celebrating a cycle

pull out your party hats, your drums and flutes and whistles... summon up the spirit of celebration and join me in wishing easily amazed a happy 1st birthday. (insert joyous sounds and laughter here!)

i adore the life that easily amazed has grown into in its first year of sharing and inviting. the exploring, celebrating, honoring, and uncovering that has unfolded here is most definitely worth appreciating. and i am humbled by the amorphous, mysterious presence that this space holds... taking its time and defining its shine!

the biggest gift that easily amazed has given me is all of you. the evolution and pulse of this site is 100% a result of the commenting generosity of those who read and participate, engaging me and one another, linking together into the amazing network of connections that we are. wether your voice appears in words or you read without commenting, your presence is felt and appreciated.

the feeling your own story thread continues to thrive at integral naked. a recent contribution of jacqui's echos, to me, a core component of how being connected to all of you through easily amazed (and your personal webbles and blogs) has encouraged an exponentially greater amount of Love within me:

If I see the beauty in someone, and I tell them that, and they tell me how much that meant to them to be seen in that way, I feel more love, more joy. I also see them as even more beautiful. If they see beauty in me, and tell me, I see them as being even more beautiful, and I feel more love and beauty in myself. This is a real, biological happening in me. It happens in my body, in my heart/soul whole being. It is as if Love plus Love equals an exponentially greater amount of love. But that love has to be spoken, shared, announced, proclaimed, celebrated or it doesn't work.

thank you easily amazed for inviting us to speak, share, announce, proclaim and celebrate... it's working!!

Comments:

happy 1 birthday, easily amazed! i sing you a song, light you a candle, and watch in delight your joyous face while you're eating that birthday cake! happy birthday, all you easily amazed! Kojan | 11.24.04 - 11:12 am | #

Happy Birthday from Ghana, easily amazed! lots of love, ted Ted Ernst | Homepage | 11.24.04 - 3:02 pm | #

this is a sweet chance to pause to look back to last november, to celebrate a year of incescribable inner growth, to reflect on how easily amazed has been like a little laughing river right outside my back door, beckoning me barefoot into the forest on the scent of the fabulous pathways of postconventional love; what an easy, amazing crossroads - it's in these comment boxes that i met christy, and thomas, and brandy, and leela, and got to hang out with old friends like chris corrigan and jeff aitken and to smile and thrill at the words of so many others... i thank you for the inspiration to start my poetry blog metaphorest walk, and for all the other sparkling ways that you invite us to open up and spin our love and our daily-freshly-integrated selves out onto the shining waves of the awakening world... happy birthday easily amazed! with love, chris weaver | 11.26.04 - 4:20 pm | #

wow! a happy birthday toast (definitely with something sparkly, effervescent, fragrant, and intoxicating!) to easily amazed, its wonderful, colorful, celebratory space, and to all of the easily amazed souls who have been happily drawn in by its radiance. and ashley, that reminds me that it's been a little more than a year since PoP, when I first got to meet you, walking on the drizzly forest path from our dorm to thomas berry hall--what a gift it has been for our worlds to have spilled into each other since then! lots of love, christy | Homepage | 11.28.04 - 12:37 am | #

My dear friend. Of course it has been a year you have been sharing your thinking and inspiration with us. Your voice has been a lovely addition to the chorus that fills my eyes and ears. I am so glad to know you, and to have been able to deepen that knowing over the past year, online and in person. May your path take you to many more years of sharing your easy amazement with everything that touches you. Much love...c Chris Corrigan | Homepage | 12.01.04 - 1:06 am | #

!! Happy (belated) birthday. Oh, Ash. You've given me so much to be thankful for. You have a rare ability to make every post a reminder of the importance of thanks-giving. And don't pass off too much credit to your blog alone. You are, after all, the one who nurtured it. You're the one who breathes life. These pages are an extension of your own beautiful nature. So happy birthday, yourself, and thank you (thank you!) again. Siona | Homepage | 12.01.04 - 3:27 pm | #