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Newsletter Highlights 2009
Note ~ Quotations from others are indicated by author when available; quotes from my own writing are simply in quotation marks.
Any of these are available in a custom–made HeART card (art work by Roxanna 2009–2010)
- January
"We are here to keep the love going around."
Larissa 4 years
"… create connections as real and vital as the Sun rising at dawn."
- February
"Yes! We can!"
Barack Obama
- March
"What does your heart long for in the middle of the night?"
–rephrased
- April
"I drank that wine of which the soul is its vessel
Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away
A light came and kindled a flame
in the depth of my soul,
A light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly."
Rumi
"You make my heart sing!"
- May
"Why, sometimes, I’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast."
Alice
One of those "impossible things" ~ someone to assist with being a co-creator of design, marketing, and reaching out ~ happened in May! Laurie Vadnais arrived on the deck of Vessel of Voices full of eager "anticipation for sailing the seas as Roxanna's assistant "first mate!", I am responsible for much of the website updating, monthly newsletters, and web design of both."
"When we have enough energy in our heart, then we can be courageous."
Puran Bair
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- June
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you’, that would be enough."
Meister Eckhart
- July
"Take Heart, My Friend"
"She danced over to her beloved lemon tree …‘Why! It’s the only lemon tree in all of Boise!’"
Aunt Mabel
"Forget any sounds or touch that you knew that did not help you dance."
Rumi
- August
"This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when we next meet."
William Shakespeare
- September
"When the heart bursts into flame, history completely disappears and lightening strikes the ocean in each cell."
Rumi
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- October
"In the bones of October grow daisies."
Gordon Wagner, performance artist
"We need new practices, different neural pathways, and a harmonious rhythm in order to tune in" …to live close to the bone … to what will save us.
"Open your heart's doors and your soul's windows, and let a good armful of fresh air plunge in."
- November
"Simply Grateful"
"Batten down the hatches… boost your magnetism … with Heart Rhythm."
"If you could hear the music playing between the beats of my heart.
You would be dancing in a great circle.
As if each breath, a miracle."
- December
"Let your breath be full, deep, and expansive, preparing you for
an extraordinary day."
"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth."
Rumi
"May the return of light be a true gift illuminating your path forward."
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Coming soon, links to the complete collection of Newsletters from 2009!
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