Everyday I am reminded of how important the small moments and connections are to feeling heavenly. And family. So why Prune Danish? I live in Cary NC a beautiful city with flowers on the side of the road, lots of Chinese restaurants, ethnicity, art flicks, and lot’s of families.

This summer has been filled with lots of company and family at our house including my parents, Herb age 90 and Gloria age 84. It was truly a blessing spending 5 weeks with them. I am 55 and I hope everyone can have the experience of spending time with the parents later in life.

My dad Herb and mom Glorida and daughter Dara

Anyway my dad loves bagels every morning with his coffee for breakfast. He is a carboholic. One precious Sunday morning I visited our local NY Bagel store once again to buy a few of those delectable bread treats. As I approach the counter of this very busy establishment, ready to pick out the dozen bagels my breath is taken away and I gasp. In the counter amongst all the beautiful Sunday morning sweets is Prune Danish. Do you have any idea how happy my dad, a 90 year old Jewish man from NY would be with a Prune Danish? Well let me tell you, very!

It is not just any Danish it is a tradition. Its sweet, has memory of the old days and it helps, its friendly medicine. I was thrilled and full of joy with the thought of getting this for him. When it was my turn to order and be helped I could not control myself. I started with the Danish. I even almost forgot the bagels. The owner of the store was actually the one to help me. You should have seen her face when I told her about my dad and the Danish. She beamed from ear to ear.

Ain’t life grand? Just think about it. Prune Danish brought so much pleasure into so many lives. Heaven is that tickle, beam of light, that shooting star, and a Prune Danish.

Bye for now,

marilyn

PS  Here is what seems to be a simple recipe for the heavenly danish

http://www.best-bread-recipes.com/danish-pastry-recipe.html

Enjoy!

On my 7:00 walk this morning, in my own world, I over heard a little girl about 5 saying bye mommy, bye mommy. Over and over as a car was pulling out of the driveway I heard that little girl. That little voice broke through my meditative silence.

I am making up that this mommy was on her way to work. Again the little 5 year old repeated the line bye mommy until the car was out of site. Immediately a soft voice surrounding me said “get it while you can”.

In a flash I found myself time traveling to my past with my two little girls now 27 and 25. Remembering a similar picture when I was the mommy pulling out of the driveway. I wanted to tell the lady “get it while you can”. They grow up so fast and poof they are grown and gone. Continuing on my walk I heard the soft voice again echoing in my ear, “take it while you can” “take it while you can”.

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” Martha Graham

Back at home waiting for me were my parents, visiting for 5 weeks, my dad 91 my mom 84 and my brother a one week visitor.  What a perfect scenario, a miracle experience. My family together without their normal every day distractions from their lives, their homes, their jobs. In my home away from it all was my family waiting for me and my direction was to get it while you can.

So I made the choice to go home and take time from my work which I love dearly to rise to the occasion and “get it while I can”.This is not a judgment call or a righteous act; we have enough of that. This is a simple case of awareness in the moment. A plea to get it or take it. When you notice, when you are inspired to act, when you can “get it while you can or “take it”, then take it.

You earned it. You deserve it. When you can’t you can’t, but when you can do. The more we respond to these times in good faith, the more abundance we connect to. I have noticed that a feeling of fulfillment catapults my energy, my creative reserve, time and space. I do more in a shorter period of time. So much more comes from it.

Heaven on Earth comes from it!