Cutting ties…

My Mind erases all the past
it crumbles away like day olds

Free I am
Free I’ll be
Healing is me now

Strong tall and straight
I stand
The Future holds me
in high regard

Much to do
Many yet to love
Messages yet to be delivered

Love flows through & as me
I transform before my eyes

My truth shines
Deep within it once hid
Radiating a new shade of happiness

I am free
I set myself free

(c) 2009 Tammy Younker

Life’s Little Favorite Things

We all have bad days, and we all have good days but what I have found to be perfect in changing a bad day or a so-so day into a great day is a freshly picked handful of raspberries.  It is one of the tiniest things that brings me such great pleasure.   The world goes away for a moment or two and life is perfect, still and silent.  It is one of the rare moments where I can BE present.

The next of life’s little things is….. wait for it….. a finely crafted cupcake.  Prepare yourself!  What you are about to see below is LoVE for me……  I think I have fallen in love….

What sounds better than a lemon pound cake beautifully topped with raspberry butter cream icing and a perfectly placed black berry of mother natures best???

Yes… perhaps…. a little over board…. in love with a cupcake, but alas, the joy I get from savouring every last crumb makes ANY day fabulous!

I think we spend so much time not loving the little things – my dear friend today shared that her most joyful/spiritual moments where the times she was child like – frolicking at the beach, making mud pies, laughing till you ache.  I agree with her.

As we get older and ‘life’ picks us up into the whurl wind, take a look around and find those child like, silly little things that bring you joy.  Embrace your inner child and take her out for a mud pie… or better yet a cupcake.

Live life…..with a little icing on top

Acceptance

“When we superimpose our ’stories’ upon what is beautiful, fear happens.  Then we question what we believe about reality.  To argue with reality, I argue with God….. and I always lose.”

Byron Katie

Only Human post 2

which way to go?
the darkness within haunts me
wrapped up in my head
crippled by the thoughts

feeling lost alone and isolated
only way out is through the storm
through the darkness

Not wanting to be swallowed whole
i linger on the shore
looking for a clear day

cliff behind, waves before me
all the while Peace looks back at me
as i look out over the waves

Am i ready to swim?
doubt i am strong enough
will the surf crash me against the rocks?
will the water be cold?
will it spit me out like a limp fish?

kisses from the wind
encourage me on
like the embrace of an angel

skeletons of those who have gone before me
reminds me that not all survive
or wish to…

On the shore casting my fears aside
moving forward not wanting to look down

run..
free
be me…
keep looking ahead

waist deep
weeds entangle my legs
ghosts of those before
warning

pleading…. be shore bound..

faint kisses from a distance
urge me to swim
forward
peace ahead like an island
promising rest and reward….

(c) Tammy Younker 2009

Only Human post 1

Your eyes never lie
I see the words behind them
always left out
never letting me in
a wall of thoughts keep us separated

both pleading for more
unable to be real
our lives past & present keep us standing still

Heart aching
wising to speak

pain distance and lost love
Speak your heart…

(c) 2009 Tammy Younker

Good Morning!

Good morning starshine
The earth says hello
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below

Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song

Must be the sunshine outside today…or could be the fact I woke up this morning singing this song. I’m taking it as a very good sign on how my weekend will go.

Here is my favorite rendition.

Now you can sing along with me.

Happy Saturday,

Ty

The Alchemist

“My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.” Exerpt: The Alchemist by Paula Coelho

When we travel through life and not listen to the dream in our heart we suffer. We have stress, we have worry, pain, suffering.
With all my clients we travel together to realign with the heart’s dream. Through bravery, support and Faith, we succeed.

Gandhi

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

More about Love….

Love…funny thing – Both exhilarating and excruciating.  Has the ability to make one optimistic and at peace with the world.

Joyful of the next meeting – of the anticipation.  Where shall we meet?  Being thrilled at the root.  Sexy, open and ready to love me.

My soul yearns no more.  Mate is here!!  The partner, the lover, the one….together at last.  My mind and heart are one, together we love as one.  Me and me alone is my one true love. 

But we have been together forever, never appreciating one another …taking advantage.

Scowling in the corner.  Hushing.  Glaring.  Punishing.

My head comes to my heart with flowers as an offering.  A grudge in return.

Heart is not ready to love the rest of me.

A note of apology – a million ‘I’m sorries’

Still, Heart holds closed, still patching the bleeding.   Wishing for the Love bleeding to stop.   Sad and scared…but still she beats.

Forgiveness Head asks for….

The lying, the crying, the anger, the abuse, the fear, the mistrust, the arrogance.  Please forgive me.  I live alone without you.  Heart, I bleed with you.  Love is of what  we are both made of.  I ask for forgiveness.  Please trust me to love you.

Heart opens in knowing the Love inside is the true life.  Love always flows.

Head Heart beating, vibrating as one in Love, Trust and Respect.  Love will keep us together.

No one will change the Love we have.  I am one, head and heart, as one, as Tammy, I’m in Love…with Me….finally….

The Four Candles

FAITH

Father

Accept

I

Tremble

Here

HOPE

Here

Open

Patient

Evolving

LOVE

Living

Observant

Vibrant

Eagerly

JOY

Jubilant

Open

Yours

PEACE

Patiently

Eminating

Appreciating

Calm

Embraced