tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421036658814010812024-03-13T20:25:08.647-07:00Lynn Hollyfield~Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-12037750654966992732015-01-27T03:31:00.001-08:002015-01-27T03:31:29.246-08:00All that is Unsolved in the Heart<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.5pt; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All that is unsolved in the heart,
sits locked up and waiting like a little child who sits and waits for the
school bus to take her to new learning adventures. Like the earth we hold all the
burdens and flubs that human kind can dish out over centuries yet goes on
through each day, sunrise and sunset. With each step taken we receive a little
hint or nudge or feel the wind at our backs. We fail to remember we have all the
answers. They just lie waiting for the right moment to reveal themselves. And
so we go along and hopefully, as we move forward, we are remembering,
unfolding, unfurling like a spring fern curling out from its late winter bed, where it rested for some long dark months. </span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Love the short days of Winter. A time to rest and ponder...here's a song for you. Enjoy...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJp-7WuR4Lc">Layers~by Singer-Songwriter, Lynn Hollyfield</a></span></strong></div>
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Quiet our wants….hmmm. Sort of like when you were little and
someone would look and say ‘shhhhhh!’ That surfacing of desire and feelings
quickly dampened by a cold look or inconsiderate ‘shhhh.’ I’ve spent a good
chunk of this life trying to figure out what is right or wrong. When to run
with my wants or those of others. Many hours racing around to help someone while
mine were quieted, in the corner, waiting for some unknown time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being raised to serve others is a good thing but
not when you give every last bit of yourself until there’s nothing left to
give. To let your needs go so far down to the bottom of the barrel where it
gets so dark you can barely see them anymore, is a silence that dismantles.
All that time waiting until someone sees in your eyes that you have needs too. It’s
that someone who tells you ‘no’ when you offer to help because they can see you
need to rest. And the many signs come, like the tears that flow so easily just from
a regular conversation or the beauty of a clear day. That’s when I know my cup
is full and I step back to look and shine the light down, inside the barrel, to
find what s left of me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Calm vs Chaos<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes you just need to step away from the chaos of
broken water pipes, a home that could use a good cleaning and a couch with a
mountain of laundry waiting to be folded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You get in the car, pick up a friend and drive to do an errand to pick
up your most precious guitar all fixed, just waiting to play ideas yet to spring
from fingers and mind. But before that, there’s time to wander, at ease and ply
through bins of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>chicken beads, chicken-music
pillows and even a magic egg. Trying on outfits with the kindess of a friend
saying “well, if you get that top you may have to wear it with pants like
these.” Neither of which would have worked. Further meanderings led us to
little frog and cat purses with zipper mouths, pillows made from sweaters,
exotic Egyptian purses and sock monkey shopping bags. Each step of the way our
gaze was drawn to someone’s gift of making the world a little bit better. There
were wooden pallets hung on walls with cacti and hens and chicks filling the
gaps, moon flower and morning glory planters gracing street corners and a bench
made from old fence posts and varying lengths of wood boards. Throw in a few
cups of Middle Eastern tea, real talk with a friend and paper mache kites and
you have a soul restored. Returning home the house seemed a little cleaner, the timing
of turning on the well pump to bring us water seemed more synchronous and even
the mountain of laundry~not so daunting. I think I’m going to sew today.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-79405384057821323042014-06-23T19:47:00.001-07:002014-06-23T19:47:43.528-07:00Lynn Hollyfield: In The Balance (title track)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dYXQdTjpXbo" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
It's been about two months of having the my new recording in hand and I think about this song, In The Balance, that became the title cut. We all have tons of things we are juggling. I wanted to write a song about balance, so I asked the question, 'Is it possible to find balance in life?' Once I asked, I had so many messages coming my way, I was able to finish this song. I'm listening and laughing to myself because I have to remember to listen to my heart....enjoy!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-4915111013217058062014-05-24T07:18:00.001-07:002014-05-24T07:21:04.663-07:00Intricacy vs. Debris<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Last night, the stars and I, waited for a meteor shower never
seen before, from a comet that existed way before we were on the earth. ‘Debris’
doesn’t seem like the best word to describe an event so intricate. You need a
perfect word for these miraculous particles that were once the tail of comet
zooming through the universe for over a century and a half of time. Part of a
comet, that knows parts of the universe, will touch our atmosphere, grace our
eyes and grant wishes to those who are fortunate to see. The dark, deep blue of
night sprinkled with constellations named by of those before us trying to make
sense of it all. After a day of feeling like my sense of direction was off,
miscommunications and reminders of our delicate, nostalgic hearts, the delight
of reading about the anticipated Camelopardalid meteor shower was all I needed
to know things are going </span><span style="color: #424242; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">just as they should.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-10960413191629288992014-01-13T04:52:00.003-08:002014-01-13T04:55:13.689-08:00Come Inside<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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To come inside, a door has to open and depends on how heavy and how long
it's been shut. But when something or someone is calling you to do so, listen and
pay attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way will become
clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After an experience at a Native American
ceremony, a forgiveness ceremony that truly changed my life, doors opened with
the remembrance and sacredness of being human. There are times we hurt others and
times when others hurt us unknowingly or with intent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once we accept this and forgive ourselves and
others a huge, a rock solid, heavy door can fly open like a screen door blown
open by a brisk, Spring wind. Doors have many ways in and many ways out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Invitations come to go inside where it can be
warm and cozy or to a dark, deep place, not often visited but holding wisdom if
