Salies is a gentle, peaceful town. It is generally quiet around here so it was no wonder that when the thermometer started hitting 30+ºC last Saturday, everything got quieter. There wasn’t a wisp of breeze; nothing seemed to be breathing. Continue reading
Month: June 2011
ABUNDANCE
A-Bun-Dance: Creating sufficiency by getting up off our assets (and) moving our buns…(Swami Beyondananda, Dictionary of American Politics)
All I have talked about up until now are flowers, as if the whole of life were nothing but an impressionist painting to be admired in ecstasy. 
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BEING ALONE
Have you ever noticed how many people complain of being alone, of having no one, of being lonely? How is it possible? After all there are now over six billion human beings on this planet and that is just supposing that one has never any company from all the other species who share our common home. Continue reading
SILENCE
It is so easy to forget, even in a small town like Salies where things seldom happen (as if anything ever happened other than a thought), that the body and soul have a need of silence and stillness. Continue reading
SIX MONTHS INTO SALIES
Goodness, the second of June! It has been six months since having moved to Salies. I hate to say “time has flown” it is such a cliché, but time has flown. Six months has become a brief forever which is the time that love exists in and I definitely am in love with my life here. Continue reading
SHOULD I MOVE?
Frustration. Slow boil. Maybe I should move. Do I want to live in an apartment where I can’t hang flowers in my window? Continue reading
A WALK IN THE WOODS
So I was on my way back from lunch when I saw the small path. I had gone to Sauveterre, a medieval town 8 kms. from Salies, for a Vide Grenier
(literally, Empty the Attic, the French version of a garage sale) which never
materialized and decided to stay there for lunch. Continue reading
THE GOODNESS OF PEOPLE
The spontaneous goodness of people makes me fall in love over and over again. The wonder of it, as one receives an unexpected gesture or gift that makes the chest expand and the heart open wide and one falls in love forever and ever. At that moment, life is
so beautiful that one would actually be willing to die on the spot, no regrets.
And it can be as simple as a cup of coffee. Continue reading
GETTING ANGRY
If I think my problem is the other person, I am crazy. (Byron Katie)
It has been a really, really long time since I have
gotten angry, very angry. I can’t even remember when the last time was. Well, the
other morning it happened. Continue reading
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