a day, a page, a post, to one or some of them, I will also, sometimes, to save my soul, just type.