Monday, February 13, 2017

This and that and another birthday celebrated

I want a Cheshire cat to live in my garden forever.  I want to hide a star in a Byzantine jewelry box decorated in jade and black velvet, and hold it on the palm on my hand whenever I want.  I want to open my magical jewelry casket every time my soul's light is weak and see my star erasing all darkness away.  I want a magical orange tree in the heart of my garden with fruits that possess the power to affect in curious ways anyone who eats them, and I want to be a famous girl drummer.  A bohemian-style wild hair kind of a girl drummer, dressed in crystal embellished frocks, over-the-knee boots, fringe-adorned dresses, and velvety shawls.  In another dream, I see myself in a totally different light.  I'm holding a shinny violoncello between my knees. The body of the cello gently resting against my chest, whilst I balance it between my knees; eyes closed, head turning towards where the music leads... same Stevie Nick's knee-high boots and bohemian layers style, but instead of the wild girl drummer, I'm a passionate melodious, gentle cello girl.  Oh yes, I'm pretty sure I am two women in one...   


The Fisherman is having another birthday today, so we celebrate his day and Valentine's Day in one day, which it really is the same to me in representation of love, and what love really means.  It's pointless to decorate the little white cottage for Valentine's Day.  I find this practice tacky in every way, and instead try to gather all these meaningful thoughts in my heart and keep them there for the rest of the year... endurance, friendship, acceptance, forgiveness, romance, passion, and partnership—this should be an everyday thing, don't you think so?  The initial intensity of love may lessens with time and age, but what grows up around it is a huge amount of shared experience and fulfillment that can seem to eclipse that intensity.  Love then becomes more exciting, passionate, hilarious, fulfilling, etc., all the time.  It is not magic.  But it is!

I love when in the morning the sun slides this way and this other way on the horizon until it finally rests upon this corner of our little white cottage... the light streaming through the windows on this part of the house has the power to create something beautiful, and magical in me.

  
Mornings are still cold around here, and for more that I want to get outside and start working the soil, I must wait.  If it gets a little warmer this afternoon, I will start removing dead leaves and debris from the flowerbeds.  In the mean time, I will continue drawing beauty and strength from my little jungle inside the house... all those houseplants and potted plants winterizing inside the house; which I should say, are doing wonderful, and growing greener and suppler everyday. 

  




The Fisherman got me some little lights the other day... I'm lighting up the inside of the kitchen shelves.  I need more lights for the upper shelving, but I'm already loving all that aqua coming to life and pretty dishes that now I can see.





A few weeks ago I bought a bunch of bulbs that I should be planting anytime soon.  It may be a little early in the year for this, but every store I go to are already packing shelves with perennials and bulbs, and it's hard to contain oneself when you are a gardener or a garden lover and winter becomes too long... 




I've been working on a few projects inside the house.  Last months I found these large lamps at our local thrift store and brought them home.  I had big plans for them.  


And thus, they got glamorized a bit...


To match with my living room decor...


Perfection!



I hope you're enjoying each moment with a joyful heart.  Don't think that everything is peachy-happy in my life, because it isn't.  Having to deal with chronic pain and discomfort seems to be my everyday cup of tea lately, but I still believe that positive emotions, faith in an ever-powerful everlasting God, love, purpose, determination, and humor boosts disease fighting immune cells... and there's joy.

See you soon!






16 comments:

  1. "Having to deal with chronic pain and discomfort seems to be my everyday cup of tea lately"

    So sorry... This, along with worries about your mother... I am so sorry...

    I'm also taking for granted, that you are doctoring, for whatever is causing this pain... You are, yes?

    Please say yes....

    Gentle hugs and good wishes,
    Luna Crone

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    1. Thank you for your concern, Miss Luna. Very nice of you. I am doctoring this, very discouraging when things don't get better... but I'll see better days. Thank you again dear Luna.

      Cielo

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    2. So happy you are doctoring.

      I have had a long time (3 months), with a left knee, on which I could not walk. But finally, finally, this last procedure, is working. Long, long, long path this has been though.

      Best wishes, that your relief, will be coming soon.

      Gentle hugs,
      Luna Crone

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    3. Glad to hear you are doing better Miss Luna... you do need good knees to be able to fly those spring skies atop a proper broom, you know! ;) Magic is about to awaken!

      Cielo

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  2. Such beautiful aqua lights and lighting in your kitchen. I'm loving the wall of art with your guitar. . .very hippie bohemian, and very, very cool! If I had a place to do something similar, I would. Spring can't get here soon enough, can it? We're seeing snowdrops and hellebore pushing through the ground, but we're several weeks and months away from being able to get anything new planted. Drives me crazy! Cielo, I do hope that you will find relief from the pain you're suffering with. A positive attitude, which you have, and PRAYER makes for the best medicine. Best thoughts to you!

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    1. How beautiful to read this comment and imagine all those winter blooms breaking the soil, as spring put forth a foot in the wintery landscape.... thank you for sharing this with me.

      Cielo

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  3. @ Today is my hubby's birthday too and, given last Monday it was mine, we celebrated them yesterday !

    Happy birthday to your Fisherman and thank you for the lovely images of your carming home you always share, darling Cielo, I'm thinking of you with love and prayers ...

    XX Dany

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    1. Hi Danny... same birthday day! What a coincidence... ;) ;)

      Cielo

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  4. Love the lights in the kitchen. They are sweet and fun! This house is so different from your other home, isn't it? But---it suits you---it is a beautiful place-one that looks like HOME. Hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day- xo Diana

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    1. Yes, it is so different, and I still miss the house in the roses so much, but this little cottage is so much me, and we really love it. A happy Valentine's Day to you NanaDiana!

      Cielo

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  5. Those aqua cabinet! So pretty! Happy Valentine's Day.....

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  6. Beautiful kitchen! I love the lights in the cabinets. Are they stuck to the top or is there a cord? The lamps turned out to be very lovely. Most definitely you have a talent to repurpose! I have to disagree about Valentines Day. I love decorating for that day. There is something very energizing and happy about the color red and the sweet decor I find is amazing. Besides, It is only up for 14 days. Aqua, is another favorite color of mine also!!

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    1. Hi dear Ginny... so nice seeing you! The lights are battery operated, and they come with their own remote so you can turn them on and off as you see fit. You just stuck them to the shelves by removing the adhesive behind them, and you're done. I love them! I'm happy that you are happy enjoying decorating for Valentine's Day. We should employ our time in doing that which brings joy and happiness to our lives... I bet you are a dreamer just like me... and no one else's perspectives should weigh in greatly enough to shift a dreamer's drive. Enjoy every moment!

      Cielo

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