Friday, November 14, 2014

Sunny and Windy


                       
   The weather forecast may report "sunny and windy days" and that should also be the ideal forecast in in your heart.
   If you watch this video above, it starts in Paris and ends in New York. They call Paris the "City of Light."
   Why is Paris so bright?
  1. Paris is often referred to as "The City of Light" ("La Ville-Lumière"), both because of its leading role during the Age of Enlightenment, and more literally because Paris was one of the first European cities to adopt gas street lighting.
    If you're going to enjoy life, you need to find someone or something that gives you light. When that light shines upon you, you are forever changed.You develop a glow that can be seen by others.
        If you are lucky enough to find that light, then row toward it, like Mary Oliver says, and let the wind push your body to embrace it.

    Mary Oliver
    “West Wind #2

    You are young. So you know everything. You leap
    into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me.
    Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without
    any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
    Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, and
    your heart, and heart’s little intelligence, and listen to
    me. There is life without love. It is not worth a bent
    penny, or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a
    dead dog nine days unburied. When you hear, a mile
    away and still out of sight, the churn of the water
    as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the
    sharp rocks – when you hear that unmistakable
    pounding – when you feel the mist on your mouth
    and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls
    plunging and steaming – then row, row for your life
    toward it.”
    ― Mary OliverWest Wind

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