Haiku My Heart: Lament

For more Haiku My Heart, click HERE. 

"Ascending Layers" © 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian

unruly thinking

you make it hard for me to

achieve nirvana

A Little Color Magic

After spending hours working on a project

I just had to kick up my heels and play.

"Effervescent" © 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian

A little color magic is good for the soul.

What did you do to play today?

Share the Joy Thursday: Looking for Joy

Joy is a choice you make.

It's an attitude of celebration

and thankfulness for 
little moments of awe
or ahhhh.........

and wonderful memories
like the trips to France

that speak to your soul.

Sometimes it's overwhelming.

Sometimes it just sits quietly

waiting for you to notice

and say, "Oh - here you are!"

Where's the joy in your life today?

It's usually marked with a smile.

Won't you share it with us?

(And don't forget to visit the beautiful and gracious
NOELLE to wish her a Happy Birthday.)

To play along:

1. do a post that tells and shows us what gives you joy.

2. capture the URL of the specific post and paste it into the

Mr. Linky box along with your name.

3. visit other players -- as many as possible -- and let their joy infect you.  Leave them a comment about their post.

Let's start an epidemic of joy!

Share the Joy Thursday: Joy to the World!

There are lots of reasons for JOY in this season

so I'm celebrating and honoring its presence.

Friends and family come to mind as a reason for joy.

And in anticipation of their visits,

I've readied the house with lots of decoration.

The family room tree with its multi-colored ornaments

has a Santa standing guard over the presents.

I decorated the fancy living room tree

with its white, silver and gold ornaments,

the first year it's been decorated in a long time.

Santas are looking jolly all around the house.

The Father Frost figures are on display, too -

in honor of my sons' Lithuanian heritage.

Little cardinals are peeking out 

among the candle jars in various places. 

They remind me of the joy it brought me

to hear a cardinal sing when I lived

 on the east coast many years ago.

We'd love to have you join us

for Share the Joy Thursday this week. 

I have no doubt you have an abundance of joy

in your life -- even if times are tough.


And if you don't mind, I'd love for you to send
joy and healing energy to my treasured friend 
Adrienne's husband who's having heart surgery tomorrow
and Naquillity, who's having some health problems
and could use a big dose of love.

To play along:

1. do a post that tells and shows us what gives you joy.

2. capture the URL of the specific post and paste it into the

Mr. Linky box along with your name.

3. visit other players -- as many as possible -- and let their joy infect you.  Leave them a comment about their post.

Let's start an epidemic of joy!

Light a Candle Within You

As the solstice approaches,

signaling the point at which

the light begins to return

little by little

in the northern hemisphere,

I am reminded that it is important

for each of us

to let our light shine.

© 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian

You are like a candle.

Imagine you are sending light out all around you.

All your words, thoughts and actions

are going in many directions.

If you say something kind,

your kind words go in many directions,

and you yourself go with them.

We are ...transforming and continuing

in a different form at every moment.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Stumbling Toward Ecstasy

Watching the couple

officially embarking on life together,

surfing on a tsunami of love and emotion.

Tears in their eyes.

Hearts on their sleeves.

Hand in hand. 

Stumbling toward ecstasy.

Haiku My Heart: Angel

For more Haiku My Heart, click HERE. 

© 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian

her slender hand thrust

high in the air, a bouquet

of roses clutched there

Share the Joy Thursday

Joy isn't always announced by the blaring of trumpets.

Sometimes it's heralded by chalk dust

and shouts of, "Look, Daddy!"

It might rush in like waves to the sand,

making you jump for joy because you love

your family and life itself so much.

Sometimes you find delight in a mug

of latte because the barista created

a little heart on top with caramel and

the "extra-foamy" you asked for.

One day I found it at the bottom of a bowl

of mushroom soup and took it as a sign

my true love was on his way.

And if you're like me, even something

as simple as red chairs

can fill you with joy.

Just the way they're lined up so neatly,

gathered like friends, and saying,

" Come join us!"

We'd love to have you join us

for Share the Joy Thursday this week. 

To play along:

1. do a post that tells and shows us what gives you joy.

2. capture the URL of the specific post and paste it into the

Mr. Linky box along with your name.

3. visit other players -- as many as possible -- and let their joy infect you.  Leave them a comment about their post.

Let's start an epidemic of joy!

Thinking in Images

After two-plus hours at a book discussion

discussing The Help, racism and sexism,

and a five hour-long telephone conference 

about work issues yesterday, 

I'm flat out of words.

All talked out.

(I know..... that concept renders you speechless, too.)

Time for thinking in images,

the antidote to verbal overload.

© 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian

K?

(And check back Wednesday about 5 pm
Pacific for the Mr. Linky for
Share the Joy Thursday.)

Virgin Off-Center

She's a little off-center, this Virgin,

having adjusted to the upheavals,

the shift in conditions around her.

But through it all, she's maintained

her serenity, her attitude of reverence.

We should be so lucky. . .

or

intentional.

For more Virgin-ities, click here.

Virgin Mary Haiku

Fat babe in her arms,

she looks on with mother's love

fair Queen of Heaven.

Fill your heart with Virgin images

and celebrate Haiku My Heart Friday.

Share the Joy Thursday

It's time to celebrate those fleeting

moments of joy, those times

when you think "I love that exuberance!" 

© 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian

or

"I wish this moment would never end"

because he's so cute 

and he reminds me of his daddy

when his daddy was little

and time flies by so quickly. . . 

© 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian

or "I don't want to forget this moment,

when I was draped like a goddess

and worried my sneakers would slip

off the wet rock and I'd freeze to death 

in the rushing water,

but did it anyway for the shot

and it was worth it."

© 2009 Gail Hoffman-Rule 

or even 

"That woman's head 

would look perfect in my garden."

© 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian

What little moments spelled J-O-Y for you, 
this week? Or that zip into your mind
when you think about joy?

Will you share your joy?

Join the Joy Revolution!

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To play along:

1. do a post that tells and shows us what gives you joy.

2. capture the URL of the specific post and paste it into the

Mr. Linky box along with your name.

3. visit other players -- as many as possible -- and let their joy infect you.  Leave them a comment about their post.

Let's start an epidemic of joy!

Sacred Heart

Look into my eyes, so kind,

so full of wisdom born

of the sorrows of the world.

Touch my heart,

a heart both sacred

and open to love -

and through your fingers
take love in

and breathe it out.

My sacred heart, like yours,

is radiant with miracles.

For more Virgin miracles,

visit Rebecca.

A Virgin a Day (6): Let it Be

When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom

"Let it be."

- Lennon/McCartney

             

Retablos -- tin paintings with religious themes --

are done to as a thank-you note to a saint 

for intervening in people's lives.

For more Virgins, visit Rebecca's A Virgin a Day.

Be sure to read Steven's comment regarding

what Paul McCartney said about the impetus 

for this work.

As for me, I think that when we dream,

there are many image threads woven through them. 

Some people appear as themselves -- Paul's mother,

for example -- and the dream may be taken at 

a very literal level. Other times, people are stand-ins

for archetypes, like the all loving Mother Goddess

who comes to you in dreams to impart 

wisdom and crucial information

that the conscious mind is not absorbing.

From "virgin sightings" both historical and contemporary,

we know that many believe that

Mother Mary comes to them,

speaking words of wisdom,

providing miracles

that the believers themselves

were unwilling to claim as their own.