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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! "In amando un agnello, fuori da amando un leone". Thank you. Love. Xx SS o

Saying Thank You

I want to Thank you.
She looked up at her.
For what?
For being my friend.
Why do you say that I'm your friend?
Because I know you are.
How do you know?
I feel it.
Feel what?
I feel you holding my hand.
When?
Always.
How?
I don't know, I can't explain, but I wanted to Thank you.
Sorry, I guess I should have accepted the Thanks rather than be so inquisitive.
(Smile)
Why is it, do you suppose, that I am so inquisitive?
Because you are searching for ways to be a better friend.
How do you know?
Because you are just like me.

Suzie Sateri

He Who Crossed

The end of the year is here and it seems like 2010 had wings it flew by so fast! As I sit back and watch the rain pour down on the rolling green hills and appreciate the way the clouds sit like a pillow on the top peaks, I reflect on what I need to take from all of my reflections. I've been inspired to start a new style.

He walked over to the girl at the park and asked her how she was.
She looked up at him with tears welled in her eyes and replied she was just fine.
He sat down next to her and she moved away.
He waited a while and threw the ball around with his son.
His eyes found the girl again and he moved toward her.
She starred blankly into the open space next to the oak trees.
He sat next to her again and this time he put his arm around her and told her to relax.
She hid her face in the shelter of his arm and she closed her full eyes.
She listened to him talk.
He was gentle and kind. He spoke to her like a father would a daughter.

She absorbed his words as they vibrated in her mind.
A calm came over her long shaking body and she sat up straight.
She thanked him and left the park.
A few days later he saw her in the same place at the park hunched over, shaking and crying.
He watched people walking by and kids taunting her as she sat with her eyes buried in her arms.
He crossed the street and took his place next to her again, helping her clean her face.
As she smiled up at him he could see her soul and he felt the need to connect.
He decided to take responsibility for teaching her and helping her with what he could.
Not necessarily because its what he wanted or intended to do, but he could see how she needed it.
Every day he returned to the park and took his place next to her.
He began to bring her sack lunches his wife had packed for her.
She began to nourish her body while he taught her spirit encouragement.

Then she didn't come to the park for a long while.
He wondered and worried about her but he went along with his usual routine.
Then the day came. He saw them push her off of the bench and as he crossed the street to shelter her, he watched her quickly rise to her feet. His footsteps were hesitant when he watched her swinging her limbs around in a rage, knocking anyone and everyone down who crossed her path. A proud grin filled his face from ear to ear as he took his place next to this girl who seemed a shadow of her former self. He laughed to himself in utter dismay it could be the same person.
She was embarrassed.
He sat next to her and put his arm around her again.
She was surprised he was so calm after seeing her in that state.
He laughed and he couldn't stop laughing. So she sat and began laughing next to him.
They laughed until their cheeks hurt.

Suzie Sateri

Elevate the Beat

Somehow it all falls away and blends in like splashes in a body of water
Everything feels full.
Circle spins and looking glass magnifies the small miracles... the driving force behind the great.
Wave crashes over mentality
Consciousness animated
Breathe in. Breathe out. Smile. Laugh.
Superhuman touch elevates the beat
Uncompromisingly potent
Love permeates the room
Compassion encompasses the walls of my heart
I Forgive.

Suzie Sateri

Inspired by:
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2010/11/30/%E2%80%9Cprayer-of-forgiveness%E2%80%9D-o-aleph/
I hope this moves you like it did me. Forgive.

Ride the Wave

Elevate thoughts
Lift dreams
Support
Nurture
Guide
Praise
Lead
Humble 
Hold
Favor
Position
strength and courage
peace and serenity
love and don't ever stop loving

Suzie Sateri

That Crazy Love

Body language. An open hand is an open gesture. The say when you meet dogs you should open your hand to let them sniff you as a friendly approach. Body language studies reveal the fact that people are more attractive and approachable if their palms are facing you because its an open and non-threatening position. Its interesting to think about what our nature has to teach us and how it all connects.

