Live Loud

Joy Alert!  Unless you believe in reincarnation (not necessarily decided, myself, one way or another), we only have this one life to live.  How is it that we forget that?  Many of us live from day to day, tied to our jobs, living for the weekends.  Encasing our hearts in the everyday drudgery of earning a living and trying to live life to the best of our ability.

I have done so, and fight being dragged into the abyss of just surviving.  But when I can remember joy, when I can laugh and dance, I say LIVE LOUD!! Sing when you can do so, laugh with gusto, cry with meaning.  Be it all!  Use all your senses!  Smell, live, taste, bite, stomp through life.  Grasp colors between your hands, hurl rainbows to the sky!  Dance with lightning bolts, run in the rain!  Dig in the earth!  Seek out the growing things, the seeds of life and roll in the dirt, dig in the weeds.  Plant, pick and smell the flowers, and for God's sake at least eat the Carnations (they are edible as are violets).

Let your hair down, and if you have no hair, paint your scalp or sculpt designs. Heck, paint your HAIR!  Wear wild hats and bright colors.  Stomp in your boots and LAUGH OUT LOUD!

And yes, life can be and is A BITCH!  But then, so can I be!  Stop 'living only  for the weekend'.  Find a job that feeds your soul as well as your stomach.  Come home and listen to all your old records and CD's.  Have a rock'n roll supper, a six-pack of beer and you are the DJ listening only to your old favorites, and you don't have to drink the whole six pack.  Or go wild and drink Non-diet Coke!

Talk to your plants, animals, children.  They will all listen, and depending on the age of your children, talk back.  Hug, kiss, love.  Don't forget to tell your loved ones that you DO LOVE and CHERISH and COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT THEM!  And if this is no longer true, FIX IT!  If you can't fix it, GET OUT!  Life is much too short to live without love.  Have consensual sex as often as possible, but don't forget to do it with JOY (and protection)!  And preferably with LOVE, I think it's much better that way!

Live your dreams.  The biggest obstacle to your dreams is you. yourself, deciding that you are not worthy of your dreams or incapable.  This is NOT true!  Where there is a will there IS a way!  But as in all things, make sure that this is what you really want.  The best dreams are the ones that feed the soul and not the pocket book.  Wealth is transient, LIVING IS REAL, life is the real wealth.

Take trips, walks, hikes, rides, drive a car, a motorcycle, ride a llama, a horse, an elephant.  Love your neighbor.  Find someone who you dislike on sight, and learn to like them.  Find yourself and learn to love them.  Do not let life go by without adventure.  Take a picnic, in your living room, on the roof, in your car, on the lawn, in the wildnerness, in a canoe.

Do somersaults on the lawn, and teach a child to make daisy chains.  If you do not know how to make daisy chains, have a child teach you.

Watch a thunderstorm, smell the ozone, jump at the thunder.  Grin in relief!  Swim in a lake, and feel the mud squish between your toes, hobble on the pebbles and grimace at the slime.  Find a bed of moss and marvel at the tiny structures, and the microscopic flowers.

Find and count the different colors of algae you can find on the rocks.  Go to a stream and collect wonderful and exotic rocks and make a rock garden in your own yard.  Plant moss, and iceplants, succulents, and pinwheels, wild violets, hen and chicks, stonecrop and phlox.

Write a song, a poem, a story, a sonnet and sing/tell/whisper it to your lover.  If you have no lover find one by not looking, but by finding yourself. Look hard!  You are there!  You may not have met yourself yet, but I promise you, there are surprises you are unaware of!  Find yourself and love your body!  If you don't love your body change it!  Don't diet, just move!  Dance, wiggle, jump on a tramp, yoga, jump rope, swim, walk, hike, bike, roll on hills (watch out for the goose poop), golf (be your own caddy).  Whatever you look like, find something to love.  Do it now, because as you age, you have to become more creative and start just picking the individual body parts you like.

Find a baby and nuzzle it's soft head, and smell its sweet neck (with permission, please).  Make a wild painting with lots of colors.  If you hate messes, then use your hands and take a shower.  Do what is against your nature, and figure out why.  Live life, loud, racously, gloriously and most all of with joy!

Go to a foreign country, learn a new language, learn the piano (but baby your brain, it gets harder to learn as we 'mature').  We are not the only or the biggest or most diverse country in the world.  There is so much to know, to see!
 
Roar your name into the wind! Sit on the prow of a boat and race the birds through winding channels, the wind blowing through your hair, the spray landing on your skin, eyes, eyelashes, and laugh, no hands!

Find joy!  Again and again.  Share it.  Make it your life's mission to find and share as much joy as possible.

Be loud, be joyful, be raucous!  And then, when you are tired.  Sit down and smile and treasure the silence.

Peace & Joy,
Kismet