Blowing up a storm!

I braved the seafront again today after feeling it was a bit too dangerous the last few days with the violent storms we are having. When we left the flat yesterday we noticed the sea looked half as high again as it usually does. It was really odd. We can see the sea as we leave our building and I suppose you get used to the way the horizon looks each day. At the moment it is so much higher. When I got to the esplanade this morning, I kept back along the path by the beach huts which is some way back from the sea itself but the waves were still crashing over the beach wall in several places. Half the beach is now on the prom. It looked and sounded magnificent, one of those moments of "awe and wonder" certainly. It still surprised me though to see some foolish people, even with small children, up close to the sea wall and running back as the waves crashed over. Apart from the very real possibility of being swept over, the waves up hurling up large stones as well.

Still there were also lots of people, keeping well back, just enjoying what is undoubtedly a spectacle of nature. I have lived here for 43 years and I have never seen the sea like this before. Anyway, after a while the heavens opened up again and I got drenched but actually it doesn't bother me. I just loved the whole outing, it was really glorious.

Mark Nepo.....Love this wisdom!

Be still and listen....

I am so absorbed in two new books I have discovered by the wonderful Mark Nepo. I will be adding more about him but for today I wanted to share the beginnings of one of those books "Ten Thousand Ways to Listen" through which I am striving to reconnect with my inner self at the moment .... so lots about finding quiet and time for reflection, being still .... and listening to my inner self. I found this lovely picture which seems to complement this really beautifully and wanted to share it with you all. Hoping you too are finding some inner peace now after the holidays.

New beginnings....old ways

Time to start afresh with my Dancing Daisies blog now the new year has started. I hope so much that those of you who have come here from Freeing Your Wings will enjoy being part of this new community. I called this post "New beginnings .... old ways" because I hope that Dancing Daisies will become very much like FYW in its content and in its community. I feel sure that those of us who are staying together, despite the changes, will continue to pay attention to our world and to our spiritual journeys, to be astonished by the confirmations that we receive and to tell each other about it all. I hope so, so much.

Moving on....looking forward....and being me

I've not had the easiest of years and have had to battle with my extreme anxiety as usual but also depression. It almost did me in during the last couple of months but somehow or other, like always, I got through and this is the beginning of me.....once more! :-)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you have a really lovely few days.
With love Lynda xx

Moving to a more personal diary style for my blog....

I thought I would begin to slowly change my blog to its new format so that any of you who currently follow me can get the idea of how it will change. That way you can decide if you wish to carry on following it as I realise most of you are primarily arty people...as I am too but as I said in my last post, I am going to change the basis of my blog now.

So for today I just want to post a photo that I really love and which rather sums up how some of my year this year has been....only deep inside me though, I have tried not to let it become too evident on the outside. Still my blog is very personal and so I think it is a good place to put it today. Today I am moving on from some hurts that have occurred this year, I am making a new start and much as this picture shows where I have been in my head, I am hoping the next picture I post will show me starting anew :-) I need to start anew, I am 65 years old now and still have some dreams to fulfil so there is no better time than today to take that first step.

A Christmas update

I am not sure if any of you still follow my blog but just in case...things have been a bit all over the place for me in recent months and I have today decided to close my social network site - Freeing Your Wings. FYW will close in the new year and at that time this blog will change its focus somewhat. It will no longer be just an art blog but will encompass the broader spectrum of Freeing Your Wings so will also become a place for healing and support. I will continue to run the distant healing group that runs on FYW from this blog as well. So...just to let you know and for now I wish you a very happy Christmas.

With love Lynda x