you are willing to go there. Hinges creak, locks get stuck, keys are lost and often
the location of the door in unknown. When we are listening, traveling, walking,
running, shifting, often then we find a door not seen before but now right
smack in front of us, just waiting for the knob to be turned and the lock to be
unlatched. What doors are being opening?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which
ones are left closed? I wonder how many have not been found yet. Only
ours to know.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-9171256640176847962014-01-10T04:55:00.002-08:002014-01-10T04:57:09.478-08:00Two Years and The Journey by Mary Oliver<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>Two Years</b></div>
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In two years, where will I stand?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My oldest will be off in college and youngest
just starting HS. Life will certainly roll on with bills to pay, laundry and
such. But what about the real? What about the dreams? What about the love? What
will be moving through my veins to help<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>me create?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What instrument will
entice me to learn a pretty melody and sing a new song? In two years, will I be
stronger in spirit and mind and body? These winter stars are seemingly more bright and
clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With persistence, they pull to
tell a story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find myself, under them, in the cold early morning quiet, as I walk to start the fire in the
cottage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can't help but stop, gaze up
and breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breathe deeply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In goes the cold, winter's air full of the
beauty of every early morning sky. Many mornings I have stood and gleened and
wondered. I hope in two years there is more time to take in these precious,
fleeting moments of time that work my roots and reveal my place. A place of
vastness and unknown, of opening and understanding, of passage and movement...of
love. The birds are sounding their morning calls. Today it is more a
disgruntled bird song to accompany the sudden cold and icy rain. Yesterday's
melodies had been sung as they would in early Spring. The robins had come
yesterday only to go today, somewhere, to wait out the storm. Sort of a false
start to Spring and new beginnings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wanting
to initiate but needing to wait until all is aligned. Two years, seems like a
long time but the way the last one flew by, it will here before we know it. And
me? I want to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pray and work with an open
heart, mind with intent to give-to find my place
in the world. Happy New Year everyone! <i>(Inspiration from writing prompt-Peggy Tabor Millin and reading a Mary Oliver poem-Journey -read on)</i></div>
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<b>The Journey by Mary Oliver</b></div>
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One day you finally knew</div>
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what you had to do, and began</div>
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though the voices around you</div>
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kept shouting </div>
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their bad advice--</div>
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though the whole house </div>
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began to tremble</div>
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and you felt the old tug</div>
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at your ankles,</div>
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"Mend my life!"</div>
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each voice cried.</div>
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But you didn't stop</div>
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You knew what you had to do</div>
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though the wind pried</div>
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with its stiff fingers</div>
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at the very foundations,</div>
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though their melancholy</div>
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was terrible.</div>
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It was already late</div>
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enough, and a wild night,</div>
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and the road full of fallen</div>
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branches and stones.</div>
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But little by little,</div>
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as you left their voices behind,</div>
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the stars began to burn</div>
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through the sheets of clouds,</div>
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and there was a new voice</div>
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which you slowly</div>
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recognized as your own,</div>
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that kept you company</div>
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as you strode deeper and deeper </div>
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into the world,</div>
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determined to do</div>
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the only thing you could do--</div>
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determined to save</div>
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the only life you could save.</div>
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<span class="size18" style="color: #ddb175; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>The Journey</i></b><br />
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<span class="Courier18" style="color: #ddb175; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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<span class="size12" style="color: #ddb175; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day you
finally knew<br />
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<span class="size12" style="color: #ddb175; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what you had to
do, and began,<br />
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<span class="size12" style="color: #ddb175; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though the voices
around you<br />
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<span class="size12" style="color: #ddb175; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kept shouting<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #ddb175; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">their bad
advice--<br />
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<span class="size12" style="color: #ddb175; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though the whole
