May you find love on your path in unexpected ways. May bits and pieces, broken and whole, from here and there, come together to form love every step in your journey. May the seeds of love you have sown and watered with care flourish and bloom bringing beauty and joy in your life and the lives you touch.
Happy St. Valentine’s Day! Where does love flourish in your life?
-Elizabeth
For fulfillment in life we must find our raison d'etre or Ikigai, "a reason for being” When we follow what we love with passion, gain skills and are alined with what the world needs as well as what you can be paid for - it is both our vocation and profession. Being fulfilled is deeply meaningful and brings joy and purpose to our lives.
What is your Ikigai or reason for being? Or as Mary Oliver so famously asked - "What do you plan to do with this one wild and precious life?"
- Elizabeth
For 2019 I wish you joy. The renewable resource that feeds our soul, lights up our life and allows us to be more generous. With joy, gratitude is natural and forgiveness is easier. Each day we can find the humor that helps us balance the challenges and focus on what we love most. I invite you to deepen your creative expression- especially in nature and welcome in the new year with joy.
-Elizabeth
There is magic and goodness being cultivated each moment. Give yourself the gift of time to observe the beauty, listen to the bird songs, and smell the air. Like busy gardeners tending the soil and soul will reap never before experienced blossoming.
What magic blessings are you cultivating or observing?
-Elizabeth
May we offer our Grace to one another today, giving thanks as we gather with friends and family to share our abundance and joy. Blessings on this meal, thank you for the nourishment of the Earth, sun, rain, farmers and cooks who enable us to feast and celebrate. May everyone know they are loved and appreciated.
What are you most grateful for? Do you have a favorite grace you offer?
-Elizabeth
A garden takes dedication, devotion and determination over many seasons to flourish and thrive- just like raising a child or seeing your creative projects come to fruition. Both vision, and hard work are required to enrich the soil, plant, water, weed, and prune before harvest. Each day, we are invited into enchantment through the door of beauty opening our hearts with joy and gratitude.
What have you given your dedication and hard work to that has cultivated joy and gratitude in your life?
-Elizabeth
This time of year when the veils between worlds is the most thin is the most potent time to honor your ancestors. Every culture has a tradition to honor their loved ones who have gone before them and enabled them to be who they are today. Consider making your own altar with photographs, lighting a candle, offering flowers, and a prayer of gratitude for standing behind you with love and support.
How do you honor your ancestors?
- Elizabeth
This Honeymoon cottage in Carmel supports love and beauty in abundance. It is so welcoming to have a garden that is in Full Bloom and clearly happy! The gardener has planted and nurtured with love and skill and allowed the wild and cultivated to thrive.
What is in full bloom in your life right now?
- Elizabeth
We re-weave community when we share authentically who we are and what we love. Walking silently in nature, singing, and creating together all nourish our happiness. Being present and kindly listening and sharing ourselves is a real gift to offer.
What nurtures your creativity and happiness?
- Elizabeth
Contentment comes from being present in the moment and knowing "what I have and who I am is enough”. Contentment blooms peace in the heart and delight in the spirit. Gratitude and appreciation naturally flourish seeding generosity and joy each day.
What brings you contentment in your life?
- Elizabeth
To be fully present in the moment allows us to savor & open with all our senses. We can experience wonder & awe at the magnificence of life. Time stretches as we deepen & open. Drawing is one of my favorite mindfulness practices.
When do you feel most present ?
- Elizabeth
Cooperation is when 2 or more entities engage in a mutually beneficial exchange instead of competing. A gardener cooperates in the cultivation and well being of the garden, along with each plant, the soil, sun, birds, insects, season, and all the unseen world. The spirit of the garden, gardener, and all who visit are nourished. This artist gardener is inspired by the beauty to create and the garden is happy to be seen and loved.
Where does cooperation with nature and community inspire you?
- Elizabeth
Taking time to be present and deeply reflect allows us to have insight and become inspired to creative solutions. Today we are given much to consider and sort, what is true. When we are clear, we have the opprotunity to be a bridge person- linking different cultures, beliefs, and possiblities.
Do you have a reflective practice that brings you clarity and enhances your creativity?
- Elizabeth
A garden is a living form of art using design, color, light, texture, scent, as well as movement & time. The garden can be our muse to inspire our creativity & intimacy with nature. Monet considered his gardens as his greatest art as well as his inspiration for his most beloved paintings.
Do you know a garden that inspires your creativity?
- Elizabeth
