15 December 2009
Share Your Legacy?
Posted by Robin Easton under: Hobnobbin' with Robin .
This morning while watching a beautiful slide show created by my good friend Marcel (click) I wrote this spontaneous sharing from my heart. It is both an exploration of who I am and what I offer the world. I think they are one in the same.
I’ve been many things in my life, a performing musician who taught piano, voice and sound. I’ve been a glass artisan, a potter, a writer, a nature photographer, a grand adventurer, an astounding dreamer. I’ve had passionate love affairs with Nature…and with great men. 
I’ve loved children to tears but chose to bear none. I’ve known pain so deep I wanted to die, but clung tenaciously to life. I’ve known ecstasy so sweet I wept as it carried me to the stars. I’ve lived off the land and with the land. I’ve heard and composed the music of the spheres.
I’ve been a omnivore, a vegetarian, a vegan, a fruitarian and at times a breathanarian. I’ve rolled in winter’s snow and played in summer’s mud. I’ve done construction work and assisted in oral surgery. I’ve cooked on wood stoves, in rock-lined fire pits and on a solar cooker I made. I’ve baked wild-apple pies and homemade bread from scratch and grown all my food. I’ve known great loneliness and infinite peace in being alone.
I’ve traveled all over creation and lived in some of Earth’s most remote and secret places. I’ve lived in cities until I felt I’d lost my soul and found myself again in new ways. I’ve made mistakes, but done more things right than wrong. I’ve hurt a few, but soothed many more. I’ve run barefoot up mountains and at times gone years with only sun, wind and rain wrapped around my bare skin. I’ve held snakes so deadly they could have taken my life, but didn’t.
I once had a concrete overpass fall on my car and crush everywhere but where I sat. I’ve held grown men while they wept and known children who died. I’ve seen Earth destroyed and Earth healed. I’ve laughed until I peed my pants and sobbed until I wailed like a wild animal. I’ve seen horror so great it lingered for a long time…and beauty so excruciatingly sweet that it healed me the moment it kissed my soul. 
I’ve fallen in love with Life so completely that I’m aware of every single moment. I know Life so well and yet I know nothing. I have no desire to be ’something’. I already am something and hunger only to ‘be’.
What is my legacy? What gift do I give the world? After looking over my life, I feel the truest thing I can give the world is to live with love and compassion, not only for my fellow humans but for ALL life. Interestingly, I’ve no desire to teach people how to live or love, at least not in the way that I have something set in stone that says, “These are the concepts, the ideologies you must follow to live a happy life. This is the way to enlightenment.”
Each soul who comes my way brings their own gifts, something new and amazing to share. If I pump them full of beliefs or ideologies I will not see them. I will only see the me I already know. I couldn’t begin to tell another ‘the way’. Besides, I experience people as already intelligent, whole and with the ability to discover for themselves who they are. I find it peaceful to simply love them, to listen without judgment and to infuse them with so much joy, laughter, tears and passion that we both are left hungering for Life. When we hunger enough…we find our own way.
What is your legacy?
With Love,
Robin
NOTE: I am taking a complete computer break and will be off line between Dec. 17 – 22. You’ll be able to leave comments and I eagerly look forward to reading them when I’m next online. I wish you all restful and loving holidays, whatever they may be. I am with you and you are with me. Love, Robin
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53 Comments so far...
Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills Says:
15 December 2009 at 6:30 pm.
Robin, this may well be the most beautiful expressions I have ever read. It filled me to the brim and left me with only one response, WOW! Thank you, enjoy your break.
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John - Zen-Moments Says:
15 December 2009 at 6:47 pm.
Robin, I loved reading your thoughts on your own legacy. What a great and clarifying question, “what is my legacy?”
You’ve triggered a stream of thought in me. I want to sit with that awhile. Enjoy your computer break 
John
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kelly parr Says:
15 December 2009 at 6:54 pm.
Robin… thank you for sharing your heart so beautifully and with great expression!
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15 December 2009 at 6:54 pm.
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Zeenat{Positive Provocations} Says:
15 December 2009 at 8:29 pm.
Dearest Robin,
Wow wow wow..and wowweeeeeee,,,,
This is just so beautiful….Now I know why your book is going to be a best seller for sure
Lots of love
Zeenat
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Debora Demaree Says:
15 December 2009 at 8:33 pm.
Very heartfelt post Robin. I get the feeling we share a few things in common, living by our own convictions, learned a few lessons the hard way, but never forgetting them. I think back on all the memories of my life, and have realized one constant, I make things happen. And with that thought, I know it doesnt matter what anyone says about me, to be able to be where Ive been and done what Ive done and touch who I have touched, makes this short life have substance and meaning.
