Interesting nuance of love is that is has to be maintained. I fell in love with people and earth as a child. I have traveled to and lived in so many places and experienced diverse cultures. I learned to walk in Alaska, went to a Cajun speaking pre-K in Louisiana, learned to speak Italian by speaking with people on the train while I was there for six months. I grew up with a Japanese family and was taught recipes handed down from my German great grandmother. I am married to a European and live in an area where people with rich backgrounds and culture are abundant. I surround myself with and pursue the things that remind me that the Earth and the ones in it are worth loving. I have never been afraid to maintain that love, I am still in love!
Kristin
· 1 year ago
This could be the best question yet! Jamie's on to something. Being in the moment, 100%, feeling my own breathing within the space I'm in, whether it be at the supermarket, beside my partner on the sofa, sipping a Cabernet, amid a weird pose in pilates class, catching a glimpse of the Highlands from the bedroom window, hearing children laugh, finishing a really good book - there is just so much magic in the world, and we owe the world to fall in love with its abundance. Gratitude for the world allows me to love it even more.
Julia
· 1 year ago
First, I have to rest and get in tune with myself. I don't even notice my connection to the world if I am frazzled and overextended. I need to be outside. I like taking walks and listening to the birds, feeling the sun on my back. Spending time in nature makes me realize that there's a big ol' world out there and that I am so much more than the daily routines/limitations that I create for myself! And, there is of course, nothing like taking a trip to NYC to fall in love with the world!
Julia
· 1 year ago
I agree! Thankfulness opens up your heart and expands your world!
Elizabeth
· 1 year ago
I can't imagine the answer to this question because I don't remember a time when I wasn't head over heals in love with the world. Or perhaps it is that I'm in constant wonder with the word - its colors, sites, sounds, people, plants and possibilities, every single day.
Shannon
· 1 year ago
What makes me fall in love with the world is when everything falls into place, either planned or unexpected plans where everything happens how you wanted it too - it feels like someone is listening.
Joannie
· 1 year ago
By being a gardener. Each time I am in a garden I see the Creator's handiwork helped along by my hands and heart. Growing seeds, caring for the seedlings, hardening them off to the elements and watching the Cosmos flowing in the breeze brought me back from the brink of despair.
A garden is a reflection of love/life, of its joy and sorrow, its accomplishments and disappointments. Kahlil Gibran writes that there is a sword hidden in love's pinions. Leonard Cohen sings that love chooses us, not the other way round.
Love is all that matters. Love is stronger than death.
Suzie Sunshine
· 1 year ago
Right now I am listening to the waves and feeling the breeze on my face - this is love - nature - and the miracle of a baby.
laurel
· 1 year ago
Very occasionally, and usually while out in nature (working in the garden or just staring into space) I realize I am not really thinking about anything in particular -- that my mind has quieted down and that without struggling to be in the present, I actually *am* in the present. Those moments bring such a profound feeling of well-being and bliss that "falling in love with the world" is the best way to describe them.
Also, if you get a chance to try manna (ash tree syrup)-flavored gelato, that can do it too.
megg
· 1 year ago
For me I fall in love with the world in the tiny moments. I live in an incredibly beautiful place, and I am ashamed to admit that sometimes I forget how beautiful it is. Then the world tugs on me just a little and I remember and fall in love again all at once. Whether it be a light breeze or a scent in the air or a tiny, beautiful blossom or a taste, all it takes is a teeny tiny reminder and I am back in love.
Brenda
· 1 year ago
Traveling throughout the world (or even the United States) experiencing different cultures: the various dialects, music, foods, dance, and rituals.
Jill
· 1 year ago
Whatever takes my breath away and at the same time makes me very conscious of what is happening, how I am feeling. For me "in the moment, sponteous, unexpected" laughter and crying takes my breath away. I love when a comment, situation, my cats, whatever...makes me burst out laughing, so much so that it is gutteral, "can't stop," infectious laughter. The beauty and majesty of mountains, gorillas, horses, snow can make me instantly cry in a deep beautiful awestruck way. The thought of my sweet mother and the pride I have for my amazing father. A cab driver from Uganda that I meet for 30 minutes and we both know we have connected in a deep way, just for a short unexpected moment, that is special and unique. The outright exhileration and anticipation of white water rafting, driving in a convertible with the top down or riding a roller coaster. Soulful music. People's stories. Infinite possiblities.
google
· 7 months ago
Same here, the thrill and adrenaline rush provided by white water rafting never fails to amuse me and it also makes me feel very appreciative of the wonders provided by mother nature.
Melba
· 1 year ago
I fall in Love by being open. I make a conscious effort to let go of all the preconceived notions that I have ~ society or my family or my own past experiences sometimes influences me to close the door on something that could have real value for me if I just allow.
