Magic...

"Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are Magic."

Frida Kahlo

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Listen To Your Heart...

"You will never be able to escape from your Heart. 

So it is better to listen to what it has to say."

Paulo Coelho

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Make Your Life...

"Explore all the things that make your heart sing 

and enable you to make a life, not just a living."

Deepak Chopra

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Touch the Stars...

"Every fool knows you can't touch the stars. 

But it does not stop a wise man from trying."

Harry Anderson

Go on. Step out there.

Raise your hands, your heart and your head high...

And yearn to touch those stars.

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Angela.

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A Big Psychic Orgasm...

"To achieve the marvelous, you must do the unthinkable... 

The answer will hit you, like a big psychic orgasm. 

If you listen to your dreams, they never lie."

E. Jean Carroll

Think the marvelous for this coming year. Dream beyond.

And live as if...

Live as if you are already there. In poise. In gratitude.

In the rituals you start and end your day with.

In the way you approach your work. And your play.

Fall into the essence of it. The emotion of it.

Feel your way there. Before you think your way there.

Like with all things orgasmic.

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Angela.

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The Question of the Year. The Question of the Life.

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

The question of the day. The question of a moment. And maybe, just maybe, ironically, the question of a life time.

What would you do, if you knew you only had one day, one week, or one month to live?

"When you get those rare moments of clarity, those flashes when the universe makes sense, you try desperately to hold on to them. They are the life boats for the darker times, when the vastness of it all, the incomprehensible nature of life is completely illusive. So the question becomes, or should have been all a long... What would you do if you knew you only had one day, or one week, or one month to live. What life boat would you grab on to? What secret would you tell? What band would you see? What person would you declare your love to? What wish would you fulfil? What exotic locale would you fly to for coffee? What book would you write? "

Excerpt from the film "One Week"

Dearest friend came over tonight and brought a movie.

I remember the phone call a few weeks ago, when she asked me if I had heard of the film, or seen the film... "No," was my reply. "What's it about?"

She simply said... You'll understand, we'll watch it together. The film will take you home and to all the places you were as a child, where you grew up... It'll narrate the stories that you tell me when you talk about Canada and her greatness. Of all the places you've seen and the moments that raised you and created you and let you become..."

I had to promise her, not to watch the film... That I'd wait until we'd watch it together. And that was tonight.

But it was also the story of the film that so dearly touched me, caressed and pierced me. Thrust itself into me.

And in the one instance, home felt so far away and it felt so close. Yes, the touch and the smell and the sensation and a thousand memories and a thousand dreams called hopes and yearnings and desires that all united themselves into a clarity.

It was just the right film to watch on a day like today. The first day in a new year, the first day in a new chapter... Because it reminded me what I want this day, this moment, this year and this life to hold and embrace and experience and tell stories of...

Dearest friend and I sat silently on the couch together afterwards.

Simply because nothing needed to be said. Simply because everything was simply understood. For each other. And between ourselves.

She left shortly afterwards, we just simply hugged and said... "Talk to you tomorrow."

I poured myself a glass of wine, pulled out an old box of photographs. From home.

And then the phone rang and it was dearest, oldest over the memories of years and times and maps and life friend on the phone...

And when I answered, her first question and first words on the phone were... "Hon, are you coming home for a visit this year?"

And it reminded me...

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Your One Wild and Precious Life...

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do 

with your one wild and precious life?"

Mary Oliver

These words hold profound meaning for me.

Deep down in every little pore and the core of my heart.

And each time I read the words, touch the words, feel the words...

And surrender to the question of the words...

I feel the desire, the calling, the longing... I feel the answer.

It's as though a voice inside is saying, "Come, this is the way...

Remind yourself to feel it. Remind yourself that you already know.

And trust yourself.

This is your one wild and precious life."

It is time. It is time to question. It is time to answer.

But mostly, it is time to live that question and answer too.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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A Love Devotion...

"Because there is nothing more beautiful 

than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline. 

No matter how many times it is sent away."

Sarah Kay

Love. A devotion of Love.

Kiss Love. Kiss Life. Kiss each and every moment.

Much Loves, always.

Angela.

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That Strange Pull..

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. 

It will not lead you astray."

Rumi

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Start Walking...

Start walking. Whatever the goal, whatever the dream...

"Your decision to walk creates the path ahead."

Paulo Coelho

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The Time is Now...

"There is no better time than now. 

The time to live is now. The time to dream is now.

 The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine is now. 

The time to bleed, sweat and determine yourself for the things you want most is now. 

The time is here now."

Unknown

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Follow Your Heart...

"Follow your heart. 

And you can dance along the way,  trip, stumble, leap or crawl. 

Follow your heart. It knows the way."

Angela Gwinner

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Wanderlust...

And it starts in the heart.

"Wanderlust. The irresistible desire to travel, 

and to understand one's very existence."

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Your Desired Path...

 

"No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it. Have a unrelenting belief that things will work out, that the long road has a purpose, that the things that you desire may not happen today, but they will happen. Persist and persevere, your desired path remains possible."

Brad Gast

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Be Passionate...

"Be passionate with life."

Angela Gwinner

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Words and Actions...

"Love. Trust. Rest. Play. Touch. Desire. Laugh. Become. 

Coffee. Nap. Speak. Listen. Give. Receive. Live."

Angela Gwinner 

Words for a Sunday.

Actions for a perfect day.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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That French Habit...

"I am in favour of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. 

After all, one must start somewhere."

Sacha Guitry

I feel an intention of the day should be kisses...

Whether to bravely and spontaneously kiss a stranger.

Or to simply live as though you are kissing life. French kissing that is.

Blow kisses. Whisper kisses. Caress kisses.

It's good for your health. And so many other things.

It will change your entire day. Miracously. Into something wonderful.

And yes, that French habit...

Men, start somewhere. And surprise the women of this world.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Gratitude is a Prayer...

"Before you ask God for what you want, 

first thank God for what you have."

Unknown

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Stay Eager...

"Do stuff. Be clenched and curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It is all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. And it connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."

Susan Sontag

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Live Like a Fireburst...

Live like a fireburst...

"The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'..."

Jack Kerouac

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