Meri's Musings

I've been carrying on an on-and-off conversation with an acquaintance of the male variety who is going through a divorce and is dealing with the sense of dislocation that results from losing that familiar structure. He's trying to figure out how to be single again and doesn't feel as if he's very good at it. Thinks he never was. I told him I thought that one of the underrated things about marriage is that in a marriage partner, you have a witness to your life. Someone is there to appreciate the moments, big or small. Someone celebrates your accomplishments and helps pick you up when you fall. Someone sees the cloud passing across your face and wonders if you'd like a back rub or cup of tea. Someone listens to your dreams and woes, validates your perceptions or perhaps reorients the way you see things. There are little love pats exchanged in passing, for no reason other than physically reinforce all the spoken "I love you"s. Even when there...

Each artist is a facet of God's unfolding infinite vision, refracting the light of awareness in his or her own particular way. - Alex Grey "Panels" -copyright 2009 Meri Arnett-Kremian. All rights reserved. Each of us has a unique take on what it means to be alive and living on this earth. Each and every one of us refracts the light of awareness in our own particular way, a unique expression shaped by culture, intelligence, curiosity, our degree of comfort in our skin, how we relate to the world creatively. We contribute by the words we add to the human discourse; the images we capture or create and share with others to inspire, challenge, educate; the tracks of kindness we leave as we negotiate our path through life. We refract the light of awareness by cultivating and demonstrating compassion, by growing in wisdom, by learning to continue questioning even when we think we know the answers. We add our light to the world by seeing miracles all around us and letting possibi...

I'm begging your indulgence. I just can't figure out what to post today. My mind is buzzing with energy from all the brainstorming and emailing and writing I've been doing on my book projects. You might say I'm lit up with possibilities. For writing and publishing books. (Universe, thank you in advance for helping me manifest everything I'll need in these ventures -- like an agent, a publisher, and a contract.) I'm so fired up with thought flames that I just can't focus on a brilliant post for today.