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Honoring Oursevles during the Heart month

This is the month of the heart…personally I think everyday should be about the heart, but we can come back to that thought process later.  This has been deemed the month of lovers, the month of chocolates, valentines and red roses.  I think that February 14th is a lovely day to celebrate…but on that day and in this month, do you only think of your partner, children, parents…or do you remember and honor yourself.  Honoring yourself, a thought that has only come to light in the last couple of years.  We are so busy taking care of everyone else, who takes care of us??  Do you pamper yourself, with a walk on the beach by yourself without your cell phone,  treat yourself to a massage, a workout, a good cup of coffee with the sun shinning on your face.  Do you think your worthy of spoiling yourself??  Do you love and honor yourself enough to take that time just for you,  to find you, to love you.  (Kunzite and crystal necklace…all about the heart chakra)

Then there is the matter of the heart everyday, do we come from the heart everyday??  Why don’t we do the things for our partners and ourselves everyday??  Has life gotten so hetic that we can’t find 10 minutes in a day to write a note,  make the call and  say I love you or that you are  in my thoughts, to pick a few flowers from the garden or sit outside and watch the moon and the stars and feel the universe for just a few minutes.  Yes these are easy things that you can do for yourself and with your partner…and there doesn’t need to be a special day to make those small but intimate things happen.  There is one more thing, don’t forget to hug yourself, and look at yourself in the mirror everyday and know that you love yourself and that you are loved…and worthy of love!!  In these crazy times, find the time to love those that matter including yourself…many hugs with much love to all…Randi

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The Holidays…

Well the holidays are here…and there are so many things that I could be writing about.  I could write about people shopping and trying to put the perfect presents under the tree…btw if you are out there shopping please go to the small business owners and local artists in your area.   If you do, this will keep help to keep your community growing and thriving!!  I could write about the rushing round to get to holiday parties and attending them,  preparing the food, cooking in the kitchen, and shopping for just the right outfit.  I could write about the fact that this time of year either brings out the best in people or the worst in people.  I am not really going to write about any of those. 

I am going to write about taking care of yourself.  All year long we take care of other people, and we neglect ourselves.  I am not talking about becoming selfish, but making sure that you have enough of you so that you can be there for others.  We are always there for our friends, family, our bosses and our jobs.  When are we there for ourselves??   This is the most stressful time of year, this is when we need to make sure that we have balance.  I laugh sometimes when I discuss balance with people.  They look at me like I have lost my mind.  Balance, where do I make the time to have/find balance??  If there is ever a time of year…this is the time of year to find our balance.  If we don’t take care of ourselves then who will??  We can’t be there for our friends and family when we are empty.   If you find yourself in a conversation where you can feel it will go wrong, them honor your feelings and get out of the conversation.  If you are tired excuse yourslf and go get some rest.  Try to eat right and yes, the old drink plenty of water comment is next on the list.  These are things that will help your body to try and stay in balance during this stressful time of year.  Find something to read or do that is just for you, to remind you that you are special and important.  Honor that inner royal person that you so often forget!!  With all of these words, no matter what…be kind to your self and remember to love yourself!! 

One final note…I will not be at Holiday Hoopla in Gulfport this Saturday or at Horan Park on Sunday, due to a special event over in Orlando.  I will however be back next weekend Pass-a-Grille market on Saturday the 17th and Horan Park on Sunday the 18th.  Hope to see you all soon, somewhere…wishing you a wonderful season with many hugs an much love to all…

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Life is a Carnival

The Band sang a song once talking about Life being a Carnival…Take your best shot was one of the lines in the song if memory serves me correctly.  Well life is a carnival, and sometimes at the carnival we have a blast and sometimes we eat too much cotton candy and get sick as a dog!!  I have been there on both sides of the fence.  I have also been on both sides of the life fence…and can imagine that I still will be.  How we look at our life is what is important!!! 

