Slowing Down the Aging Process

I will not give up...

Dear Karima,
I am so happy I made you exercise, but now I have a good excuse, it is the weekend, and I will do this:

This is very restorative

At the beginning of the week I will try and be good and get back to this:

Reading something good...is also rejuvinating...



With much love
Karima

You are right Karima.
I neeed something a bit less physically demanding at the moment

Artist: Renoir

Yes girls, reading and writing, time to BE, that's wonderful.
We had a long walk today at the Villa Borghese, Pincio ... and an Apéritif at Doney's in Via Veneto. The day was sunny, but cold. I soooo loved the cold breeze on my cheeks..... and wonder of wonders in the green grass of the Park, there were already some Margheritine, the small daisies!

I wrote:



Park Villa Borghese


Wow, what emotion in finding this picture ... Spring at Villa Borghese ... and look what the girl picks!!


Love, Margherita

If we go for a walk, this is what we see:

In about two months we can write about this:

We can also dream about this:

I was so happy to see all your images today, as I was a bit moody....so much beauty! While dreaming...I found this picture from another passed season..(Inda, I have been thinking of what you said somewhere, that you are not a poet...I doubt it...

Love,
Lilie

Time to do more exercise. < !--graemlin::bball:-->
I will be going to a warmer place in four days, so while I am still here, this might be fun:

and what about building one like this? And drink some tea in there...with all friends

Schneemaenner ..

Fund to build and fun to look at!

Dear Lilie, my brother used to build enormous "houses of snow-ice" in our garden ... there was so much snow then ... quite some years back! And we sat in there to chat with friends ...

Love and Happy Epiphany ...

do you immerse in water Lilie?

Margherita

Tried to re-enter my message above to correct the word "fund ... fun", but could not find the icon for editing ..

Well, never mind. Finding another pic.

Well water, liquid is much more
the element I would choose. The pics you chose are very beautiful though to look at

Dear Karima, PureBeauty on chopra sent Epiphany wishes today and speaks of a tradition in Northern countries of immersing in water on this day to assure blessings for the New Year.
So I see you are in synthony, as you choose the water. I love it too, that's also my element, but snow is water after all and I love to plunge into it too.


and ice skating ... ohhh what nostalgie ...

Love, Margherita

Dear Margeritha, I never heard of that ritual...so...also feel a need to say...I don´t know really how to say this...but life was never something for me...because of tragic reasons of my heritage



With Love

Lilie

[This message was edited by Karima on Tuesday January 6th, 2004 at 11:50 AM.]

Lilie, sweetheart, your words are so sad and I feel an urge to reach out to hug you.

I know that life can be extremely difficult, especially when we carry with us experiences of childhood. I guess through the picture you posted ... maybe you were a lonely girl, or there was little sunshine in your heart. And then in Sweden it is really also true, that melancholy is more diffused than in Southern countries, where there is more sunshine. I think for myself it has been important to live in a Mediterranean country, because I also have my deeply melancholic moments. Nonetheless my faith and the belief that we are loved and cared for from Above, whatever, always helps me to get through those dark tunnels into the Light again. As you know I often describe this in my poems.
You are loved, Lilie, you have a beautiful soul and your poems also reveal that you connect to the Divine spirit, residing within.
Meditate and let love flow into you and surround you. Heritage can be heavy I know, we must learn to detach and to walk in the light.
I am doing this now with you, hand in hand.

With love, Margherita

I’m open to love
my heart invites you to dance
come share my delight


senryu by Margherita

Being in the light ... you loved this one, I remember.

Wonderful Margeritha, you have touched me so deeply now. Thank you! I am not there where I take delight in this world..if not for a rose, a dew drop, a beautiful sunset...or some touching musical tones...or poems...beautiful loving eyes...words of wisdom



Much Love

Karima

What a beautiful picture, Karima. When we are here for each other, then we fulfill the commandment of love.

You take delight in beauty which reflects you. You have mentioned beautiful loving eyes ... this is soul touching, soul communication .... wow, this reminds me of a poem by Tim "Soul touching". Must see if I can find it.

