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Longing….What is your desire

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Honor your desire by planting a seed of it somewhere.

 

 

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Help it to take root by a small symbolic gesture, in a simple act,

 

 

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by writing your desire on a stone and tossing it in a river…

 

 

 

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or by writing a word a day to yourself and putting it in a jar by your bedside…

 

 

 

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Follow your heart by dancing at midnight under the moon…

 

 

 

 

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or give yourself permission to not be perfect…

 

 

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or draw an ink tattoo on yourself of the image of your desire…

 

 

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create a collage on your bathroom mirror…

 

 

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or make vegetable monsters to conquer your fear…

 

 

 

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put love letters to yourself under your pillow…

 

 

 

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Every-time you see that which you long for, say your name out loud.

 

 

 

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If you long for it to be true then plant your longing in your heart’s garden and water it regularly with symbolic gesture.      

 

 

 

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Thank you Gretchen and Paula, for giving the theme of Longing.

Please send me your address so that I can send you a gift.

 

 

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What are you longing for?

I am hoping to go home for a wedding of my cousin!

 

 

 

 

Comments

30 responses to “Longing….What is your desire”

  1. Sam

    I’m longing for peace and privacy, in large quantities.
    I could also use a milkshake, a chocolate malt.
    Making soup later, I will create the veggie monsters and sacrifice them to the pot, hope it works.

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  2. Zosia

    Longing, I pondered it before moving to Poland http://polonicahomeagain.blogspot.com/2011/01/longing-tesknota.html and I do long for my friends and all those pieces of life I left behind.

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  3. Debra

    C,a trip to Paris. . love the eloquent way you enriched the topic . . have collected enough points on AE for air fare, attend French class on Mondays, seek out everything labeled MADE IN FRANCE, read blogs French life – now to draw the Eiffel Tower on my hand . . .
    XO – I hope you get home for the wedding!

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  4. Amy Kortuem

    Oh, my longing. Do I dare say it out loud here? Even in front of this gentle, warm, supportive community…it’s a little scary to put your dream into words for all to see.
    Every time I’ve been in Paris, I’ve visited the Cluny Museum and have sat in front of the Lady and the Unicorn tapestry “A Mon Seul Desir” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn). When I was there last Fall, I sat in that darkened room and cried and cried and cried for longing for my desire…
    I’m longing to move from this small town in Southern Minnesota. I have done every single thing I can possibly do and tried everything I can possibly try in this area – artistically, musically, spiritually, personally – and I’m exhausted from running into brick walls. My dream? To move to Paris and study medieval music, play my harp for weddings and events, write my book. To have a tiny apartment in the Latin Quarter, to go to Notre Dame for vespers whenever I want, to soak in the art and the possibilities. To be renewed.
    For a year, for a lifetime, I don’t know. I just know it’s what I wake up in the night having dreamed about, it’s what all signs point to.
    Thank you, Corey, for this beautiful post and the calling to share.

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  5. g

    longing for a word from someone special and very dear…today-praying it happens.

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  6. g

    Amy-as i was posting it was taking some time only to have your comment come up-your first few lines sum up my feelings exactly-i didn’t give details bare bones longing i admire your fortitude-may ALL you dream come true!!!-georgeanne

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  7. Amy Kortuem

    Thanks, Georgeanne – that means so much!

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  8. Wandering Chopsticks

    This reminds of your post about when French husband was asked what brings him pleasure, and he said you!
    *Sigh.*
    That’s my longing, to find someone who would feel that way about me, and me for him too, of course.
    But, I think pleasure would be a lovely theme to have? Show us pictures of all the things that bring you pleasure. Sure we know brocante items, but what else?

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  9. Marilyn

    What a perfect post on longing and I love the suggestion of longing. It isn’t a word I think of, but now I will. I long to travel more in Europe.

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  10. Helene

    What a beautiful post. Your techniques for moving the longing to reality are wonderful. I just returned from a month in Italy. . .because I had a photo collage of Venice on my closet door and a large framed photo of Vernazza in the Cinque Terre on my bedroom wall. Powerful forces. Our cottage in Vernazza had the exact view from which the photo had been taken. What we dream we can achieve!

