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Happy Weekend + Giveaway Winners!
Hello my dears! Hope you’re all having a great weekend so far! I wanted to quickly stop by before heading out this morning to the Sunday farmer’s market, to announce the lucky winners* of the calendar giveaway.
Congratulations to #5 msenesac, #2 Carey, #11 Meredyth, #15 Lauren M. Ferreira, and #14 Kayla!
Didn’t win? Use coupon code ARIANNABELLE to receive 20% off any Neu Year calendar!
*Winners were chosen using Random.org
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Currently on my desk
I love having fresh flowers. Especially on days when I’m in front of the computer for long hours, it’s nice to look away from the screen and glance at something beautiful and mood lifting 
These are the ones my hubby got for me over the weekend and are currently on my desk:
These are the ones my hubby got for me over the weekend and are currently on my desk:
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A quick hello…
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Peonies + Coffee
Coffee and flowers {especially peonies!} make my mornings very happy. Remember this post? Well last week Trader Joe’s finally had some peonies and I of course immediately brought some home with me. Unfortunately they’re on their way out {the petals of the ones on my coffee table started to fall off last night} but I thought I’d take a few photos since they’re fully open and look absolutely gorgeous:
Here’s a shot of them on my desk with my morning coffee and toast {whipped cream cheese+jelly=yuumm!}:
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Flowers on Balcony
Happy Friday! This weekend we’ll be working on a little DIY project making a flower box for our balcony and I’m taking inspiration from these beautiful photographs…
I know I definitely want to have some jasmine and several hydrangeas, but not sure yet what else. Do you have a flower box at home? Any tips?? I’ll be sure to post pictures once its all done
*All photos limked to source
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Real Love Doesn’t Make You Suffer
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Glimpses of love and joy or brief moments of inner peace are possible whenever a gap occurs in the stream of thought. For most people, such gaps happen rarely and only accidentally, in moments when the mind is rendered “speechless”, sometimes triggered by great beauty, extreme physical exertion or even great danger. Suddenly, there is inner stillness. And within that stillness there is a subtle but intense joy, there is love, there is peace.
Usually such moments are short-lived as the mind quickly resumes its noise-making activity that we call thinking. Love, joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. But they are not what I would call emotions. They lie beyond the emotions, on a much deeper level. So you need to become fully conscious of your emotions and be able to feel them before you can feel that which lies beyond them. Emotion literally means “disturbance.” The word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning “to disturb.”
Love, joy, and peace are deep states of Being, or rather three aspects of the state of inner connectedness with Being. As such they have no opposite. This is because they arise from beyond the mind. Emotions on the other hand, being part of the dualistic mind, are subject to the law of opposites. This simply means that you cannot have good without bad. So in the unenlightened, mind-identified condition, what is sometimes wrongly called joy is usually the short-lived pleasure side of the continuously alternating pain/pleasure cycle. Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain. And what is often referred to as love may be pleasurable and exciting for a while, but it is an addictive clinging, an extremely need condition that can turn into its opposite at the flick of a switch. Many “love” relationships, after the initial euphoria has passed, actually oscillate between “love” and hate, attraction and attack.
Real love doesn’t make you suffer. How could it? It doesn’t suddenly turn into hate, nor does real joy turn into pain. Even before you are enlightened –before you have freed yourself from the mind — you may get glimpses of true joy, true love, or of a deep inner peace, still but vibrantly alive. These are aspects of your true nature, which is usually obscured by the mind. Even within a “normal” addictive relationship, there can be moments when the presence of something more genuine, something incorruptible, can be felt. But they will only be glimpses, soon to be covered up again through mind interference. It may seem that you had something very precious and lost it, or your mind may convince you that it was all an illusion anyway. The truth is that it wasn’t an illusion, and you cannot lose it. It is part of your natural state, which can be obscured but can never be destroyed by the mind. Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn’t disappeared. It is still there on the other side of the clouds.
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-Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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Trader Joes is Such a Tease!
I get excited about the little things, like when I see the first peonies of the year….
excuse the photo quality -I took these with my phone camera
Peonies have got to be my absolute favorite type of flower, followed by irises, lilies, and roses. I surprisingly saw these at Trader Joe’s a couple of weeks ago on a cold night but didn’t pick up any since I was going to be gone from home for several days and wouldn’t be able to enjoy them. I’ve gone back several times since then (at opening and closing times), but unfortunately they haven’t had any. I know its mainly a spring/summer type of flower but if they had some a couple of weeks ago, they gotta have some again some time soon right? In the meantime, I’ll admire them from photographs….
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Midweek Wisdom
“Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
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A special thank you to the lovely Taryn, of Love.the.Life.You.Live. who tagged me this week with the Kreativ Blogger Award. ¡Muchisimas gracias! I recently wrote 7 things about me, which as a receipient I am asked to do. You can read them here.