I fall in Love by staying Connected to myself so I actually know what Love is! When you live life as Your Authebntic Self You Know instantly what experiences will be Love, you know what will Bring you Joy.
{Hi Jamie!!! Love you!!!} :) Melba
Suzyn
· 1 year ago
Every once in a while, usually on a walk, I'm able to stop and look and suddenly understand that everything in life is a gift, and I say thank you thank you thank you. It hasn't happened often, but those moments stand out like shining beacons in my memory. My sons' faces have the same effect. I see some common themes in the answers so far - nature, being present. I would say that the thing that most consistently blocks this love is fear. And yes, Julia!! I love NYC! I got married in Central Park - wind blowing, passers-by hollering - there's a way to fall in love with the world!
Cathy Jacob
· 1 year ago
I am finding as a get older that acceptance is a doorway to falling in love with the world. Fully accepting the world as it greets me, fully accepting myself as I connect with it and most of all, accepting this very moment and all that it has to offer. It can be delicious, it can be painful, it can be frenzied, it can be peaceful. When I can bring myself to a place of acceptance that whatever it is, it is life expressing itself, that seems to open me up to compassion and to love.
justin
· 1 year ago
Two things play a role in my affection for the world. One is the effect the world has on my senses and the other is the knowledge I gain from experiencing the people and personalities around me.
It could be as exotic as traveling to a remote place to experience a different land and culture or as simple as sitting in a sun filled backyard with close friends debating the quality of a book or movie. Or perhaps the sounds of crashing waves on a windy day at the Toronto Beaches or taking in the sounds from a new cd I got.
The world has many things to share and it seems rude not to accept an appetizer or two.
Cindy
· 1 year ago
When I meditate every morning, I fall in love with the world all over again. Meditating allows me to slow down, stop thinking, and to connect with God in a real way. The rest of my day seems to work out much better and I am more attuned to the beauty that is ever-present within it.
Jamie
· 1 year ago
Andrea, I definitely think that getting out there and experiencing the world gives us so much more to love. You're inspiring me to book a trip and find new places and people to love!
Jamie
· 1 year ago
Namaste, sister!
Jamie
· 1 year ago
How delicious, Elizabeth.
Jamie
· 1 year ago
As I'm reading these comments, I see that another way that I fall in love with the world is being in a community of loving, expressive, beautiful beings! Thank you all for sharing your love.
Sabine
· 1 year ago
For me, falling in love over and over again requires a paradoxical sense of detachment, rather than connection. It means standing back and observing, rather than relating. It means beholding and admiring, rather than thinking about myself. Some of the most intense moments of love I feel are when I catch people and things unawares--like when I watch my daughter amusing herself on her playmat, see my husband being supportive to a friend or colleague, or suddenly feel bowled over by how much I love the smell of fresh laundry. To appreciate and love these things involves some amount of distancing, which oddly feels really great. This distancing is required, I think, for the openness at play in these moments of love.
Karen
· 1 year ago
When you stop to think about it, there are so many ways to fall in love with the world, from the tiniest to the most grand!
When I stopped to think what my answer was, I realized that it’s always been the nature in my surroundings. Growing up on the coastline of a small town in Newfoundland, I would look out my bedroom window and see rugged cliffs dipping down into the Atlantic while the sun set over a little island to my left. Even as a child I adored that view and knew I lived in such a beautiful place!
I also fall in love through any animal, be it domestic or wild, which gives me absolute and intense joy – the kind that makes your stomach flip-flop! – whenever I’m near one!
The pure and modest beauty of all of nature, from the cloud formations in the sky to the plants in a pretty garden to a metallic blue dragonfly in the grass to the sound of a lion grunting in preparation to roar, and absolutely everything in between, that’s what makes me fall in love with the world over and over again!
Xai Vicente Charles
· 1 year ago
I fall in love with the world through my son's 6 year old eyes. He pulls me into his world everyday and allows me to experience it with a fresh twist. Like planting sunflowers because he thinks we'll have a pot full of little suns on our deck, or the first time he saw a rainbow. I had seen them a thousand times but seeing him admire one made me appreciate them even more. Most of all that time when I was really down; feeling overworked and under appreciated at my job. He noticed I was sad and suggested we tie towels around our necks and act like superheros. I didn't feel like doing it but I did. Then he told me, "you see mommy...anyone can be a superhero.
Polly
· 1 year ago
Nature!
Looking up at tree branches with the sun filtering through. Standing in the ocean being buoyed by waves. Watching ants march to their hill. Mama ducks leading their young. A human reaching out her hand to another.
Joanne
· 1 year ago
By lying under a tree and gazing up through its branches. It's taken me ages to think of an answer to this question, I was beginning to think that I wasn't in love with the world at all!
Kristin (The Goat)
· 1 year ago
Oh I love that -- anyone can be a superhero.
Thanks so much for sharing such a great moment.
