Smile Upon Me - I Smile Upon You too :) :)




"Smile Upon Me"

Everything's always better
Whenever you are under dressed
I wanted to tell you then
To try the bird's nest

And it's truth, you know
It's always the issue
And when it starts getting blurry
One's never better than two

There's a place in this world
Where people like me are found by people like you
So find a place as this forever divine

Oh yeah, you're the best damn friend that I'll ever have
You'll always smile upon me when the season's bad
You'll always make me feel best even when I'm blue
You'll always smile upon me and I'll smile upon you too

I don't know what are you now
Since everything's changed
If I did know one thing
It's me who's feeling strange

Yes, everything is different
And I don't react well
The changes that come when
Your life's becoming hell

There's a place in this world
Where people like me are found by people like you
So find a place as this forever divine

Oh yeah, you're the best damn friend that I'll ever have
You'll always smile upon me when the season's bad
You'll always make me feel best even when I'm blue
You'll always smile upon me and I'll smile upon you too

There's a place in this world
Where people like me are found by people like you
So find a place as this forever divine

Oh yeah, you're the best damn friend that I'll ever have
You'll always smile upon me when the season's bad
You'll always make me feel best even when I'm blue
You'll always smile upon me and I'll smile upon you too

Nice!

I realize that nearly everything I own would presently fit into my car :) I like this thought.
I just have a few pieces of furniture that will need to be picked up or dropped off places.
Downsizing to the essentials so I can move around with less baggage. Feels right for now...

Pass it on...

I'm drunk again. High on the magic I feel when I think of u.
Lost in time, wandering around with a pocket full of trash and my hands empty facing You.
I'm in love with love and there's nothing left to do about it but return it to the source of all creation. To stand another day in Your presence and pass it on...

Yours Alone

I live for the days I breathe the same air as you...

'Faith'

God smiles down at your foolish ways
And She was flattered by your faith in Her whilst you stepped blindly into life.

What becomes of me

When I think about the past and how it's gone, I am sad. I may even become anxious in that moment while sitting with that memory that isn't even happening now. Must be some sort of sickness of the soul to remember life instead of just experiencing it.
Or some tragic happiness that I am attached to. Where do we go from there dear; what do I do with me.

Good Vibrations

Nothing Succeeds like Success!

Lara Loves Nothing

My dear young artist friend Noel made me this 'Glow Art' work.
She called it "Lara Loves Nothing"
I agree.
:)

One Could Say

One could say the moon is in Love with the Sun
but one would be wrong.
For that would imply some type of choice.

Just as one could say that I am in Love with God.

Trapped in the Moment

What do u know of this walking.
What is this forward motion u speak of.
I'm perplexed by my own feet.

Follow Your Dreams!


Earth Sets Softly


This thing!


Ewe by Mother's Lara Sophia

I've been thinking about You,
And it's slightly inconvenient for my day to day life.
I can't tell what's going on.
My whole world has changed and I'm unabashedly aware that You definitely have something to do with it.
Where were You my whole life; lurking in the shadows of my heartache and joys?
Watching and waiting for me to make a move and that's when You pounced!
I really never saw You coming. You know.
I was completely surprised yet somehow aware that it was all as it should be.
I love. That's what I do. You know me like the back, front and sides of my hands, and feet. 
What Love is this!
Why have You come for me dear One.
Glance my way and send me all the answers of the universe.
I didn't know anything before You; may I never learn anything besides You ever again.

These tall things...

....grow free and wild and as tall as a man!

Morning Grey

Lost in the morning grey, I thought I saw your face. Mistaken it was just more grey.
Missing the comfort of a blank stare, engulfed in the calming shade of grey.
She walks within it without a sound.
I can almost hear footsteps.

'Nothing for You but Me'

Hey friend, I can't give you anything.
I really have nothing for you right now.
I wanted to share with you the world, but I stepped out of it empty handed.
I would have told you about all the wonderful experiences Ive had in the past, but I'm trying to forget.
If I release the happy memories then the sad memories will be easier to let go of.
I'd rather become neutral as an unrocked boat upon the sea. Or at least one that's gone untethered so it doesn't mind being jostled to and fro.
I wanted to be a fisher of men with you, but my net has too many holes and I've some mending to do.
So I have nothing for you, but me, hopefully I'll be enough.



Sri Yantra


1949

On the bathroom wall at Cafe Mocha in Arcata Ca

Sunk In

Friends of the Dunes Beach, playing with Mother Nature :)

Dune Daisies

The alive ones are pink, nice boarder to the trail on the way to the ocean.

Be Gone Cruel One

Speak to me not cruel temptress of the physical desires of the body.
For I have seen the ugly side of man and the pains received by deception of the attached form.
I need not the anguish nor the yearning of this body to harm my senses.
Leave me in peace to rome this world without your involvement. There is enough for me to do here. Enough to learn and develop and see and do; so please leave me, thank you.

