Meri's Musings

I surrender to the tides of change.

Steven of The Golden Fish recently talked about a meme in which he decided to participate, one in which the assignment was to choose a book, turn to page 161, find the fifth complete sentence and cite it on your blog. He'd been tagged by The Road Less Traveled who referred back to someone named Susan at Stony River Farm , who had tagged her, and well you can see it can get complicated in this blog world trying to figure out where a good idea originated. (But it's fun to follow the trail, visiting places you've never gone.) Deciding to play along, though I hadn't been tagged, I chose a book of blessings by the late John O'Donohue called To Bless the Space Between Us . Here's what I found. So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown And for the secret work Through which the mind of the day And wisdom of the soul become one. "At the End of the Day" copyright 2009 Meri Arnett-Kremian How many of us fight the uncertain...

I know a lot of you believe that the Universe sends us little messages through ordinary things. And who knows, maybe that's true. The other day, I stopped at a bistro to grab a quick bowl of soup because I was starving but wanted to make a film that started in only half an hour so anything else was out of the question.. The host, hearing my time crunch issue, said to sit anywhere and he'd grab me a bowl of the soup of the day personally. So I headed to the back, where they display local artists' work and there's a great view of Commencement Bay. And he brought me a bowl of delicious mushroom soup and some strawberry lemonade. As soon as I dipped my spoon, I noticed "the sign. " It was a perfect little heart, a mushroom heart. All the other bits of mushrooms were ovals or just bits and pieces. So I thought, "Well, obviously, given my posts lately, this has to be a sign from the universe." The question is, is the Universe telling me "Take heart....