Top 12 Blooming Insights of 2015

I got this idea for sharing my Top 12 Blooming Insights from pleasurable weight loss expert Jena la Flamme. So many times instead of seeing everything we did right, loving and good in any given year we pull out everything that didn’t go so good or hurt us in someway. However our year is both. This is called life.

2015 ended last night with my daughter, Jenna and husband, Glen and I sharing our highlights and low lights of the year. As we shared my heart felt so full of love. I’m so grateful to get to spend my life with these two amazing individuals. Our highlights went from awesome birthday parties, finishing parts of our house and selling a house; to drama with special friends and for me some disappointing losses over my business.

But overall it has been a very loving, successful year, actually one of the best.

Insight #1

Growing flowers touches people lives

2014 was the first time I learned that flowers touch people’s lives in beautiful ways. This realization deepened for me in 2015.

For one after many failed attempts at running my own business I’ve learned they weren’t really failures, but actually lessons or stepping stones to get me here now.

2016 will be my 3^rd year running a successful award winning dahlia flower farm. And two, seeing the tears  of total joy and happiness in the brides eyes as you hand her, her wedding bouquet for the first time or  giving a friend a bouquet for a loved one who’d passed has been some of the best fulling, soul gracing moments of my life.

Insight #2

Sixteen Years of Marriage looks good on me

Glen says I look a lot younger than him, LOL My reply is well that’s great for you! Glen and I have been through financial bumps, raising a special needs son, then losing him, now a teenage daughter, and building our home from the ground up together. We work because we continually look for ways to make each other’s lives run smoother. We try to listen even when we don’t want to, we don’t blame the other when things don’t go well…and in the bedroom, let’s just say we shut out the world and simply love each other. This is all true but I believe why it looks so good on me is because I’m committed to looking and feeling my best, not for him, but for me. He just gets to benefit from it 😉

Insight #3

Mother, Daughter trips are deeply sacred and special

I started mother daughter outings when Jenna was just a baby. Over the years they’ve blossomed into annual mother daughter camping trips, pedicures, community events and coffee dates. We share our joys, our griefs and troubles and the occasional being upset with eachother, this is life. My relationship with her is the extremely important to me and it is so scared and special to me she feels the same way.

Insight #4

Flower Medicine ignites my soul

As each flower blooms it’s like they oxygenate my soul. Their beautiful light and beauty is life giving, is natural medicine for my broken heart.

Insight #5

Writing is healing, again.

“A Mother’s Grief, Sacred Journey of Unknown length of time”  Loving in the presence to loving in the absence is my 7th self-published book that came out in February. I say healing again because life is a series of healing events if we chose it to be so. And for me writing has been healing over and over.  More and more clarity and life understanding comes to me every time I write. I ended the year with publishing an ebook as well. “Misty’s Guide to Growing Dahlia’s in Alaska” Yes even a growing guide can be healing.

Insight #6

I don’t look bad in glasses

Every since I was a little girl I had always wanted to wear glasses. I thought they made people look smarter. Anyway I got my wish. Do I look smarter?

Insight #7

Everything is better in purple rain boots

If you know me personally you know I’m crazy for the color purple. However wearing the purple rain boots I can’t help but smile and feel like a kid again. You should try it.

Insight #8

Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful

This statement is the most powerful reminder. Life can deal hard shit to handle and at times is completely NOT perfect. It’s about looking for the wonderful and when you find it say yes, just like every flower that blooms. Remember “Flowers have to grow through dirt to bloom.”

Insight #9

Everything is connected

We had our bee keeper friends keep some hives here on my flower farm. The bee’s love all over my dahlias to produce the most clear light golden honey I’ve ever seen. They named it after me…Misty Valley Honey. What they don’t know is several years ago I had my body energy read. The reader described my energy has a potent pure golden creamy waves of light. At the time I imagined it as honey.  

I love the connection between my life force energy and the Misty Valley honey. It’s so woo, woo and synchronistic. Brings a message of nothing is random and everything is connected.

Insight #10

Reliving the 80’s brings fun times

Picture says it all…

Insight #11

My son is every where I go.

Luke touched so many people. Some in big small ways. That is why when I saw his and my picture at a wedding of a young lady who only knew of Luke from the eyes of a 4 year old I smiled with instant tears to my eyes. The two didn’t even know each other really, yet she had a  picture of him and I displayed at her wedding with her other loved ones in heaven.

Insight #12

I can grieve and live a deeply fulfilling life at the same time

This lesson has just surfaced a few days ago right at the end of 2015. Even though I’d promised my son I’d find a way to Thrive Through tears, one of my biggest fears has been that my mother’s grief would take over my life, that it would come first. But as I looked back over the almost 3 years Luke has been in heaven, I see there is this misconception since grief is so painful you either grieve or live. It’s not true. I’ve learned grief doesn’t have to be either or. You can live a focused, wonderful life and still grieve. Grief is actually a normal, natural and necessary life long human process that only takes you out of the game of life if you let it.

You can cry and bloom at the same time. My life is living proof.

“our tears become the rivers that heal our broken hearts”  

I am

 “she who blooms ten thousand times”

~Quotes from the Gaia Codex 

Here’s to a Blooming 2016,

Big Dahlia Hugs and Loves to YOU!