Dear Patricia...

Dear Patricia...

Ozzie and Harriet is not the norm! It never was! That was a television program!

Each branch...each twig of love on your family tree is there to support you...whether sprawling and far flung or tiny and barely there they are all necessary...

"...Love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever fixed mark
that looks on tempests and is never shaken..."

I use to think that Shakespeare's Sonnet # 16 was about romantic love. I use to think that romantic love was the only kind that caused fireworks of the heart and deserved serious attention. Then I had children...I nursed people who were dying...I was reunited with my son.

It turns out that , if you believe in love, there are an awful lot of people TO LOVE. Our capacity to love is not limited...time is a constraint and so is energy, but love that makes your life better gives you more of what you need.

Throw open the door....and gather up the whole beautiful variegated bouquet of family.

And LOVE...

And BE LOVED...

What I know to be true:

1. I love the people I love deeply.
2. I have a deep desire to protect people I love deeply.
3. Sometimes love means I get to take a step back and allow others to find their own path and trust that I did my job and served my purpose in that moment in time...and believe they will remember what I taught them is pure and good.
4. I know who I am and what I am about and what things, actions and words will support me in being in true alignment with my essence.
5. My Ego does not have the last ay in most of my choices. But sometimes it does (or tries).
6. My Spirit speaks louder than my Ego and I must trust in it. But sometimes I don't.
7. The gift is ALWAYS in the experience even if it doesn't feel that way at the moment.
8. My truth is MY TRUTH, Your truth is YOUR TRUTH, Honor all truths.
9. Sometimes silence is the best policy and part of the job. Perception is perception and it all is relative.
10. I am a Teller of Truths and Keeper of Sacred Dreams, my loyalty is fierce, my compassion runs deep and I believe in ALL POSSUBILIIES...even when it seems impossible.

EVERYTHING is secretly utterly perfect. Knowing this to be true lightens my heart.