Nature is constantly changing and evolving into something different. Its unpredictable and the forces of nature can bring anyone to their knees. At the same time, there are things about nature which are absolutely predictable. The sun rises and sets daily, the seasons change, and there will always be light somewhere in the dark. Like the unpredictability of the ocean, life's obstacles bring unexpected lessons and in every circumstance there is something to be learned.

Things and people contradict themselves and you can be a good guy or a bad guy no matter what you've done. I guess that's the beauty of it. Just like nature and the ocean, life is so deep and wide that there are so many unknowns lingering beneath the surface and in order to find any sort of understanding you must focus on the heart of it all which is inside of you. You are not better or worse then anyone, just in a different stage and where there is understanding there is love.

"Love is like the sea"... our job is to just find a way to simply Be. "When you point your finger, notice there are three pointing back at you." I guess the best way to live is with open hands, ready to give and receive for the greater good. We can only control ourselves and it is our job to remember when we are pointing the finger what the other three are trying to say to us. When things get tight, take the clenched fists & release the fingers into open palms, unarmed and ready to serve.

"Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous, boastful, proud or rude. Love hopes all things and endures all things. Love never fails." Love doesn't point at you, instead the nature of love is open handed and welcoming, bearing fruit that satisfies the soul. Love is the most powerful and unpredictable force on the planet and it can be found anywhere in anything in anyone at anytime. The choice is ours.

Love.
Suzie Sateri

Enjoy this song and video! Xx SS o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5XPQwel8uE

Inside the Spirit

There is something in the spirit... Something that captures the soul and the very essence we are made of. The spirit is "life, breath, vitality, animation, psyche, essence, substance, soul, vision, courage, boldness, enthusiasm, humor, frame of mind, temper..." (-thesaurus). We all have a spirit and I believe the spirit is like a muscle. The more we strengthen it, the stronger and more sustainable it becomes. Also, the more we practice having access to it, the more we will gain access... I also believe strengthening your spirit is like strengthening your Faith; its a life long process.

Salt and light are agents of change. Salt adds flavor. Light dispels darkness. We are meant to be the salt of the earth and we can add flavor by feeding our spirit because that's where the light is found. In the place that can't be explained by science or time and place... the spirit is the essence that we are all connected to.... like love as the ocean. I believe when the spirit is expressed wondrous things happen and miracles are born because light is revealed.

Our free will determines how we want to or will allow our spirit to shine. It can shine in various capacities and eventually will effect something or someone somewhere in someway. For some people its in their music, corporation, acting, art, writing, communicating, comedy... for others maybe in their teaching, in their environmental involvement, sports, technology... either way we are throwing our flavor into the big combination daily whether we make that attempt or not.

All of the flavors are mixed into the melting pot and we are all indefinitely changed by one another... I asked my little Ethan (11 yrs old) why he loves Eminem's music so much and in his description of all of the good things he had to say about Marshall Mathers, he said sometimes his music makes him cry. I think its in the place where science and time and space can't divide us where we can find connection and purpose. Its in feeding the spirit where we find any sort of satisfaction.

Suzie Sateri

I hope you enjoy the song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hAVemuQXY

The Big Bang

 The Big Bang. The fire ball created the Universe. The expansion came from extreme states of heat just like a diamond is formed under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. Both have the ability to disperse light of different colors. Not like a diamond is any basis for comparison with the Universe but it is an interesting concept to think some of the most remarkable miracles can happen from the most heated circumstances. What we think might burn us alive can actually be what builds and forms the most beautiful from the inside out... from the ground, up. 


I guess that's just how it works. The natural. There is much agitation before the fire is ignited and there will be even more if you are considering the flame of a fire ball. Sticks are rubbed furiously together, match hits the box and the sparks start to fly... it takes building before a fire ball is able to fly. Maybe that's just the way its suppose to be. The agitation comes before the rogue and the spark before the fire. The Big Bang happens and that's how everything changes. The wild fire burns with love and every live creature feels the heat while it rapidly expands. 


