Your Moment of Bliss ~ First Signs of Spring

Depending on who you are, your bliss is very different from mine. Take these images for example. To the left is my daughter, rocking the powder in Vail, Colorado. Spring snow storms in the Rockies bring her bliss – she’s doing what she loves to do – becoming one with fresh powder.  Me? I don’t think you could pay me enough money to do what she does. When it comes to flying down the side of mountain, she’s fearless!  I’d much rather sit back, do nothing, and watch my crocus’ bloom!

In the photo on the left, my daring daughter, Christina Campbell. To the right, my crocus babies…

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

~ Zen Saying

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

~ Samuel Johnson

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

~ Kenneth Hildebrand

What are your favorite signs of Spring?

Your Moment of Bliss

Happiness…bliss…what is it?  Really?  What does it look like?  This is what bliss looks like to me.  This is my daughter, Christina.  On top of her world…touching the sky…a smile so big you can’t help but smile back…she embodies bliss…doing what she loves and loving what she does.

May your day be as grand as this…no matter what you’re doing!

Christina Campbell, On Top of The World, Vail, Colorado ~ 2010

Creativity

I interrupt your moment of bliss to bring you a moment of creativity…my nephew and his wife are having a baby boy in early February and I made this blanket last weekend…

Just a simple Granny Square pattern done in brown, blue and a variegated brown/blue yarn.

The edging

Special thanks to my Grandma for teaching me how to crochet when I was seven…

My grandma, Bella Chapman Bell, and my dad when he was just a few weeks old – 1941

Your Moment of Bliss

© Snow on Pink by Peggy Nolan

Memory is not for recollecting pleasure.  It is for creating a fund of experience as a basis for further correct action and behavior…Memory provides foresight for error…Awareness, with discrimination and memory breaks down bad habits, which are repeated actions based on wrong perception, and replaces them with their opposite…

~ Yoga sutra 1.43, as explained by B.K.S. Iynegar in “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”

In other words, habits we train are habits we gain.  What right action habits are you training?