Carrie and Danielle - Latest Comments in How do you fall in love with the world?

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

google — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:48:07 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Glen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:58:24 -0000

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

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Beth C. — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:05:57 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Ellen — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:54:32 -0000

I fall in love with myself.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Danette — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:05:44 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

kerrymac — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:49:13 -0000

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!

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Jamie — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:03:41 -0000

Living without resisting - oh, yes. I'll have to invite this into my life more.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Claudia — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:04:26 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Jennifer Hicks — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:22:05 -0000

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".

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Henriette Moncion — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:57:36 -0000

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!

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

leah — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:05:12 -0000

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!

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Hilma — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:48:53 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Vern — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:06:41 -0000

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).

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Connie — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:15:47 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

MarieLeona — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:53:47 -0000

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!

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Sacred Suzie — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:42:53 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Jamie — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:21:10 -0000

Beautiful, John. You are a poet.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

don — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:55:35 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Angela — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:14:59 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Pearl Maple — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:55:00 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

alligator_kate — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:44:32 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

John Tran — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:46:01 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Romana Mirza — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:26:24 -0000

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.

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

Lesley Miller — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:16:05 -0000

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...

Re: How do you fall in love with the world?

marn — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:27:14 -0000

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.... :-)