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Leo Horoscope for week of February 13, 2014

Making eye contact is essential for building potent links with people you care about. It bypasses rational thought, stimulating chemical reactions in your bodies that enhance empathy and intimacy. In practicing the art of love, it's one of the most potent moves you can make. This Valentine season would be an excellent time for you Leos to explore the frontiers of what's possible through prolonged eye contact. Start here: Cultivate a sincere desire to know what's simmering inside the souls of your dearest allies. With that as your driving force, your gaze won't be clouded by shyness or self-consciousness.

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I wish I could post pictures but not for sometime....

My phone needs to re-boot. I will have to connect to wifi to do this but that may not happen for a while.
Life is good! Keeping busy and learning lots. Meditating, reading, doing volunteer work everyday :)
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Me in Singapore!

I've gotten a bit more fit since then, I live on the 8th floor...lots of stairs, many times a day :) yay! hugs!

Being with my Self :) ha ha ha

I found a great spot to sit and be with my Self, there is a women's meditation spot on top of the roof of the Kali temple at the ashram :)

its by the library and u can hear and see the ocean.

I am taking a break from compost seva and doing other things instead :)

Also, I stayed at the ashram while Amma went on tour with a few hundred people to visit the state of Kerala.
It felt right for me. I am pleaed with my time here.

Be well and smile, I'm smiling at you!

Compost and Tour!!!

Hi Yáll,

I am doing well at Amma's ashram. Tour is about to start in maybe two days. The orientation for tour is downstairs in just a few minutes. you can feel the excitement! We're going to travel with Amma around Kerala for about 10 days maybe :)

I have taken to speaking less. sort of a silence thing but i am still laughing and i say the minimum of words to get by. Example: banana, curd and granola, sprout salad no onion and my name to get internet...basic wants and needs. internet is a sanity need. ha ha ha

i am volunteering doing compost seva. it is so much fun! i play with food straps, poo, leaves, mulch, saw dust, etc. and mix it all together with a bunch of new friends that are like a band of brothers!

hugs!

Love Lara

(Madhura)

p.s. Bika, Italo, Ross, if you're reading this I wrote to u first and then copied it here! love u!!!!

4 Days in!

Arrived in Kochin India and spend two days at a hotel near the airport.
Ventured to Lulu mall the next day and walked around, bought a few things and watched a movie.
Got a scoop of ice cream for 80 cents!

Came to Amritapuri and checked in. Got a room and roommate, settled in.
Next evenings my best friend and I got a hug from Amma. It was fun and awesome!
It took about an hour to travel through the line, or que, but it felt like the time went really fast!

I started one of my SEVA jobs today (seva is selfless service, or volunteering).
I'm working in compost. Sorting food waste and bits of plastic or paper that get tossed in the bins. Then we mix in white, green, black compost materials like leaves, saw dust, and poo!
Also, the Amritapuri ashram has an extensive recycling program, just so you know!
Everyday and many times a day the receptacles are emptied and new ones set up.

I'll see about writing every now and then to update yáll...but the grammar will be shotty because I'm paying for the internet time. it's not much but it adds up. :) there are about 4000 people at the ashram, maybe 250 americans and then folks from all over the world. many folks just stay a few days to visit while touring India. I'm here for some time.

love and hugs,
Lara

feel free to write to me or send me travel tissues, powdered soap, anything useful and light, travel tooth paste, a ladies razor would be nice :) and a pair of scissors!

thank you thank you much gratitude

:) :) :)
ADDRESS:
Mata Amritanandamayi Math,
Amritapuri.p.o, Kollam,
Kerala, India, 690525.
(to Lara Sophia McPherson)

I am in India!

It's awesome here :) beautiful sights, sounds and experiences :)
Hugs to All and Laughter for some, okay most, okay all...
Lara

Flying to India took a while...

but that's that now. :)
Presently, I am resting on the hotel bed with my laptop and using the hotel's wifi :) Fantastic! I can still take pictures w/ my phone, so that's super cool. I saw a new US movie today that cost about $3 at the LULU mall. It's a HUGE mall and lots of people go there to sight see. It's a good cool activity on a hot day.
Also, a scoop of ice cream was just 0.80 cents, pretty cool for me <3 p="">

The count down...

...is nearly complete! On my way to India!

Traveling for the next "2 Days" around the world :/) Stopping in Korea and Singapore and then finally India!!

Hugs and Love to you all, shall post and connect when possible 💛💙💚

Going to India!

Making a Pilgrimage to India!
Don't know when I shall return; best way to reach me is my new Gmail email and perhaps occasionally Facebook:)

Cheers and Smiles,
Lara Sophia
January 2014

I don't know what to say...

SHARK-NADO! too absurd to be afraid; may have to watch this...

Memories

I don't have much in the way of items from my childhood. My family moved around a lot and things got lost to the ethers, given away. But I have this one cookie cutter, that I don't really use, that was my Mom's. I'd like to think that I could just look at cookie cutters and remember I like making cookies. That it's not this specific cookie cutter that I need to hold onto and make not useful just because I have a thought attached to it that it belonged to my mother. If she had it years ago she would have given it away by now. And it would be someone else's memory to carry...

Jesus, Etc. - Wilco Band

Paint People! PG13

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck, the movie (1986)

Maps - yeah yeah yeah

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...

Love Art by Noel

Be Silly ;D

Oh deer ;)

Image captured by G.2

Paulo Coelho

'Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.'

'Faith'

God smiles down at your foolish ways

And She was flattered by your faith in Her whilst you stepped blindly into life.

Fall :D

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself."

David Hockney

"I'm greedy for an exciting life."

Ender's Game

"The way we win matters."

-Ender

Halo

Jason Swartzman amuses me

Passenger - Let Her Go

Who is this guy?

....I found him on the sidewalk in Santa Barbara.

Cat! Splat!

Buddh App

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one that brings peace.

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

Coco Chanel

You live but once; you might as well be amusing!

Light the Whole Sky!

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.'

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'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.

Sail Away

10-7-13

Jason Becker :)

this reminds me of Jason :) its just an art piece I saw at a thrift store while out in the world :)

Krishna!

The Alchemist

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

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.

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