Ngonzi Truth Crushshon
· 1 year ago
Traveling. Appreciating various multicultural experiences. Dancing. Singing. Forgiving. Thanking. Reflecting. Writing. Envisioning the endless possibilities. Living Life to the fullest. Venturing outside my normal routine. Thinking outside the box. Taking risks. Praising the Creator. Finding beauty in nature and in each person.
Susie Hutchinson
· 1 year ago
Walking down the street, sitting in a cafe or having dinner out with my daughter. I'm always amazed at how people react to her (and other children) it gives me faith in humanity.
Jamie
· 1 year ago
What a fascinating perspective, Sabine. I'm going to give the relationship of distance and love more thought!
Jamie
· 1 year ago
It's so beautiful to think of how love exists in the relationship that exists between us and the world, that we bring ourselves to the equation.
Laini Taylor
· 1 year ago
When I read about -- or better, experience firsthand -- crazy-magical things about our planet, whether it's about spice or moths or spiny fruit or bats or even really weird parasites, it lights my mind on fire and makes me fall even more deeply in love with the world. I realize as I say this that I sometimes don't consider *us* -- humanity -- to be an integral part of that world, but too often its enemy, so as the world is destroyed day by day, I fall out of love with humans (in the abstract) a little more all the time.
alligator_kate
· 1 year ago
Whirling, dancing, being in nature, laughing, playing/talking with kids, with dogs, sharing poetry, sharing seasonal meals (the cooking and eating) with friends and family, witnessing or participating in quirky/strange/hilarious spontaneous adventures in the city, making art, experiencing great art/music/theater, making love... It absolutely happens when I am embodied and in the present moment. I do have a meditative practice that helps me get there, and thank the divine for it every day.
Courtney
· 1 year ago
I have to take a breath even as I answer this question! Love really takes my breath away - it's completely visceral. Sometimes it feels like I only have to take a moment to feel my heart and then I experience everything differently. My work, my relationships, my environment - it's really rose colored glasses. I even love people who drive me crazy!! Sometimes I need to be really conscious of not protecting my heart so I can feel and sometimes the feeling just takes me by surprise. Sunshine and the beach, my partner's warm glow (which reminds me of sunshine and the beach!), my kitty's belly, great food and wine and candlelight, music that gets deep inside, babies and birth, watching people (and myself) grow, being part of a group, activism and powerful self-expression, the universe reminding me internally and externally that I am fully supported.
Chris Kay Fraser
· 1 year ago
My tomato plant made its first perfect red tomato, the size of a palm. I picked it last night after the neighborhood had gone to sleep, bare foot, under the full moon while nighttime cats rubbed against my ankles. I ate it in the back room, with homemade pesto & relevance. Perfect.
lezin bogan
· 1 year ago
I FALL IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD THRU THE EYES of my son. he is 9yrs. old and when he sees things for the first time, his eyes light up and he gets so excited. kids have this way about them when they are little that can change you from unhappy to wonderful in a split second. see thru the eyes of a child for one day and it will change your life.
darlene
· 1 year ago
i fall in love when i focus on really engaging, being out in the wind and rain; feeling the dirt in my hands as i work in my garden; listening to someone, really listening and sharing back; taking photographs that help me see what i might have missed ... i had a drama professor once who encouraged us to use all our senses as we made our way through our lives, to reach out and touch the world around us and notice the textures, the gritty brick beneath our fingertips; the smell of happiness, sadness; the person behind the initial expresson. i carry that with me most days and find myself loving the world with i fully engage myself in it with kindness and sensitivity.
Polly
· 1 year ago
That's a little eerie that we answered the same thing at the same time! But it is the greatest feeling!
Joanne
· 1 year ago
Yes, I was worried you'd think I'd just copied your answer until I saw we'd answered simultaneously! I remember being in Kew Gardens, trying to walk off a broken heart. I gave up walking and lay down on a bench underneath a magnificent spreading tree. I just looked up through the branches and felt so much better.
Rochelle Barber
· 1 year ago
I fall in love with the world by having beautiful, meaningful relationships with those around me. It could be playing with the children I love, or holding my husband's hand while we watch a crackling fire under a starry night, or being with friends floating in a canoe down a river enjoying what sounds and sights that happen by. It could also be by helping a complete stranger who is lost find their way.
I also find when you put others before yourself, you're rewarded even more. It's better to give than to receive. That expression has been taught to me by example by my grandmother and my mother. What a great way to fall in love with the world.
Karen
· 1 year ago
From a cup of coffee at the nearest cafe in what ever part of the world I happen to be standing in. Be it a perisian cafe or a street vendor in Bangkok.
Karryn Ransom
· 1 year ago
I fall in love with the world every morning because I'm still here.
Knowing that there is so much still to see and taste and hear and touch...fills me with the love of possibility!