What if you gave up? No more rubbing the sticks together- no more brushing the match against the box- no more ignition of the flame- no more flame- no more fire ball- everything stays the same- no new growth- no change. What if you gave up? No more building the wave that will set off many others spinning into the vastness with love- no more building relationships- no more hope- no more trust- no more waves- no more surf- stagnant water. Sometimes when we feeling like giving up its right before the Big Bang and that's when all of the building is set into motion and rapidly expands with love because you didn't give up and it was in your spirit where people found hope.

A SPIRIT OF LOVE... press on

Suzie Sateri

"The Big Bang was the event which led to the formation of the universe, according to the prevailing cosmological theory of the universe's early development (known as the Big Bang theory or Big Bang model). According to the Big Bang model, the universe, originally in an extremely hot and dense state that expanded rapidly, has since cooled by expanding to the present diluted state, and continues to expand today. Based on the best available measurements as of 2010^[update], the original state of the universe existed around 13.7 billion years ago,^[1][2] which is often referred to as the time when the Big Bang occurred.^[3][4] The theory is the most comprehensive and accurate explanation supported by scientific evidence and observations.^[5][6]

According to the Big Bang model, the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today. A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxies with it, like raisins in a rising loaf of bread. The graphic scheme above is an artist's concept illustrating the expansion of a portion of a flat universe."

Via: Wikipedia

Enjoy the music!Bang Bang Bang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM6TCGltfHM

We're the Music

Bless the Fruits of our labor. 

"MUSIC: The combining of sounds and tones as a form of artistic expression. A composition rendered by instruments or singing voices; a copy or copies of such a composition. Any PLEASING combination of sounds."
"MUSIC: harmony, melody, tune, air, strain, song, measure, refrain, tone, sharp, flat, major, minor, key, mode, bridge, theme, movement, orchestration, variation, improvisation, rhythm, BEAT, down-beat, up-beat, off-beat, volume, resonance, symphony, serenade, trio, march, blues, dance, modern, popular, sacred, soul, appreciation, sensitivity..."

Music is both perceived and conveyed within the boundaries of our body, mind, spirit and soul. It can be as simple as the sound of your voice, laughter, your athletic abilities, writing, acting or the ideas you have floating around in your mind. Everyone has music inside of them and the music is heard and played daily whether we are aware of it or not. We are all instruments playing our song into the vast Universe.

In life/work/career/dreams/family/marriage/relationship/friendship trials come. "Love is like the sea"... deep and wide.... filled with the known and unknown.. both powerful and unpredictable.. uncontrollable and extremely significant. Our music sounds and what is heard is up to each one of us in our own journey.

Today we have the opportunity to play... you can go solo, do a duet, you can sing, dance, write people into a trance, work as a team or triumph individually. The reality is, when all is said and done, music is filled with any PLEASING COMBINATION of sounds, consisting of many components. In the bigger picture, we are working together for the Greater Good and we are the different components connected to one beat... love.

Our gift is in our song. Everyone has a sound to fill the Earth with, but the real MUSIC is made with a PLEASING combination of sounds.

Suzie Sateri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE
Hope you enjoy this MUSIC!!! I love this song!

The Glittered Sky

One Beat 

To create is to bring into existence what has not yet had the chance to rise before

To create is to produce, perform, build, construct, make and form. 

All of creation (as we know it) is the Universe

Creation is a result of creating -- Creation is original.

The inventive artist finds ways to be productive.

 There is always a way. The gift of the artist comes in finding the path and blazing the trail when they arrive. It comes with imagination and requires nature, totality and Faith.

I was walking my dog the other day and for the first time I realized why he was running crooked. I'd seen him do it hundreds of times but I didn't really understand the nature of it until the other day when it clicked in my mind. He is a Herding Dog by nature, a sheep dog, so his job is to keep the herd going in the right direction. Well, when we go walking, I/we are his herd and I noticed him walking according to that pattern. 