Thanks for this blog post.
Debora
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Ophelia Rising Says:
15 December 2009 at 8:50 pm.
Robin – absolutely. You fill me with such joy, I can’t express it properly in words. Your beauty and love emanate from you and create the extraordinary in everyone you touch. You’ve LIVED life, to its fullest extent. You *are* life.
Have a wonderful restful month, and a joyous new year. I love you with all my heart. xoxo
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Miche - Serenity Hacker Says:
15 December 2009 at 9:11 pm.
Hi Robin, what beautiful, wonderful, vital and AMAZING life experience.
“I feel the truest thing I can give the world is to live with love and compassion, not only for my fellow humans but for ALL life.”
Your legacy is a GIFT. So I thank you for it, for sharing it openly, with me and SO MANY others, through your writing, your reaching out, and your living example… for touching hearts and souls, and making a difference.
Many blessings to you.
Love,
Miche
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Shirley Says:
15 December 2009 at 9:18 pm.
You have lived. There is no other way to say that.
“What is your legacy?” In a world filled with hate, negativity, and cruelty, I hope to shed a little positivity and hope. A lot of times hope is all you have to go on.
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Trish Scott Says:
15 December 2009 at 9:19 pm.
What is my legacy? LOL. That’s a pretty tough act to follow Robin. What a tour de force – the kind of writing that can’t be written but just writing that becomes the flow of that other knowing. Beautiful – brilliant – Thank you for you
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Michelle Says:
15 December 2009 at 9:28 pm.
Thank you, Robin… You have no idea how much this was needed.
Hugs,
M
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Adam Zuckerman Says:
15 December 2009 at 10:48 pm.
I hope only to leave a humble legacy of spirit and soulfulness imprinted on wisp of wind and felt by those who feel most keenly. Robin – I have felt your legacy. I know it and I carry it with me.
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Dragos Roua Says:
16 December 2009 at 12:16 am.
Always touched by your writing, Robin. It’s like being with you there You have a wonderful legacy: making people feel and breathe a better life.
My legacy? I really don’t know. Maybe making people believe they can do so much better than they think.
Enjoy your holiday!
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Steven Aitchison Says:
16 December 2009 at 1:00 am.
Robin there are moments in my life when I just stop and say – absolutely nothing, no thoughts, no words. It’s a spiritual experience, another petal of the lotus awakening to the sun, and it’s extremely rare. This post was one of those moments. Thank you.
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marcel lemieux Says:
16 December 2009 at 1:13 am.
My legacy to leave to all is love..not that kind that is bolted around..love /energy/starlike love..universal love…once upon many experiences that i have lived..sittiing in my living room meditating and prononcing words of soul..i had no expectations,no idea of what was to happen..suddenly a being of light came to me(a friendly and warm kind of fellow)..he had a blue robe full of golden stars ..and those stars fell upon me like a rain…i got so filled with love i had to go outside…every step i took, everywhere i look was love..even a single blade of grass was tinted with love..i was high for 3 straight days..even after so many years later i can still feel that love, that awareness of things around me,like when a ray of sunlight splashes on the floor coming through a window or when a hard rain is hitting a rooftop or when its real windy outside,or when its spring and the first flowers and bubs appear, i,m amazed,i,m grateful and know that we are surrounded by magic/elements/life…..so to my friend Robin and all visitors on this blog i wish you the universal love that heal,s and teach without jugement..life is a very big experience and we are all winners and part of it throught the joys and pains..never despair..never surrender..just be you in your most humble way,s and live on..try things..feel your heritage freedom…i know that it may not always be a nice world out there but you make a difference by the choices of your thoughts and actions…that my legacy..may your holidays be super fun…peace
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Stacey Says:
16 December 2009 at 1:31 am.
Dearest Robin,
Wow! Truely, if one word could describe this, Wow. You are so amazingly open, sharing so deeply of yourself. You are an amazing person, and have lived life to the fullest extent! It is so wonderful to hear some of the things your have experienced through your journey of life.
Your words are so graceful, and I think you got it so right. “If I pump them full of beliefs or ideologies I will not see them”. If we are busy trying to tell someone what they need to learn, we are simply projecting ourselves onto them, not truely seeing who they are. We might be missing the most amazing part of that person because of our perceptions of them.
