It’s always fun to watch how music affects everyone differently.

I’m glad your ongoing situation worked out in the end. I bet you gained a ton of knowledge from the experience.

Yes, time indeed is a funny thing in how it can be perceived in so many different ways, depending on the task.

My week turned out to be pretty interesting as we were planning a trip up north, but could not really commit to it till last minute for weather reasons and all worked out!

Hard: Not doing enough yoga this week – I had the time, just didn’t make it a big enough priority.

Fun: Going up north and moving on making our next dream a reality.

Beautiful: Seeing winter in the serene and tranquil setting of the untouched cottage country areas. Gosh it is so much more beautiful than winter in the city with slushy roads and grey days.

For me, the week went like this:
Hard: A tough decision in my personal life, coupled with a long day at work this week that left me really tired.

FUN: I think my “fun” response will always include friends. This week was no exception — sharing an unexpected dinner with eight people and having a BLAST! So much love and laughter around that table… I felt blessed.

Beautiful: That tough personal decision from before, believe it or not, has left a beautiful imprint on my soul. What’s more, it resulted in my receiving a dozen roses that are – in a word – breathtaking. Love and respect always yield love and respect. Period. I’ve seen this over and over in my life, regardless of influencing factors.

Fun
My sister and two nieces are visiting from MI and it’s the first time any family of origin have come in the 2&1/2 years we’ve been in AZ. Spent yesterday talking and laughing over old and new times.

Beautiful
Knowing when to keep my mouth closed…Knowing when to walk a mile in another’s shoes and empathize with them.
Knowing to accept others as they are with no desire to change them. In fact knowing they are perfect and anything I would want to judge them about is all about me and my lessons. Knowing how truly beautiful is to know and practice this is what makes my life smooth and happy today!

Sounds like you had a great time writing the article that resonated with your soul. It’s an amazing experience when you write a piece that feels like it’s just being downloaded straight from the Universe. Your description of time when it dragged by made me think of the melted clocks in Salvador Dali’s painting, “The persistence of memory”

Here’s my summary of the hard,fun and beautiful for this week.

Hard: Not being able to be with my sweetie in India to attend his second cousin’s wedding. I so wanted to go there for his cousin’s wedding, but I needed to be be here to wrap up the last of some ongoing craziness.

Fun: Well, since I couldn’t be there in person, my sweetie found a way to bring the pre-wedding festivities to me remotely,courtesy of skype and a webcam! You have to love modern technology sometimes!

Beautiful: All of these lovely dance performances–performed by family and extended family– that I’m currently watching and that are occurring half a world and half a day away. Getting to at least participate passively and from a distance in such a joyful occasion.

Also beautiful this week is that an ongoing situation that has been a real energy drain has finally been resolved to my satisfaction. I am so happy to finally close the book on that crazy story and move on.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

Fun: Going through the list of Best Picture nominees and trying to see as many as possible before the awards. So far I’ve seen two, will be four by the end of the weekend.

Beautiful: As much as I dislike snow, it does look pretty. When it’s not blocking my car, that is.

Time is a great example where perspective makes all the difference in the world. I have an interesting book on playing with time and perspective, but I haven’t prioritized reading it yet.