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6月23日 Dancing Ribbons Of Light
6月21日 You Are The Sunshine
ABOUT DAVID WILCOX Cleveland-born Wilcox was inspired to play guitar after watching a fellow student play in a stairwell at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH. Transferring to Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, in 1981, Wilcox began taking music seriously. Although he took four lessons with a classical guitarist, Wilcox developed most of his playing technique on his own. In addition to being inspired by Joni Mitchell to play in a variety of tunings, he designed a capo that produced an unusual sound by leaving one or more strings unaltered. Wilcox strengthened his skills as a performer through regular appearances at an Asheville night club called McDibbs. His debut album, The Nightshift Watchman, was released in 1987 on his own label, Song of the Woods, and reissued in 1996 by Koch International; it featured scaled-down arrangements and launched Wilcox's career as a touring musician. After performing at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Wilcox signed with A&M in 1989. His first release on the label, How Did You Find Me Here, sold over 100,000 copies by word of mouth. Wilcox subsequently recorded two other studio albums for the label -- Home Again in 1991 and Big Horizon in 1994. In 1991, the label released a six-song CD, Mostly Live: An Authorized Bootleg. East Asheville Hardware, Wilcox's first album after being dropped by A&M, featured live recordings of previously unreleased tunes including a version of Chuck Brodsky's satirical song "Blow 'Em Away." His contract with A&M ended after four albums in 1994, but Wilcox has continued to share his love of music and his explorations of personal growth. His 1997 album Turning Point recorded in the log cabin studio in the woods behind his home, represented a shift to a more controlled approach to music, while his February 1999 release, Underneath, continued to focus on his vocals and guitar playing despite the additional instrumentation of electric guitars, keyboards, and rhythm section. Although his albums have featured diverse arrangements, Wilcox continues to perform in concert as a soloist. In August 2000, What You Whispered was released. A best-of collection followed the next year, released during his successful national tour. Due to his popularity, the demand for a live album became too great and he offered Live Songs and Stories in the summer of 2002. Into the Mystery appeared in 2003, followed by a joint effort with Nance Pettit, Out Beyond Ideas, in 2005 and Vista in 2006. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide 6月20日 Remembering The Lights
I was 15 that summer. I had worked as a camp counselor at a Bible Camp for a couple of months. I had a new cabin full of 10-11 year old girls every week. Looking back, I remember long days of swimming, hiking and volleyball that ended in a bonfire every night. We sang with energy that could only be explained by the steady flow of s'mores. My folks wanted me to come home early to help them, which mostly just meant watching the kids while mom shopped for back-to-school and then, helping her and the little kids get everything organized. Most evenings, I went with my friends to another camp a half hour north of us. It was a retreat camp for families. They had old time revival meetings every night. I liked listening to the preaching but my favorite part was the music. I had grown up in the Lutheran Church where the services were formal and reserved. The old hymns were all we sang, but at the retreat camp, they sang about Jesus the way people sing about love and when they prayed, they didn't just read a prayer out of a book. They talked to God the way I'd talk to you, like they were having a conversation and they knew God would hold up his part of the conversation by answering.
The tabernacle was a huge log A-Frame with two floors. It was built into a hill. The meeting place was on ground level and there was a big cafeteria in the basement. It wasn't anything special ... just a plain building in the middle of the woods, but when the services started, it was God's House. You could feel electricity in the air. People spoke in tongues. I'd never heard that before. In fact, the first time I heard it, it scared me! I got over being scared. I still didn't know what to think though, so I watched the people around me. I was so curious, I even prayed with my eyes open, anxious to see what would happen next! People I had grown up with, acted different in that tabernacle in the woods, and I really didn't understand, but I wanted to, so I watched. One night, during the praise part of the service, a man stood up and read from the Second Chapter of Acts: And it shall be in the last days, God says,
That I will pour forth of My Spirit upon all mankind;
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
And your young men shall see visions,
And your old men shall dream dreams ...
I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit ... And I will grant wonders in the sky above,
And signs on the earth beneath ...
Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come. I watched as the words flowed over the people in the room, like a wave. I don't remember what the speaker talked about, but I do remember that signs and wonders in the sky was a recurring theme. The service ended and we began to file out of the building but as people walked out the door, we heard gasping and "Praise the Lord" and "Oh my goodness" and one man said, "Surely, on this night, God is making His presence known". We hurried outside, anxious to see what all the excitement was about ... The sky was alive with bright, dancing northern lights! They weren't the typical blue or green, but bright red! Instead of just being in the Northern half of the sky, they were all around us! They seemed to be coming from directly above us, like water being drizzled over an invisible dome in the sky! I don't know what anyone else was thinking at that moment. I heard a few people whispering, a few praying and from somewhere, I heard faint music but I was completely mesmerized by the lights in the sky. They felt personal. They felt like a love letter from God Almighty. It was red like the blood of Jesus, and it was alive and flowing over everything I could see, from one horizon to the other. I have no idea how long I stood there, looking up, but when my neck got tired, I went and leaned against a big rock and kept watching the sky. I have always loved LIGHT ... LIGHT speaks to me. LIGHT inspires me. I like watching LIGHT dance in the shadows of leaves. I like the way LIGHT plays in the waves and sparkles in the snow. I like the way LIGHT photographs. I like the way those big candle power beams announce grand openings. I like sparks of LIGHT in fireworks. I like seeing the LIGHT of sunrise or sunset on someone's face. My kid's great - great grandfather wrote a poem about LIGHT ... God Said Let Their Be Light When our way leads through the shadow Let us always bear in mind That the shadow owes it's being To the light that shines behind. When whatever shade beclouds us, We may feel that all is right Indubitably knowing That the shadow proves the light. I had never seen a sky like that before or since, but many times, when I have faced a really tough challenge or carried an especially heavy burden, I'd think about the night that God filled the sky with signs and wonders, and know that everything is going to be all right.
6月19日 You Should See The Way It Feel To Me YOU SHOULD SEE THE WAY IT FEELS TO ME ~ David Wilcox But you should see the way it feels to me Here's the sidewalk I used to ride my bike Down this little slope, down my little mountain Start by the driveway spinning up to speed Careful on the gravel 'cause it's nasty on the knees Watch out for the branches on that apple tree Soar down to the corner  Well I guess it's not as high as I remember It might not be a mountain after all But it was hard enough to climb And steep enough to coast Long enough to satisfy And fast enough to boast  It may look to you like nothing much to see But you should see the way it feels to me  Here's the tree house, I used to spend my night Up this little tree, way up in my mansion Jump to the first branch, walk it upside down Careful of your grip 'cause it's a long way to the ground Better get a handhold before you look around You can see into forever  Well I guess it's not as high as I remember It might not be a mansion after all But it was hard enough to climb And safe enough to sleep Big enough to satisfy And home enough for me  It may look to you like nothing much to see But you should see the way it feels to me  Here's the old man who used to be the child So long ago, not so very long though Look at the memory, think of all those years Looking through the sparkle of the sunlight in the tears Better take another look before you disappear You can see across your lifetime  So I look at where I've come and where I'm going I will never be the greatest after all But it was hard enough to climb To get to where I've been Love enough to satisfy And life enough to live  I make look to you like nothing much to be But you should see the way it feels to me You should see the way it feels to me  Every little town in Minnesota
had a main street that consisted of: a church a bank a bar and a grain elevator and in between every little town were lots of lakes, fields and woods ... Sometimes, the bar was also a grill, a grocery store, a gas station, or even a post office. In the winter, we had LOTS of snow. In the summer, we had LOTS of mosquitos. Every year had ... potato salad picnics, fishing season, hunting season, football season, planting time and harvest time. We celebrated every holiday with old country traditions, and we worked all year on making sure the family had a Norman Rockwell Christmas. When I drive through town, I can still smell the wood stove, and the church ladies perfumes. I can still taste Mom's hotdish and Verda's bars. I can still see Grandma's flowers and the northern lights in the winter sky. I can still hear the old folks Scandinavian accents and the friendly laughter that went with every gathering. I can still feel the warmth of a quilt and the softness of crochet ... I can still feel the love ... even though they are gone now ... I wish you could feel the way I see ... 6月15日 Just WonderingHave you ever wondered why you feel the way you do? Have you questioned an idea you always thought was true? Was your answer, "Well, that's the way it's always been ..." or "That's just the way it is."
Are you sure? We collect information our whole lives about ourselves, us people (the people we know), those people (the people we don't know), and the world, in general. Some of those ideas were just someone else's opinion and we adopted it as our own, but it was still just an opinion. Some of our best ideas, we dreamed up, all by ourselves ... when we were 8 or 9 or 10 years old! It's funny when you think of it. Would any of us do anything a 8, 9 or 10 year old told us to do? Of course not! And yet, we "grown ups" operate everyday on the silly ideas we gathered when we were 8, 9 and 10 years old!!! Those old beliefs and ideas influence the way we act, the way we talk and the way we think ... But what if we got it wrong?
