treasure

every morning i have a choice.

i can live in a run down beach hut
with chipping paint and tiny closets

or i can live in an enchanted cottage by the sea,
with the waves at my doorstep and soft sand
in between my toes.

i can worry about money
and think about the worst case scenarios

or i can wake up and create,
and believe that abundance is easy
and within reach.

i can get mad
at unpleasant things i don’t think i deserve

or i can trust that this is part of the process,
and manifest new things that better serve my needs.

i can look at my modest studio space
and scold myself for not doing enough

or i can let loose with some bright, thick happy paint,
my ipod, no shoes and a really kick ass bagel
and get on with it.

i can be jealous of those
who are seeing new places

or i can look outside at my own paradise,
be present, and know everyone has their time.

i can be catty
or i can be compassionate.

i can hold on really tight
or i can do a cartwheel in the grass.

i can bitch
or i can smell the jasmine growing
up and down the street.

i have been called a dreamer,
spacey, and not in “reality.”

i have been mocked for
believing in magic and good.

but you know,
the alternative is not so appealing
to me anymore.
this is my reality.
and i like it.

so there.

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hey I live in that same place: not always “in reality”, how fun! lets be
neighbors:) Hugs

what you wrote was so spot on. I am right there with you, seeing magic in the daily moments!

….though I haven’t done a cartwheel in awhile!!

ps. thank you so much for the kind comments, mccabe. you are wonderful.

Love this! I think I’m going to print it out and hang it on my bulletin board to look at every day.

Thanks for the inspiration and the hope.

Love this! I think I’m going to print it out and hang it on my bulletin board to read and recite every day.

Thanks for the inspiration and the hope.

This is so beautiful written. I am a believer in magic, too. And yes, I have been called dreamy and unrealistic…but I call it an enchanted reality:)

dearest mermie

I sneak into your blog when I am at work,
and it always puts a smile on my face.
today I am blown away, yet again,
by what you have written, about choice,
and how you can choose your point of view.
I belong to a Wiccan spiritual group
and everyone in the group has a great attitude,
and believes in seeing the best in things.
I am wondering if you’d mind,
if I read this post to the group?
I just know already that they would love it.

hugs & love to you,
Elke

oh yes sweetheart, you say it so well and it makes my heart smile … thank you for the little reminders i think i am going to print this out on bright paper and frame it in a painted frame and hang it by my bed so every morning i am reminded that i live in a magic cottage next to a beautiful flowing river and a magical expanse of wild parkland and i am living my dreams filled with love and light and when my light is on magic scatters about me and everyone gets some and that is a beautiful thing. sending you love and magic beautiful dreamy blue soulgirl, xo

and I am “so there” with you,

Love toni

YES! yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!!

Again, the perfect thing for me to read today!!

Love to you in your enchanted cottage by the sea!!

Wow! I am so happy to wake up to these wise words this morning. Thank you.

I am a bit groggy this morning. Waking up on the other coast in Miami this morning before the birds and I have to catch a flight to Montreal. Instead of grumbling about possible long security lines and delays I am going to remember how as a child this would be the best sort of adventure and fabulous for people watching even if I did get waylaid by the transit powers that be. We get to choose. Thank you for reminding me by sprinkling your magic on my tired melon. Doors of perception open. As I read this post I woke up literally and figuratively. Magic Mermie. I too will be printing this out and displaying prominently. Thank you. ps I can’t wait for my lovely print.

Heh. Why is it I can see you sticking your tongue out from here?

I’m in a swirly place of being caught in the beauty of all the great things that are happening and the sabotaging way that I have to screw things up.

Today I choose to believe as you have, in all the beauty and magic that there is. Thank you.

Take that!

What is your artist (new business) name? Dancing Mermaid..?

I so adore you…you are like eating candy floss! Yummie! xx

i *love* your reality. i love the light shining in you. you are an inspiration.

truly.
blesssings

Lady Jane…you rock my world. It is all a choice my love, it is, and this was an additional piece of encouragement to see things full of bounty yumminess and magic.

XOOXO

your reality seems lovely to me and I think being a dreamer is such a beautiful gift… I look at your photos and think how wonderful it must be to live right by the sea and feel the sand and and see the sun setting over the ocean every day… you’re post is inspiring me to see the beauty in my world… thank you xoxo

oh yes.
because the little tiny happy bits in the day to day are what make people like us see joy and light in everything.
and even when times are so hard…there is still beauty in the breaking down.

love to you

Recently a friend asked how it is that in spite of the chaos that is my life I keep smiling and I shrugged my shoulders and said â€œI choose happiness.â€ I think sometimes it really is that easy.

So there! So true!! I love your way of looking at things and I too, have been framing my world this way more lately! Thank you, you are an inspiration to me, McCabe!! xoxo

What an inspiring post McCabe!! I love it! I have been starting to think in the same way! I want to laugh more, enjoy life more and yes, I did a cartwheel in the grass a couple of weeks ago, shocking my oldest!

I am living in this spacey…dreamy…magical technicolour world with you!!!

Who says this isn’t reality? My tongue is sticking out at them with a big ‘SO THERE!

Magic…love…light to you!
xoxo

hooray for you! that is a great perspective to take. i’ve been thinking about some things along similar lines, but the way you put it is just so . . . magical.

ps: i love that picture of the white flowers! aaahhhh, so beautiful.

from one dreamer to another…keep rockin’

i really really needed to read this on this very morning. it is a choice… i choose the treasure!!
thank you. you ROCK!

tawnja

love this!!! so true, its all about perspective…
wishing you a beautiful, magical day…

PS
cartwheels rock! especially when you can have sand flung from your bare feet and watch the ocean turn to sky and sky to ocean as you turn over and over!
i am grinning ear to ear and seeing the magic unfold.
skippin in the sand is fun too!! weeeee!

MMMMMMMMMMM treasures mmmmmmmmm!

True and beeyootiful. Thank you and love you ~

Tracy

I used to be afraid of the labels I would get for being positive-’naive’, ‘pollyanna’, ‘uninformed’.

but what’s so great about being unhappy and discouraged all the time? Nothing, that’s what.

“i have been mocked for
believing in magic and good.

but you know,
the alternative is not so appealing
to me anymore.
this is my reality.
and i like it.

so there.”

sounds like blissmongering to me

It seems like every time I come to your blog, I find just what I need to read at the exact moment I need to read it. Thank you!
Blessings
~*~

Oh I feel that. In my deepest heart of hearts, I feel that. We can make a choice, I wish more people would choose the magic. I guess I can only lead by example, as you do.

oh, honey you don’t know how much this hit me today, thank you!

you totally rock!

xo
s

Hello there ~
So true & beautifully expressed.
When I first arrived in NZ I found it very hard to adjust. After a while I realized that in each separate day there is more than enough to enjoy. I am very grateful for the experience, and the perspective gained from it. We just have to be where we are.

you have manifested your destiny. now you get to enjoy it. embrace this amazing part of your journey! trust and have faith

thank you! I really needed to read this! Take care!

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