Go gently now, my friends.
Glide, if you can, as if parting the waters in a gondola through my beautiful Venezia.
What love there is in your hearts matters more than you can possibly know.
Can you send it out?
But also carry it in?
In these challenging times, yes, but always, please be so kind to yourself for it is precisely what you deserve.
No “good” will come from anything other, only second chances to relearn.
Or a third or a thousandth.
I am letting go of certain old ways because I have no choice and it shines the light of opportunity.
Still learning, I stumble but then help myself back to standing, even crookedly with a crooked smile, through compassion.
For that too, I seem to no longer have a choice, even if I still swat at the flies of worry.
To me, it seems as if this is where we are all at, collectively.
And perhaps individually too?
So I see you, I know you. I send you my Love.
Go gently, dear friends.
We need you now.
This Beauty remains, ever present, in you and around, and yes, it is more than real.
To listen to in these autumn days:
*I have been carrying around these ideas for a few weeks now, they roll loose in my mind like pebbles in a pocket. They aren’t perfect but I don’t want perfect anymore. They might sound preachy, but that is only a result of their imperfection. Love is the idea. For me, I am able to connect through Beauty, in all its forms. And I have to search hard to find it some days, as we all do. But I do, eventually, if I look hard enough and easily, when I can do so with an open heart.
Thank you for being here.
With Love from Provence (while still holding dreams of returning to Venice),
Heather
Hello Heather,
Your love for Venice shies through in your post and images
Hope you have a special week.
Helen xx
Hello Heather and friends
A mantra of kindness and compassion
Perfection in imperfection
Sounds good to me. Love Bernadette
It is sunny here, the wind has a chill, but the light is just right for drifting in a boat. So much of travelling one reads on this internet can be rather smug, but I love your sense of internal and external adventure, it does go gently, and bravely too, eyes wide open. Bon voyage always 🙂
Beautiful writing, beautiful photos, beautiful person.
Beautiful, beautiful pictures! The light!
Bella Venezia! I have a big poster at home with regata storica, I was so lucky to have seen it September 1982. Unfortunately that was the last time I saw Venice…
Re-learning takes patience and creating new ones.
Beauty is terrifying says Rilke.
Can one keep love? Not shared or given away?
The photos are wonderful.
Out of the shadows and into the light! I see the sunshine in your eyes – it shows in your beautiful photos. You must follow the light and return to Venice!
Beautiful.
What a lovely reminder to be gentle – I forget this one all the time! Love this group of photos – would make a great exhibit! Loving especially numbers 2 and 3 after the prose…