When I was going too far to the right side of the trail, he would turn his back side all the way to the right with his head and neck facing the left to point me in the right direction. Then, when I moved over to the other side of the trail he switched his positioning in the exact opposite direction to guide me the right way. I laughed to myself thinking about these things that are so innate to us that we might not even be aware of on the conscious level but we each have special gifts and talents to offer.

My dog was born a herder and his natural instincts come out in any circumstance but sometimes in different form. For example, if he was herding a group of sheep somewhere he'd be running circles around them and maybe biting their legs to get them moving. If he is near the kids around the pool he herds them away from the water by nudging them with his nose. When he hikes or walks with humans, he is the guide and makes sure they are moving along together on the right path just by shifting his body. No matter what, he just naturally does his job.

We all have instinctive gifts inside and we all have the ability to create ways to use them. We will come to different paths and platforms in which our gifts and talents will be used accordingly. May our creations shine as if we just threw a fist full of glitter into the sky and created sparks of light illuminating the darkness. Or may our creations be a solid beacon of light to brighten the path for others who don't know the way. The best of all creations are drawn from the source of all creation. The Creator, the Maker.

Inspired

Suzie Sateri

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3stsDXki__U

I love this creation by Pink ! ;)

The Love Rogue

You're my rogue
Coming from somewhere deep inside of the chambers of my heart
Small beats that seem insignificant send vibrations throughout my blood stream
The magnificence of the build floods my entire being
I'm left astounded at the beauty and mastery of it all 

Something bigger than us... living in impossibility


In deep water we tread
The storms and strong winds howl
You let me wrap my tired body around yours to give me rest and you stay afloat
The fast currents converge and somehow the agitation brings hints of the spontaneity
The unseen that brings about the unexplainable


Something bigger than us... living in impossibility 


Formed wave comes crashing down upon seemingly calm waters
From a place deep and unexpected 
Cause and effect
Freak, monster, abnormal waves crashing together causing endless ripples of love
Powered by the effect of ONE BEAT
To each their own


Something bigger than us... living in impossibility

Love. 
Xx Suzie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXEq7WiINa4 


"Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out in sea, and are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners.^[1] In oceanography, they are more precisely defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record. Therefore rogue waves are not necessarily the biggest waves found at sea; they are, rather, surprisingly large waves for a given sea state. "Rogue waves are not tsunamis, which are set in motion by earthquakes [and] travel at high speed, building up as they approach the shore. Rogue waves seem to occur in deep water or where a number of physical factors such as strong winds and fast currents converge. This may have a focusing effect, which can cause a number of waves to join together."^{[1]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave}

For You Sister

"Sister I hear you laugh, my heart fills full of keep me please... Sister, when you cry, I feel your tears running down my face. Sister, keep me. I hope you always know its true I would never make it through. You could make the sun go dark just by walking away... I feel you beating in my chest, I'd be dead without Sister.. You could make the Heavens fall just by walking away. Sister, when you laugh, my heart fills full of keep me please... Sister, when you cry, I feel your tears running down my face.. Sister, keep me." -Dave Matthews

I see you teaching in your classroom that feels like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. I am so blessed to have had you as my teacher growing up. You are my strength... your strength is indomitable. "Did I ever tell you you're my hero? ...You are the wind beneath my wings." You mean everything to me. I admire everything about you. I'm so proud of you and I always have and always will strive to be more like you. "You stand by me and I stood tall... I have your love, I have it all." You mean everything to me and I just wanted to write you a little something that might be able to express the smallest fraction of the love I have for you. Your heart beats in my chest.

I love you so much and I hope you are blessed over and over and over again every single day of your life. You mean the world to me. Thank you for your love.
 ... From my heart to yours.
Suzie Sateri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=111-D99br0I

One Beat.