When I get up in the morning, I'm grateful to be going to meaningful and inspiring work that supports my family, my world and my soul.
I am so blessed. Being aware of how blessed I am starts it all over again.
It all has to do with the people around me, throughout time and ultimately the choices made. It's about what people create, whether it be art or an atmosphere. Its about what people have made a choice to preserve and cherish. It's about the way in which people choose to treat one another. I always get choked up when I witness people bringing it back to basics, love for the sake of loving, not gain. So simple When I think of those things I can't help but smile, be taken over by a deep inhale and exhale and fall in l-o-v-e with us.
Danielle LaPorte
· 1 year ago
to stretch out the synchronicity: I too have walked in Kew Gardens, trying to soothe a broken heart. His name was Aidan. It took a lot of walking.
Danielle LaPorte
· 1 year ago
me too. my boy's lens of life is the greatest gift, ever, ever. here's my cute kid story for the day: this morning we were talking about animals who camouflage themselves (my boy is 4,) and we noted the Praying Mantis of course. And then Harper said, "Mama, Tigers do good camouflage." And I was about to say that actually, they're orange and black stripes help them stand out. And before I could prove my theory he said, "Tigers beside carrots is really really good camouflage." Truer words were never spoken. I really need to think outside the box more often...to fall in love with the world. xo Danielle
Jamie
· 1 year ago
What a great reminder that to be open includes letting go of preconceived notions. Thanks for your wisdom, Melba. (Love you too!)
Jamie
· 1 year ago
There's magic here!
Steve
· 1 year ago
I fall in love when I see creativity and something spontaneous in nature. When I am at my root and awake - I fall in love with the gifts around me - food, friends, family and self. How? Faith in my perspective and a willingness to accept everything I deserve and worked so hard to achieve. Taking a moment in the moment.
Connie
· 1 year ago
When I am with those I love or even talking with them. Being with my gorgeous cats all four of them. Remembering good times with those I loved who have died. Seeing the beauty that surrounds me here in Seattle. Art, good writing, good video, anything and anyone who makes me really laugh.
Jamie
· 1 year ago
"When I am at my root and awake" I love that!
Sandra
· 1 year ago
by being in community.. by having long periods of solitary time where I can sink right down into how I see things.. by reading.. nature, of course.. beauty.. by just finding that spot in me that is always in love with the world..
kerrymac
· 1 year ago
I am in complete bliss when I am at peace in nature. I try to sneak away from my boys here and there to sit in the yard under the trees, float out on the lake, or cruise on my bike along the valley trail. I adore Whistler in the summer, and fall in madly in love with her again daily as the breeze blows and the birds cheep... www.snickerdoodles.typepad.com
Amy
· 1 year ago
Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
226. Miracles
WHY! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water, Or stand under trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love—or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love, Or sit at table at dinner with my mother, Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car, Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive, of a summer forenoon, Or animals feeding in the fields, Or birds—or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sun-down—or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite, delicate, thin curve of the new moon in spring; Or whether I go among those I like best, and that like me best—mechanics, boatmen, farmers, Or among the savans—or to the soiree—or to the opera, Or stand a long while looking at the movements of machinery, Or behold children at their sports, Or the admirable sight of the perfect old man, or the perfect old woman, Or the sick in hospitals, or the dead carried to burial, Or my own eyes and figure in the glass; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles, The whole referring—yet each distinct, and in its place.
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle, Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, Every foot of the interior swarms with the same; Every spear of grass—the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, All these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?
MelissaM
· 1 year ago
Thank you for posting one of my favourite poems!
Jennifer Sage
· 1 year ago
Buber talks of I thou moments. Anytime there is that depth of connection,
Centred in yourself not on yourself the barriers are all down. It can happen anywhere anytime.
What humbles me is when it happens with a stranger and we are ourselves yet one. A smiling baby in a checkout line at the supermarket. A dying man sitting on a toilet in an over lit room. Eyes meeting we gazed at each other long psst social convention: Healing and wholeness are from the same word.
Jennifer Sage
Steve
· 1 year ago
This Daily ROCKS! Thank you all for the inspiration!
Jennifer Sage
· 1 year ago
Amy
Wow! wow! wow! what an extraordinary beautiful poem here is one for you by Davna Markova. I don't know its title
I will not die an unlived life, I will not go in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, To allow my living to open me, To make me less afraid, More accessible, To loosen my heart Until it becomes a wing, A torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance: To live. So that which comes to me as seed, Goes to the next as blossom, And that which comes to me as blossom, Goes on as fruit.
Jennifer Sage
Benita
· 1 year ago
This is an interesting question because it's not, "What do you love about the world? It's "How do you fall in love with the world"? I believe to fall in love with the world, you must first love and know thyself. In that wisdom, you can bring forth that feeling of divine ecstasy, pure joy and exuberant delight in all that you see, feel, hear, taste and do.