Mountains of Trees


Give Back

Can't breathe, the inhalation comes but I don't breathe out. 
I'm stuck on intake.
I can only receive.
I'd like to give back something you could use, in return for all you have given me. 
I just can't seem to remember how to let go of what I am given.
This precious gift of life, squandered on an undeserving bag of carbon, walking around in search of enjoyment.
Satiate me Lord, I can only be pleased by you.

Bird Costume

Suzy Ives, Creating Children's Costumes from Paper and Card, book

Dino Card

Inside card it says...
Love Every part of your self ;)

Uncertain

If you don't know what your are looking for then you don't know what you will find.

Heart Throb


Listen Not

These words are just my madness coming out of my face.
Listen to the language of my soul and you shall not be deceived.
For even I do not listen to my thoughts anymore, they know nothing of this world or the next one.

Cheers for Trees

Green Gulch Zen Center

'One Way'

Forgetting You
Feels like Sound.

A lost traveler is a found soul;
Wandering these broken streets alone.

Grounded to nothing while attached to something unknown.
Content in the seams of desires unfounded and deeply expressed.

Run Love! There's everything for you here and that too shall be taken away as the theft of my fallen angel's un sounded trumpets.

She walks alone with companionship.
She dances in the dawn forgetting You.


Work Honestly


Poppy Love

Don't be afraid; you may feel you are alone but trust me there are others.

'No Direction' by LS

What an odd duck.
A strange sensation to be scooped out hallow and moved to the moon.
I wasn't alone when I got here but I became alone in your presence. 
Sitting silently waiting for my heart to re-appear.
I don't miss you. I am you.
So every turn you make away from me is another step toward me.
I don't understand your path but I trust you.
Thank you for everything - go be alone.
I have no more distractions, just love to give with no direction.
It flows from me like a train from a tunnel.
Like a star exploding - going super nova!
I'm done.
Just passively looking for a place to seep the energies into.
Your eyes still close too often, they make me blink in the dark.
The One eye stays open and shines.
Take my hand when we are ready; but we're not ready. 
One of us needs to focus and the other to have the aperture WIDE open.

Life is like Riding a Bike...


via Dalai Lama

'Sooner or later you will find a limitation of resources and will have to adopt a more contented lifestyle.'

'I keep gazing'

Every man that walks alone is you; every eye that looks my way, your face.

I'll die a thousand times before tomorrow, wondering if my heart will be replied to.


Desiderata Max Ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons;  they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counselor the years, gracefully surrendering the things of Youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all it's sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be Cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Aum

The Road is Very Thin -LS

My path is in the dark.
I have no lights to guide me.
The only compass I carry is in my heart 
Next to the knowledge that You are with me.

Dreaming in Objects -LS

I keep things, not because Im a pack rat, but because everything reminds me of you.

Via Terry Tempest Williams

I write as though Im whispering into the ear of the one I love.


Zen Center Green Gulch

http://www.sfzc.org/ggf/

Thanks Cryss Cryss, ah hah ha


A Vision

I've been waiting forever for You.
Only to find You were in my heart the whole time.
How could my eye have been so blind.
How did I not see You were my eyes.

Of Amma's 
L.S.

Dangerous Waters

Found this on the side of someone's vehicle. Queen of the ocean perhaps; Poseidon's female counterpart?!

U did it

When you're absolutely ready for all your hopes and dreams, you'll already have them in front of you.

U can do it

When you're absolutely ready to face your fears, they'll be no where to be found.

For a Dream

Hugging you is like holding nothing;
It must be the infinity you stepped through to get here.

Dalai Lama

'Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. You can change yourself.'

'Eye Cry'

Eye Cry by Amma's Lara 

These wounds are not physical
They come from the depths of my soul
Longing to be with Yours.

I cry, not because I miss You
But because I am you
And I can not phathom how it is that you are over there.

Look at me again please;
It's the only time I understand what's going on in the entire world.

Crush me with your gaze,
Swallow me whole,
Digest me with your eyes;
I didn't want to be here anyway.
I only came to see you again,
To dance in your vision of a brighter 
tomorrow.


'I'm a Thief in the Night'

'I'm a Thief in the Night'
By Mother's Lara

She'll steal your heart if you leave it out much too long.
The song birds are singing our tune at twilight;
they never saw the earth rise coming but they welcomed it anyway.

High above the tree tops we sit and gaze in calm wonder at the beauty you project into our souls.
My eyes burn with the fire of your love.
Sing to me my darling and I shall fall so deep into the caverns of your heart;
never again yearning for the light of day.

Gaze only when you are ready;
for she gazes back so easily and it's calm, welcoming and warm.


Image usurped from by Gabriel 1.0




Pals Lacey and Lara spent many years playing with colorful, smudgy oil pastels together. They are reuniting for this evening to teach you how to have fun doing collaborative drawing in oil pastels. There will also be a special $2 sale of lots of oil pastel drawings from the vault!

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Hugs!!!
Lara Sophia