It’s our Day of Love

Posted on October 2, 2016 by AlianaAlani

As many of you know, each Sunday I call on all of us to help MAKE SUNDAY A DAY OF LOVE. I’ve been doing this for a few weeks. During such times, we express and send love into our world, close friends or not. We share kindness and compassion where we can. We celebrate the day with a prayer that such love might go on forever.

This week, the Love is for YOU.

No matter where you are, YOU matter. No matter what you look like, how you dress (or don’t), how you share the magic of your days, YOU matter.

It is often easier to give love to others. And yet without drinking from the Well of Love ourselves, how can we truly share that love with the world?

It is time to nourish our own inner gardens. Celebrate our inner beauty. Honor our inner wisdom and knowing. And allow ourselves, each and every one of us, to blossom into the magnificent gardens of love we were always meant to be.

After all – to be a tad poetic – YOU are the breeze that wafts within tall trees, the golden leaves that fall in Autumn, the slender buds that bloom in Spring. YOU are the rippling waters of a gentle pond and the crashing waves midst a stormy sea. YOU are today and tomorrow NOW. YOU are the reflections of those around you, the reflection of yourself in life’s slender mirror. YOU are an endless garden, an open heart, a robin’s song. YOU are all these things and so much more.

LOVE YOU. Why? Because YOU matter.

So go ahead, make today, SUNDAY, the day YOU LOVE YOU.

Let’s Make Sunday a Day of Love

Posted on July 16, 2016 by AlianaAlani

Yes, it’s true – tomorrow is Sunday.

So I am here once again to remind you of WILL YOU JOIN ME?, the page I posted a couple of weeks ago that began the call to come together to Make Sunday a Day of Love (you can find the page heading above this posting in the headings area).

As some of you may know by now, it is a call to come home to love – to bring love, unconditional and timeless, into all aspects of our lives – for ourselves, for each other, and for the world.We begin with one day – Sunday. But ultimately it is there to assist us in infusing every day with love; to get used to the idea, the feeling, its resonance within, and then, make it so.

Please go to the page WILL YOU JOIN ME? and read about it.

Obviously, the world has gotten a little crazier and pain-filled since last weekend, so our love, kind and compassionate, is needed more than ever. There are a lot of vulnerable people out there right now who could use feeling a little healing love. So let’s join together and Make this Sunday a Day of Love – and when we do, when we create that healing circle within the day of love, let’s be sure we send some of that love, like a gentle gentle wave, into our very fragile world, that those in need may feel, even from distance, that they are not alone, and yes, that they are loved

WILL YOU JOIN ME?

Bless you and thank you. Thank you for helping MAKE SUNDAY A DAY OF LOVE.

Remember

Love is the answer.

Always has been. Always will be.

This is for you…

Posted on August 26, 2015 by AlianaAlani

I’ve had 22shangrila up and running for awhile now. Some of you have been following here since the beginning; others are new, or at least newer. Some click ‘like’ having found something in that moment that speaks to you and then you are gone into the internet mist, never to be heard from again. Some come back. Some choose to hang around.

To all of you, I want to say – THANK YOU!

Thank you for being touched by something in this site, whether that be poetry, an article, or some of the other work I do. Thank you for letting me know. And thank you for choosing to follow to see what else might show up here.

The purpose of 22shangrila has always been to communicate – to speak to the language of the heart in us all, no matter the form or moment – but especially through the power of word, image, and story. And of course to let you know what I’m doing.

I’m not the best at answering, or for that matter at clicking ‘follow’ to your sites when you come to mine. Apologies. The intention is often there. I do take a look at what you’re doing if you click ‘like’ on mine, and I often say to myself, ‘I must make a comment, a thank you, an I-like-your-work-too’. But then the moment goes, the phone rings, the muse calls, and my best intentions fly off into the winds. I’ll try to get better at that.

After all, we are a community of world storytellers, are we not? Mystics in the making, perhaps. Poets abounding. Weaving new visions and thoughts that, yes, could quite possibly change our world for the better. And we all matter.

So here’s to you – all of you – may every day in your life flourish with harmony, balance, and love. May you weave the most scrumptious tales ever, whether they be in word, image, or sound! And may they dance in our world like magic calling us home.

I hope you’ll hang around. If it feels right, send a comment note or an email (I will answer those) and tell me what you’re doing to help this world be a kinder happier place.

And again – THANK YOU!