“I find it peaceful to simply love them, to listen without judgment and to infuse them with so much joy, laughter, tears and passion that we both are left hungering for Life. When we hunger enough…we find our own way.” Exactly! Magic, just magic Robin! I believe this is truely the way to teach those around us. And you are really a master at it.
This post really touched me, and helped me to reflect upon myself. I truely feel I have met a kindred spirit in you in so many ways! How exciting!
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Chrissy Says:
16 December 2009 at 3:06 am.
Firstly, many congratulations on the book, I am so delighted for you 
As for all of this, you lived and experienced many things, you have embraced many things, this is a pretty powerful legacy. and it made me smile to read it.
Hopefully, mine will be that now and then I create a little magic, yep that’s me
Have a good break and take care XX
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Jonie Says:
16 December 2009 at 4:04 am.
Your legacy is beautiful, it’s your love. You have probably touched many, many people’s lives, like my own and have been a blessing to them. I’m so glad we met. May God bless you and your family with a wonderful Christmas season and fill your heart with joy. Hugs, Jonie
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Barry Says:
16 December 2009 at 5:24 am.
Beautifully said Robin. You’ve had an amazing life. It certainly started me thinking about what my legacy might be.
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David Says:
16 December 2009 at 6:08 am.
My legacy is the ongoing attempt to see things from the perspective of the soul and to try and be useful along the way. Probably some of you and Robin certainly are aware of what it feels like to leave the little self behind for awhile. It’s such a vast and wonderful relief!!
All the “issues” regarding life and death are suddenly gone. So that’s my mission in life and the funny thing is that it’s right here! It’s so close I feel it every day. And being around Robin helps too. I feel your presence Robin. I don’t actually need you to write to me although that is a real treat when it happens.
But the part of you that helps me with my mission in life is always here. Questions and answers are part of the little world of the mind. Knowing is a bigger part of the picture. Experiencing is a gift we can all share just by being quiet inside and listening our own higher selves.
And you as well.
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Tess The Bold Life Says:
16 December 2009 at 9:46 am.
I agree with Zeenat. Your book will be a best seller. I’m thinking wow she has truly lived life to the fullest and not wasted a tiny minuscule second. I’m grateful for your sharing and you are showing me the way but you don’t have to know this just keep doing it! Happy holy days to you! xo
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Positively Present Says:
16 December 2009 at 11:02 am.
Robin, I just came across your site after reading the comment you left on my post on The Bold Life. Thank you so much for your kind words! I love to write and it means so much to me to read that others enjoy reading my writing. I’m so happy you liked the post and thank you so much for subscribing to Positively Present. I’m so glad you’re comment gave me an opportunity to find your blog — which is great! — and to connect with you. I hope you enjoy your time away from the computer. It’s always nice to take a little break! – Dani
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Wilma Ham Says:
16 December 2009 at 3:08 pm.
Robin, your legacy is pulling my heart strings and THAT is one divine legacy, to be able to do that.
I have been looking for images that could pull my heart strings and it has been hard going. There were none.
However I somehow kept my heart open, I kept my willingness to see the divine image when it would appear in front of me, in real life and now it has.
You have given me a chance to live my legacy too and I am sure you will know what that means to me.
The biggest hug, Wilma
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Fatima Da Says:
16 December 2009 at 3:55 pm.
Your writings are captivating and your book will definitely be a best Seller
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suzen Says:
16 December 2009 at 4:37 pm.
Magnificent! Both the awesomeness of your writing and the sweetness of your heart. I am wowed! I feel sooo fortunate I have found you and your blog. Thank you so much for the torch you carry – many many will follow!
Best wishes for a joyful and peaceful holiday!
suZen
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Robb Says:
16 December 2009 at 11:16 pm.
Kia ora Wild Sister,
Reading your words the wonderful song by Hank Snow – “I’ve Been Everywhere”, popped into my head, and listening to it now is very appropriate.
I am not sure about legacy, or rather, my legacy. I am too much a work in progress. If I would want my boys, or those whom know me, to remember one thing it would be to look at the far off mountains, or the river roaming by, and be curious, to wonder what is up there, or where this river came from, and simply appreciate those thoughts are even there.
Thank you my beautiful friend for your place here, your presence in my life, for the amazing people whom comment here and teach me as well. Your Mana heke iho – Inherent Dignity shines for the world to see. Such a Gift! You rock Wild Sister, you and yours have a lovely holiday. Go slow and enjoy. I shall think of you and toast in the mountains very soon. Stay tuned. Rave on, Kia kaha.