MelissaM
· 1 year ago
This has to be one of the best questions yet. I'm getting heart scrunchies and teary eyes reading through all of your answers. Here's mine, rocking the lifestyle map clockwise:
H&S: Colour in everything. Adding to my collections (pottery, tea, paper, books etc). Natural light coming in big windows. A long yarn over a cuppa tea.
F&S: Dancing in a flowy skirt. Layering different textures and fabrics. People-watching in Rome, NYC or Montreal! Skinny dipping.
S&L: Aha moments. Lifelong learning. Devouring a yummy new book. Poetry! Smudging. Ceremony. Prayer. I am often overwhelmed by the joy of knowing that I am exactly where I'm supposed to be.
R&C: People watching. Small world stories. Synchronicity & reciprocity. Paying it forward. Communicating without words. Meeting people who "get it". Sharing food. Snuggling with my nephew.
N&R&R: Big dramatic skies of clouds or stars. Stoney Lake (the family cottage). The magic of Murray Shafer's Wolf Project. Walking. Sweat lodges. Live music. Everyday miracles.
B&W: Runner's high. Hot yoga. Meditation. Awareness of voice and breath.
C&C: Seeing and creating art. Journaling. Drumming and singing. Making food. Laughing with my sisters and my mom. Any family event. Reunions with my long-distance Love.
S&W: Teaching. Learning. Watching others succeed. Coworkers who feel like family.
Jamie
· 1 year ago
How beautiful to see how falling in love inspires poetic responses!
Jamie
· 1 year ago
What a great idea to use the lifestyle map! Brilliant inspiration!
Amy Guth
· 1 year ago
Weird little synchronicities. Canyons. The smell of pinon trees. Mountains. Gorgeous songs.
marn
· 1 year ago
Amazing music that moves me to tears. Watching the "Planet Earth" series on DVD. Eating good pure clean homegrown food. Watching my 2 little boys in complete awe & curiosity looking at a spider, ladybug, bumblebee, new cat in the hood or any creation of God in total wonder.... ahhhhh.... :-)
marn
· 1 year ago
I agree Kerry with your love of Whistler in the Summer. I lived in Whistler / Pemberton for 13 years before moving home to Vernon, and I must admit that I am a little homesick at times for the 'big' mountains, River of Golden Dreams, and the Valley Trail.... :-)
Lesley Miller
· 1 year ago
Jamie, I loved what you wrote - and it's very timely. I'm coming home from work all frazzled and not-so-in-love-with-the-world, but there's a nice little flame inside of me that knows that as soon as I slow down, get out of my head, and into my body, i'll be right back in love again. Body is where it's at, baby. :) Knowing through our senses. Thanks for sharing your Style Statement. I'm going to go fall in love with my dinner...
Romana Mirza
· 1 year ago
by connecting, I've recently learned of the beauty of connecting - with family, friends, with my body, with my emotions, with my muscles, my joints. I was always afraid of connecting and then one day I came to realize that I was leaving anxiety and fear behind and moving through the world. It wasn't until I put them in a little red wagon and started dragging them around with me everywhere I go that I truly started connecting. That to me is falling in love.
John Tran
· 1 year ago
How do you fall in love with the world, when it nurtures such an miraculous abundance of life, when every one of its turns produces another day of wisdom, when it offers secrets for the takin in the deepest oceans, when discoveries await those who seek its highest peeks, when the warmth of its breath sooths a lazy summer evening, when in its coldest night there's beauty in the icicles when even the tiniest of its citizens has a purpose?
You just do.
alligator_kate
· 1 year ago
I love how Whitman reminds me of the beauty-- the miracle-- of death, of time passing, of decay and frailty, as well the seemingly eternal miracle of the sea.
Pearl Maple
· 1 year ago
Good answer from Jamie about being in the moment, we all get so caught up in what we should be doing we forget to enjoy the best of the moment we are in right now.
For me falling in love with the world again starts with connecting with nature and that always fires up the creative muse who wants to play with paint. If I cant’ do that cruising some creative and thinking blogs is a pretty good stop gap.
Recently discovered the Style Statement through Jamie’s site and slowly working my way through, so you’ll have to excuse me, the sun is shining outside, I need to go drink it up.
Angela
· 1 year ago
My child is the entire universe all condensed, summarized and wrapped in her 2 year old little self. When I hold her against me, the yummy baby tenderness of her skin, her squshy toddler body molding against me, it makes me believe that nature is indeed divine, and that she carries within her spirit, soul, genetic code, her skin, bones, hair and blood coursing through her veins the message of God and Nature and naturekind, humankind, evolution and Eden. She is the most mysterious thing in the world to me, and yet, the most innocent, pure and obvious. The obvious thing being - the washing clear of the unnecessary complication of a grown ups' mind to connect to the joy, beauty and innocence of unconditional love, which is the essence of our existence here in the world. To connect to this love, is everything. And what I experience everyday, with my child. This is how I connect to the world everyday.
don
· 1 year ago
I avoid the Newspapers. If I want to get anxious and negative I start with a full read of National Post. Postive does not sell papers! By exposing the senses to what the planet is capable of I get closer to loving this place.
