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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Joy To The World.... from Australia 2009

Joy to Your World!

Joy to the World... Wherever in the World You Are At this Moment...

PEACH ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO ALL MEN AND WOMEN... and kookaburras, cockatoos, kangaroos, wombats, cassowaries, wallabies, koalas, gallahs, emus, tarantulas (even the one we had IN our condo on the living room ceiling) and dingoes; and sharks, and jellyfish (well... maybe not); and gum trees, banksia trees, karri trees and especially those gorgeous yellow Western Australia Christmas trees; and parks, oceans and islands; and trains, ferries, and buses; AND ALL Of You... our blog readers!

Merry Christmas from Bob and Mary Down Under
Peace on Earth,
Mary and Bob

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BarbDecember 22, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Thinking of you, Mary and Bob and wishing you the best Holiday ever. Leaving today for Denver - will spend Christmas and new Year there. The pics are wonderful!
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For the Traveler
Every time you leave home,
Another road takes you
Into a world you were never in.

New strangers on other paths await.
New places that have never seen you
Will startle a little at your entry.
Old places that know you well
Will pretend nothing
Changed since your last visit.

When you travel, you find yourself
Alone in a different way,
More attentive now
To the self you bring along,
Your more subtle eye watching
You abroad; and how what meets you
Touches that part of the heart
That lies low at home:

How you unexpectedly attune
To the timbre in some voice,
Opening in conversation
You want to take in
To where your longing
Has pressed hard enough
Inward, on some unsaid dark,
To create a crystal of insight
You could not have known
You needed
To illuminate
Your way.

When you travel,
A new silence
Goes with you,
And if you listen,
You will hear
What your heart would
Love to say.

A journey can become a sacred thing:
Make sure, before you go,
To take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward
The territories of spirit
Where you will discover
More of your hidden life,
And the urgencies
That deserve to claim you.

May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.

May you travel safely, arrive refreshed,
And live your time away to its fullest;
Return home more enriched, and free
To balance the gift of days which call you.

~ John O'Donohue ~

Adventure...

Adventure is a path. Real adventure --- self-determined, self-motivated, often risky --- forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
-Mark Jenkins

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Joy To The World.... from Australia 2009

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