I wonder how many times I let that little child tell me what to do? If I could do it, maybe other people do it too? It certainly explains a lot. 6月14日 Your Words Have Power
Words carry energy and this gives language its power and its potential to heal or hurt. Most of us can remember a time that someone sent a word our way, and it stuck with us. It may have been the first time we received a truly accurate compliment, or the time a friend or sibling called us a name, but either way it stuck. This experience reminds us that what we say has weight and power and that being conscious means being aware of how we use words.
6月13日 Today, I Will Make A Difference
I will be grateful for the twenty-four hours that are before me. I will not let past failures haunt me. I will spend time with those I love. Today ... I will make a difference. 6月12日 Wild Women Do !!!Instead of wasting too much time looking back and asking "What if ..." What would happen if we looked ahead and ask the same question ... "What if ..." I like this song's chorus: Wild women do And they don't regret it Wild women show What they're goin' through Wild women do What you think they'll never What you only dream about Wild women do!  WILD is knowing WHO you are, no matter what life throws at you, no matter where you are or who you're with, no matter who is or isn't watching. WILD is not being afraid to color outside the lines or break a few rules. WILD is asking the hard questions. WILD is finding the right answers. WILD is being free to grow your own dreams and making them come true. WILD WOMEN are a force to be reckoned with, each a phenomenon of strength and courage with the scars to prove it. WILD is taking the road less traveled. WILD is knowing and doing what it takes. WILD is taking care of you first and the rest of your world after that.  6月11日 You Can Be Your Own HeroYesterday, I read about going with the flow and today, I read about awakening the inner warrior! Somehow, that makes sense to me because life is a balance between the two. Trusting that your life is unfolding as it is supposed to creates an inner peace and calm, a reservoir of strength. But, there are times when you are called to defend yourself, your family, your friends, even your country. My Mom used to say, "If you don't stand for SOME THING, you will fall for anything." I have two sides to me, and you probably do too? ... The side that is capable of walking away from insignificant and unnecessary drama ... and another side that is ready, willing and able to throw my hat in the ring! Stoking The Fire Within Awakening The Inner Warrior There are certain personality archetypes that we all carry within us, such as the inner child, the lover, and the mother. Some of these archetypes present themselves strongly, while others lay fallow. For example, there is an inner warrior in each one of us, but in some of us this warrior is underdeveloped to the point that we are unable to stand up for ourselves, even when necessary. There can be many reasons for this. We may have grown up with a parent whose warrior aspect was overdeveloped, and we responded by repressing ours completely. On the other hand, we may have grown up with parents in whom this aspect was dormant, so we never learned to awaken it in ourselves. 6月10日 Navigating Deep Water Just thinking ... I am a woman who used to live with lots of worries and regrets, but not anymore! Good grief!
Half of the things I worried about just NEVER happened. No, more than that! 89% of the things I worried about never happened. 10% of the things that happened, I never even thought about and 1% actually was worse than I could have imagined!
Did all that worrying and fretting do anything but give me indigestion? Nope!
My friend, Daisy, talks about the spiral path ... Natalie Cole sings a song about going all around the world to find something just five minutes away ... I wonder now, why it took me so long to TRUST that things just were the way they were ... and today, they just are what they ARE ...
Simple! That doesn't mean we don't have a choice in what we do. We did and we do. We chose THIS place! If this is where we are at ... we must be here for a reason ... so let me look around and see what there is to see ... What lesson does today hold for me?
Better yet, what blessing will I find? What nugget of truth is resting somewhere in the unfolding of the day? What miracle will I be a witness to?
Looking at the past, fretting about decisions already made, or worrying about what could have been just keeps us stuck in the precarious place of driving in one direction while looking over our shoulder and not paying attention to what's in front of us at all! How long will it be before we get in trouble doing that? LOL!!! It wouldn't take long for even the best driver to hit something!
Looking too far ahead is almost the same thing. I was driving down the highway once when I looked over and saw a man looking at a map while he was trying to drive! He had the whole thing unfolded, covering most of his view and trying to figure out where he was going! I slowed way down and let him go on ahead where I could keep an eye on him ... There is no way he could have been giving the road his full attention with all that going on!
But how many times do we do that too? I can think of times I was so worried about something coming up that I was miserable for days, planning and writing lists and running around, trying to make sure EVERYTHING was PERFECT!
All those things turned out just fine. Even if something didn't go as planned, it still was lovely and no one but me really knew that it was a mistake ... or was it?