God Bless America

God Bless America

Mother nature rip roars her waves like a Momma Bear protecting her threatened cubs.
Birds bathe in the shallow of the waves and the sun's luminous light dazzles across the ocean's surface.
The rich Man plays fetch with his dog on the beach living his dream.
The immigrant Man stares sleeplessly out of his car window at the Man wishing that life for his son who drifts away comfortably in the back seat wrapped by the loving arms of America.

God Bless America.

Her hands stretched outward welcoming and open to people of all kinds, knowing its the mixing of the ingredients that make something flavorful.
Its the combination; The blending of the soup in the Melting Pot that makes America the country it is.
"The land of the free and the home of the brave." Like the brave Man in the car next to me who was willing to sacrifice everything he's ever known to give his son the life he always dreamed of having.
And the Free like the Man who is a living example of everything he ever desired. 

God Bless America

"Fear and Gold divide us"; Love has the power to bring us together as ONE.
Freedom writing my heart out.
Attempting a better today for a better tomorrow.
United we stand; Together, for the Greater Good.

God Bless America

Bless everyone on the pursuit of happiness. "Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with the light from above."
Every minute is a gift of life. Joy, peace and kindness open their wings and life and liberty are born.
Goodness, self-control, gentleness and Faith are encouraged on this soil and the fruits born from the "Tree of Life" are what make the country so sweet.
"One Nation, under God... with Liberty, and Justice for ALL."

God Bless America & God Bless ALL. 


Love.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1VTcJfL7RE

Love this song by Marina and the Diamonds

Let Happy Shine!

She let me give her the nick name... fitting. :) Happy has been my friend since we were kids and played on the same club soccer team. Our families became good friends and I went on vacations with her family including the trip to Lake Powell (where I fell off of the top of the house boat and woke everyone up one night) -- :-D. She's freaking awesome and I am Thankful for her friendship!!! ...And I included some girls who I love in the pics as well!

Let Gus Shine!

She is my BFF from Kinder till now! She's having fun in Italy right now!!!:) I love her! And the guy in the pic with her is her brother Al one of my Besties too! Love them!

Let Bizzle Shine!

Honestly-How do you not smile and laugh when you have friends like this?! LOVE this girl!

The Boat Bandit

Who's Boat is this? :p  

"DEV-Booty Bounce"

http://youtu.be/FDfUjM-vygI

Bend Down Listen

I'm standing with you -- We are not solitary soldiers
Tall like the indomitable snowmen Master of the sun melts creation in minutes
Iron sharpens iron -- Fearless genius when heart and passion hits liquid
The world morphs into an interchangeable fluid flow according to cups filled

Spyglass focused fire staring pyromaniac reflection of a symphony
Your strength of song holds not only the chords to a single instrument
The orchestra depends on you and they are richly satisfied
Fire balls fill the earth with both light and darkness

One Beat echos in the chorus and sings a song of one single growing energy
Intellectual, spiritual, emotional, physical
Duration of existence with animation, vivacity and vigor
Timeless pieces shattered from the perfect vase

Power in your sweaty palms radiates brilliance
Wounds bleed out from words that cut
Vivid expressions of pain extend to touch the prints of the strangers tips
The fingers connect and furnish the spaces between each others emptiness

In spaces only shadows remain
They all depend on you and they are richly satisfied
Forced hearts holding to replace hopelessness
Mirror reflections alluring genuinely and my heart bleeds with love

Non-conformed transformer victorious strength lies in your breath
You whispered it to me in my unconsciousness
Pushing me through like pen pushes words onto paper
Brilliant expressions of trials and triumphs up the beat

Raised roof with solid foundation holding steadfast ground
The flames you spit bring the Tasmanian devil to his knees
Sucking the pavement and eating the dirt he placed on the grave
Spontaneous combustion ignites hardened souls

Like the moon was made to mark the seasons
and the sun knows when to set
Your song will live on to light a flame for the future generations to feel the FIRE
With everything on this I'd bet

ONE BEAT  -- with two hands
I'm standing with you -- We are not alone
Weaving a new raised pattern
Let the whole world burn with LOVE.

Suzie Sateri

Me-N Italian Seeeester