house<br />
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<span class="size12" style="color: #e7b085; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">began to tremble<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #e7b085; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and you felt the
old tug<br />
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<span class="size12" style="color: #e7b085; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at your ankles.<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #e7b085; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Mend my life!"<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #e7b085; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">each voice cried.<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But you didn't
stop.<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You knew what you
had to do,<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though the wind
pried<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with its stiff
fingers<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at the very
foundations,<br />
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though their
melancholy<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was terrible.<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was already
late<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">enough, and a
wild night,<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the road full
of fallen<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">branches and
stones.<br />
</span></div>
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<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But little by
little,<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as you left their
voices behind,<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the stars began
to burn<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through the
sheets of clouds,<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and there was a
new voice<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which you slowly<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">recognized as
your own,<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that kept you
company<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as you strode
deeper and deeper<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into the world,<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">determined to do<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the only thing
you could do--<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">determined to
save<br />
</span></div>
<div align="left">
<span class="size12" style="color: #dcb791; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the only life you
could save.<br />
</span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-74520421385876585492013-12-08T14:39:00.001-08:002013-12-08T14:39:29.632-08:00The Perfect Gift<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Early Sunday morning. No color in the morning sky but a pale
shade of gray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This blank canvas is the
backdrop to bare trees, naked as they wait for the coming storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The dark</span> branches are still and sturdy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A welcome respite, for the birds that are
flying furiously to find food before the snow begins to fall. Squirrels chatter
as they compete for the feeder filled with hearty sunflower seeds from seasons
past and I wait. I wait in morning stillness, filled with warmth, like the
morning fire stoked up and warming the hearth stone for the day to come. </div>
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This
morning time is nudging me to be still, live still and breath in
stillness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whenever this winter's cold
stops me in my tracks it also pushes, like a hard, relentless wind, and makes me stop and reflect back over the year. I hear it telling me to rest and slow down. Scurrying about, it's easy to lose site of the spirit that
comes in this very moment, to each and every one of us this season, only if we
let it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The dance of balance to be</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> in the moment versus time to reflect.</span></div>
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Yesterday, my heart was filled with spirit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>A plentiful day that brimmed with discovering
creations, made by someone else's hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Creations that all started, when a spark from some distant, swirling
inspiration touched and moved them to create.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From an open heart into creative hands, transformed to beauty, only to
be let go, into my hands, for me to give, from my heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Real talk and spending the day with a
great friend made ever fleeting time, last and stick and create a lovely memory to be held this whole holiday season and in ones to come. That to me was living in the moment for the whole day. This was the true
gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one that feeds my soul,
inspires and helps me know everything is all right. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truest gift, a real gift, the perfect
gift.</div>
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Flooded…filled up and overflowing with great things and not
so great things. That delicate balance we try for as life sends us on an unexpected turn that brings us back
to 'real' and what's important. Yesterday, a day that started out with a full docket of
catching up and the usual chores…a run to the grocery store, some laundry
(always!), tidying up the house, pull a few weeds, write a set list for an
upcoming concert and some paper work all before a swim team banquet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only, a major diversion occurred. It started with a call to tend to
someone in need which put most of these things aside or lightly touched not to be touched too soon. Things were flooded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But this time I felt like I was suspended in a whirlpool, with all things
swirling and floating around me, not far but still out of reach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last night, as things were overflowing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew to hang on until the
waters subsided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes, that's all
you can do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just before I was going to
tuck myself in, I looked up at the beautiful rising full moon behind a hazy,
summer night sky and I was reminded....I'm here, in the right place and the right time and part of something much bigger than I can imagine..... </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-39119225784041454312013-07-18T03:41:00.000-07:002013-07-18T03:41:45.603-07:00Cawfee talk for a real, 'Real Feel'Yesterday, I started the day with two of my dearest friends. We call it 'Cawfee.' We rarely drink coffee when we get together but we know what it means when we see it in the subject line. 'Cawfee.' It's our time, a time we make, for ourselves, together, to check in with each other, share, dream, cry, laugh, hug and love each other as the three of us try to figure out life. I'm so grateful to these two for helping me work through tough times and the nudges they give me to look a little deeper. When I do and the tears fall, they are right there to catch them. <br />
