Dear Reader:

I went on one of my favorite artist’s blog sites recently, and thought (immediately) that Kelly Roberts and I must be “soul sisters.” She makes my “wild and crazy” Happy Room look tame and mundane. She is the guru of the “Possibilitarian” movement and she lives it in every part of her life.

In the rooms in her home…(for example) she has double-patterned chairs…one for the seats and another for the backs… with colored wall hangings or stenciled decals set against the  interiors. She is my kind of gal! A “Bubbly Bohemian”!

* Click on  the website, below, if you are interested in seeing some whimsical home decor she has created! Once you click on this site…click blog in the upper right hand corner and scroll down until you reach the tour of her home with its amazingly creative ideas!

 *Kelly Rae Roberts : Home

I especially love this particular artwork’s saying… for the message that lies within:

“Surrender your Seriousness. Come Alive! Take a risk! Be radically kind. Share your heart. Shine. Celebrate Everything!”

When I was first reading the words…(minus reading glasses) I thought one section of the message read: Share your heartshine. Instead of Share your heart. Shine.

My mistake has given me a new word to love. We should all share our “heartshines” with each other as we celebrate everything together!

This past week (with the roller coaster weather and the roller-coaster anticipation over our impending addition to the family)…has made me realize that not a single day goes by that we can’t find something in it to celebrate. (Even if the celebration is simply getting through the day…it is still a celebration!)

Recently life has felt like being in a Beethoven concert while the music rises and falls according to the story the conductor hears in the notes. The paradox of simultaneous crescendos and crashes reflects the feelings the family has felt. Giving birth is always extreme…no living in the gray area or sitting on the fence for this wonderful benchmark in our lives.

The most wonderful thing about this unique waiting period in life…is that it is soon forgotten as the days, months, and years follow the birth…the frustrations of ‘hurry up and wait‘  soon dissipate… leaving only the most important memories to linger behind..those associated with the human senses.

We remember seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching the little “miracle” we held in our arms and quickly dismiss the earlier “waiting blues” for what it was all along…just a part of the grand scheme of the “wonderfulness” (another new word I love) of  life. Or as Kelly Roberts would say…We  “surrender our seriousness.”

So stop reading right now…because I am going to quit writing…and let’s go celebrate life today using creativity as our compass.

Let’s be “radically kind”  as we live this gift of life and be generous to others by sharing our personal “heartshines” with all we meet!

So until tomorrow….find yourself a new word to express your celebration of daily life…perhaps something like “joy-sounds” or “peace-patters” or “soul-soothers“…and “heartshine” them on our fellowman.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

* Yesterday I planted little purple pansies by the moon gate…and it did turn it magical!

On the way to Lowe’s to get some peat moss for the garden…I parked right beside this truck with this sticker on it…(you can see my hands reflection taking the photo)…because that was what I was just getting ready to do.