Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

Today's Stripe of Advice...

Your work is to discover your world, and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.~ Buddha

Why search for a pot of gold? All you need is beneath your nose!

Too often we spend our lives searching for something that isn't there. During the search, we miss what is already there. Living in the present moment is the pot of gold we are all looking for.

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!

I walk the path of the ancient ones. Nature is my church.

Throw Love around like confetti~

"Without Rain, there is no Bow" ~B.C.

To all the Los Angeles compl-RAIN-ers:
Remember, without rain there are no rainbows... a colorless world.

"In seed time learn, in harvest time teach, in winter enjoy." ~William Blake

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself~ Shunryu Suzuki

"A tree house, a free house,

a secret you and me house,

a high up in the leafy branches

cozy as can be house.

A street house, a neat house,

be sure to wipe your feet house

is not my kind of house at all- 

Let's go live in a tree house.” 

― Shel Silverstein

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day.

"A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that bird?"~Charles M. Schulz

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~ Khalil Gibran

Whether I'm hanging with the palms or pines- with the Trees is where I spend my time~BC

Oh Vail, you're a beauty

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.~ Henry David Thoreau

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."~Alan Watts

When in doubt... TWIRL!

Its been my therapy since I was a little girl~

Let your soul air out and vent,

go find a willow tree tent.

~BC

A portrait of the kindred spirit, Anne Shirley (as an adult)

"All things great are wound up with all things little". ~Anne of Green Gables