Aroha in abundance,
Robb
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Nadia - Happy Lotus Says:
17 December 2009 at 11:08 am.
Hi Robin,
What a great question. I think for me it would have to be tolerance and compassion. I had a really bad childhood and teenage years. Those periods in my life provide me with enough material to make me a miserable person but I worked through it.
I traveled the world, studied all kinds of religions and spiritual faiths. I dug deep into my soul and worked on whatever I needed to work on in order to break free from the pain. As a result, I just have lots of compassion and tolerance for everyone. I also like to think that I bring some joy too.
Hope all is well, beautiful soul!
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Sarah Says:
17 December 2009 at 2:07 pm.
Empathy would be crucial for me, but I think “Compassion” covers that, and so does “Love”. You hit the nail on the head 
The world would be a pretty good place if everyone could really see each other (with love, understanding/empathy, and compassion).
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Shadowplay Says:
17 December 2009 at 3:34 pm.
This was so incredibly moving on multiple levels… Honestly, it bears re-reading. There’s so much raw vitality… I have to find a way to take it all in. I love how you stress that just “being” is the goal. I long to drop anything else that feels false. Little by little…
Thank you.
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Evita Says:
17 December 2009 at 8:12 pm.
Oh this is so beautiful Robin! I loved reading all that you were and all that you experienced! Wow – what a life!
I love your idea of just being and not trying to push anything on anyone else.
My legacy…not sure yet I think…when I was a teacher it was easy, to reach the hearts and minds of as many souls as I could have and help them expand and grow in whatever direction is best for them. Today perhaps it is the same, just seems different…. I have a feeling it may be an “evolving” area of my life, but ultimately just being feels great to touch the world with.
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Laura Hegfield Says:
18 December 2009 at 12:53 pm.
My legacy…I think it is my own daughters. All that I have taught them they will transform into something new that they will pass on to their own children and/or others they meet along the way. I think I must include my students over the years as part of my legacy…they too have a piece of me in their hearts… I have learned so much from all of them so it is reciprocal. I feel blessed to touch so many people with my blog, my heart felt thoughts and journey. What ever others remember and transform through their own hearts and eyes…this is my legacy.
I loved all that you wrote above…your journey has indeed been rich!
blessings,
laura
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nothingprofound Says:
19 December 2009 at 7:59 am.
Robin-Beautifully and rhapsodically written, as always.
My legacy: the life I’ve lived and the flowers on the side of the road.
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Julie Says:
19 December 2009 at 1:05 pm.
Everything you share with us, here, Robin, is so uplifting! …and thought-provoking, which I dearly love.
One day, I may share a vision I had several years ago which brought into vivid reality the reason I’ve felt we’re born into life on earth, our purpose for being human. The ultimate message, though, was that we’re to learn to lift ourselves and each other and then share in the celebration that IS Life. That is so very simply everything. There are billions of ways to accomplish this, in every choice each one of us makes in all our circumstances throughout all our ages and times, but really it is exactly as simple as this. To love and share and celebrate!
As for my own legacy? I would hope that it’s that I learned to do this well, sharing with everyone I can the message of love for all of Life in all its forms, for the importance of harmony everywhere and joyous celebration in everything
Blessing you this holiday season and wishing you a fantastically beautiful vacation. With a big, happy sister-hug (sounds better than bear hug) for who YOU are…
~ Julie
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Julie Says:
19 December 2009 at 1:33 pm.
Oh, I was too hasty, and didn’t finish my thought about legacy… I hope my legacy is that in sharing myself in this way, I’ll have been able to touch someone else’s life, helping them to see Life as Beauty as I do, and then to live a life of celebration of this as powerfully and as often as they can.
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Dorothy Stahlnecker Says:
19 December 2009 at 6:03 pm.
This was so beautiful and perfectly written I felt and understood every thought and experience you described you are so full of life and wisdom and bless you for knowing when it’s time to sit back and let go of your everyday obligations and let your mind and body rest.
Hope you come back recharged.
Dorothy from grammology
grammology.com
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Lance Says:
19 December 2009 at 8:22 pm.
Robin,
Your writing here touches upon so many emotions, so many moments in your life that have made you the amazing person that you are. It is a gift for me to be here today, and to read your words. More than just reading them, I feel them sifting into my soul. And that is you, Robin, touching my soul in a beautiful way. You shine love and compassion in ways I have a hard time fully comprehending…and it is all so beautiful. And because of that, I am a better person.
