Heidi's Musings - Commentshttp://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/Exploring the landscape of mind and heart(c) Heidi Fischbach. All rights reserved - 2006-2007.en-USSquarespace Site Server v5.8.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Chris Zydel comments on Wanted: A life.Chris ZydelTue, 13 Oct 2009 23:11:32 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/10/11/wanted-a-life.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5871795Dear Heidi,

I just adore you! And this is FABULOUS!! You are an amazing writer and a powerful poetess!!

Thanks for your inspiring words.

Big hugs lots of love,
Chris

]]>Tatty Franey comments on Wanted: A life.Tatty FraneyMon, 12 Oct 2009 16:03:04 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/10/11/wanted-a-life.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5862836oh heidi that is so exciting :) nothing is more badass than a tribal bellydancer ;)

]]>Heidi Fischbach comments on Wanted: A life.Heidi FischbachMon, 12 Oct 2009 12:05:03 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/10/11/wanted-a-life.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5861877I love that it moved you, Tatty! And that it's inspiring you to badassery. By the way, I'm doing a Tribal belly dance class taught by my friend Cecile Carr (http://ombellyco.com). She's one of my FB friends, by the way. I wish the two of you to meet! Belly dancing is one of my little badasseries. It might not be to everyone, but it is from whence I come ;)

]]>Tatty Franey comments on Wanted: A life.Tatty FraneyMon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:58 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/10/11/wanted-a-life.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5861660This is so wonderful, dear Heidi, so so wonderful.... I printed a copy and will carry with me everywhere, for inspiration, as a reminder that I can always up the badassness :)

]]>Heidi Fischbach comments on T.S. Eliot helps this Mexican jumping bean get to essential.Heidi FischbachSat, 12 Sep 2009 19:59:00 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/9/9/ts-eliot-helps-this-mexican-jumping-bean-get-to-essential.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5509418OK, everybody? The above-quoted verses are but a passage from The Four Quartets. So if you loved them, you must--no, you MUST--get thyselves a copy of that little book. I'm telling you: the man did not win a Nobel prize for nothing. And Four Quartets is sheer brilliance. Pretty much the whole book is chockfull of lines like the above that I quoted. Just sayin', um, GET IT!

Michelle, I suspect you and I are not alone in that craving for essential communication, without angles and agendas... Maybe this oversaturation of slogans and propaganda and blahblahblah is simply needed to bring us back to a balance. But oh, essential... ahhhhh.

Big loves--

H

]]>Michelle Russell comments on T.S. Eliot helps this Mexican jumping bean get to essential.Michelle RussellSat, 12 Sep 2009 19:40:32 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/9/9/ts-eliot-helps-this-mexican-jumping-bean-get-to-essential.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5509291Oh, Heidi, the deliciousness! I'm catching up on my favorite blogs, and how right you are about the waiting. How perfectly fitting for where I am now. On the outside, things are moving and shaking, but internally I'm hanging in this void where my inevitable new direction is uncertain. And I *abhor* not being able to achieve closure. So your and Mr. Eliot's reminders couldn't be better timed. :)

What struck me the most in what you wrote is this:
"I am drawn to things that speak the language of essence. In a time of endless slogans and causes, and preachy propaganda (no matter the side) telling me what’s wrong with me and how its answer will be my sure salvation, I crave expression that is pared of excess, justification, and excuse."

Oh, YES. I'm looking for that, too.

And that poem! I agree with Bridget above--how did I go for so long without knowing of it? Thank you, thank you!

]]>Heidi Fischbach comments on T.S. Eliot helps this Mexican jumping bean get to essential.Heidi FischbachSat, 12 Sep 2009 00:19:40 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/9/9/ts-eliot-helps-this-mexican-jumping-bean-get-to-essential.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5505640OK, first off *kisses* for all! Kisses, kisses, kisses. Reading your comments is about as good as opening an advent calendar when I was a kid. Big loves to you.

And yes, love that Rilke passage. Have loved it for a long long time, longer than most things I've ever loved. And how exciting to introduce a Letters to a Young Poet fan to another fantastic little book of essential beauty. But I already said that.

OK, moving on. What is this Wild Mountain Thym and why do I not know whatof you speak, karen? Now I must investigate. More things to love. Oh my. In addition to the Munch's The Scream moments, there is this, isn't there. New things to love.

Thank you!

]]>Karen comments on T.S. Eliot helps this Mexican jumping bean get to essential.KarenFri, 11 Sep 2009 23:58:53 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/9/9/ts-eliot-helps-this-mexican-jumping-bean-get-to-essential.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5505582Oh Heidi,
I so love your blog :) I'd left this page open yesterday, to come back to and savour properly. I came to it this evening, having just listened to Wild Mountain Thyme...how serendipitous was that, given TS Eliot's words! They have long spoken to me but are especially pertinent at this time....thank you so much.

]]>Bridget Pilloud comments on T.S. Eliot helps this Mexican jumping bean get to essential.Bridget PilloudFri, 11 Sep 2009 18:14:56 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/9/9/ts-eliot-helps-this-mexican-jumping-bean-get-to-essential.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5501570Oh! How did I get to nearly 40 without reading those beautiful words!

They remind me a little of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet:

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

]]>Eileen comments on T.S. Eliot helps this Mexican jumping bean get to essential.EileenThu, 10 Sep 2009 04:40:53 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/9/9/ts-eliot-helps-this-mexican-jumping-bean-get-to-essential.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5477341So beautiful, both your words and his.

Wishing you some calm comfort at the stillpoint...

Love ~ E.

]]>Barbara Martin comments on T.S. Eliot helps this Mexican jumping bean get to essential.Barbara MartinWed, 09 Sep 2009 17:28:22 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/9/9/ts-eliot-helps-this-mexican-jumping-bean-get-to-essential.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5464327Heidi -- you begin by slamming me with images one after another and then, you end with that... absolutely fabulous.

]]>Heidi Fischbach comments on AwayHeidi FischbachMon, 31 Aug 2009 00:43:29 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/8/28/away.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5285958@amzolt thank you for coming by and posting your thoughts ;)

]]>Heidi Fischbach comments on Dear Mr. Rumi, thank you & could you help me with a guest. Love, HeidiHeidi FischbachMon, 31 Aug 2009 00:41:52 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/8/26/dear-mr-rumi-thank-you-could-you-help-me-with-a-guest-love-h.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5285954whoa, whoa whoa! Mr. Rumi has commented not once, but twice, plus lovely Rumi words from Deborah, too. Wow. I should write letters more often!

]]>Deborah Weber comments on Dear Mr. Rumi, thank you & could you help me with a guest. Love, HeidiDeborah WeberMon, 31 Aug 2009 00:17:32 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/8/26/dear-mr-rumi-thank-you-could-you-help-me-with-a-guest-love-h.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5285885Lovely post Heidi, although I'm sorry about that pest of a guest Anxiety. I'm thinking maybe we should take broom in hand and sweep him right out the front door as he's clearly overstayed his welcome. And once he's gone, you can settle in for some sweet relief. And then as Rumi said so beautifully "...hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you." I have that phrase inscribed on a bangle I always wear, and find I often use it as a touchstone.

]]>Alexander M Zoltai comments on AwayAlexander M ZoltaiFri, 28 Aug 2009 14:42:45 +0000http://babayagasplace.squarespace.com/heidi-musings/2009/8/28/away.html#comments25372:308253:comment/5257257Ineffably Sweet...

Impalpably Actual...

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