{"id":1842,"date":"2015-08-05T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:43:08","slug":"more-is-more-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2015\/08\/more-is-more-day.html","title":{"rendered":"More is More Day!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Judith Hill<\/p>\n<p>This is our More is More Day!! Sigh deeply! Feel that? Yummmmmmm!<br \/>\nWe get to Be in 100% JOY! \u00a0Remember how great this is?<\/p>\n<p>What Have You ALWAYS wanted to DO?<br \/>\nClimb Machu Picchu? Write the Great Pan-American Novel??<br \/>\nLearn to play the alto sax? Take up Watercolors? Make a fish pond?<br \/>\nSail, skateboard, crochet? Sing lead in a Garage Band?<br \/>\nDance for hours &amp; go for breakfast as the sun comes up? Like we usta?!<br \/>\nForgive Everyone you need to? Write a poem thanking Seeds!<br \/>\nDo absolutely nothing and feel fine? Go to India and serve in an Ashram?<br \/>\nPlay! Paint! Sing Loud! Sign up! Yahooo! Good on Ya!<br \/>\nDye your hair purple and paint your doorways blue?? Write everyone one you Love &amp; say so!<br \/>\nGet a facial, a pedicure, and massage? At the same time!!! Go on a wild date!\u00a0 With the Beloved! With Yourself!<br \/>\nBe instantly on a fabulous adventure! An exotic vacation! Dress up &amp; Stay Home!<br \/>\nWhy not?\u00a0 It\u2019s our day! It\u2019s our life!<br \/>\nStay Home!! Travel!! Spend the day in bed! Or a mountain trail!<br \/>\nTake a train somewhere you have never been!!! Yippppppee!<br \/>\nWear something gorgeous! Velvet! Silk! Topless!<br \/>\nDo what you wish! Sleep! Lollygag! Loaf! Lounge!<br \/>\nFeed Birds! Swim! Tango &amp; tangle! Day dream!<br \/>\nFind yummy hot water &amp; loll joyously about for hours!<br \/>\nRead all day, eating dark chocolate bonbons &amp; moan, O just quietly, in pleasure!<br \/>\nWalk into deep woods! Sing loud! Dance for the nuthatches!<br \/>\nSee 3 movies &amp; eat buttered popcorn! Procrastinate!<\/p>\n<p>Give just-baked cookies away one by one! Take a walk &amp; smile at Everyone!<br \/>\nBe Happy for no Reason! For Every Reason!<br \/>\nMake Prayers for Peace &amp; and cuddle up close! Go to Work &amp; Be at Play!<br \/>\nGo where you\u2019ve always wanted! Seychelles? Bequa? Your back porch? My kitchen?<br \/>\nLinger over warm churros and chocolate calientito at the San Augustin Caf\u00e9, dunk and dream\u2026<br \/>\nIf your morning is booked, have a Moonbath &amp; pizza: with fresh basil and extra cheese!<br \/>\nAren\u2019t the Cubs, aren\u2019t the Yankees\u2026.playing somewhere we could go?<br \/>\nVisit the Monets? A playground with swings? A Kirtan?<br \/>\nA picnic in the Bosque at dawn, kergillion cranes wheeling overhead?\u00a0 Snowgeese &amp; Sandhill Cranes!<br \/>\nBy the Presa full from recent rains, Egrets &amp; Cormorants in circling flight above?<br \/>\nFajitas and Limonada after? Lobster roll with extra wasabi,<br \/>\ncarnitas with pico de gallo,\u00a0 guayabas and pineapple on a balcony overlooking your life,<br \/>\nin gratitude for every blessed second?<br \/>\nA chance to say I love you one more time? \u00a0And have it said back?<br \/>\nSay it again and again! Aren\u2019t our hearts so full! Whew!<br \/>\nA luxurious nap with a thick blankie, Assam tea with cream? More Kisses?<br \/>\nHot bath, scented rose geranium, reading Neruda? Aloud! Coltrane and Tinarwien, Billie H and Bob D?<br \/>\nSnow in the high country, waves rolling in on Cabo,<br \/>\nsilver bracelets, satiny avocados, camerones y mango liquados?<br \/>\nYou Are Invited! You are My Guest! Come to my Party! Start Now!<br \/>\nCome as You Are! How else could you be?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry if you are Late \u2013 Come as you were!<br \/>\nIf you are Early \u2013 Come as you will be!<br \/>\nIt\u2019s all in my heart for us! See you here! Or there! Now!<br \/>\nInvite your friends! Always room for More Partiers!<br \/>\nAnd know I Love you Best!<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s stay thrillingly, heartbeating wildly, in love &amp; that\u2026that! \u00a0Will make Our Dreams Come True!<br \/>\n&amp; Know I love you today &amp; today &amp; today &amp; today\u2026.. xxxxxxxxJudyth<\/p>\n<p>* ***<br \/>\nDonna Henes is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thequeenofmyself.com\"><em>The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife<\/em>.<\/a> She offers counseling and upbeat, practical and ceremonial guidance for individual women and groups who want to enjoy the fruits of an enriching, influential, purposeful, passionate, and powerful maturity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donnahenes.net\/queen\/consult.shtml\">Consult the MIDLIFE MIDWIFE\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Queen welcomes questions concerning all issues of interest to women in their mature years. Send your inquiries to <a href=\"mailto:thequeenofmyself@aol.com\">thequeenofmyself@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Judith Hill This is our More is More Day!! Sigh deeply! Feel that? Yummmmmmm! We get to Be in 100% JOY! \u00a0Remember how great this is? What Have You ALWAYS wanted to DO? Climb Machu Picchu? Write the Great Pan-American Novel?? Learn to play the alto sax? Take up Watercolors? 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