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Roots.

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If you celebrate a birthday in September, chances are you were conceived in January, sometime. Certainly, a fresh way to think of a birth-day (yes, I’m thinking of you, sister).

All that possibility. The idea of you. I wonder if you September babies have an affinity for January. Do you feel new?

My own beginnings took place in March. I can enjoy an extra celebration of myself every year in March, if I choose to think at it this way. When I do think of March, I think of the wind. In like a lamb, out like a lion. A change of season. In the “January” of life back then, I do not exist.

This March, though, I can ponder with fresh perspective. It’s a blessing to know where you come from. When you begin. How it can renew your spirit, even now.

 

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Being There

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“I think when you are somewhere, you oughta be there. ‘Cause it’s not about how long you stay in a place. It’s about what you do while you’re there. And – when you go, will the place where you’ve been be any better off for your having been there?”

-Chris-in-the-Morning, KBHR, Cicely, AK

Week 7 – This summer I am surprising myself with nested meditation – through images this week, inspired by psychologist Kevin Anderson, author of Divinity in Disguise. Signs are everywhere … recent trip to Cicely, Alask- I mean, Roslyn Washington.

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality. Photos by Janet Muniz.
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Serena Park

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Serena Park is quiet tonight

Serena Park is quiet- tonight,

raindrops are splashing on rooftops and trees

Serena Park is quiet- tonight,

raindrops are splashing on rooftops, and trees

sway to the musical moisture.

Serena Park is quiet because

the gun fire is drowning.

SerenaParkWeek 6 – This summer I am surprising myself with nested meditation, inspired by psychologist Kevin Anderson, author of Divinity in Disguise.

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality. Photo of Serena Park by Janet Muniz.
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Gardening

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The garden calls, sweetly, fragrantly

The garden calls, sweetly, fragrantly

Smells of green and geranium, pungent and true.

The garden calls, sweetly, fragrantly

Smells of green and geranium, pungent and true.

Sun-brightened, cared-for.

The garden calls, sweetly, fragrantly

Smells of green and geranium, pungent and true.

Sun-brightened, cared-for.

Thirst for life, now, calling and calling,

deep from the root. Urgent, panic …

The garden calls, sweetly, fragrantly

Smells of green and geranium, pungent and true.

Sun-brightened, cared-for.

Thirst for life, now, calling and calling,

deep from the root. Urgent … panic?

Mother Earth comforts her.

The garden calls, sweetly, fragrantly

Smells of green and geranium, pungent and true.

Sun-brightened, cared-for.

Thirst for life, now, calling and calling,

deep from the root. Urgent, panic?

Mother Earth comforts her.

Inhabit your emptiness, she says. Let the fast set you free.

071815_ShapeOfTrees_GardeningWeek 5 – This summer I am surprising myself with nested meditation, inspired by psychologist Kevin Anderson, author of Divinity in Disguise.

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality. Photo by Janet Muniz.
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My sweetness is gone

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In grief, the skin burns

In grief, the skin burns

white, blanching heart and soul.

In grief, the skin burns

white, blanching, heart and soul

gasping for breath

In grief, the skin burns

white, blanching, heart and soul

gasping for breath.

Until a breeze stokes embers and aura

In grief, the skin burns

white, blanching, heart and soul

gasping for breath.

Until a breeze stokes embers and aura

lifting smoke and loss.

GriefSammie Week 4 – This summer I am surprising myself with nested meditation, inspired by psychologist Kevin Anderson, author of Divinity in Disguise.

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality. Photo by Janet Muniz.
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Pull of place

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If I leave you

If I leave, you

will come for me.

If I leave, you

will come for me,

opening your spaces so I can see

If I leave, you

will come for me,

opening your spaces so I can see

my own flesh and bone in you.

If I leave, you

will come for me,

opening your spaces so I can see

my own flesh and bone -in you,

so clear what’s meant for me.

The desertIndependence Day Week 3 – This summer I am surprising myself with nested meditation, inspired by psychologist Kevin Anderson, author of Divinity in Disguise.

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality.
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Healing Waters

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The scent of sage and sweet grass

The scent of sage and sweet grass

rises from the Earth

The scent of sage and sweet grass

rises from the Earth.

Rainfall filters the air

The scent of sage and sweet grass

rises from the Earth.

Rainfall filters the air,

caressing gently with memory

The scent of sage and sweet grass

rises from the Earth.

Rainfall filters the air,

caressing gently with memory.

Afterward, faded glow renews

The scent of sage and sweet grass

rises from the Earth.

Rainfall filters the air,

caressing gently with memory.

Afterward, faded glow renews

moving forward through the clearing sky.

062615_ShapeOfTrees_CollageSummer Rains Week 2 – This summer I am surprising myself with nested meditation, inspired by psychologist Kevin Anderson, author of Divinity in Disguise.

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality.
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When it hurts to move

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ooooo …

ooooo …

ooooo-JAH

ooooo …

ooooo-JAH

ooooo-JAH-yee …

ooooo …

ooooo-JAH

ooooo-JAH-yee …

ujjayi, waves of breath, ocean motion

ooooo …

ooooo-JAH

ooooo-JAH-yee …

ujjayi, waves of breath, ocean motion

soft, slow release.

062115_ShapeOfTrees_UjjahiSummer Solstice Week 1 – This summer I am surprising myself with nested meditation, inspired by psychologist Kevin Anderson, author of Divinity in Disguise.

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality. Photo of Atlantic Ocean by Janet Muniz.
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Influence.

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There’s this thing making the rounds on social media lately. The Top 15 Movies or TV Series That Have Made an Impact on You Challenge. I am simply not able to let it go. So … here’s my list and the reasoning behind it:

Dances with Wolves – makes me so very humble and truly present
Star Wars – gives me unexpected joy
Out of Africa – resonates with my heart
Beauty and the Beast – perfect in every way, plus I know all the songs by heart
JFK – who was assassinated on my birthday
Cinema Paradiso – the essence of movie magic
Being There – my kind of humor
Murphy’s Romance – the law of attraction
Picket Fences – three words: David E. Kelley (and the funniest fart scene I’ve ever seen on screen)
Northern Exposure – hooked from the first promo, for the first time
CBS Sunday Morning – Charles Kuralt is the reason I work in media
That Girl – young girlish goodness
“The Joy of Painting” with Bob Ross – my introduction to meditation
Food Network – Barefoot Contessa/Tyler’s Ultimate/Michael Chiarello’s Easy Entertaining in particular – brings me out of a burnout stupor
Rocky & Bullwinkle (especially Fractured Fairytales) – understanding that a brilliant mind can be crazy, too

Here are a few extras (Only 15? Come on!):
The Shawshank Redemption – definition of hope … and the discovery of Zihuatanejo
The Way We Were – opening scenes shot at Union College in Schenectady, NY
Sophie’s Choice – the power of a single, unflinching camera angle
The Flying Nun – I look so much like Sally Field as a young girl, folks call me “Gidget.” And they are spot on, only I relate to The Flying Nun a little more -what, with me wanting to be a nun at the time
Lonesome Dove – I am a cowboy in another life
Xena: Warrior Princess – laughter all day, every day, whistling while I work

These, I keep coming back to … for now!

  • Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality.
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Pretty Blooms

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Glade Spring Spa at Suncadia Resort – Cle Elum, WA

Janet Muniz is an award-winning professional writer known for informative articles, inspiring blog posts and engaging video content. Currently a Creative Content Strategist with EverEffect | Internet Marketing Agency & Consulting Firm, her personal blog is devoted to filling the well with poetry, pictures and originality.