Jamie
· 1 year ago
Beautiful, John. You are a poet.
Sacred Suzie
· 1 year ago
I fall in love with the world when I am in nature and feel its energy around me, lovingly or shockingly. Either way, She amazes me.
I also fall in love with the world when books seduce me with their stories and stir magick in my spirit. This is a very rare occurrence but happens sometimes.
Laughing with my husband also transcends my spirit, finding joy together.
MarieLeona
· 1 year ago
Like Carrie and Danielle I fall in love with the world through art. But I also fall in love when I cook for my family and friends, when I laugh out loud, when I see and smell a baby, when the hummingbirds come and visit their feeder in my garden, when I see a spectacular sunrise or sunset, when I look at my now adult gorgeous son and beautiful woman my daughter has become, when I drive to or from work... I live in a rural area and the scenic route is at most times breathtaking, when I stood on a balcony in a hotel in Spain and stared at the Mediterranean Sea, when I kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland, when I felt the hot sands of the Bahamas, when I smell the coconut scented bronzing oils on the Dominican Beaches, when I travel, in fact I try to make each day a miraculous one! That's when I fall in love with the world. Oh yes, and when I make love with my man and there are times it seems we are touching souls!
Connie
· 1 year ago
I left out MUSIC of all kinds. And my hummingbirds who remind me how amzing they and the Universe are and that I have every good reason to protect and nurture them.
Vern
· 1 year ago
For me, love for the world comes more from the spirit than sensory input. Simply put: when I love myself, I love the world. When my self-esteem falters, the world doesn't look so great. So, I am learning to cultivate beauty inside; when I do, it's far easier to see beauty in the world (sometimes in the most unexpected places).
Hilma
· 1 year ago
By seeing goodness all around me. When I look for the positive (the good) I always find it. Whether in a situation at work, home or out on the town - there is goodness to share with everyone.
leah
· 1 year ago
love the question!
i fall in the love with the world by being out in nature, laughing with loved ones, swimming, dancing, making art, snuggling my cats, eating delicious food, finding quirky handmade jewelry that makes me smile, exploring new places, seeing whales, watching birds, admiring thunderstorms, taking pictures, taking deep breaths, singing in the car, putting my hands in the dirt, smelling the lovely scents of fall, noticing synchronicity. so many things to love!
Henriette Moncion
· 1 year ago
When I pray and thank God daily for being alive and healthy and full of energy and laughter to enlighten my life and the world!
Great question Jamie!
laurie_matthews
· 1 year ago
By witnessing the human spirit - through people achieving nearly impossible feats through sport, through perseverance during times of adversity, through creative endeavors born of ingenuity.
Jennifer Hicks
· 1 year ago
How do I fall in love with the world? How do I fall in love with the world? How do I fall in love with the wooooorld? (I must repeat the question and let the answer dribble out my fingertips without censorship). Howwww? Oh, yes, now it's clear.
It happens when I feel free.
When I can move how I want, when I can go where and go with whomever i want. When I can ride my bike, dance in community, share my tears, and eat my oatmeal day after day. I t happens when I am secure, and I feel the safety of being able to tend to myself.
That's when those moments, those beautifully bright moments, whisper "you, Jennifer, are capable of falling in love".
Claudia
· 1 year ago
I have the book and enjoyed doing the work, my style statement is "comfortable - creative" and I think these exact 2 things help me fall in love with the world. Feeling comfortable in my skin and my surroundings and being creative in every little thing that I do, living without resisting.
Jamie
· 1 year ago
Living without resisting - oh, yes. I'll have to invite this into my life more.
kerrymac
· 1 year ago
Glad you commented. We just returned from Vernon. My parents live at Predator Ridge. Our next home will be in Lavington...we bought land there a few years back. Please tell me you love life in Vernon. We were in Westbank for 8 years before Whistler, I do miss the Okanagan but not the growth in Kelowna. I hope for a quiet place in Lavington, love the little school and restaurant. I want to float in Kal lake and play at Davidson's Orchards! I want to buy cherries for under $5 a pound! All the best!
Danette
· 1 year ago
It is all in the senses, without a doubt. When we lose people we love, in death or other distance, it is the smell of their coat, the sound of their laughter or the shape of their walk that strikes us with emotion. I fall in love with the world by sensing the beauty of it's infinite nuances like that of colour or music. The soul crushing resonance in harmony, the yummy exhilaration in a shade of red. These same nuances in nature, in people, relationships and ideas-they all reflect back into one another, and in my own self. From the glory of a single seed to the glory of a symphony, it is not in the majesty of the moment, but the majesty of the senses.