Some of the most precious memories I have are of the little unplanned miracles that popped up in the middle of my well-made plans ... My daughter's wedding was only a week away. It was my second daughter's wedding. We had already had one wedding so this one was easier. I had everything covered ... Invitations ... Place ... Minister ... Dress ... Bridesmaids Dresses ... Flowers ... Food ... Drinks ... Cake ... I felt pretty good about how smoothly every thing had fallen into place. Two days before the wedding, I called to arrange pick-up of the cake. They didn't know what I was talking about! It seems that the girl who had taken my order had quit that day and never turned inmy order! They were in full swing on 3 other weddings and they couldn't help me!!! Unbelievable! My Mom had just come into town, and she does wedding cakes at home but she didn't have anything with her ... We put our heads together and I called Publix. They were a new grocery store in town, but they had the BEST tasting cakes and I figured we'd go with a couple of sheet cakes if nothing else ... Mom and I drove across town to the store and the sweetest lady was working in the bakery. I told her what had happened, ending my story in tears. She came around the counter, hugged me and said, "No problem. We can handle this. I baked some extra cakes this morning. Let's see what we can do."
She and Mom talked and came up with an idea ... simple plan ... three tiers ... three different flavor cakes ... butter cream icing on every layer and my daughter would still get to use her cake topper too! She promised to have it ready the next afternoon.
It was the prettiest cake I had ever seen. She had added a few extra touches and flourishes ... like love gifts to my daughter ... The cake wasn't just pretty. It was moist and every layer was flavorful. My eyes fill with tears even now ... to think of how that mess turned into a beautiful memory of my Mom helping with the cake and meeting a sweet, sweet angel that bakes cakes at Publix!
I didn't have anything to do with the planning of that memory, but it is one of my favorites. I think of it often when I am planning a party or a get-together and I start obsessing over the details ... There might be a good REASON things don't always go as planned! Setting high goals and having high standards is a good idea, as long as we remember that nothing ever really turns out PERFECT, but sometimes, when we don't even try, things are BETTER than PERFECT! There is no reason to lose our peace or give up our joy by getting bogged down in regrets or guilt or worry! Relax ... ENJOY the moment. Quit looking back ... Put down the map and the plan book and the to-do lists and look around at this BEAUTIFUL day! It's your's to do WHATEVER you want with it!
Make it a good day!
How cool is that?!!!
(smiling)
I get goose bumps every single time THAT happens ... where I am thinking, writing or talking about a thing and I pick up a book or read an email or see a magazine article that adds to the thought in the most beautiful way ...
Every SINGLE day has something new for us to learn ... if we just go with the flow. Keep our eyes open. Don't waste time looking back. Don't worry too much about what lies ahead. It will still be there when we get there!
What TRUTH will float your way today?
6月8日 Nothing Compares To You!
Get up off your routines and dust your gumption off and be WHO only YOU can be! YOU are here for a REASON!!! There is something that ONLY YOU can do! Have you started yet?
Quit worrying what you friends will think because, as much as they love you, they have their own fish to fry and their own little red wagons to pull up the hill. Most of the time, you are worrying about what someone else thinks, they are really worrying about what you would think if you looked into their closet! What a waste of energy! Your friends LOVE you ... which means most of the time, you inspire them, you challenge them, and on a bad day, they wish they were more like YOU! Quit making excuses about timing because it's never going to be a good time. It's never going to be convenient to start working on the thing you were meant to do! When was the LAST time you had four hours with nothing better to do, so you thought you'd start working on world peace? Quit telling yourself you can't do it or someone else would do better than you because YOU CAN DO IT. It is SUPPOSED to be YOU! Next time your inner voice nudges you, LISTEN! It's your turn! You're UP! Shania Twain - Up!
Hope you hit a home run!  6月7日 Balance At The Old Home PlaceI meant to take you on a walk through this old home place. My friend and I found this beautiful old farm in the mountains. Come walk with me?  Have you ever been so happy that nothing could bring you down? Have you ever been so sad that nothing could cheer you up?
 Don't worry so much about where you are right now ... Because whatever is happening RIGHT NOW will be different tomorrow. It takes SUNSHINE and RAIN to make the prettiest flowers and the tastiest fruit.  When you know that everything is temporary And it takes BOTH darkness and light for us to grow, You will find yourself accepting the Balance and even
Welcoming the Changes ...
No matter and whatever TODAY might bring.  So what is on your plate TODAY?  Have you ever been so SAD that nothing could cheer you up? Have you ever been so HAPPY that nothing could bring you down? 6月6日 Passing Thoughts Or Waves Tossed In The Ocean
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