My legacy, my hope – is that when I leave this earthly existence – I have shown caring and compassion to everyone, not judging them based on things I cannot know. If I can honestly say I have done this, then my life will be complete…
Robin, thank you for opening your heart up, always. I can’t tell you how much this has helped me work toward doing the same. You are a beautiful soul, and you have blessed my life immensely.
Love and caring,
Lance
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Liara Covert Says:
20 December 2009 at 8:44 am.
As human beings take responsibility for their choices, they are willing to shift perspective. They realize they make decisions and act on them, and this has implications. When all our behaviours come together it becomes the change humanity desires. When you take responsibility for yourself, you choose to raise the energy vibration of the physical body and the spiritual body. You are choosing to make a difference by showing others who you are, by your emotions, appreciating everyone and respecting their choices, by revealing your spiritual self and choosing not to judge. To take care of yourself spiritually and mentally empowers you in seen and unseen ways. When you find a group of people, and connect with them like no other individual or group you connect with, you know what to do. You remember how to live.
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soulMerlin Says:
20 December 2009 at 3:35 pm.
Dear Robin ~ When a message keeps recurring, then I know that the Universe is telling me something that I have forgotten, or at least allowed to become blurred…
The film Wonderful Life, involves a man who has given and lead a good and caring life…but who now feels that he is worthless and should just end it. An angel shows him what would have gone missing if he had never existed…
…I smiled because I realised that so many good things had happened because I had been born…
It is enough for me to know that I have contributed to life and not to destruction.
Your post has given me a smile that would not have existed if you had not written it (and a warmth)
love
henry
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Mike Foster Says:
20 December 2009 at 7:59 pm.
Dear Robin:
Hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season and amazing 2010!
peace,
Mike
Happy Holidays from livelife365
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Liara Covert Says:
21 December 2009 at 2:31 pm.
As you imply with your energetic messages, every human being is making his way back to peace, love and truth inside the authentic self. Pleasure to share stages of this life-transforming journey. You are a timeless blessing in all you are and all you do. Nemaste!
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Bern Says:
23 December 2009 at 5:40 pm.
Wow, your writing is so powerful and the feelings behind the words just takes me away. You are so true to life and living. You are an inspiration that touches my heart. Thank you Robin. You are so right…in so many ways…We teach best by not trying to teach anything…but by being that which we are fully and qualitatively in the Moment. By being true to our selves, we allow and encourage the rest of the world to wake up and live from the Heart and the Soul.
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Theresa111 Says:
24 December 2009 at 2:15 am.
You my dear, have such an elegance to your tone of life and your passion for it and those about you. Even though most of us are oceans and continents away, we are friends and these are bonds we have willingly forged by using our hearts to communicate through the keys we type and the photos we take and the things we share. You are fulfilled and we get to drink in your beauty each time you speak. Merry Christmas. Please come over to see my latest as I believe you will like it.
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gene Says:
25 December 2009 at 12:24 am.
Wow, you have truly lived… No I lie, you ARE truly living!! Such an inspiration to all.
Thank you for sharing!!!
Ok, Just have to share something with you, going back a few posts about death.. We are Dying here in Africa, it is soo sooooo sooooooooo HOT, really, I fell asleep on the couch last night with my dog in front of the open door, just really really hot! You want to trade seasons? I can do with a bit of winter right now!!!!
Hope you’re doing well.. Dont stay away too long!!! But enjoy your break!!
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Megan "JoyGirl!" Bord Says:
30 December 2009 at 5:38 am.
Robin, this post touched me so much… I’m almost speechless. Like you, I took a bit of a computer break and this was the first blog I read after not reading any in awhile. It’s 7:35 a.m. where I live right now, and I was moved to tears by your words. I feel so many of the same things you do where life is concerned, and know that if I don’t experience everything just the way that you have, through your words I am able to. What’s more, because I believe we are all connected, in a way we all live each others’ lives remotely. What a grand idea!
Robin, to me, you are a rainbow in the sky, and I want to thank you for adding color to my world.
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Liara Covert Says:
31 December 2009 at 5:46 pm.
Choosing to be in moment enables you to align with everyone and everything now. Nothing exists to say. You feel your way to what matters.
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Walter Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I’ve been a friend to all that would have me, and a clown. If I am to be remembered, I want it to be with a smile. : )
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