Meri's Musings

Items on today's JOY list * * * water splashing in fountains sunflower bundles in metal pails when the Muse comes to visit and I soak up Kuan Yin energy sunny days (even if there's a layer of fog) fluffy cats with long whiskers carousel horses going to the Pike Place Market a little dose of bagpipes (I do have a drop of two of Scottish blood) but please. . . no haggis! * * * What gives you JOY? To play along and share the joy: 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! For some reason, Mr. Linky isn't posting the links if no thumbnail image was posted, so be sure to visit Stephanie Magical Mystery Teacher and Kim Mailhot .

a coming together for sacred community lessons about inevitable change and healing, living with intention, beginnings and endings joy love and peace a reminder that stories we tell ourselves to frame our experience become our experience, narrow our possibilities and hamper our flexibility celtic melodies fly straight to the heart sacred turnings whispers of the divine witnesses to the yearnings of our souls little altars everywhere

At the Folklife Festival music filled the air. In official venues, in unofficial venues lining pedestrian walkways, music was the star. Celtic Bagpipe Band piper playing in late afternoon outside McCaw Hall. I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. - Steve Swallow Adam Hurst with his five string cello playing opposite Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum (More about Adam in a post later this week!) Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach Musicians in an unofficial venue near the Monorail Station. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou A trio entertains listeners while they dine or soak up the sun. Music is the poetry of the air. - Richter Drumming near the Children's Theater. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp Guitarist near the west entrance to the Seattle C...