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Namaste Sweetie,

Happy Monday!

I've posted a few sets today
I'm still going to be in and out this week

My dad is suppose to have surgery on his wrist Tuesday

My mom is now having trouble walking

So it has been a very hectic time around my place

I will be away from blogging the rest of this week

I want to thank you for your well wishes for my parents

I really do appreciate your love and support for me

I hope AOM will be back to regular programming next week

I wish you a wonderful week

Let us continue to promote

Peace and Love

and continue to build

The more Beautiful World

Our Hearts know is Possible

Peace and Love,

AOM

~*~

I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer

Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings

Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind

And focus on the here and now

This present moment

Now

Breathe in

Filling your being with peace and love

As you begin each line, breathe out slowly

Breathing these thoughts into the world

Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love

Sending them from your heart

Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings

Breathe in and repeat the process for each line

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by Ruby Silvious

Thanks to a Friend of AOM for sending us this wonderful art

"Some of us may give our used tea bags a second life by squeezing an extra steep out of them, but Ruby Silvious takes things a step further by using the thin paper as a canvas for miniature paintings. Silvious mirrors the simple ritual of tea drinking in quiet paintings that show slices of everyday life, like laundry drying and cats looking out the window.

The artist began her initial year-long series of paintings in January 2015. Since then, Silvious has compiled that year into a book, and traveled to Japan and southern France for month-long sessions of tea drinking and painting.

Her work is included in a group show “Deemed a Canvas” at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia, which opens on January 26th." (Source unknown)

~*~

"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers."

~Rabindranath Tagore

~*~

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”

~Amit Ray

(Meditation: Insights and Inspirations)

~*~

“I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.”

~Steve Maraboli

(Life, the Truth, and Being Free)

MUSIC: Ravel's "Boléro" conducted by Valery Gergiev

GLORIOUS

A Great Performance

Maurice Ravel

"Boléro"

Valery Gergiev conducting

The London Symphony Orchestra

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/ODeNHRtVNO4

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Tom Daley

Namaste Sweetie,

I'll be away from blogging this week

My dad fell and broke his wrist

So I'll be at my folks helping out this week

My plan is to resume posting on

Monday, January 29th

I wish you a wonderful week

Let us continue to promote

Peace and Love

and continue to build

The more Beautiful World

Our Hearts know is Possible

Peace and Love,

AOM

~*~

I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer

Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings

Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind

And focus on the here and now

This present moment

Now

Breathe in

Filling your being with peace and love

As you begin each line, breathe out slowly

Breathing these thoughts into the world

Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love

Sending them from your heart

Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings

Breathe in and repeat the process for each line

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Namaste Sweetie,

Happy Thor's Day!

I am taking off the rest of this week

And I may be away from blogging next week

I will have to see how I feel

I'll let you know on Monday

I hope you will enjoy your visit

I wish you a beautiful day

And a wonderful weekend

Let us continue to promote

Peace and Love

and continue to build

The more Beautiful World

Our Hearts know is Possible

Peace and Love,

AOM

~*~

I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer

Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings

Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind

And focus on the here and now

This present moment

Now

Breathe in

Filling your being with peace and love

As you begin each line, breathe out slowly

Breathing these thoughts into the world

Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love

Sending them from your heart

Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings

Breathe in and repeat the process for each line

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Poplars near Nuenen by Vincent van Gogh

~*~

 Walt Whitman

(from the preface to his first edition of Leaves of Grass)

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and the crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, 

have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, 

re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body..."

MUSIC: "Shimmer" by Tracey Chattaway

So Soothingly Beautiful

Tracey Chattaway

"Shimmer"

from the album, 'Third Place' 

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/nEnp3vgK-P4

Gallery AOM: Herb Ritts Photography

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