Ellen
· 1 year ago
I fall in love with myself.
Beth C.
· 1 year ago
This question threw me for a few days. I was afraid that I had forgotten how to fall in love with the world. After some thought, I realize that I fall in love with the world through my senses too, particularly through smell. I love the smell of my husband's skin at the nape of his neck. I love the smell of my dogs' skin. The smell of the earth right before it rains in the spring. The smell of the Fall. I just haven't been making enough time for myself to renew and maintain my love affair with the world as of late.
Glen
· 1 year ago
I like what you have to say...but question reciprocity...only General reciprocity meets your statement...in which nothing is expected in return only the joy of "giving" if we use reciprocity as a moral or industrial statement then how we look at the world changes and therefore the love gathered changes meaning. Synchronicity requires a cause and effect relationship in the same space..not as a phsysical cause and effect one after another...to find to Synchornicity..one needs to remove common belief of causality with effect and replace it as all things are connected through there cause and meaning...ie. "it is what it is". I need a little clarification on the phrase "people who get it"....what truely is "IT" if we are to use the terms Synchronicity and Reciprocity....i love your post but only challenge this one area...sincerely Glen
All Comments
I fell in love with people and earth as a child. I have traveled to and lived in so many places and experienced diverse cultures. I learned to walk in Alaska, went to a Cajun speaking pre-K in Louisiana, learned to speak Italian by speaking with people on the train while I was there for six months. I grew up with a Japanese family and was taught recipes handed down from my German great grandmother. I am married to a European and live in an area where people with rich backgrounds and culture are abundant. I surround myself with and pursue the things that remind me that the Earth and the ones in it are worth loving. I have never been afraid to maintain that love, I am still in love!
A garden is a reflection of love/life, of its joy and sorrow, its accomplishments and disappointments. Kahlil Gibran writes that there is a sword hidden in love's pinions. Leonard Cohen sings that love chooses us, not the other way round.
Love is all that matters. Love is stronger than death.
Also, if you get a chance to try manna (ash tree syrup)-flavored gelato, that can do it too.
I make a conscious effort to let go of all the preconceived notions that I have ~
society or my family or my own past experiences sometimes influences me to close the door on something that could have real value for me if I just allow.
I fall in Love by
staying Connected to myself so I actually know what Love is!
When you live life as Your Authebntic Self You Know instantly what experiences will be Love, you know what will Bring you Joy.
{Hi Jamie!!! Love you!!!}
:)
Melba
I see some common themes in the answers so far - nature, being present. I would say that the thing that most consistently blocks this love is fear.
And yes, Julia!! I love NYC! I got married in Central Park - wind blowing, passers-by hollering - there's a way to fall in love with the world!
It could be as exotic as traveling to a remote place to experience a different land and culture or as simple as sitting in a sun filled backyard with close friends debating the quality of a book or movie. Or perhaps the sounds of crashing waves on a windy day at the Toronto Beaches or taking in the sounds from a new cd I got.
The world has many things to share and it seems rude not to accept an appetizer or two.
When I stopped to think what my answer was, I realized that it’s always been the nature in my surroundings. Growing up on the coastline of a small town in Newfoundland, I would look out my bedroom window and see rugged cliffs dipping down into the Atlantic while the sun set over a little island to my left. Even as a child I adored that view and knew I lived in such a beautiful place!
I also fall in love through any animal, be it domestic or wild, which gives me absolute and intense joy – the kind that makes your stomach flip-flop! – whenever I’m near one!
The pure and modest beauty of all of nature, from the cloud formations in the sky to the plants in a pretty garden to a metallic blue dragonfly in the grass to the sound of a lion grunting in preparation to roar, and absolutely everything in between, that’s what makes me fall in love with the world over and over again!
Looking up at tree branches with the sun filtering through. Standing in the ocean being buoyed by waves. Watching ants march to their hill. Mama ducks leading their young. A human reaching out her hand to another.
Thanks so much for sharing such a great moment.
I remember being in Kew Gardens, trying to walk off a broken heart. I gave up walking and lay down on a bench underneath a magnificent spreading tree. I just looked up through the branches and felt so much better.
I also find when you put others before yourself, you're rewarded even more. It's better to give than to receive. That expression has been taught to me by example by my grandmother and my mother. What a great way to fall in love with the world.
Knowing that there is so much still to see and taste and hear and touch...fills me with the love of possibility!
When I get up in the morning, I'm grateful to be going to meaningful and inspiring work that supports my family, my world and my soul.
I am so blessed. Being aware of how blessed I am starts it all over again.
It's about the way in which people choose to treat one another.