<br />
The topic of 'self love' came up. This is written so beautifully...Check out this link: <a href="http://bonesigharts.blogspot.com/">http://bonesigharts.blogspot.com/</a>. I think I still have a long road ahead in this department but taking time for 'cawfee' is a step in the right direction. Taking time-what I often feel I have not enough of. There is no question, that the time I take for 'cawfee' is well spent. A stepping stone, a great big, huge stepping stone in the right direction...going to hold this with me. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-44690116990608169772013-07-11T06:03:00.000-07:002013-07-17T14:27:01.450-07:00Crooked<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Crooked: something bent, not straight, twisted and misaligned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not truthful, not open or upfront. Does life
get this way sometimes when we continue to brush things under the rug and not
communicate and then when we do the perceived straight path goes into some
jagged, crooked, crooked road that we don't even recognize?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loosing ground beneath our feet and feeling
like we've taken so many steps back after working so hard to make the ones that
brought us forward. Commitment to doing what is right, making good choices so
as to not hurt someone else or yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Crookedness is a barrier, a big hurdle to jump over rather than become
or go through because it tears down all you've built in time in a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>split second and leaves you feeling less than
you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of humanness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you do something wrong and need to build
back up, it builds strength, courage and determination. It builds compassion
for others going through their crooked paths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'm jumping over it and leaving it all behind for working with all that
has been given<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>me…all the gifts of my
family and the people in my life, my inner gifts and love I have deep down that
will pull me out of this dark feeling that I'm bad, not good enough and always
doing wrong… some old belief pattern instilled when I was a young girl or
perhaps a past life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do good in the
world and will continue to do good, without hurting others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the road I walk.<br />
<br />
Have a great one...<br />
www.lynnhollyfield.com </div>
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A promise of something to come later, that's not quite
ready, but you've earned it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A gift of
sorts, packed in waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The contents
dictate the longing for, the anticipation of, the expectations of what will be
fulfilled when presenting it for an exchange. The end result of
negotiation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knew she'd have to
hold this for a long time, but there was no expiration date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may get tattered along the way, forgotten
and tucked away in a box for some rainy day perusal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there was one stipulation. It can be
traded in, only when the time is right for all and the stars are aligned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i>*I'm trying a morning writing practice and the past several posts have been from prompts by Peggy Tabor Millin, Clarity Works, Inc. Check her out. Enjoying this and it's becoming a part of the day I really look forward to!</i> </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-31581668677447081702013-07-08T03:47:00.000-07:002013-07-08T03:50:21.559-07:00Supposed to….<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Woke up to unfolded laundry on the couch, a semi clean
kitchen and week of new assignments for work, plus juggling Driver's Ed
classes, swim team practices, meals, tending the miraculous garden and feeding all the
critters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet here I am writing, to
start my week with words, ones that will inspired me to keep
focused on a truer path, full of heart and soul and love. No blue skies this
morning…The woods are still, against a white dawn sky…more rain today after the
buckets that poured down last night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
lush green, swallows me up, so rare for mid July here, so unlike the years past in drought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a gentle
flicker of movement as two birds find there way back to their nest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I must soon go to tend mine…the gentlest
breeze enticing the leaves to move as I watch their subtle shimmer of them
holding on to the drops of last nights rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Holding on to the beauty as the nudge of the percolator and time on the
clock push to organize for tasks ahead, I hold the lush green stillness inside.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-70382755632866264222013-07-07T05:50:00.000-07:002013-07-07T05:50:18.440-07:00Shattered<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Shattered </div>
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Life is fragile. We<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>wake up each day with all our dreams, thoughts and jobs in our back pack,
thrown in with a bit of inspiration and head out for the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keeping it all positive and open always feels
best…seems things flow and connect and are on the same wavelength. Then why do
we get so sidetracked by someone who must start their day very differently? Is
it the challenge before<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that sets me on a mission to try to help them
see another way-that desire to help them, cause life is too short to live such
a negative, narrow spin?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We've all been
there in that closed, dark space where we seem to not be understood or
heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what rescues us? A stranger's
smile, an offer to help, a kind touch, a hawk flying across our path, a lovely memory,
a friend who sits and listens? Or simply waking up the next morning, determined
to live a better way; to see the beauty in things…even in the challenges that
brought us to this place where we stand, right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My teeny world and the confrontations I
encounter are so small yet feel devastating at times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when I peel back and reach deep down, I
know what I want to create, I know how I want to live and I know what I need.
