Ripened Experience: 70 Colorful Years

 [caption id=“attachment_4351” align=“aligncenter” width=“956”] This should have read “Leave A Little Sparkle Behind Wherever You Go.” However, I would have needed a larger canvas for that.[/caption] Many people don’t live to see their 70th birthdays. I’m one of the lucky ones you might say. We do become more reflective as we age and this birthday finds me looking back over the years. You may ask what has living all these years brought my way? Surely, it’s brought what life brings to everyone of us - ups and downs, joys and sorrows, good and bad experiences, and so much more along the way. ...

July 23, 2019

Seascapes

[caption id=“attachment_1150” align=“aligncenter” width=“584” caption=“Barbados Beaches”][/caption] What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. (Joseph Campbell) [caption id=“attachment_1146” align=“aligncenter” width=“584” caption=“Seascapes”][/caption] Tomorrow will be exactly one month since I returned from an amazing time in Barbados where I attended a beautiful wedding. Not too many settings can compare with the sea for words of love and vows of love. " Each human life is the journey from childhood to a realized adult life. Each day is a journey out of darkness into light. Each friendship and love is the intimate journey where the soul is born and grows. The journey is the drama of the heart’s voyage into the tide of possibilities which opens before it." (John O’Donohue) ...

August 1, 2013