Be fine, my friend!
I love you. Margherita

Found it on chopra: Tim Cannon's poem

"Soul touching"


Together,
Yet absent of form,
Your presence,
It illuminates,
As an aura,
Images a flame,
It surrounds,
And enters my heart.
Soul touching,
Each other,
Releasing,
To one another,
Our spirits,
Unite,
Ascend in eternity,
As a fragrant essence,
Unseen,
Awakening,
All senses within,
Heaven is this tender love.

Always can we be with another, whether it is our creator, a friend or companion, a loved one that has passed on;
Through soul touching you can feel the presence, just close your eyes…


by: Tim Cannon

I’m open to love
my heart invites you to dance
come share my delight


senryu by Margherita

you reached out your hand when I needed
I feel this love and also gratitude
for being blessed in this way.

The poem is so beautiful! Thank you Margeritha, thank you Tim



Good night, tomorrow work again,,,,,,

Love,

Karima

Thank you Lilie, Margherita and Tim.
You touch me deeply with your grace and beauty.

Soon I am going to leave the fields of snow
and dip into the waters of a warmer place.

May the Hawaiian Goddess Laka embrace you with love and light.
****************

O Goddess Laka!
O wildwood bouquet, O Laka!
O Laka, queen of the voice!
O Laka, giver of gifts!
O Laka, giver of bounty!
O Laka, giver of all things!

Hawaiian prayer to the Goddess laka

I will send you the warm rays of the beautiful Hawaiian sunset

Wish you a wonderful well deserved
vacation,Inda....I have enjoyed so much
our playing...



with Love

Lilie

I sure wish I was coming along. I might even go for a swim.

Sue

Sue, what do you say about more playing? Are you without both Vicky and Inda? In Sweden there is a saying...when the cat is away the rats dance....

And in Italy we say: Quando non c'è il gatto, i topi ballano ... exact translation. Today this was not the case ... a busy day back at work, like you dear Lilie ...
but I wish Inda a wonderful time in Hawaii!
Tired now.
Hugging you all and going to sleep ... hmmm DREAM ...

Love, Margherita

I’m open to love
my heart invites you to dance
come share my delight


senryu by Margherita

Thank you Everyone for your kind wishes. I had a very busy day as well and tomorrow will be even more hectic. Got to get things done before the mice begin to play

Now I will also do this:

I love you, Inda

I will have to travel very early tomorrow, so I wish you sweet dreams dear friends. Coming back at the very end of the month.

Sending you all much love, Inda

Just here for a moment to say hello .... it feels a little bit lonely ...

Have a beautiful week-end all.

Love, Margherita

I’m open to love
my heart invites you to dance
come share my delight


senryu by Margherita

I agree a little bit lonely...also a time of rest



Love to you
and a pleasant week-end

Lilie

Island dreams by Jim Warren

Thinking of Inda on the island ... sending her love.

Dear Karima, yes we do need to rest, to sit with a book, to think, just to BE.


Another senryu for you:


Today we shall rest
to absorb beauty and light:
to just love our life


Hugs. Margherita

yes, lets send love to Inda in Hawaii



Love,

Lilie

Haiku is a Japanese verse form that relies on brevity and simplicity to convey its message. It is usually three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, and frequently includes natural images or themes. It is believed to have been first written in the seventeenth century and is based on a Zen Buddhist philosophy of simplicity and the idea of perfection that excludes the extraneous.

This is the very brief explanation of haiku on www.poetry.com where they run a daily contest of haikus. I participate quite often and I have once won the mousepad with a haiku I submitted (it's a question of luck though, hundreds and hundreds of senryus/haikus are sent everyday, but it's fun!). With the following senryu (they actually call haiku everything, even if to be called a haiku, there must be a seasonal element in the verse - all other compositions are called senryu):

Life flows placidly
we have the choice to be free
to cry or to laugh



Have a beautiful Sunday, dear Karima.
Love and light. Margherita

Japaneese influence

Thank you Margeritha for the telling of the haiku..are the rules very specific?



Love,
Lilie