As I write this right now there is a young woman who is on her way for chemo treatment…she is a bright star…and today while she is sitting there with a machine hooked up to her arm….I can imagine that she will make everyone smile.  Tomorrow or the next day she will not feel so well as this chemical goes into her body to do what it will do to help the battle this disease.  She will most likely go into her self and deal with the after effects of the “treatment” or the day at the carnival where we ate too much candy.  I know that during this down time, this young woman will take to the time to realease  some old stuff and continue to do what is best for her…because this dis-ease has taught he to do just that.  She will take these moments of being low and let herself be surrounded by love. 

 We plan these great lives for ourselves, and I am not saying that we shouldn’t, while we thought we were writing our own play, and in complete total control and balance something comes along and knocks us on our feet…well folks it is called life.  How we handle that is part of our learning.   At 50 did I write the story of being divorced twice and no longer owning a home…maybe I did and maybe I didn’t, but the one thing I can tell you is that we move on.  it is our life and we can see it as a great day at the carnival or a day where the fried Twinkies and cotton candy got to us.  Live you life with grace and ease,  look at your down days with a smile as much as your up days…because those down days as a friend of mine has told me…give us time to come back to who we really are…many hug with much love to all… Randi

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Inner strength…

Again it has been a few weeks since I have been able to blog.  The world, atleast mine seems to moving at a fast pace, and I am keeping up and just amazed at all that is going on.  The show season has been wonderful in so many ways this season and for that I am grateful. 

Now it is on to a move…this was something that has been planned since the first of the year, not really ever knowing when exactly I would have to be out.  Just trusting that all will happen as it is supposed to…and ofcourse it is.  This is about letting go…and moving forward.  Sometimes when this happens we get scared.    We look at ourselves and wonder is this the right thing to do…but we might forget to add the words…”for me”.  There are moments when you feel like you are all alone…well trust me you are not.  It is at those dark moments, that a trusted friend calls…yeah they knew.  It is at those  moments when you feel the sun hit you in a way that you have never felt it before, or hear the wind blow, like it is really the first time you heard it…these moments get you through those dark places of feeling alone.  Because that wind blowing and that sun hitting on you…well it just means you belong to a bigger picture…and then that move, or that letting go seems to be a bit easier.  No one ever says it is always easy, and there are those times when it is down right sad.   That is when we find our inner strength and know that whatever we are doing…it is the right thing for us to do at this very moment in our lives. 

I have chosen this awesome turquoise, amazonite and pearl necklace  to show.  Turquoise will help us to recieve the guidance we might need,pearls to keep those obsticles out of our way, and the amazonite will give us the strength and the calmness…helping us to get through some of those moments where we need to find our inner strength.  If you find your self on a journey…and you aren’t sure exactly where it is going…just know that you will find your inner strength.  Many hugs with much love to all…Randi

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Balance and a Happy 2011!!

So the holidays are over, well for some of us they are.  Me personally I am getting ready to celebrate a year that I never thought in my younger days I would see!!!  Yep one of those wonderful milestones, as we call them when you get to these numbers…lol!!  I don’t understand why, oh yeah it’s that we made it through our stupid years, our years of I can do anything with no fear…where we ran at mock one or higher just to see if we could.  We had no balance.  Then once we realize that we either are or are not indestructible we hit the next phase or our life…the “Working World”.  Yikes, to some of us money and things become very important to us, we again run like the wind, hoping to set the world on fire with our talents, burning our selves at both ends and never finding the middle and of course looking for approval. We try to balance family, career and anything else that life seems to throw at us. With all of this comes the lessons and gifts of life, some very easy, some not so easy…the one that has escaped me until now, balance.  Finally after almost 50 years I am learning about balance, the lack of and the increasing search for it, and now that I am finding it, how it can change your life. I have found some pretty important things along my way, balance has become a very important one.  I wish that for all of you, you find balance in whatever it is you do…in this year of 2011!!  Many hugs with much love to all…

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