Today, I'm setting out with a lot of belief that life is to be lived to it's
fullest, that every moment is precious, that love surrounds us all and can be
seen if we remain open and focused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pieces are coming back together, determined not to be shattered…thank
you beautiful, blue skies this morning!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-41755041816902738142013-02-04T13:39:00.000-08:002013-02-04T15:24:07.308-08:00Whistlin' and Fishin' in Heaven<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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It would be 28 years ago that my Dad left this planet….he
was 59 and I was 24.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can't believe so
much time has passed since that night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My brother Rob and I sat up with my Dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had my guitar in hand and we sang every Harry
Chapin and John Prine song we knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
one that sticks the most in my memory is 'Fish and Whistle.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great John Prine song that just fit the
closeness of that moment, of just being there, not knowing when Dad would slip
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chorus: "Father forgive
us for what we must do; you forgive us, we'll forgive you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We'll forgive each other 'til we both turn
blue and we'll go whistlin' and fishin' in heaven…"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Dad loved<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to fish and it was just the perfect song other than when I woke up in
the middle of the night to give Dad a dose of pain medicine and heard Jackson
Browne's "Rock me on the Water" only to find Dad had passed on into
the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking of you, Dad, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and I smile with the thought that you are 'whistlin
and fishin' in heaven.' Miss you…</div>
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<i>I wrote a song for Dad a few years back: Another Time (it's the last song down the list...take a listen if you have a chance at this link: http://www.reverbnation.com/lynnhollyfield/songs )</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-72668754780401799912012-10-16T18:14:00.001-07:002012-10-16T18:14:42.043-07:00The truth is...The truth is in the flower. The blossom and its drive to fully open with the morning light. No one to please. On a mission and knowing exactly what to do-blossom, perfect symmetry, unfolding in the sun. But what is truth but doing what you are driven to do. No derailment in the stars just one clear path to your destiny to blossom and create beauty in the world. The truth is that we are drawn to the light of the sun, the stars, the reflection on the ripples in the water, to the light found in someone's eyes or in another's heart. The truth is it just happens...it is what it is...it is what it is about to be without distraction, it's the lovely words that spill into our minds. When we are open, free and not clouded by illusion. The truth is we already know, we just need to let it be and not question. We need to let our truth surface. It is always there...sometimes hidden or covered by layers of cloth/threads from life that have been woven over time and then form a pattern and strong fabric that warms and comforts us. The truth is we need to let the threads form in a way that we can still breathe, that we are not stifeld or weighed down...but that it is just right because it was created with open mind, open heart, love, trust, without judgement....with life inind-living, thinking, breathing in the light to the rosebud within-letting it blossom in time.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-11055096346020276902012-08-07T04:30:00.002-07:002012-08-07T04:30:52.008-07:00Late Summertime....A beautiful late summer morning...I love this time of year....something shifts at the beginning of August and I feel kind of lost but there are signs of things slowly but surely coming into place...things that have been stirring deep and are all starting to come together. Chinese Medicine talks about the 5th season of Late Summer....a time of transition...the change from the long, hot summer days as we move towards the beginning of Autumn. There's also a kind of melancholy that comes...I wonder if it's a throw back to the feeling of the summer ending and having to go back to school. We have a hickory tree in front of our house. It's peppered with red leaves and every now and then sends one floating down and they land on my car. I'm reminded of the change as I head out from home and the leaves go flying and are scattered once again...sort of how I feel....focused and ready, then flying and scattered....ahh the beauty and mystery of Late Summertime. Late Summertime is a song I wrote on one of these beautiful late Summer days...take a listen when you get chance~www.reverbnation.com/lynnhollyfield.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16361449650936238254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342103665881401081.post-89897605308600515852012-07-06T12:21:00.000-07:002012-07-06T12:40:25.105-07:00Morning with two friends....<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Just in from a morning of listening, dream interpretation,
talking, planning and dreaming with the two friends in my life that have helped
me through, time and time again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
people come into our lives in ways we could never imagine and we certainly couldn't
have predicted where we'd be in future years or that the events and choices we've
made in our three lives would plant us down here, together, around a table,
spilling our fears, joys and dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It's the stuff that keeps me going, it gives me my daily dose of soul
food and raises my energy to pull my scattered being back to center, regain my
balance and take that next step forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My tired self that woke up way too early this morning, was
magically recharged and here I am writing this first blog entry…long overdue in
my mind but somehow, here and now, feels right and good.</div>
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