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  11. Chris Wittmann

    Longing to visit England again…someday, also for some good news about a children’s book my sis and I submitted…

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  12. jackie

    I am longing to live in France. Do you want to trade houses, lol?

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  13. Cheryl ~ Casual Cottage Chic

    I’m longing to travel to the south of France!!

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  14. Kelly

    Sometimes it’s nice to be reminded to ground ourselves. Thanks for the inspiration.
    …I long for contentedness 🙂
    Love your candor.

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  15. Sara

    Wonderful! I think I will try a few of those…

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  16. Denise Moulun-Pasek

    I long for retirement from full-time work. I long to spend more time with my man. I long to take advantage of our second home and to see my friends…

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  17. Mahala

    I have a longing to visit family. I have never met two of my nephews who they are in their teens. They live in Scotland with their Dad, my brother.
    I have a longing to stay in a hotel on the beach so I can sit and listen to the waves crash, hear the seagulls…see the ocean…I would give anything to afford that.

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  18. Gretchen

    Oh Corey!
    I am so honored that you chose my idea to feature in your blog today. You give so much pleasure to all who read your words. Thank you so much! I will be longing to see what special gift you send and will treasure it. I am sending my address along in another email to you. Thank you again.
    Gretchen Seibert

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  19. Dianne

    Bonjour Corey – this is my first visit to your delightful blog – and I asked myself the question – what am I longing for?
    and the answer is I am contented in today – other things I may look forward to but today I have good health, a loving family and the sun is shining in a beautiful clear blue sky.
    Je suis contente!

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  20. Paula S In New Mexico

    A word a day in a jar next to my bed……oh the longing in my heart. Corey, I had no idea when I asked for “longing” that it would come wrapped as a wonderful gift and delivered from your daily blog, just for me. You have no idea, my dear, but thank you so very very much. My word a day will go into a sweet little pink tea pot.

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  21. Kathy Barrick

    I am longing for the dress in the second photo of this post. It’s STUNNNNNNING!!!!!

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  22. Marie-Noëlle

    May your dream come true, Amy !!!
    I don’t know whether (nor when) you’ll come over to France… If you DO, I’d be pleased to follow you and your art…

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  23. Marie-Noëlle

    Longing for peace ….
    Around the world, around me, within me !

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  24. labergerebasque

    Amy keep dreaming, collecting, envisioning, without trying to figure out how it will happen just “know” it will happen…and it will. The human will/ spirit is very powerful once connected to the universal will/ spirit.
    If it can happen for me, it can happen for anyone. Believe in it.

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  25. Amy Kortuem

    Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and your encouragement! Faith. I do have faith.

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  26. Franca Bollo

    I long to be 5′ 10″. My next life, maybe.

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  27. Jane Ann

    What a beautiful thought provoking blog! Like Paula, I was particularly inspired by the bedside Word-a-Day. It does make me feel vulnerable to actually write it down. I’m learning a lot these days about what I long for, contentedness based on faith and trust. This seems like the perfect pairing.
    I’m also longing for grace and healing for family and friends, near and far. I pray each day you find your pain a little less and that you are encouraged that your arm is on a path to complete recovery.

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  28. Kathie B

    Am I the only one here who longs for Science to unlock and/or clarify the unsolved mysteries of life, the Earth and the Universe?
    When I think of how, just in my lifetime, methodology like Carbon 14 dating and DNA testing (to name but two) have debunked or fine-tuned faulty old theories so that we can understand better all natural phenomena, I find it absolutely thrilling!
    (And does anyone else here still miss Carl Sagan?)

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  29. Rhonda P.

    Amy, I dreamt of Paris for over 25 years and it came true! It was only for one week but I don’t care. I am still dreaming of going to France to live for 3 months, I want to take my time and see all there is to see and eat and drink and absorb that French culture I desire and long for.
    Merci, Corey! You’ve spurred us all up on this post.

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  30. Brenda, Walker, LA, USA

    Longing for God’s will, love each time it unfolds in my Life! :o)

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