I always get choked up when I witness people bringing it back to basics, love for the sake of loving, not gain. So simple
When I think of those things I can't help but smile, be taken over by a deep inhale and exhale and fall in l-o-v-e with us.
xo
Danielle
226. Miracles
WHY! who makes much of a miracle?
As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love—or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
Or sit at table at dinner with my mother,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive, of a summer forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds—or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
Or the wonderfulness of the sun-down—or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite, delicate, thin curve of the new moon in spring;
Or whether I go among those I like best, and that like me best—mechanics, boatmen, farmers,
Or among the savans—or to the soiree—or to the opera,
Or stand a long while looking at the movements of machinery,
Or behold children at their sports,
Or the admirable sight of the perfect old man, or the perfect old woman,
Or the sick in hospitals, or the dead carried to burial,
Or my own eyes and figure in the glass;
These, with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring—yet each distinct, and in its place.
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same;
Every spear of grass—the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them,
All these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
To me the sea is a continual miracle;
The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships, with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?
Centred in yourself not on yourself the barriers are all down. It can happen anywhere anytime.
What humbles me is when it happens with a stranger and we are ourselves yet one. A smiling baby in a checkout line at the supermarket. A dying man sitting on a toilet in an over lit room. Eyes meeting we gazed at each other long psst social convention: Healing and wholeness are from the same word.
Jennifer Sage
Wow! wow! wow! what an extraordinary beautiful poem here is one for you by Davna Markova. I don't know its title
I will not die an unlived life,
I will not go in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
To allow my living to open me,
To make me less afraid,
More accessible,
To loosen my heart
Until it becomes a wing,
A torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance:
To live.
So that which comes to me as seed,
Goes to the next as blossom,
And that which comes to me as blossom,
Goes on as fruit.
Jennifer Sage
H&S: Colour in everything. Adding to my collections (pottery, tea, paper, books etc). Natural light coming in big windows. A long yarn over a cuppa tea.
F&S: Dancing in a flowy skirt. Layering different textures and fabrics. People-watching in Rome, NYC or Montreal! Skinny dipping.
S&L: Aha moments. Lifelong learning. Devouring a yummy new book. Poetry! Smudging. Ceremony. Prayer. I am often overwhelmed by the joy of knowing that I am exactly where I'm supposed to be.
R&C: People watching. Small world stories. Synchronicity & reciprocity. Paying it forward. Communicating without words. Meeting people who "get it". Sharing food. Snuggling with my nephew.
N&R&R: Big dramatic skies of clouds or stars. Stoney Lake (the family cottage). The magic of Murray Shafer's Wolf Project. Walking. Sweat lodges. Live music. Everyday miracles.
B&W: Runner's high. Hot yoga. Meditation. Awareness of voice and breath.
C&C: Seeing and creating art. Journaling. Drumming and singing. Making food. Laughing with my sisters and my mom. Any family event. Reunions with my long-distance Love.
S&W: Teaching. Learning. Watching others succeed. Coworkers who feel like family.
when it nurtures such an miraculous abundance of life,
when every one of its turns produces another day of wisdom,
when it offers secrets for the takin in the deepest oceans,
when discoveries await those who seek its highest peeks,
when the warmth of its breath sooths a lazy summer evening,
when in its coldest night there's beauty in the icicles
when even the tiniest of its citizens has a purpose?
You just do.
For me falling in love with the world again starts with connecting with nature and that always fires up the creative muse who wants to play with paint. If I cant’ do that cruising some creative and thinking blogs is a pretty good stop gap.
Recently discovered the Style Statement through Jamie’s site and slowly working my way through, so you’ll have to excuse me, the sun is shining outside, I need to go drink it up.
This is how I connect to the world everyday.
I also fall in love with the world when books seduce me with their stories and stir magick in my spirit. This is a very rare occurrence but happens sometimes.
Laughing with my husband also transcends my spirit, finding joy together.
i fall in the love with the world by being out in nature, laughing with loved ones, swimming, dancing, making art, snuggling my cats, eating delicious food, finding quirky handmade jewelry that makes me smile, exploring new places, seeing whales, watching birds, admiring thunderstorms, taking pictures, taking deep breaths, singing in the car, putting my hands in the dirt, smelling the lovely scents of fall, noticing synchronicity. so many things to love!
Great question Jamie!
How do I fall in love with the world?
How do I fall in love with the wooooorld?
(I must repeat the question and let the answer dribble out my fingertips without censorship).
Howwww?
Oh, yes, now it's clear.
It happens when I feel free.
When I can move how I want, when I can go where and go with whomever i want.
When I can ride my bike, dance in community, share my tears, and eat my oatmeal day after day. I
t happens when I am secure, and I feel the safety of being able to tend to myself.
That's when those moments,
those beautifully bright moments,
whisper
"you, Jennifer, are capable of falling in love".